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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Yandex is excellent if you want something that behaves more like a old PageRank version of google for news and historical information that isn’t filtered to amplify corporate media outlets. DuckDuckGo is also pretty good for that task, tho
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Obviously OpenAI betrayed their stated mandate by going to the largely closed-source API-access business model, which is the one that Anthropic, Google, and xAI also adopted, i.e. the high-margin hosted model businesses, while DeepSeek, Al
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Barnum’s pamphlet was published in 1880, squarely between two major financial panics linked to stock bubbles. 1873 wiped out thousands of businesses and triggered the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, crushed by federal troops. The Panic of 18
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
The full workflow seems to look something like this, with the added complications relative to the 8086 microcode being that the 80386 microcode acts as an orchestration layer on top of hardwired engines, programmable logic arrays, and fault
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Now we can get an LLM to adopt the persona of Harlan Ellison by fine-tuning it on all of Harlan Ellison’s recorded works and possibly other people’s written reminiscences of their interactions with him and have it generate Ellison-like opin
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Anyone ‘fully plugged into the Google ecosystem’ is going to end up being milked by corporate when shareholder pressure for revenue increase goes up. Same with the Apple ecosystem. Of course the language manipulation here is amusing - it’s
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
The article unfortunately neglects most of backstory in favor of a ‘unique genius came out of nowhere’ narrative. Qian was a member of the Caltech Suicide Squad that did things like build the WAC Corporal sounding rocket, which carried 25 l
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
They made a movie about Herman Kahn of the Rand Corporation, though. It was called “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”. Well, that might have been a movie about Edward Teller, or possibly John von Neumann.
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Looks like the one sector of the commercial AI world that will outlast the open source - local hardware transition is the military-industrial sector. I wonder what kind of classification-security rating is needed these days for onboarding?
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Addendum https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-dat...
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Aggressively red-teaming your own work with LLMs is a good habit to get into. Prompts like “I’ve been told me to find the flaws in this argument/presentation/code file/etc.”. Doesn’t save any time, but is pretty educationa
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Here’s one problem - the DOE’s Genesis Mission referenced in the transcript has nothing earmarked in its 20 line-items for solar/wind/batteries/UHV grids! You want to work in that area, you have to leave the USA. Looks like
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
The ‘tobacco warning label’ approach sounds good but I’m not sure if it stopped that many people from smoking or was just a means for corporations to limit their liability. Corporate culture being what it is, having warnings like the follo
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Capital flight away from government debt offerings could also be happening: https://www.ft.com/content/2e0185d1-3229-463c-8391-6dd09fe11 ... Then the causal chain is War in Iran -> Oil Price increase -> Inflation
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Just because the trajectory is chaotic doesn't mean it’s not deterministic.
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Does ‘writing code by hand’ mean you’re not going to use compilers to generate assembly? Now I do feel lucky that I started learning coding about four years before the LLM revolution, but these things are really just natural language compil
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Just to list some uncertainties: (1) Gulf Stream is a wind-driven western boundary current and the equatorial Atlantic is getting warmer and warmer so heat delivery is probably stable; (2) Greenland melt rates are real and fresher ocean wat
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
If your motivation is being recognized as the best of the best, winning the competition, yes it’s probably a bleak world. But if you motivation is improving your own capabilities, with the metric being if you’re better know then you were l
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by photochemsyn 5mo ago
Today, even understanding what new mathematics is being done in a particular zone of the mathematical universe appears to require a four-year graduate program of constant study just to be able to follow some mathematician’s original work -
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by photochemsyn 6mo ago
I read the paper looking for what kinds of static analysis, fuzzing, sanitizers, formal tools, HIL testing, binary analysis were used - didn’t see anything. I’d guess that’s an area where C tooling is pretty far ahead of Rust tooling at pre
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by photochemsyn 6mo ago
After a bit of research, here’s a statement that probably reflects your position without ignoring Bell: (1) “Since the consolidation of quantum field theory and the Standard Model, fundamental physics has mostly confirmed and refined an inh
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by photochemsyn 6mo ago
This is just foolishness in the modern world. A realistic trade policy would accept China getting AMSL nano-scale chip production machines in exchange for American manufacturers getting Chinese monocrystalline-ingot production machines. Gi
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by photochemsyn 6mo ago
The main flaw in this write-up, AI or not, is it ignores the Bohr-Einstein debates on QM and Bell’s Inequality. I suspect the article deliberately ignores that debate. If it was AI-generated, I’d guess the prompt included something like ‘s
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by photochemsyn 6mo ago
Sqlite’s btree is available here: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/btree.c I always thought this was too complicated to every really understand how it worked, especially the lock pol
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by photochemsyn 6mo ago
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by photochemsyn 7mo ago
KAIROS is the exact tool you’d want for autonomous killer robots and persistent domestic mass surveillance, the very issues Anthropic just made a lot of noise about not implementing for its government and private contractor clients. An alwa
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by photochemsyn 7mo ago
Cult of Rust very very angry!
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Looks like someone at OpenAI had the bright idea that they could push 'Christmas shopping season' apps 'assisted by ChatGPT' to 'help find the perfect gift' to paying users and everyone (including me) was reall
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
Long-term memory on top of the base model, but is this idea for local users or for the data-center hosted model used by many different people? P.S. This quote from the paper sounds just like LLM output: > "This memory module provide
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by photochemsyn 11mo ago
This is no different from what happens to humans if they're locked into cult programming situations, they'll start believing and regurgitating all kinds of nonsense if their information stream is tightly curated, Practically, for

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