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Right, that’s why I wrote, “I don’t mean that most neural networks are invertible functions.” For a neural network that is not bijective, you can obtain an input that maps to a des…

The obvious solution is to run things in reverse, inputting the AI-generated output to recover the prompt that generated it. Most generative models can be run in reverse by algorit…

The inflection point was 2012, when AlexNet [0], a deep convolutional neural net, achieved a step-change improvement in the ImageNet classification competition. After seeing AlexNe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

> Even for billion-parameter theories, a small amount of vectors might dominate the behaviour. We kinda-sorta already know this is true. The lottery-ticket hypothesis [0] says that…

Sandvault [0] (whose author is around here somewhere), is another approach that combines sandbox-exe with the grand daddy of system sandboxes, the Unix user system. Basically, give…

OK, let’s survey how everybody is sandboxing their AI coding agents in early 2026. What I’ve seen suggests the most common answers are (a) “containers” and (b) “YOLO!” (maybe addin…

Milton Friedman wouldn’t have approved of a basic-income scheme restricted to artists. He would have argued that restricting the benefit to artists would distort incentives for cho…

From what I understand, which is very incomplete, the leading hypothesis at the moment is that ingested prions are a bit hard to digest (because they’re malformed proteins), so the…

I’m not qualified to comment intelligently on what might be going on here, but I’d like to add some background color that the article lacks. Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease is a prion di…

Philip E Converse, The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics (1964), 75 pages [0]. 0. https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~hoganr/Soc%20312/The%20nature%20... [PDF]

> We should be able to define our functions to accept the inputs they are designed for, and not try to handle every possible edge case. Oh, look, somebody just re-discovered static…