lopsotronic

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by lopsotronic 5d ago
Not pass even the most modest hint towards DFARS/NIST standards. You couldn't run that loosey goosey even in just vanilla medical manufacturing. I challenge what their definition of "sandbox" actually is, apart from the
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by lopsotronic 8d ago
user etc-hosts posted articles in the next thread down. In addition to those see also: Yedioth Ahronoth: Articles by Yoav Zitun and Yedioth Ahronoth reports on IDF protocols. Haaretz: Reports involving Nir Gontarz, Josh Breiner, podcast fea
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by lopsotronic 8d ago
Israeli "Lavender" AI-assisted targeting was used with/in "Where's Daddy"[1] mode, which had several frameworks for using family to strike identified targets. One method is to liquidate the residence with maxim
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by lopsotronic 8d ago
About ten years ago I went with text-based graph description languages and haven't looked back[1]. One application of AI I have found useful is in the quick composition of graphs via text-based graph description languages: graphviz (th
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by lopsotronic 10d ago
Today I learned that "extremely lethal" has an alternative meaning of "composing the majority". Did not know that.
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by lopsotronic 11d ago
The immediate response to the 10/7 infiltration attack was extremely lethal to Israelis as well, something not well covered outside of Israeli media. 28 helicopters emptied their internal stores of 30mm autocannon and Hellfires that da
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by lopsotronic 12d ago
"Giant Metal Things Hucked Through the Air Across Ocean" are of a quantitatively higher risk profile than "New Computer Thing", no matter how you slice that particular salami. If you tossed the aviation regulatory framew
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by lopsotronic 15d ago
For docs, see also "Darwin Information Typing Architecture" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Arch...
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by lopsotronic 15d ago
No, it'll come down to blood once more. With thermonuclear explosives the de-industrialization will be even more complete than it was for Eastern Europe the last go round.
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by lopsotronic 15d ago
If it was involving a reasonably solid military I would agree. Sauds, on the other hand . . .
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by lopsotronic 17d ago
Dude, just go look for anything in Defense. Not only are the frontier models verboten anywhere in the building[1], but any open weight model running on your laptop has to pass a pretty strict approval process. We don't have the GPUs on
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
What are some big unchecked violent acts from the Radical American Left the last few decades? I'm making a big list and don't want to leave any of them out.
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
Precisely this. The people in charge of technical direction don't understand the fundamentals of the technology. So you get the idea that LLMs can help make sense of parts data. Which . . . no, no it really can't, not without ALSO
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
If you want to take a very large-scale - if poetic - view of things, you could also (very arguably) say something like "Mass is Fate" . Mass represents a zone where probabilities want to be. The more that aggregate, the more they
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
Very excited. Watching this one. I'm building something equivalent but more towards specialization for manufacturing and DoD compliance. The latter means that every bit, every wire, needs to be on prem and auditable oink to tail. Part
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
A strategic countervalue exchange does have a chance of reducing solar input for a while, but the effect would be comparable to taking a man dying of a fever and dumping him in a bathtub full of ice. The winter kills off a ton of photosynth
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
One genuinely poisonous aspect of Israeli policy is that the more Jews as a people are persecuted, the better Israel as a nation does: demographically, economically, and diplomatically[1]. It was true in the days of Avraham Stern, and it&#
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
"What fool will sell us his secrets?" is what Stalin is said to have replied when Khrunichev (aviation minister) and Yakovlev proposed buying British engines in 1946 for their Mig design, which (with British Nene engines) would
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
9/11 was arguably the most effective asymmetric attack in the annals of military history, in terms of simple weapon effect. At the same time, it spells out the limits of seeing the world in terms of weapon effect: an American populatio
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
Russia's desperately terrible internal financials, applied to any nation lacking strategic deterrence, would have brought them a lot more pain. I sort of jokingly contend that they're floated by a theoretical "Blood Standard&
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
I've always sort-of-joked[1] about a "Blood Standard": your status as reserve currency is proportional to the percentage of the world population your nation can murder in 12 months. Puts a hard floor on nations with strategic
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
AKA why Component Content Systems usually fall flat on their face over time.
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
If the rest of the world stayed still, that's a hard "maybe". Since the rest of the world isn't , what we're actually watching is the "Western Flavor" of the Soviet collapse. The fact that these destruct
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
I've always taken particular note of how wisely scope-limited Pandoc is. Markup that aligns with natural language convention[1], is tightly converted, but the further from natural language, the less fidelity Pandoc can promise. Until,
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
As an unapologetic generalist[1] this has also been my experience. Many tools that would have been "eh maybe if I get bored over Thanksgiving holiday" have become "hold on, gimme fifteen minutes". Tiny, isolated, but awe
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
Have they thought about the expenses in running continental Death Pits? OK, dumb attempt at funny over, but certainly someone is thinking about instability costs? Even if everyone is super cool with literal Death Pits, they don't run f
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
It's arguable that - pre-Exile - the majority of the vague coalition we today refer to[0] as "Israelites" did not practice monotheism outside of rural cult centers[1], if then. Deuteronomy 32:8–9 (Qumran/LXX) Elyon appo
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
He's definitely a messenger of something but I'm not sure I can speak its name. "A narrow head, bulging, watery blue eyes that seemed never to wink, a flat nose, a receding forehead and chin, and singularly undeveloped ears
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
Yeah, I was going to point out there's a few "big bombs" out there that aren't useless at all . . Someone will break the First Use taboo, but I wouldn't put money on it being Russia, at the moment, not for Ukraine,
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
I think that the problem might be even more fundamental than that. Ownership of a strategic nuclear deterrent seems to short circuit some of the internals of the modern Westphalian state apparatus. Possible mechanisms include 1) centralizin

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