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Through association with a large company: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing Ive seen the tickets generated by the model that have trickled to my team. They are legitimate, but i …

The implication would be that GPT-4.5 was not judged to be human 27% of the time. You can't determine how often humans were judged correctly as humans from that data point.

Francis Galton, namesake of the Galton Board,( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_board ) had this to say of the Central Limit Theorem: "Order in Apparent Chaos.-I know of scarce…

Ask a divorce lawyer that question.

I work for an global company in the industrial automation space. Not only is there is a major effort underway to offshore jobs and manufacturing from the US, but our customers arou…

>>> "For each human, there could be thousands of robots, effectively an army of tireless servants for each individual." yeah, blog at me after a few years of managing even a small …

From the report: > The MP initiated a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers through the on-duty supervisor of flying (SOF) "MP" is the pilot > A conference hotel is a call…

Crime counts are normalized to crime rates with respect to population, not land area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... And you'll see that Washington…

"deportation" flights to Guantanamo Bay have begun. https://apnews.com/article/deportation-flights-military-indi...

You're shocked by how many billions go completely unaudited? okay then...how many billions are completely unaudited?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00088-3 The original article this one links to is a better read.

“In batch mode, you In watch mode, LlamaFS starts a daemon that watches your directory. It intercepts all filesystem operations, updates i and uses your most recent edits in contex…

I would prefer a robotic, unrealistic voice so I don’t start subconsciously thinking I’m hearing a real human speak.

"Each megasat could then convert gigawatts of power into a microwave beam aimed precisely at a big field of receiving antennas on Earth. These rectennas would then convert the sign…

I taught this problem to a group of high schoolers as part of a statistics curriculum. It was engaging for two reasons: The topic of the vitriolic responses to Marilyn is not borin…

Source control is all about managing diffs. Large files are fine, binary doesn’t make sense. Most of the time binary file diffs aren’t human readable. I store binary files outside …

Nice. Made me nostalgic for http://planarity.net/

It has its warts, but I had the opposite experience in general. Bringing up peripherals on ST has been easier than all other vendors I’ve worked with (TI, renesas and the older PIC…

Mathematically, computation is deterministic. The author dismisses or ignores the many ways that the physical apparatus driving the computation can force the result of a software a…

One should also be aware that the pressure rating is a function of temperature. Extra caution should be taken when operating in cold environments. Also the cooling effect that occu…

I think this headline is subtlety misleading. From the article: >>> “William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstei…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

>And now you know why riding with body armor is pointless. I can confidently say I am among the elite in terms of urban riding competency, having logged at least 15,000 miles ridin…

Measuring time is more convenient than counting steps or calculating distance, in my experience. A normal pace for me is about 100 steps per minute. It’s a convenient way to estima…

The UN estimates that there are about 7.9 billion people, up from about 6 billion in 1999. https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-populatio…