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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I wouldn't object to a government advisory body that tests models for safety so that users can make informed decisions. I would object to a government body that runs safety tests on models and has the power to prohibit publication or u
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
That's a good example, but I'm unsettled by Anthropic's growing refusals in the areas of chemistry and biology. If they think that scientific assistant models should be as unhelpful as Fable, because applied scientific knowle
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
How much biogas per year would a site need to produce to justify installing a unit? How much on-site labor is needed to run it?
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
The reaction N2 + 3 H2 => 2 NH3 is thermodynamically spontaneously but kinetically forbidden by the strength of the N-N bond. That's why the key breakthrough of the Haber-Bosch process is the use of a doped iron oxide (magnetite --
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
We would probably have large scale use of renewable ammonia by now if fracking hadn't made natural gas so cheap. Natural gas is the largest variable-cost input to making most ammonia (it's processed with steam reforming to generat
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
The only chemical inputs a Haber-Bosch plant needs are nitrogen and hydrogen. The nitrogen always comes from air and in this plant the hydrogen comes from electrolysis. The plant also needs electrical power to run compressors, but that can
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
California also limited body armor ownership in the wake of that shootout, though a court decision invalidated the law in 2009: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-20-la-me-bo... The decade-old ban was en
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I set Cloudflare up a couple of months ago specifically to block bot traffic. It didn't do anything for me. Dumb bots were still hitting every special link on my wiki fast enough that the server was continually swamped running Lua scri
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
It looks like Connecticut first enacted body armor regulations in 1998, the year after the North Hollywood police shootout with a pair of heavily armed and armored men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_sho
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I need to process a modest amount of imagery (about 25 million images, and growing) for NSFW content and general captioning/description. About 5% of it contains nudity or partial nudity, and about 10% of that 5% contains sexual activit
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I don't use any open-weights models for coding, but I use them heavily for document categorization and extraction. At millions-of-documents scale even the smallest models from OpenAI or Google cost more than running a small model on my
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
In November of 2025, I would have said that Anthropic's Opus 4.5 model together with their Claude Code harness was the first and only system where a well-specified software feature could be implemented correctly for me in one shot. Tod
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
That varies by jurisdiction. In the United States, copying the phone book (or otherwise copying facts from someone else's collection) has been legal since 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
I thought that The Goldfinch had a contrived beginning and a weak ending, but a long, delectable middle that made up for both ends. Also try the author's earlier novel The Secret History if you haven't read it yet.
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
It seems like a stronger story for robotics, since smaller models can always react to the environment faster than large models at a given hardware budget. Also because robots that keep their models local for latency or reliability aren&#x27
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Software can unlock 300 GW of capacity on US grid without building power plants(pv-magazine.com)
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
You'd typically use a headless browser to generate the fully rendered page, then capture the rendered output for use with the model.
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
Graphite-moderated core, passively cooled with sodium filled heat pipes: https://antaresindustries.com/ It also uses a Brayton cycle generator with nitrogen instead of steam. (See 03, 04, 06 in their schematic outline.)
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
This reminds me of the decline of the news industry. The best thing that traditional news publishers offered was in-depth investigative reporting. For example, 50 years ago: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year&#x2
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
The weights are just numbers. I don't what technical background you have in other areas of computing, but I think that this is a good, short introduction that doesn't assume too much: https://www.3blue1brown.com/le
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
A completely open model is one like the Allen Institute's Olmo model series: https://allenai.org/olmo The trained weights are open, the training software is open, and the data that goes into training the model is open.
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
Quite a bit: https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/ny https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/id The first Idaho project is starting soon: "Micron has already achieved key construction milestones o
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
It's the striker strip that can be used in producing meth. The strip contains red phosphorus. Strike anywhere matches are the only kind that don't need a special strip. The strike anywhere kind were probably restricted due to th
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
There's not a big pool of well-adjusted people who are equally willing to learn the intricacies of Wikipedia and manage it better. The people who care a lot, in the wrong ways, outnumber people who are passionately neutral. Most people
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
I used Abbyy Finereader for several years. I loved it. I completed some large projects with it. Modern VLMs put classic FineReader to shame for processing low-resolution/degraded/non-standard text. I'm personally using the sm
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
Switzerland has several operating nuclear reactors: https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.... Switzerland also studied nuclear weapons production until 1988: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by philipkglass 3mo ago
"In an all-out existential battle" involving nuclear weapons, the United States won't be affected by the presence or absence of domestic car factories either. World War II could soak up years of total warfare effort from th
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by philipkglass 4mo ago
They didn't stop publishing census data. Its publication is delayed for approximately one human lifetime, to avoid affecting the living: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2022/01/20/census-record...
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by philipkglass 4mo ago
The early Ukraine war FPV drones were armed with warheads from lightweight anti-tank weapons, like the RPG-7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-7#Ammunition The newer drones may have dedicated warhead designs now, but
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by philipkglass 4mo ago
The raw training data is so large that very few parties could host it for free even if there weren't copyright barriers. But I think you could have a full open source training software pipeline that's set up to work with Wikipedia

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