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by mbeavitt 7d ago
Bring back DVD rentals! In the US, you don't even need to pay a licensing fee when you buy a DVD with intent to rent it out to people (this is not the case in the UK), thanks to the "First-sale doctrine" - Bobbs-Merrill v. St
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by mbeavitt 8d ago
They did benchmark the model and beat the SOTA on every metric though
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by mbeavitt 11d ago
This headline is not correct. The ruling was that a constitutional lawsuit was not successful, not that the the US government has carte blanche to poison its citizens drinking water… So, the correct headline would be “safe drinking water ru
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by mbeavitt 26d ago
I don't have an NYT subscription but I'm familiar with this story. I think it's a bit blown out of proprtion... autoimmune gastritis is not a death sentence. I think Mr Johnston will probably find plenty of ways to cope with
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by mbeavitt 26d ago
It's crazy how these records are just quietly being broken by humanoid robots. What's next? What a time to be alive.
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by mbeavitt 27d ago
From their perspective, it's training data that their competitors don't have. If they make it available, they fill in their moat.
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
Wtf does this mean? “Their square display of olo occupied an angular width of 0.9°[1], around twice the diameter of the moon[7].”
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
Why would someone want to use a nested function, practically speaking?
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
Reminded me of this recent post: https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/s/ko1Jv1Qxhw
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Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards(anthropic.com)
5 points by mbeavitt 1mo ago|0 comments
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
Anyone brave enough to make predictions about 2030? FYI the predictions in the comments of the blog post are just as interesting, this prediction from Dan Hendrycks is particularly relevant this month: "2026 Machine learning systems be
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What 2026 looks like (2021)(alignmentforum.org)
3 points by mbeavitt 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
Didn’t see anything about how they are treating the model confidentiality - will this be released to select orgs or made open? I guess this could one of the few things I would not want to be open sourced.
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
People also like superhero films but they are not exactly lauded as the pinnacle of cinema. I don't think this proves anything about AI being better or equivalent to human writers in terms of style and content - more that broadly appea
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by mbeavitt 1mo ago
The developer safeguards were off, the models had unfettered access to the internet, and were solving cybersecurity challenges. This happened _after_ the recent OpenAI incident, and the subsequent Anthropic one. What the hell were they thin
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by mbeavitt 2mo ago
Honestly, I’ve gone back to dvd rentals! CinemaParadiso sends me as many films and boxsets as I can handle by post and it’s the same price as a standard Netflix subscription… And it’s in blissfully high bitrate 4k! Anyone else notice that e
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by mbeavitt 2mo ago
One thing I really admire about isomorphic and DeepMind in general is that they really try and encode human ingenuity into their models. The only reason that AlphaFold worked wasn't because they had better hardware or more money to tra
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by mbeavitt 2mo ago
This is simply not true, advances in basecalling and using Duplex give you >Q25
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by mbeavitt 4mo ago
I really don’t understand why this social credit concept has become so widespread. It does sort of exist but not in the big government breathing down your neck kind of way. Here’s an example - you can rent e-bikes and power banks at low cos
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SSH-Keysign-Pwn: Reading Root-Owned Files via a Ptrace Logic Bug(needhelp.icu)
2 points by mbeavitt 4mo ago|0 comments
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The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain(wired.com)
2 points by mbeavitt 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mbeavitt 5mo ago
Yeah for many cancers, CAR-T is the cure which is insane and cool. We just need to make it cheap enough that everyone can benefit…
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by mbeavitt 5mo ago
Haha this is cool, it reminds me of the simple.wikipedia.com alternatives to English language pages. Is there an about page linked somewhere? I’m wondering if the images are AI generated or if someone handmade all of this
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by mbeavitt 5mo ago
I wonder - everyone keeps talking about brain drain and how impactful it is, but is it quantifiable?
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by mbeavitt 5mo ago
In 6 months we’re gonna see a HN thread: “I bought ask.com for £250k - here’s what I did with it”
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by mbeavitt 5mo ago
These kind of project reports showing consistent breakthroughs and clearly a finger on the pulse of what users are encountering as pain points are a good indication that the Asahi team are real pros :) Look forward to switching back to Asah
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by mbeavitt 5mo ago
Honestly I've been doing a lot of image-related work recently and the biggest thing here for me is the 3x higher resolution images which can be submitted. This is huge for anyone working with graphs, scientific photographs, etc. The ac
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by mbeavitt 7mo ago
Having briefly experienced weight loss drugs - and the bliss of that constant “EAT!” voice in your head just going quiet - I’m pretty convinced most humans have a genuine genetic predisposition to overeating. And when you zoom out to the po
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by mbeavitt 7mo ago
if you read the article... Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse. I guess remanufacturin
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by mbeavitt 8mo ago
> Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from. The funny thing I find about criticism is that you actually don’t have a choice about whether or not it affects your future actions. Criticism that I have dismi

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