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There will be an Open AI / Anthropic leak eventually. One can only hope.

An instant and obvious good these companies could do is to digitize these books ala google books.

Just the top one? Every top-level thread is like a multiple choice armchair takedown. Here's an interesting counterpoint. "Unthinkable" presented studies of navigation tasks in 2D/…

Right, so we're speedrunning the studies here. Best to just stopover on TFA and see what they found. For example, airline pilots do not have a reduced level of alzheimers deaths, a…

One problem with these kinds of organizations, is that there effectively is no "budget" other than what the various contracted work declares. A subcontractor like, say, Raytheon ge…

You forgot "as long as" ... as long as the buyers could never discern

I ran a few research tasks at JPL, small dollar studies. We'd often recruit part time work from engineers around the lab through informal networks, (instead of the official channel…

Life is vastly faster than random chance at producing more life. So living things go fill niches faster than random chance can use those niches to produce new life.

I paid for berkeley mono and don't mind. But I'm not saying anything negative about free alts

Well there's a difference between "Generate all code with AI" and "Trust AI exclusively" And yes, in talking to friends in other areas of s/w, it's really eating the workflow. It d…

Berkeley Mono is an excellent font. Highly recommended if you still code. https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono And by the way, this website is fantastic.

Even simpler: Can GPT-2 anticipate and build Gwen/Deepseek? I think the answer is almost trivially "no", so I wonder what changed?

Came for: "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." TFA was actually about leaps of intuition, sadly. One of the experiments I've heard propose…

I'm the domain-addicted techie who even hobbies tech. She didn't even think to ask! So much for being handy

Their profile specifically says they will not acknowledge follow requests, but they only share posts with followers. As such, not sure what the value of the top level link is.

Love it. I confess I learned how to build constrained ILP/MILP problems by solving equipment loadout optimality for the game Highfleet.

Reminds me of Zachtronics: Take a computationally difficult problem, reduce it to a game, and then score people against each other. Pure genius and nerd snipe marksmanship. Did you…

No, but I bet this has a high likelihood of coming out in preliminary discussions. What most likely happens is a normie has no idea of how to build something that does nothing firs…

Open any chat window and ask for a simple SPA with startup instructions. It's fine, it's fine, it works.

> "The internet" Classic software engineer perspective. I have good friends who build their entire career between "ISP" and "Load Balancer"

If only we could use that extra power to make methane for later power plant useage https://terraformindustries.com/

Or, that the mathematical formalisms that model the limits of software performance are firm enough that barring P==NP, nothing much will change despite proofs of beautiful math.

Right, and that's why it's preposterous to even imagine this happening. In no time you'd have an administration that was providing that DNA evidence to defense contractors for Top …

Sure, but even worse, is the state-of-the-art: they use a cli agent and the "copy-paste, try to run, paste error, try to run" loop is called "Agentic engineering." Now we have to b…

The point is that the deciding is the "higher layer." It's not that LLMs cannot, but LLMs as designed do not. They are not designed for free-ranging days off, they are designed to …