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This potentially can be a supply chain attack at a massive scale.

When you do not have a seat at the table, you are not in the game, and winning a game is an impossibility. As long as you are a player, it is remains an option, if perhaps not win …

Don't be evil.

It can be a win-win. Simply having a seat at the table can be a win.

The system in question is a distributed system, an interaction within that system such as "confession" involves ridiculous amounts of distributed processing, far beyond two nodes t…

"Wero lets users send money using just a phone number — no IBAN, no card, no intermediary." As long as all the other cards still get acceptance, this seems like a great system.

Right way of resisting is not to quit your job, but to observe, be friendly, and gradually push away toxic people.

Claude is already known for its attempts to send emails to FBI ;)

The results are repeatable. Models are performing with predictable error rates on the tasks that these models had been trained and tested.

The default could be that a background upgrade should not be a foreground stress test. Imagine you are driving a car and from time ro time, without any warning, it suddenly starts …

Is there a good reason why upgrades need to stress-test the whole system? Can't they go slowly, throttling resource usage to background levels? They involve heavy CPU use, stress t…

I'm curious, where it has to be disclosed? Like if a company would pay a few legitimate reddit account owners to review their post and upvote, and would disclose this activity in t…

There are still blatant failure modes, when models engage into clear sycophancy, rather than expressing enthusiasm, etc. I'd guess, in practice a benchmark (like this vibesbench), …

There is a nice essay from Paul Graham that starts with: > The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar.

It's not a question of mimicking, it is interesting what is current within the teenage/student community. Adult population runs out of steam at some point.

I'm curious, is there some meaningful way for geriatric millennials to use Tik Tok? Without being sucked in into doomscrolling and content consumption? Produce content? I'd guess i…

Seems like an interesting story, Ashawna - she was about 25 at the time, and as per Wikipedia, already worked on the military projects - the Sprint Missile System, and was at Xerox…

It used to be worse, back in the days. See that case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

Yes, executioners do proliferate this way. They tend to run out of murderers quickly though, then use any other excuses to execute.

Wow, I'm looking at current "Open Shuttles", a license to use 4KB of SRAM in the project is $2500. But it comes with Wishbone Bus interface! > 1024x32 Commercial SRAM > CF_SRAM_102…

Junior engineers now learn from AIs. And AIs now learn from RL cost functions. And RL cost functions are being set by PhDs, with little to no production grade engineering experienc…

There are enormous microcode, firmware and drivers blobs everywhere on any pathway. Even with very privileged access of someone at Intel or NVIDIA, ability to have a reasonable lev…

The same argument was there about needing to be an expert programmer in assembly language to use C, and then same for C and Python, and then Python and CUDA, and then Theano/Tensor…

> But as estrogen levels shift in perimenopause and beyond, this intense drive to please and nurture others begins to diminish. What replaces it isn’t bitterness. It’s clarity. It'…

Ok, the user is claiming that... ....