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LainZine - very similar to PagedOut: https://lainzine.org/archive

Unredacted - Privacy/OSINT related. Only past issues are free. https://inteltechniques.com/magazine.html

N-O-D-E - Hardware/DIY https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/

Al0neStaron Reimagining mathematics in a world of reasoning machines [video]

These books are what i would consider the best books for self-study. (I have gone through many textbooks after i went back to school to study statistics.)

• Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

• Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

• Mathematical Logic Through Python

• A Course in Calculus and Real Analysis

• A Course in Multivariable Calculus and Analysis

• Differential Equations With Applications and Historical Notes

• Probability and Random Processes (Grimmet)

• Probability Through Problems

• Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions

• The Simple and Infinite Joy of Mathematical Statistics

• An Introduction to Error Analysis

Al0neStaron Reimagining mathematics in a world of reasoning machines [video]

Not really gatekeeping, but as someone who likes to self-study, not having solutions is very annoying.

Al0neStaron The Universe as a Computer

> everything is compute.

Isnt this the problem OP is referring to? If everything is compute then no useful distinction can be made.

Al0neStaron Google suspends romance author's account for writing sexually explicit content

Why do they have a problem with people being aroused?

Al0neStaron Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Ross Ulbricht got two life sentences plus 40 years without parole.

Al0neStaron Three reasons why AI doesn’t model human language

PDF: https://anonymfile.com/6N8rm/d41586-024-00824-z.pdf

VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4ab7698f2bd174f1aecc8e0b...

Al0neStaron South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children

[NSFW]

"… I show them my prick, then what do you suppose I do? I squirt the fuck in their face… That's my passion my child, I have no other… and you're about to behold it."

- The 120 Days of Sodom, 1785

"My dick will go through the middle of boys and the middle of girls, but with bearded men it will aim only for the top."

- An epigram of Priapus from 1st Century AD.

Al0neStaron South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children

The first paper in the literature review and its citations argue how popular tv shows like "The Twilight Diaries" and "Riverdale" normalize rape and violence against women, I can't take it seriously.

Al0neStaron South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children

There is no evidence that fetishes could be "induced".

Al0neStaron Encrypted Client Hello

Everytime someone mentions Cloudflare, i think about this article [0].

[0] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20230609-turboboost.html

Al0neStaron Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration

Also: https://admiretheweb.com

Al0neStaron ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense

Last xpac was less than a year ago.

Al0neStaron Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

A great book by one of the auhors of HtDP is DCIC and it uses a programmimg language called Pyret and chapter 3 covers a transition from pyret to python.

https://dcic-world.org/2023-02-21/index.html

Do you have any examples you can share of GPT4 being degraded?

Al0neStaron Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

This is a hardcore book.

Al0neStaron Teaching Programming in the Age of ChatGPT

Assuming that HumanEval is a good benchmark (it's not) and assuming you can naively scale under fat-tails (you can't) then according to OpenAI's own gpt4 report (someone did the math on hn/reddit where they reproduced the curve but i can't find the link) at 100x the training cost of gpt4 you will still have a 15% error rate on medium difficulty tasks.

Al0neStaron Advanced Python Mastery

Fixed it, i meant that both of the books mentioned are written by Harry Percival (and the 2nd was written as a sequel) .

Al0neStaron Advanced Python Mastery

I'm guessing this was submitted after the "Ask HN" about leveling up to a production python programmer and i'm surprised no one mentioned these books:

1. Test-Driven Development with Python

2. Architecture Patterns with Python

The 2nd one is the closest you're gonna get to a production-grade tutorial book.

Related to this topic, these resources by @dbeazley:

Barely an Interface

https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/blob/main/2021/barely-interfa...

Now You Have Three Problems

https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/blob/main/2023/three-problems...

A Different Refactoring

https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/blob/main/2023/different-refa...

His youtube channel:

https://youtube.com/@dabeazllc

Al0neStaron SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations

https://youtu.be/piwB5SJqZ7U

Over-fitted or copied.

Al0neStaron Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts

DISCLAIMER: You work for Wix.

Al0neStaron WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using

https://cracked.io/Thread-1-WORMGPT-BEST-GPT-ALTERNATIVE-FOR...

Al0neStaron Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

379$!

Al0neStaron StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

2: https://decrypt.co/147191/no-human-programmers-five-years-ai...

Al0neStaron Xenia: Xbox 360 Emulator (2022)

Yes.

Number of games that are backward compatible out of the total released [0]:

Xbox : 63/996 (6.32%)

Xbox 360: 633/2154 (29.38%)

As you can see the numbers are very disappointing.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backward-compatible_...

Al0neStaron RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator

According to this video, setting it up and running the games shouldn't be a bottleneck, but performance isn't going to be very good. He's using the M2 pro and you can still see/feel the slowdown.

https://youtu.be/YnDAkZLXkPA?t=603

Al0neStaron RPCS3 – Open Source Playstation 3 Emulator

This CPU tier list by the r/rpcs3 sub should be helpful (specifically the "What do i buy" tab) :

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1Rpq_2D4Rf3g6O-x2...

Al0neStaron GPT-4 details leaked?

Maybe for side quests but even that would be a debug hell.

Al0neStaron GPT-4 details leaked?

Maybe 111B is the base GPT-3.5 model.

Al0neStaron GPT-4 details leaked?

Zero.

Al0neStaron GPT-4 details leaked?

99.999% of humans who haven't seen the data.