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I feel like the details of this are highly dependent on the confidence of the warning; moving large numbers of people (particularly elderly) will result in some deaths regardless. …

I know this is uncharitable and I am wrong but I am having trouble coming up with concrete scenarios where you die with 2 days notice but survive with 3. I am nonethless a believer…

There are a lot of tasks that are hard for organisations to run consistently but require some intelligence - monitoring logs and metrics for anomalies and security events, backup a…

The value prop for the crazy sounding idea of putting GPUs into orbit.

I guess my v0 would be notches around the mating end to allow for compression, and a hose clamp. Maybe split shaft collars off aliexpress for a fancier look. The design space of ba…

Since it's the morning I thought I would ask Claude to create an example. This is just a first pass; it will be totally wrong but demonstrates the general idea. I don't know anythi…

I would consider asking it to model its proposed designs in openscad or build123d (ideally something query-able). Then have it render and examine plausibility / suitability from di…

I do feel like Oxide are qualitatively different from the others pjlmp mentioned because they're staying commodity in key interfaces like CPU ISA / OS / ecosystem (thing with big n…

The other aspect is that the electrical parts of the power system are lighter at the higher frequency too. A 400hz transformer is meaningfully smaller and lighter than a 50hz one. …

You're right of course, LLMs provide a partial, unsound oracle. The "halting problem is unsolvable" argument relies on the oracle not being able to output "not sure". But adding th…

Its funny because you can write a halting problem oracle by calling out to an LLM and have it return yes / no / not sure and get it to work reliably for almost all real code, like …

Hi, shredding the book is to reduce potential legal liability of format shifting - if you shred the book after scanning, the theory is you are not increasing the number of copies. …

> Practically speaking, is there really a difference between prompting an LLM to create a CMS for a website and installing something like WordPress or Ghost? There is some differen…

The problem he's describing comes up any time you have a team of developers. That doesn't mean the usefulness of teams is a fantasy because you didn't write all the code yourself. …

The incident is funny on 2 levels; a) OpenAI thought so little of the model's _actual_ security capabilities that they gave it a "wet paper bag" sandbox and b) OpenAI failed to use…

Food is allocated using a variety of mechanisms in peaceful first world countries, primarily money but also via government assistance, kinship, friendship, community, etc. At any g…

I like your moxie and I also agree Australia is an over-regulated racket... but I'm also glad my neighbours aren't mass farming frogs or cockroaches in my suburb without talking to…

If we take a contested issue like the origins of COVID-19, the facts are detailed, complex, contradictory and ambiguous. They also don't make narrative sense without some degree of…

In Sydney Australia its < 2 days of median rent.