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by ricksunny 1y ago
Suggest writing up a scope or PRD for this and sharing it on GitHub.
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Sounds a bit like the trails in Memex (1945).
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by ricksunny 1y ago
That’s all well-put. (btw First alleged MiB incident is the Maury Island 1947 one, which was abduction-free). So, that most SETI of all SETI people, Carl Sagan posed the role of the security apparatus in Contact, in the form of NSC head Mic
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by ricksunny 1y ago
As it sounds like you know, it would be great if you can articulate the boundaries of a prototypical intelligence agency mandate. Because then it should be a cinch to describe why ‘communication from a foreign power of as-yet indeterminate
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by ricksunny 1y ago
I see the speak-first,research-never is strong with this one. —- https://www.public.news/p/pentagon-is-illegally-hiding-secre...
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by ricksunny 1y ago
(for posterity: my use of quotemarks left something to be desired here - the quote 'that does..codebook' is Mr. Wong's quote, not my own. I got an uncharacteristically large number of upvotes from the comment above. I suspec
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by ricksunny 1y ago
The new proposed protocol from IAA that the article references but does not link to: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14506 IMO a protocol that doesn't involve automated instantaneous backing up of data on a publicly-re
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by ricksunny 1y ago
former chairman of the board of the SETI Institute John Gertz: 'In fact, the author has heard from serious U.S. SETI researchers that they are convinced that “men in black suits” will appear at their laboratory door the moment a detect
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by ricksunny 1y ago
I wrote a piece on this in 2017 - (hadn't even been familiar with NERVA at that point, only having had a passing awareness of Orion). It was very much inspired by a Kerbal Space Program-inspired graphic. https://walkabout165
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by ricksunny 1y ago
I like this comment: Victor Wong writes, “If they don’t have the method,” she said, “it’s not solved,” she said. That does raise a philosophical point to the craft of intelligence gathering. Speaking as a professional librarian, I do applau
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by ricksunny 1y ago
not clickbaity enough. journos got mortgages to pay & the Sulzbergers need their dividends.
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Ok, starting to get somewhere, so I thank you for that much. We have the understanding now that there is some discontent with one of Mr Mansfield’s amendments, specifically its perceived outcome on innovative, not-necessarily-defense-orient
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by ricksunny 1y ago
I remain perpetually perplexed why people who invoke Mansfield's name almost universally shrink from describing why they feel it is relevant to invoke Mansfield's name. Yes, there was a Mansfield amendment and a would-be 'not
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Thank you for not repeating the usual mistaken, and misleading, name for the prize "Nobel Prize in Economics" in the title. EDIT: Recognizing @huitzitziltzin 's comment, this factoid was originally imparted to me IRL 8 years
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Thank you, that does make me feel at the same time better as an individual and sadder about my expectations for the astrophysicists’ ability to draw anything resembling reasonable conclusions about the makeup of the celestial bodies.
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Yes I was being a bit too glib in relegating atmospheric escape mechanisms exclusively to action by the solar wind. Lot of proposed mechanisms, uncertain how many of them are verified and quantified to what magnitude. https://en.
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Yes, but it demonstrates a significant reduction trend in pricing over time. And the reduction in food budget in major US metros (ingredients, even without valuation of time spent cooking, and restaurants) will easily approach that $500 ma
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by ricksunny 1y ago
>was rich in volatile elements essential for life, such as hydrogen, carbon and sulphur. Today years old on learning that 'carbon' is a 'volatile element'. (I come to learn that astrogeology has a unique definition of
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by ricksunny 1y ago
As far as we know, molecules and atoms escaping into space comes due to the solar wind. Somehow the solar wind activates these atoms and carries them off into the distant vacuum, ad infinitum presumably though (I would imagine) limited by t
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by ricksunny 1y ago
There’s something very Ozymandian about their invoking SPQR for a future-proof protocol
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Thanks! I will update my word definitions search to include context keywords instead of ordinary dictionaries :)
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(May I ask what definition of ‘passivate’ you are applying here? Even allowing for flexibility in the definition or autocorrect, and applying context, I can’t fathom what is intended to be conveyed by ‘upper stages - which were thought to h
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Neat to see the parent article. In the early months of ChatGPT4, I had it produce an open markup standard to support LLM-mediated mechatronic design. Basically I felt that human-readable markup language was needed for an LLN to train on man
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by ricksunny 1y ago
Like the fact that up to 50% of the State Department was actually CIA, as noted by Arthur Schlesinger Jr and only declassified this year , 63 years later, as part of the recent trove of JFK files releases. https://nsarchive.gwu.
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by ricksunny 1y ago
lol deniable demand-gauging :)
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et voila: https://www.ulam.io/software-services/we-clean-up-after-vibe...
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I hope you'll have just coined a new diagram name: Kvikk = simple ASCII diagram that trivially illuminates a technical matter =) bonus points that mainstream LLM’s can trivially train on them and produce them. =)
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Contra: The piece’s first line cites OpenAI directly https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/
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by ricksunny 1y ago
I felt this was such a cogent article on business imperatives vs fundamental transformer hallucinations, couldn’t help but HN-submit. In fact seems like a stealth plea for uncertainty-embracing benchmarks industry-wide.
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OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable(theconversation.com)
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