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The paper is from the 30th of April this year, openAi announced the counter example to the unit distance problem on the 20th of May. That is to say this paper seems to have aged no…

It impressive how prescient the technology feels. I mean in 2020 I would have thought the fully automated kitchen and the voice that asks which poem one wants to hear as fanciful, …

Related, a writing advice I stole from Neal Stephenson is to write the first draft by hand. The thing is, there are a lot of small corrections where you kinda should change the tex…

The author is a mathematician and I think to a certain extend the tweet reflects the current panic among (some) mathematicians. So ~~second sentence~~ third paragraph the claim tha…

On the left hand side we see a lot very unhappy carbon.

> The approach, detailed in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, achieved 100% accuracy in identifying models specialized for CSAM generation. I k…

Up to a conformal factor.

> Seven LLMs were arranged in series. Six assumed another had read the code; the seventh read it and apologised. And this is why management assumes that one can just automate softw…

Pretty sure the reason is, that anybody who could actually do the changes thinks works for me, the alternative is a lot of work for little technical gain. And besides once you star…

There's something funny about complaining about cheating in a hacking competition. Well actually I get it. In cycling motor doping, putting a hidden engine into the bike, seems mor…

> “Malawi is poor because its agricultural productivity is low” is closer to a tautology than an answer. I used to make the same error. Thing is in the natural sciences this looks …

Pull left-pad as dependency presumably.

dig manages to dig out ips for heise.de and tagesschau.de but not spiegel.de amazon.de and google.de However, dig @8.8.8.8 has still amazon.de cached, unlike 1.1.1.1 so perhaps Goo…

They own eBay + GME + some financial alchemy. If you aren't a financial wizard you should assume that the value of the financial alchemy is negative. (Because 99% of the time it is…

> Senior figures (Smolin, Woit, Hossenfelder, Penrose) Well one of the three is not like the other, three are very accomplished physicists, one is a youtuber who lies about the gam…

No, but actually yes. Guardrails usually refers to a step in the inference pipeline where you check that it is consistent with policy while open weight models don't come with such …

Remember folks, you are only allowed to laugh at their misfortune if you tested this month wether you can restore your backups.

My theory is, that a lot of security bugs are low hanging fruit for LLMs in the sense that it is a bit tedious but not that hard pattern matching. (Let's see the free occurs in foo…

If we go with that 15% of household budget, that would be something like 10k and people used to buy a lot less clothing back then than they do today, probably less than 10 items a …

I've seen an interview with a food stylist and she pointed out that when putting pins and needles into a burger, then you have to pay real attention to that burger because you have…

Yes, and it took our ancestors 200k years. I would like to give our descendants an head start.

Kinda on topic, I thought it is a quite interesting article that gets better if you overlook the sensationalist framing.