sega_sai

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by sega_sai 6d ago
"In scary headlines like these, technology is the subject, and teens are passive victims." -- I am sorry, but how is this not true, when companies like Meta are in full control of their algorithms, tuning them to maximum addiction
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by sega_sai 7d ago
In most star photospheres the role of radiation pressure is negligible. They are supported by the pressure gradients. The exception is very hot stars.
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by sega_sai 10d ago
Unless they use the time they previously spent making a sign into making a better coffee.
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by sega_sai 12d ago
I think old Android phones not supported by their makers are so problematic in the LLM era. I would think that even before LLMs the 3 letter agencies had exploits for those, but now one should assume common criminals will... I am happy tha
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by sega_sai 13d ago
I think if there was a financial penalty of say 1% of profit/income for each "incident" where something was hacked/exploited, then the companies would be much more willing to think about safety.
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by sega_sai 13d ago
While some of the text sounds sensible to me, i.e. some sort of external oversight + reporting of incidents, much of the rest seems focusing on limiting China and their open models as they are clearly approaching the abilities of Anthropic&
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by sega_sai 18d ago
This really leaves a bitter taste.... "On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an
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by sega_sai 27d ago
The PR mentions not just California but other states and countries, so I dont think California's exemption alone changes the situation
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by sega_sai 1mo ago
Sorry, but that is not common around the world. Most countries do not have such a system. I.e. none of the EU/UK/Australia countries have that.
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by sega_sai 1mo ago
"Covariates included in this study were study center, child sex (female, male), birth order, mother’s ethnicity, parental highest education level and TV viewing time (hours/day), maternal age at delivery (in years), household mont
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by sega_sai 1mo ago
Unfortunately there are more and more cases where "The computer says no" and then there is no human to talk to, and you are bounced back from one automated system to another... I had recently a case where my title (Mr) ended up as
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by sega_sai 1mo ago
I don't think there is value per se, but it is just natural (at least in the environment I am in). I.e. when we discuss the analysis/code/ideas from one LLM or another, we describe it Claude/Gemini/Codex/etc di
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by sega_sai 1mo ago
I don't find this take useful. We have little understanding of what conscience is, and how human train of thought really works. The modern LLMs IMO resemble more and more Chinese room problem. Maybe we don't like the mechanistic l
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by sega_sai 1mo ago
If some text is AI written as a response to a much shorter prompt, then the prompt and/or sources used to make the text should be published instead (or at the very least together with the text).
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by sega_sai 2mo ago
The video in the post is very worth watching and is indeed scary. It is certainly true that it is in OpenAI's interest to publicize this, but I don't think the whole thing is invented. And seeing all this it is particularly scary
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by sega_sai 2mo ago
In the end, unless we are talking about art, in most areas I probably prefer something that follows some specific set of requirements and recipes, rather than have some sort of indescribable 'magic'. In that sense when it comes to
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Google's $200B finance machine for Anthropic(ft.com)
2 points by sega_sai 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 2mo ago
Yes, but sometimes I don't need and want to learn. One example from my recent experience in research -- building custom dashboard pages for results of scientific analyses. Each analysis is bespoke, and building interactive webpages is
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Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data(theguardian.com)
6 points by sega_sai 2mo ago|1 comments
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by sega_sai 2mo ago
I have just tried to switch to 3.6 instead of 3.5 in antigravity and it seems to constantly spit "critical instruction: STOP CALLING TOOLS NOW. YOU MUST WAIT FOR WAKEUP. ". I think I will switch back to 3.5
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Google Gemini launch delayed as tech falls short of internal goals(reuters.com)
5 points by sega_sai 2mo ago|2 comments
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by sega_sai 2mo ago
SpaceX stock price has nothing to do with rockets. The majority of the supposed 'valuation' is associated with AI.
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Trump Media to sell high-speed access to president's social media posts(ft.com)
7 points by sega_sai 2mo ago|1 comments
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by sega_sai 3mo ago
When it comes to coding, non-programmers do not have to be in a defensive position worried that their job is under risk, instead they just see a great tool that saves them time, especially doing boring coding like dashboards, visualizations
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Pro-Palantir data has litany of errors, English hospitals admit(ft.com)
6 points by sega_sai 3mo ago|1 comments
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by sega_sai 3mo ago
In the end, standardization of this type of things can only be good even if the effect on waste is small. There is no need to create additional ways to confuse people.
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by sega_sai 3mo ago
Presumably food producers benefit if people throw things out earlier, as they will buy more ?
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by sega_sai 3mo ago
The thing is that PG had introduced pluggable storage engines exactly for the reason I am talking about, and there have been few implementations of columnar storage using PG functionality, it's just they always stayed out of the tree.
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The Legacy Survey of Space and Time has started, marking a new era in astronomy(noirlab.edu)
2 points by sega_sai 3mo ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 3mo ago
PostgreSQL was a right tool for my task for many years. It is a question for PostgreSQL can adapt to a new reality of much bigger datasets or I have to switch to a new tool. And I am not the only user of Postgresql in this context. So it is

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