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by yk 8d ago
The last two points are disputed/sound significantly more reasonable in [0]. So from what I gather, Buckmaster realizes sometime during the call that the biggest result of his career is going to get steamrolled (the blowup of Navier St
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by yk 16d ago
Aww, script kiddies first technical document. ... ( checks calender ) Actually it's 2026, probably someone just typed "Stop me eating ice cream" into claude code instead of the chat interface.
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by yk 1mo ago
Since they downsized apparently in March, it is likely that the sellers on Amazon mentioning 51g very prominently are just selling off old stock.
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by yk 1mo ago
Checking Amazon UK[0], it seems there are 18g, 39.4 g and 51 g Mars bars (and 57 g Mars Protein bars). So it's not clear weather a 60 g Mars bar is that much of a good example of shrinkflation, but 40 g seems to be the wrong comparison
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by yk 1mo ago
The paper is from the 30th of April this year, openAi announced the counter example to the unit distance problem on the 20th of May. That is to say this paper seems to have aged not much but quite poorly.
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Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years(travelandtannins.com)
138 points by yk 1mo ago|65 comments
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by yk 1mo ago
It impressive how prescient the technology feels. I mean in 2020 I would have thought the fully automated kitchen and the voice that asks which poem one wants to hear as fanciful, now it's kinda tech demo level.
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by yk 2mo ago
Related, a writing advice I stole from Neal Stephenson is to write the first draft by hand. The thing is, there are a lot of small corrections where you kinda should change the text but nah, and if you already committed to copy the entire t
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by yk 2mo ago
The author is a mathematician and I think to a certain extend the tweet reflects the current panic among (some) mathematicians. So ~~second sentence~~ third paragraph the claim that somehow ai could right now write a phd in physics or socio
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by yk 2mo ago
On the left hand side we see a lot very unhappy carbon.
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by yk 2mo ago
> The approach, detailed in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, achieved 100% accuracy in identifying models specialized for CSAM generation. I know some reasons for 100% accuracy in machine learning, f
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by yk 2mo ago
Up to a conformal factor.
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by yk 3mo ago
> Seven LLMs were arranged in series. Six assumed another had read the code; the seventh read it and apologised. And this is why management assumes that one can just automate software developers.
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by yk 3mo ago
Pretty sure the reason is, that anybody who could actually do the changes thinks works for me, the alternative is a lot of work for little technical gain. And besides once you start your tablet for Linux Projekt you have to touch everything
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by yk 4mo ago
There's something funny about complaining about cheating in a hacking competition. Well actually I get it. In cycling motor doping, putting a hidden engine into the bike, seems more offensive than regular doping. I think this is becaus
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by yk 4mo ago
> “Malawi is poor because its agricultural productivity is low” is closer to a tautology than an answer. I used to make the same error. Thing is in the natural sciences this looks like circular reasoning, but in the humanities quite comm
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by yk 4mo ago
Pull left-pad as dependency presumably.
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by yk 4mo ago
dig manages to dig out ips for heise.de and tagesschau.de but not spiegel.de amazon.de and google.de However, dig @8.8.8.8 has still amazon.de cached, unlike 1.1.1.1 so perhaps Google to the rescue? [Edit] After playing around with it, goog
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by yk 5mo ago
They own eBay + GME + some financial alchemy. If you aren't a financial wizard you should assume that the value of the financial alchemy is negative. (Because 99% of the time it is.) Now, what are the synergies of eBay + GME that outwe
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by yk 5mo ago
> Senior figures (Smolin, Woit, Hossenfelder, Penrose) Well one of the three is not like the other, three are very accomplished physicists, one is a youtuber who lies about the game to get clicks. (And we know she lies because she used t
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by yk 5mo ago
No, but actually yes. Guardrails usually refers to a step in the inference pipeline where you check that it is consistent with policy while open weight models don't come with such a multistep pipeline. However open weight models are al
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by yk 5mo ago
Remember folks, you are only allowed to laugh at their misfortune if you tested this month wether you can restore your backups.
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by yk 5mo ago
My theory is, that a lot of security bugs are low hanging fruit for LLMs in the sense that it is a bit tedious but not that hard pattern matching. (Let's see the free occurs in foo(), so if I trigger bar() after foo() then I have a use
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by yk 5mo ago
If we go with that 15% of household budget, that would be something like 10k and people used to buy a lot less clothing back then than they do today, probably less than 10 items a year. Now, if you take 1k you can probably find a tailor who
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Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival [video](youtube.com)
1 points by yk 5mo ago|1 comments
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by yk 5mo ago
I've seen an interview with a food stylist and she pointed out that when putting pins and needles into a burger, then you have to pay real attention to that burger because you have a really great looking burger, full with pins and need
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by yk 6mo ago
Yes, and it took our ancestors 200k years. I would like to give our descendants an head start.
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by yk 6mo ago
Kinda on topic, I thought it is a quite interesting article that gets better if you overlook the sensationalist framing.
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From Run Nation to Power Slap: New Sports Designed for Social Media(theguardian.com)
1 points by yk 6mo ago|1 comments
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by yk 6mo ago
So genAi ads can now be A/B tested by autonomous systems, to be shown on an social network for agents to be appreciated by ai agents. On one hand, yay automatization, on the other hand, I feel weirdly left out.

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