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by seraphsf 1y ago
Bravo! Future generation will be richer and better-off than the present. Saving your charity for the future is, effectively, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Also, giving now maximizes the compounding effect of your charity. S
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by seraphsf 2y ago
There's clickbait out there like BGR's headline, "ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down". What the test actually showed is that, given two conflicting goals from two human instruct
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An evaluation of frontier AI models: OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming(apolloresearch.ai)
1 points by seraphsf 2y ago|1 comments
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by seraphsf 2y ago
Frankly, the mission of "safe AGI" is better served by guaranteed wide distribution of the technology -- not only to MSFT but on fair commercial terms to all comers. I'm less worried about AGI being a bad thing, and more worr
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by seraphsf 2y ago
https://archive.is/pmudc Frankly, the mission of "safe AGI" is better served by guaranteed wide distribution of the technology -- not only to MSFT but on fair commercial terms to all comers. I'm less worried
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by seraphsf 2y ago
That feeling of being "smothered" might simply be that you need a higher pressure setting. The pressure that feels comfortable while awake might not be sufficient when your body is asleep.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Love that movie! What an amazing piece of small-scale sci-fi.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Punch line: the 737-MAX has an accident rate 12x higher than the 737. Stunning.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
1) in the case of Area 120, this is one of the ways it was pitched to management. “Passionate entrepreneurs are leaving to work on new ideas; if you give them a place inside Google to pursue new ideas, it keeps them and their entrepreneuria
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by seraphsf 3y ago
You’re not wrong. They were among the top 10% of people I worked with in terms of passion, commitment, and creativity. They weren’t among the top 10% in terms of their skill in navigating Dilbert-land corporatism. A significant number of th
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Which 5% of projects are really great? In my experience, presuming you have tight filters such that all of your projects are plausibly potentially great, you really don’t know until you try. That’s the point of an incubator. It’s not that h
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by seraphsf 3y ago
I ran one of the successful projects in Area 120. I joined Area 120 with huge skepticism. It was hamstrung and inefficient in its own ways. And I agree it didn’t reach its potential - largely because it was encased in Google 2020 instead of
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by seraphsf 3y ago
It’s striking that: “The justice system in Veracruz can’t be relied on to investigate, punish, or deter criminals, nor has the government launched a major campaign to boost the vanilla industry” And later: “In Mexico, the majority of busine
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by seraphsf 3y ago
A fun puzzle: if today you take $10m of VC funding at a $20m post-money valuation (ie you sold 50% your company), how much will you get if you sell the company for $20m tomorrow? Answer: typically, you’ll walk away with $5m (25%) or less. V
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by seraphsf 3y ago
https://archive.ph/T2xxh
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by seraphsf 3y ago
More about Cristina Hartmann, the author, at her website: https://cristinahartmann.com/about/
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by seraphsf 3y ago
A private, after-school extra curricular program. It’s a national company with many local branches (possibly franchised). Like Kumon, it’s a way for ambitious parents to buy extra academic classes and extra homework for their kids.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Today, we use instant messaging like we use voice conversation - especially for people who work remotely. Banning the use of ephemeral IM is sort of like saying “you need to record all of your discussions, no matter how trivial”. Levine’s a
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by seraphsf 3y ago
There’s an awesome cookbook on this topic, Manifold Destiny: https://books.google.com/books/about/Manifold_Destiny.html?i... I played around with the idea with my first Jeep Wrangler, a burly car with a perfectly
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Hotspot 2.0, a.k.a. Passpoint. Within that standard, the phones, WiFi networks, and carriers are all using EAP-AKA or EAP-SIM authentication.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Yes, WiFi offload uses the Hotspot 2.0 spec with mutual authentication (EAP-AKA or EAP-SIM typically). Both the phone and the WiFi network will mutually authenticate with the carrier’s Authentication Server.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Frankly, I don’t know. This thread is the first I’ve heard of it. Carriers ask phone makers for config changes all the time. It’s possible this is a new capability that was requested by certain carriers. To be fair, it’s also possible that
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by seraphsf 3y ago
No. That’s not how it works. These managed networks require a specific secure authentication from the carrier itself.
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by seraphsf 3y ago
Yes. These managed networks require EAP-SIM (or something similar).
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by seraphsf 3y ago
I know something about this. I built and ran a service for carriers to help with “WiFi offload”. It’s intended as a consumer-friendly way to increase capacity in dense areas (like a sports stadium or mall) where the carrier’s cell towers do
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by seraphsf 4y ago
Silicon Valley trains entrepreneurs the way World War I trained infantry. The goal is NOT to make most succeed.
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by seraphsf 4y ago
I know a person who contracted a transient parasite infection, possibly hookworm, while doing research in Africa and walking around barefoot. In the decade+ since, they’ve suffered terribly from debilitating and incurable auto-immune diseas
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by seraphsf 5y ago
The Magma project is also an OSS LTE (and 5G) project: https://connectivity.fb.com/magma/
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Fauci: Vaccines for first-graders could be authorized by September(propublica.org)
2 points by seraphsf 6y ago|0 comments
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by seraphsf 6y ago
What’s the tax compliant way?

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