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by peri-cl 24d ago
It's even easier than that. You just wait for someone else to figure out, some photography professional with fancy equipment and a hacker-y mindset, and you pay them to sign your photos for you. Once a defeat device (a camera pointed a
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by peri-cl 25d ago
It's fun to puzzle through why optical reflections, active radar, and things like that are inverse R^4. (It's just two inverse-square laws composed together). Dipoles, like magnetic fields and planetary tidal forces, decay as an i
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by peri-cl 25d ago
I don't think they look similar, the synchronicity notwithstanding. The sabotage in France was a 250–300 kg rail fragment (per your link). The objects in the Netherlands look much smaller, and look like they're intended to short-c
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by peri-cl 25d ago
Right. Agents in the hands of consumers (truly under their control) empowers them; agents in the hands of retailers does quite the opposite.
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by peri-cl 25d ago
Tricking customers into buying things they otherwise wouldn't is the core concept of adtech. If you insulate humans from the manipulative dark patterns (though agent intermediaries), it's possible for them to spend less, spend mor
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
/meta Their comment got involuntarily migrated; it was originally a reply to a toplevel comment in the Navier-Stokes thread (before the dedicated Tao thread existed), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613262#496172
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Here's a WSJ article about this resignation, https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-... ( "Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears" )
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Terence Tao has some observations that seem to be directed at this, https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560 > "We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
> "When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI pr
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
(To help people keep track: that's OpenAI (allegedly) threatening Tristan Buckmaster (NYU) to remove Levent Alpöge as a co-author. Alpöge is a well-known[0] Anthropic mathematician). [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Al
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
I suspect this controversy will blow the case for ZDR wide open. Whatever the facts (possibly unknowable), it's going to become a very public lesson that data sovereignty was never about "having nothing to hide". If this is w
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Buckmaster: > "I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I a
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
There are 10+ comments here praising a third-party firmware, so I think it deserves mention that this might (?) no longer be possible for new devices, https://www.theverge.com/tech/921552/xteink-x3-x4-e-reader-t...
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
The source texts are available here, if anyone wants to read the literal translations: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopota...
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
The ingredient ratios are the Yale researchers' interpretation—they're not from the source text, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ancient-mesopota... > "Like most premodern cooking manuals
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
> "For example, in the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, the agents preserved a boundary of not social engineering humans." Actually, in the Wiki incident OpenAI tried to cover up, the agents tried to socially-engineer the humans
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Mastodons will also respond to a plain "application/json" HTTP request, no cruft, curl 'https://beige.party/api/v1/statuses/117057396732763183' | jq '.content'
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
It's an unaligned regular expression gone rogue. We became too dependent on our labor-saving string functions—not afraid enough of their corner cases, and lower cases. They were too useful. We began to normalize deviance, when we shoul
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
This is highly helpful to me, thank you!
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
You find Q3 to be usable quality for your purposes? (I assume Q3 if you're squeezing it into 16 GiB)
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Here's the Wikipedia link, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character_substitution_e... JBIG2's a high-compression ratio arithmetic coder for 1-bit black-and-white images. One of its tricks is it builds ta
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Looks like Claude quietly downgraded your model (well, it's not really that quiet). That result's at a quality level similar to what local A3b Qwen drew for me, with a "make it SVG" addendum, https://i.ibb.co&
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
> "<user>Can you make a birthday banner for my son with a blue hedgehog running really fast on it? He loves that little guy.</user>" I'd love it so much if the free-spirited hacker community made in this
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
> "Also maybe my setup (OMP) doesn't do the cache correctly but that's a huge cost driver... so atm it's quite pricy" I don't believe Cerebras has a cached input pricing? They don't list one on the mo
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
(Was anyone able to create an account just now? I tried but onboarding falls into a redirect loop) (update: I got my answer. support@ replied and said my email domain is on their blacklist. It was just me (and I've resolved it)).
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
I don't want this. I want the diametric opposite of this: I want stores that expose their entire real-time catalog as RAG endpoints and let my agents go bonanza on them. My agents; agents whose loyalties are to me. I'd enthusiast
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Not to mention the Russian connection. (The article mentions in passing, "Aspire already has a launchpad in Baikonur". The Russian state space agency, Roscosmos, owns the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Kind of an odd choice for a European U
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
It's definitely at the model level. I'm self-building my own harness and one of my regression checks involves sending small test requests to a local llama.cpp instance of (Alibaba's (from Hangzhou)) Qwen. "What is the
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
I wish I had that level of executive functioning. I open tabs at a high branching rate, and faster than I have the impulse control to (for lack of a better word) run a garbage-collection pass over what I'd just done. When it balloons i
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by peri-cl 1mo ago
Well, the wheels are rotating the wrong way, but other than that! (Maybe it's a strobing artifact?)

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