Animats

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by Animats 4d ago
Whatever happened to Musk's plan for data centers in orbit? That seemed silly at the time. It offers a way to get out from under restrictions imposed by national governments, which might make it worthwhile.
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by Animats 4d ago
There's no reference to a "ghost gun" in the LA Times text. It's only in the headline. In the text, the weapon is referred to as an AR-15. SFGATE, though, quotes cops as saying "AR-styled assault rifle also known as
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by Animats 4d ago
Most horses will socialize well with humans, but only if the human responds to their cues. This is unlike dogs, who will initiate more interactions. Eye contact is meaningful to horses. If a horse looks at you, they may be asking you to loo
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by Animats 4d ago
Agreed. The SPICE electronics simulator is over fifty years old, and is still very important to people who have to design electronics. It's inside many other electronics design tools. It's standard enough that when a manufacturer
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by Animats 4d ago
The emails have repeated paragraphs. What does that? It's not something LLMs generally do. I see that now and then and assumed it was bad human cut and paste work. Is it?
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by Animats 4d ago
Expensive, too. $40/month.
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by Animats 5d ago
Bing has done that for years. Hated it.
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by Animats 5d ago
You can read the PDBs from 1961 to 1977 on the CIA's site.[1] [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/president...
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by Animats 5d ago
If there was ever a site that needed a .gif main image, that one is it.
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by Animats 5d ago
This is a PR problem, not a mathematical problem. It's possibly the worst PR problem mathematics has faced since the execution of Hippasus for whistleblowing on the cover-up of the regular dodecahedron. It's still a PR problem. So
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by Animats 5d ago
Downtown Shenzhen is rigged for that. For a while, the SF Bay Bridge was. I once went to an Autodesk event in SF where the guy behind it was controlling the lights from his laptop.
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by Animats 5d ago
There's also a working PDP-10 console replica you can buy.[1] There was a really nice IBM 1401 data center simulator written in Unreal Engine at [1]. You could mount tapes, punch cards, push buttons, and actually operate the machine. B
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by Animats 5d ago
See this introduction to limits.[1] If you allow infinite recursion, you soon get to Godel and undecidable problems. Finite deterministic systems are decidable, because you can in principle enumerate all the states. The halting problem is d
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by Animats 5d ago
The CIA has considered Fox News style reports as a form of the daily brief that Trump might be able to understand.[1] Trump does get regular briefs several times a day, by Natalie Harp. Her job is to find flattering press reports, print the
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by Animats 5d ago
There's an unpopular branch of mathematics which does not have infinities - finiteism.[1] The constructive version of finitism takes the position that there is no such thing as infinity, just arbitrarily large upper bounds. You can hav
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by Animats 5d ago
> creating large minorities of disenfranchised. That's called "elite overproduction". Too many people going to college when the jobs aren't there. In the US, about half of college graduates have jobs that don't r
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by Animats 5d ago
Amazon gave up on Mechanical Turk recently, too.[1] If everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, you're fucked. [1] https://www.mturk.com/help
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by Animats 6d ago
Not enough info yet. Clearly they landed too fast, but why? Was there some problem on approach which caused a fast landing? NTSB hasn't gotten to that part yet. From the timeline, one pilot knew they were too fast 90 seconds before tou
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by Animats 6d ago
This seems to be a known technology but hasn't made it as a product.[1] It might have potential for very specific types of extinguishing, such as grills and grain silos, where the distance from extinguisher to trouble spot is fixed. [1
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by Animats 6d ago
If you found, say, four LG TVs running as a DDOS node, you'd have a pretty good case.
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by Animats 6d ago
> The Present Works and is Boring "Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. I'm tired of the overcomplication. The page jerking around as more crap is loaded. One m
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by Animats 7d ago
Doesn't matter from the point of view of a lawsuit from an outside attacked party.
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by Animats 7d ago
This is a spherical cow model. Here are their stated assumptions: • Production involves a combination of tasks, where each task is performed by labor or by capital. The final goods market is perfectly competitive. • Labor is supplied exogen
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by Animats 7d ago
China is going for what's sometimes called "L3.5" - hands off wheel, eyes off road, driver may have to take over if alerted, but if the driver doesn't, the vehicle must safely stop and pull over if possible. The trouble
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by Animats 7d ago
I'd like to see more of a legal response. First, find out who's on the other end of a few hundred IP addresses. Start with ones in the US. Sue for damages. Use discovery to find out what's on the other end. Sue the maker of t
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by Animats 7d ago
"Patch and release" security is dead. AI assisted attackers will have come, stolen, and gone before the patch gets out. Developers need to get this. So is "swiss cheese" security. AI systems have the patience and breadth
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by Animats 7d ago
General Motors LLC ("New GM") still holds five trademarks on OLDSMOBILE, but they're all for merch, not cars. Trademark classes are hub caps, apparel, catalogs, badge holders, and metal banks. The trademark for the automobile
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by Animats 7d ago
Trademarks are use it or lose it. OLDSMOBILE, for example, is a cancelled General Motors trademark for automobiles.[1] No cars sold, no trademark.
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by Animats 8d ago
Another example of a society of AI agents. The shape of this is starting to emerge. People on here laughed at Gas Town. Now it's clear that a group of agents with an organizational structure are more powerful than a single agent. This
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by Animats 8d ago
> “We’re sorry, but our business model precludes timely responses in times of system stress." It doesn't have to be that way. Here's Haley Dragoo, former head of the New York Subway's "Twitter Division".[1]

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