You are lucky, full moon tonight

Thanks, multi-part Twitter links are now held hostage behind a registration wall, making them unreadable and lost for most.

Thank you

Why is metadat's comment flagged and dead? It seems like a perfectly fine comment to me:

"Thanks, multi-part Twitter links are now held hostage behind a registration wall, making them unreadable and lost for most."

Thanks, this story would otherwise have been unreadable for me. Bit of a difference from the recent mastodon thread about writing a unix https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112319697309218275

I wish people would stop using twitter as the prime host for these kinds of things.

Thank you. Unbeliveable that twitter is apparently the best place to post these "long" stories...

Genuine question: how does the moon phase influence its gravity effect?

I've heard the same story about a telephone line in Marlborough: back in the black&white analogue times.

The story being that king tides were getting a connection wet near the shore and causing problems.

I wonder how they corrected it. By calibration, or carefully modeling the deformation according to the moon's mass?

Tiktok has stopped allowing me to view videos when not registered and logged in. I only view them when they are sent to me. I’m never going to register but they’ve made it less useful to the registered people who send me links.

I want to agree, except that I believe when people authenticate to a particular site and post something, they're only really concerned with readership by other people who authenticate to that same site. Like if I have a car problem and post about it on a car forum, the ability for anonymous users to read my post is of little concern because they're not nearly as likely to reply to me as someone who's already logged in. If my goal was to spread information more widely instead of soliciting in-band participation, then in that specific scenario yes of course I need to find some other way to do that, but I don't think that's a typical goal with sites that strongly favor authentication; the goal is to get likes, replies, and so forth.

I remember reading about a bot that completed a NetHack ascension speedrun by hacking the random number generator, but it's probably not the one you were thinking of:

https://pellsson.github.io/

The bug is in their model and codes reaction to unexpected behavior. I don’t think the author is postulating that the game or lunar cycle has the bug.

The score they're reporting is almost definitely the average over a set of fixed seeds I imagine. They just didn't realize that the seed is not sufficient to establish the play experience, the system clock is a factor too.

I don't know exactly about this case, but when training models like this I tend to fix a small set, or even just one, seeds to use as a baseline 'quality measure' -- while this has the risk of over-tuning, always measuring quality using random seeds means you can misjudge a model's quality because you get particularly lucky, or unlucky, seeds.

However (and again I've hit this), sometimes you don't fix everything enough, and still have some unexpected variation, like in this case.

Their model is trained only on runs it has seen before which didn't include sufficient full moon runs. So its performance degraded when it encountered a sufficiently novel variant.

Which is where the I part of AI always falls down, input that sufficiently differs.

E.g., train facial recognition on a corpus of predominately white American faces, African Americans suffer a horribly high false positive rate when the cops use your model on surveillance footage.

Making the system clock always be the same is the ultimate is hermeticity.

It wasn’t spoiled unless you already knew that particular fact.

Singularity (now called Apptainer - https://apptainer.org/) is a container system generally used in HPC environments that has some nice features, like having your container as single .sif file, automatically mounting your home directory, using the same user inside and outside the container, and the ability to import from the docker registry. The approach is less about isolation and more about “packaging up” an entire environment in a easy-to-use way.

What do you blame your heisenbugs on now?