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Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role(theguardian.com)
6 points by flancian 1mo ago|0 comments
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by flancian 3mo ago
https://archive.is/UCJUJ
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by flancian 5mo ago
Wait, did I get this right that the answer after all the investigation that showed they had set up a goblin-reinforcing loop during fine tuning was... to ask it to not mention goblins so much in the system prompt?!
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by flancian 6mo ago
"Not dead. Not retiring. Not moving on to start a blockchain company. He was quitting — because of a fight over two characters" Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting account of how Guido stepped down. Also, what happened
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by flancian 6mo ago
Very cool, thank you! Both the visualization tool and the description of Miller-Rabin. I didn't know an algorithm with these properties existed! Furthermore, your tool gave me a more intuitive feel of the rate at which primes "thi
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No one wants to read your AI slop(pluralistic.net)
25 points by flancian 7mo ago|4 comments
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by flancian 7mo ago
It's federated as in ActivityPub.
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by flancian 7mo ago
I was first exposed to Popper in my first year in university, in an introductory course to epistemology, and I liked him right away. I've carried Refutability and the Paradox of Tolerance with me ever since. By the way David Deutsch c
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by flancian 7mo ago
I'd like to buck the apparent trend of reacting to your project with shock and horror and instead say I believe it's a great idea, and I appreciate what you are doing! People have been trained to believe (very long) copyright term
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Claude Code Best Practices(code.claude.com)
2 points by flancian 7mo ago|0 comments
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by flancian 8mo ago
Found this archive link: https://archive.is/2026.02.02-090119/https://www.wired.com/s...
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by flancian 9mo ago
File under "unexpectedly interesting and cool". I'd never seen such good visualizations of magnetic fields before, or of the magnetization process.
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LLMs and the Semantic Revolution(apenwarr.ca)
3 points by flancian 10mo ago|0 comments
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by flancian 11mo ago
I had downloaded the final Aldus TIFF specifications document, hoping to find the author’s name. However, the name is seemingly written in white text on white paper - making it invisible. What? Is there an explanation for this that
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Stories I will not write(lord-enki.net)
3 points by flancian 11mo ago|1 comments
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by flancian 11mo ago
I believe this is likely true and will become evident in time to most, but not all, carbon based systems.
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by flancian 11mo ago
Immich is supposed to solve this nowadays: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
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by flancian 1y ago
TLDR: a user of ChatGPT and weed became convinced they had chanced upon earth shattering discoveries while interacting with the chatbot over weeks/months.
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by flancian 1y ago
https://archive.is/UfYzq
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Chatbots Can Go into a Delusional Spiral(nytimes.com)
5 points by flancian 1y ago|5 comments
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by flancian 1y ago
About the person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin The observatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory
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by flancian 1y ago
No cred gained here :) I was just surprised by the low quality of the article and there were no other comments by the time I got here so I thought I'd write this short critique to warn others, but I think it came across as a shallow di
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by flancian 1y ago
Pretty weird article. Just on the title alone: - 'Mysterious': there's very little of substance in the article to advance the position that it is mysterious at all. - 'Sacred': OK, I guess! - 'Pyramid': &q
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by flancian 2y ago
Hello fellow hobby factorizer :) I wanted to share this small gem of a paper in case it helps you like it's helped me: "Simple divisibility rules for the 1st 1000 prime numbers": https://arxiv.org/pdf/mat
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by flancian 2y ago
This is by Hans Moravec, of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox fame; a student of John McCarthy.
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (1998)(organism.earth)
2 points by flancian 2y ago|1 comments
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by flancian 2y ago
Not the author but: yes. This word emerged from online discourse a few years back about 'wordcels' vs 'shape rotators': https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wordcel https://en.wiktionary.org&#x
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by flancian 2y ago
I respectfully disagree, I think it makes sense to stress the distinction. Along the lines of: let's reclaim 'algorithm' from the entities that made the word into a bad thing for so many.
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by flancian 2y ago
This is precisely https://social.coop , of which I am part of, except for the "not being Mastodon" bit :) Governance happens on Loomio, which is a forum tailored for community decision making, but the main platform that
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by flancian 2y ago
Claude seems promising, but after giving it a try two things stood out to me (I have previously used ChatGPT and Gemini): 1. I miss voice I/O more than I thought I would, in particular on mobile. Maybe because of how great of a job Whi

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