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by lambdaone 6mo ago
Of course, the trained model they use to do the code generation may itself have been trained on the very open source code they are trying to replicate 'cleanly'.
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
Amazing hyperbole, and a deflection from the real issues. You can fight against wrongdoing without actually advocating people being killed. Right now, climate change is an undeniable fact, its causes well-known, and the evidence for it now
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
Yes. The obsession with demonizing AI/data centre loads seems to be a deliberate distraction from the much, much larger carbon loads of the economy at large relative to which IT power consumption is a tiny proportion.
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
This is terrifying, and those fighting against stopping or reducing global warming should at this point be regarded as hostis humani generis
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
This is a great description of something I've been thinking about in terms of concepts like regression to the mean, clustering and median filtering - the space of LLM output is much smaller than that of the input, precisely because the
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
It's a sign of how far we've come that this article says "Break Free from Google and Apple", not "Break Free from Google, Apple and Microsoft".
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
None of this required a police state. Just people working together to cross-correlate information in the way that you would expect to be able to do in an open society. What wrong do you think was done here? What would you prefer to be diffe
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
A large industrial robot running an insecure protocol - what could possibly go wrong?
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by lambdaone 7mo ago
You can use ssh with the None cipher, thus disabling encryption entirely while still using the rest of the protocol.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
It's certainly one way to do arena-based garbage collection.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Multistory DCs are commonplace in major cities.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Right now vibe coding is more like training cats. You are constantly pushing against the model's tendency to produce its default outputs regardless of your directions. When those default outputs are what you want - which they are in ma
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
The thing I find most notable is the lack of any concrete information on how these things are to be cooled, other than quotes like "space cooling is free". If you want to radiate away the heat, you are either limited by the Stefan
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
I'd say that figure was more like 99.99% or higher. Email is very, very complex these days, and SMTP is just the beginning.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Wonderful. And this is now part of the training set of the world's LLMs.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
People always vastly overestimate what can be done in the short term, and vastly underestimate what can be done in the long term. I'm reclining right now typing on what would have been in the 1980s an unimaginable hypercomputer lying i
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
If the humanoid robots are no better than the cars, it's unlikely. Unitree and Boston Dynamics are pretty much there in terms of solving the hardware problem, and the rest is software and the hardware manufacturing learning curve. The
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
This is a software, not a hardware problem. Suitably intelligent software could gently apply the brakes every now and then in addition to regenerative braking even when it doesn't need to, just to keep the brakes in good condition.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
I think you'd be suprised how effective robots will be at manual tasks eventually. Manipulating physical objects in space is a different problem from manipulating text strings, but efforts to solve this problem are already well under w
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Great, but PLA is somewhat flammable.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
According to Statcounter, Linux's share is 3.86% and rising; but I'd imagine that quite a bit of the almost 16% 'unknown' is also Linux. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldw
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251009081648/https://conscious...
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
It can detect not only large containers of liquids, but (up to a point) what liquid is in them.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Randall Munroe coined the helpful word 'citogenesis' to describe the combination of uncritical citation and feedback loops. Once the nonsense is out there, it's hard to ever claw it back. https://xkcd.com/978&
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
You can also jam the uplink, by making noise louder than the ground terminals make, pointing upward at the satellite.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
This is absolute nonsense. Neither Google AI or YouTube are owned by Meta. What gave you the idea that they were?
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
The subprime mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession comes to mind. The destruction of Boeing for short-term profits. Private equity's destruction of public companies. The entire American health insurance system.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
I think the image of 12 year old boys as GW's customer base is probably outdated. I know a woman who is _massively_ into Warhammer, and spends a lot of money and time on it. An N=1 anecdote is not data, but it would certainly be intere
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
H2 economics don't work at all, and H2 is largely a fig-leaf for the fossil fuel industry. If you were to have an environment in which H2 would actually make economic sense, non-H2 storage and distribution systems would be even cheaper
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Syngas makes a lot more sense than hydrogen, in the short term. But what really makes sense in the longer term is massively scaled Carnot batteries. Slightly less efficient than batteries, but really cheap to build (it's a combination

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