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by stefan_ 5d ago
Curiously NVIDIA have long allowed consumer GPUs to be upgraded with larger memory chips - they could very easily reject booting those configurations. This is something done almost exclusively by unsavory Chinese actors who then sell on the
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by stefan_ 5d ago
But.. they did have that? What a bizarre argument. And yes, if you make software that drives the car, release it into public traffic, and then your software runs someone over that would be plainly visible to a reasonable human driver (the m
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by stefan_ 5d ago
The problem here is that the latest Claude models have gone off the deep end in their communication, and there seems to be neither awareness nor willingness to fix this. "Having your writing and talking turn into Claude is the risk not
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?(nytimes.com)
12 points by stefan_ 6d ago|3 comments
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by stefan_ 7d ago
That's part of the irony here I guess. In specialized fields, think computer vision, there were lots of teams whose innovative state of the art model was essentially just a function of the limitless compute they could throw at the prob
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by stefan_ 9d ago
While we are on this, is there a comprehensive guide on how to "theft-proof" your iPhone? Not in the sense of preventing the theft, but rather the fallout on all our various online service access. Using the iPhone backup to setup
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by stefan_ 10d ago
Theres probably some tender that says it must be a "open platform" "open ecosystem" "modular vendor independent" whatever. So you upload some slop to GitHub and tick the box.
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by stefan_ 12d ago
How could agents take over the internet yet refuse to shutdown your PC when you prompt them to on your PC ? Of course the answer is that the lobotomized version you run is not the same they are running. Which makes for "intent",
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by stefan_ 13d ago
X has been the most shameless, after all brand name advertisers left. Here is one state-level actor campaign that has been going on for months: https://imgur.com/a/HZwfyNH It's not advertising anything, it's
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by stefan_ 14d ago
This is pure sunk cost fallacy. CNNs were from the deep learning ImageNet heydays, but now everything in that domain is equally done better by transformers. All you are doing is wasting area and saddling software with outdated hardware, and
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by stefan_ 15d ago
Russia hasn't exported products in over a month now. If Diesel prices hit $6 today, it's purely because 6 months after the US president started his war on Iran, Iranian forces in Yemen have routed the Saudis and cut off the second
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by stefan_ 16d ago
The open internet is now a cesspit, with very little new good data. Expect everyone to train on user data always. They just got clever about whitening it.
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by stefan_ 16d ago
Actually they just Arc<T> everything
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Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video](youtube.com)
108 points by stefan_ 21d ago|18 comments
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by stefan_ 24d ago
"I don't know anything but I don't like Graphene" Well we know Google isn't enabling MTE, while LLM-enabled exploits are multiplying rapidly. Maybe you need to get back to work?
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FTC, States Sue Amazon over Secret Ad Surcharge Scheme(ftc.gov)
6 points by stefan_ 25d ago|0 comments
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by stefan_ 26d ago
The US just added a colony in Venezuela in cooperation with their local Reichskommissar and is looking to secure its oil. American perception of their country is quite something.
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by stefan_ 26d ago
The systems jamming in Hormuz and Ukraine aren't exactly cheap and low powered, nor are those used by the US military in one of their many jamming exercises every year. Cheap GPS jammers fit in a cigarette lighter and are used by truck
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Artificial Deadlines: Evidence of Fraud in Influential Study on Procrastination(datacolada.org)
2 points by stefan_ 26d ago|0 comments
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by stefan_ 28d ago
I don't think this is something anyone who has ever read a "thinking trace" would unironically say. Not that you can even see them in Claude. When thinking first started and you would still see the whole "thinking proces
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Bugs That Broke Driving(blog.comma.ai)
3 points by stefan_ 29d ago|0 comments
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by stefan_ 29d ago
It's crazy how much they have enshittified credit cards. It's not stuff like CVC, that's fine, but all the random failures! Nothing will turn me off your "payment system" more than having it randomly fail on me for
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
You can point AI at any AI produced code and ask it to review it, get back 10 bullet points and a few pages of prose. And the fun part is, you can do that over and over and over again!
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
I think these "Flash" models are sort of an evolutionary dead end. Sure, there are some routine tasks and applications where they can be used. But for the actual novel development work? It's much better to run a big model at
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
The juniors I have seen don't even try to understand anymore what they are building. They don't understand the product, they don't understand the technology. So everything AI is building for them is nonsense. "Reviewing&
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
They were also caught having their Grok code agent upload entire source code repositories in the background. I guess the joke is "come to Origin, your code is already there".
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
That's mostly because at some point a wave of nonsense swept over the field that brought with it the Scrum master, agile, pairing, middle managers thinking up elaborate Git branching schemes (they don't understand Git) and of cour
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
In Poland fees are capped at 0.3% for credit card, 0.2% for debit per EU. Which is why generally in the EU you don't have the insanity with credit card loyalty programs.
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
I hope there is interesting research being done to stop models from 9B to 3T from authoritatively giving the wrong answers to factual questions instead of doing tool calls, but this article will tell you nothing about it. That's becaus
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by stefan_ 1mo ago
CLAUDE.md is mostly powerless against the reinforcement learned crap. I'm up to three separate instructions telling it to cut out the hyper verbose, retelling history comments and it still writes them every time.

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