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by frognumber 20d ago
FWIW: I see this pattern each time I discuss MIT (drifting from the Institutional Propaganda partyline) on HN: 1. Upvotes 2. Time passes 3. Downvotes I'm starting to suspect Institutional astroturf.
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by frognumber 20d ago
And then they adopted it as a tactic. No, I can't provide a cite. Insider information. But whistleblowers have been threatened with being "Shwartzed" since (e.g. have frivolous criminal charges filed, to make their lives hell
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by frognumber 20d ago
No, today institutions like Georgia Tech -- which has an endowment of just about the same as MIT in the nineties adjusted for inflation -- seem to function just about the same way as MIT did back then. I want to get back to the era before p
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by frognumber 20d ago
Makes me sick. MIT is so very, very overcapitalized. These things don't lead to anything other than a rich guy getting his name on a building, and more corruption in academia. By far the best thing which could happen to MIT would be fo
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by frognumber 26d ago
Curiosity: Some facial biometrics are explicitly designed to they can't change over time, barring an accident or similar. They look at features of facial geometry such as eye versus nose positioning and similar kinds of things set by b
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by frognumber 2mo ago
In theory is right. I've never seen a modern NVidia or AMD reset out of a failed state without a hardware reset. This was possible with old-school graphics cards in the nineties and early 00's, when they were mostly a framebuffer,
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by frognumber 2mo ago
You claimed without evidence, or more accurately, bad evidence, confusing RTOS with "reliability and security." And you were somehow confused that security mattered for systems with no network connection. FYI: For most commercial
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by frognumber 2mo ago
At least for regulated applications I worked on, no one cared. The provider needs to comply with specific rules, have specific certifications, and sign specific agreements. You check the boxes, and you're good to go. Microsoft does tha
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by frognumber 2mo ago
Having worked in / adjacent several such industries, a lot of the question depends on scale. A trillion-dollar business can easily trade dollars for the privacy. A business with $1M to spend won't even get a phone call with OpenAI
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by frognumber 2mo ago
> What history? What proof? What evidence? ... > standard commercial monolithic kernels Note the path from A to B. Fully monolithic: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, zOS. Mostly monolithic: Windows, MacOS To get to micro
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by frognumber 2mo ago
> A GPU driver is unlikely to ever be bug free, but if the GPU is in an unstable state, because the keyboard should still be working fine, it should be easy to reset the GPU and continue the work without rebooting the computer. Yes, it s
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by frognumber 2mo ago
> Taking a helicopter to the top of Everest is not as rewarding as climbing the mountain. I don't think this is a fair comparison. New tools take you higher. I'll never climb Everest. A good comparison is: - Climbing your local
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by frognumber 2mo ago
I think history has proven that this theory: > Better security, better reliability, better modularity. Better security because in a muicrokernel [sic] system a bug in one driver only gives an attacker access to that subsystem (or maybe e
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by frognumber 2mo ago
... or someone who has a hard time seeing how most actual arts, music, and humanities college degrees have that impact. Examples of things with high-impact towards civics: - Philosophy, especially political philosophy. Aristotle, Confucius,
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by frognumber 2mo ago
I think the corollary is about taxpayer accountability. It's easy to make the argument: "If we invest $1M in education, we will have $10M in additional future economic output, $4M in future taxes, and $20M less in law enforcement
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by frognumber 3mo ago
What IP is being stolen? IP is the code and possibly the weights. No one is stealing IP. And I don't think anyone in their right mind would argue the AI industry isn't being fairly compensated. To go further: most people in the wo
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by frognumber 3mo ago
> These kinds of countries are the only ones that matter, because they're the ones that have to answer about what people were thinking when they chose to make use of their power in a way that is relevant on a larger scale. This is a
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by frognumber 3mo ago
I believe in good and bad. I don't believe in US good, non-US bad. I also don't believe the same about my religion or my political party, for that matter. How you measure depends on weights you assign (cultural system of values) a
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by frognumber 3mo ago
They're not "attacks." Anthropic calling them "attacks" doesn't make them attacks. Companies are collecting transcripts of conversations with Anthropic, and giving users a discount to share them. As many have p
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by frognumber 3mo ago
Ah yes. The exceptionalism argument. There's the good "us" and the bad "them."
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by frognumber 3mo ago
It seems to go, actually quite well, and then... stop
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by frognumber 3mo ago
s/all possibilities/all possibilities with odds greater than some threshold/g There's no reason to report on the odds of a meteor falling on my head tomorrow. There is every reason to consider the odds of: - Nuclear apoc
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by frognumber 3mo ago
Be a Bayesian, and they'll stop annoying you. If you have a 5% chance of thermonuclear war each decade for 10 decades, you'll: - Hear similar annoying statements - They'll be true With AI, we don't know if it's one
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by frognumber 3mo ago
This was their prediction for 2026: "The bet of using AI to speed up AI research is starting to pay off. OpenBrain continues to deploy the iteratively improving Agent-1 internally for AI R&D. Overall, they are making algorithmic pr
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by frognumber 3mo ago
Extreme competition and Safety Are opposites.
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by frognumber 3mo ago
I think good governance would listen to polls over metrics. A good example of how this works is cocaine. Capitalism and competition isn't always good governance. It works brilliantly in many places, such as restaurants or commodity goo
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by frognumber 3mo ago
It's very unclear to me. The key question is on direction of LLMs. Right now, LLMs are taking over human jobs. If the cost of silicon+power < cost of human being doing the same work, what rational reason is there to employ a human b
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by frognumber 5mo ago
This is not a tool which can be used to assume information is anonymized. The way OpenAI describes it is ... ... concerning. "Our goal is for models to learn about the world, not about private individuals. Privacy Filter helps make tha
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by frognumber 8mo ago
I had a physics professor I worked with who had a Nobel Prize. He didn't win it. It was won by a team of students / collaborators / mentees, who felt he deserved it. I can't disagree with them. Among the nicest people in
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by frognumber 8mo ago
This was painful to read. It become better and simpler with a basic signals & systems background: - His breaking up images into grids was a poor-man's convolution. Render each letter. Render the image. Dot product. - His "cont

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