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by mapmeld 8d ago
Yeah! I think that was a response to a similar human concierge service Magic 2015 story: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/magic-the-startup/ Thread seeking a follow-up in 2022: https://news.ycombinato
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by mapmeld 9d ago
> Our goal in releasing this result is to report on the substantial progress of our AI models. We do not intend to claim the Millennium Prize for this result. Does OpenAI have a policy of not claiming math prizes like this, or is this th
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by mapmeld 27d ago
Since no one mentioned it - this seems to be a major and real problem in the crypto job space. In their job market it's more believable that a 'stealth startup' is reaching out and doing a code challenge from an unfamiliar em
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by mapmeld 1mo ago
I have no inside info on this, but I believe that Anthropic's trouble with the feds really started when they delivered a presentation on EA and Constitutional AI and someone's takeaway was "this is very strange and probably &
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by mapmeld 1mo ago
I have to agree; even if they are getting regular 20th century out-of-print books, is that going to add a significant percentage to their training data? I can only think of it being a 'low-background steel' situation where they wa
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Folding Prion Protein with AI(blog.georeactor.com)
2 points by mapmeld 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mapmeld 1mo ago
From what I've seen in the bounty-related subreddits, AI is flooding bug bounty inboxes with low-value or meaningless reports, or straight-up hallucinations when people use smaller models (to turn a profit, you make lots of low-value b
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by mapmeld 1mo ago
There's also a scam where they contact the owner from abroad, offering to return it, claiming they're an innocent trying to activate a used phone they spent their last dollar on, or threatening the original user into unlocking it.
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
My apartment building is replacing the elevators, and someone on staff revealed that the first renovated elevator is intended to pick up only from the lobby (i.e. if you summon an elevator from the 10th floor, one of the others will come).
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
In 2017 I was talking to a recruiter who genuinely forgot about my application. As in I pinged them, things got moving again, and I actually got hired. In 2021, I talked to a quantum startup and all indications were that the feedback was &q
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
There's a U. Minnesota spinoff company Priogen testing for chronic wasting disease. I saw them advertising on Reddit for hunters to test their deer meat. Here's a recent news story about the Pennsylvania Game Commission offering k
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
A few months back, Cloudflare used AI to make a Rust rewrite of WordPress, but I doubt that they would have found or corrected issues like this on the way? https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
This is the worst one for me. I can maybe think of what it means, but I never heard it before, and could easily be imagining a meaning. Some of the other Claude-isms (quickly googling, especially 'gate' and 'canonical')
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
I was in Dayton Ohio to see the Wright brothers stuff. There were sidewalk plaques for inventors and celebrities who lived in the city, and they had one for Thomas Midgley Jr. I was shocked! Fun fact: during their time Dayton had the most p
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by mapmeld 2mo ago
I have seen a few Ukrainian drone videos that cross over onto regular subreddits, and this subreddit is far more graphic. Do not take this 'NSFL' lightly.
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Lianda and the Long March(blog.georeactor.com)
9 points by mapmeld 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mapmeld 3mo ago
If AlphaFold really is brute force on known protein problem space, would it then be usable as a model for novel proteins?
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by mapmeld 3mo ago
Were schools banning search engines? I remember teachers recommending Dogpile (because it would combine search engines), and we did some computer lab stuff in the 00s, but there was no one saying that we should ignore search or the internet
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by mapmeld 3mo ago
WebGL is a major upgrade for maps. But as an old school web maps person, the obvious solution to the first problem (nearby points clustered even on the city level) is to use the maxZoom option which is in most clustering libraries.
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by mapmeld 3mo ago
I think it's an interesting perspective, because translation is one of the jobs that I (a) hear is the first to lose work due to AI, and (b) often used as an example of "acceptable" AI by people who are skeptics of LLMs and A
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by mapmeld 3mo ago
I was also thinking of this story around the Backrooms lore (since you can find references that it is infinite or planet-sized repeating). Of course I couldn't remember enough to have it pop up on Google or ChatGPT. Grateful that someo
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by mapmeld 4mo ago
I highly recommend one of the books cited in this article (Jeffrey A. Lockwood's Locust). He writes about hiking to the glacier to find preserved locusts, the formation of the Entomological Commission which discovered that existing ant
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by mapmeld 4mo ago
If you have a website somewhere with an unrestricted comment box, it gets spammed. That doesn't take a special AI, because for years there have been script kiddies scanning new domains, IP addresses on AWS, common wp-admin URLs, etc.
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by mapmeld 4mo ago
It's very strange that they think prediction markets "cut through all the noise of the current media conglomerates" and yet the temperature bet is easily manipulated, and any bets about war and other foreign affairs are resol
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by mapmeld 4mo ago
It doesn't say what will happen, but isn't their comment responding to people who don't like the look of this rewrite, and telling them basically that they don't have to think/worry about it? I definitely read it as
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by mapmeld 4mo ago
I finally went to Alcatraz after years where I've either lived in SF or visited for work. It was worth spending some time out there! Great views as well.
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by mapmeld 5mo ago
Yes I think the author is mixing it up with the liquids ban. And in my limited experience, at major airports with new scanners, people care much less about both of these now.
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by mapmeld 5mo ago
Making the conversations about VCs expecting thousands of stars, is thinking too big. It's probably more often someone pays $20 to make one of their projects look good, for their CV, for vanity, thinking this will get them the push tha
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by mapmeld 5mo ago
Sounds like a combination of 'can it be geocoded?' and 'is their location precise enough?' There is some progress on resolving human-written locations in cities ( https://www.danvk.org/2026/03/0
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by mapmeld 5mo ago
I've also noticed that iNaturalist also fuzzes exact locations for some species within a geographic grid (example: zebra) even the ranch zebra in California.

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