instagraham

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by instagraham 9d ago
it is amusing that a model from a country that has banned porn would ever be developed. Wouldn't there be hurdles for them to access "data" at every stage? (I know they must have used a VPN for training but it does seem like
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by instagraham 9d ago
> A few days later, OpenAI gets back to him, and tells him an internal model found a counterexample for Navier–Stokes Why is OpenAI chatting with him at all at this stage? Is the discussion along the lines of "hey we used the work y
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by instagraham 9d ago
When people worry about OpenAI stealing their chats and reproducing them elsewhere, I usually view the situation as unlikely - since chats are "trained" upon and not necessarily reproduced verbatim, you can assume that unless your
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UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)(middleeastainews.com)
23 points by instagraham 9d ago|25 comments
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Lexical laundering: The mainstreaming of antisemitic neologisms from 4chan(isdglobal.org)
3 points by instagraham 17d ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 26d ago
These are just cases of AI models committing <assumed> illegal activity - without any legal convictions yet. If that's the logic, how is Grok not at the top of the list for deepfaking millions? Edit: I get that this is about agen
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Webcat: A tamper-evident seal for the open web(freedom.press)
5 points by instagraham 1mo ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 1mo ago
Funnily enough, I just ran a task on AI Studio with 3.6 yesterday and got 3.7 to do a similar one today; so it serves as an interesting and quick comparisons between the old and the new (usually, if enough time passes between your use of on
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by instagraham 1mo ago
I get your gist, but I'm not looking at this as a developer but as a journalist. The reason I specified tasks is it broadens the scope to "What I can use" from "What I must pay for". For example, most people - and e
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Ask HN: What tasks cost money through a UI but are free in code?
1 points by instagraham 1mo ago|3 comments
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Open Meditron: An Auditable Pipeline for Clinical LLMs(arxiv.org)
1 points by instagraham 2mo ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 2mo ago
Someone was building a similar one where AI agents run economies. I feel like it's a great way to quickly prototype different economic models and their effects. Eventually we could have live demos of policy interventions the same day a
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by instagraham 3mo ago
there is perhaps a slippery slope between "the poop cubes made me a believer" and "the creation of poop cubes is irrefutable proof of the existence of God" and I can understand why one would want to abhor such thought pr
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by instagraham 3mo ago
>That just leaves one mystery: why wombats evolved cubic poop in the first place. Hu speculates that because the animals climb up on rocks and logs to mark their territory, the flat-sided feces aren't as likely to roll off from thes
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by instagraham 3mo ago
One thing I was sus from the book and which this post didn't clarify for me was whether Carmack truly invented side scrolling for the PC. He claimed to have done so, and even pitched it to Nintendo for a Mario port that never took off.
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Proposals for cyber-propaganda de-escalation(tandfonline.com)
3 points by instagraham 4mo ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 4mo ago
>Nobody has obligation to use a tool that thinks it is talking to an American Very very emphatic agree from my end, thanks.
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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text(anthropic.com)
370 points by instagraham 4mo ago|122 comments
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Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back(theregister.com)
2 points by instagraham 4mo ago|0 comments
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InstaPurge – Rapid Mass Instagram DM Deletion Script(github.com)
2 points by instagraham 5mo ago|1 comments
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by instagraham 5mo ago
Not my repo, but sharing here in advance of the May 8 end-of-E2EE deadline for Instagram chats Is this the best option?
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by instagraham 5mo ago
I get the sentiment but this is not a real quote https://factcheck.afp.com/sheikh-mohammed-did-not-say-great-... It would be quite out of character for him to say this
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ComfyUI Raises $30M(blog.comfy.org)
8 points by instagraham 5mo ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 5mo ago
I get that this year's iPhone will be marketed as the first under Ternus's overall leadership, but truthfully, we can expect next year's to have more of his mark, since I imagine most of the details for the iPhone 18 have lon
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by instagraham 5mo ago
I don't think this reveals Satoshi's identity, nor that any prior piece of reporting may have done so. But I do think there's a high probability that Satoshi lurks or has lurked on HN, and perhaps reads these posts with an in
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by instagraham 6mo ago
Which financial models best describe reality in your opinion? I'd always wanted to view affairs from a different lens, though I often feel the people who think everything revolves around bond rates or inflation numbers can miss the soc
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by instagraham 6mo ago
"Welcome to the internet. By using this service, you waive your right to privacy, data, any personal IP and the use of your Adblocker. You consent to having all your behaviours, skills and audio/visual likenesses fed to AI models
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by instagraham 8mo ago
In some sense, it is a part of one's identity, for one can't easily separate the worldview from the person. But we enter a strange era when your identity is challenged and remoulded by a non-human entity. People have always derive
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by instagraham 8mo ago
I find it odd that Americans aren't angrier about Russia running disinfo bot networks for over a decade now, building up to almost everything in the current cultural moment. Also odd that the tech behind this isn't more talked abo
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by instagraham 8mo ago
The other comments address it well. In the Indian context, I'd say it's all the slum demolition drives that have happened of late, often with questionable reimbursement if any.

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