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Havoc··on Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
>Would probably make sense to self-host Clef

For privacy perhaps but on pricing you're unlikely to come out ahead versus datacentres with scale and industrial power pricing

Havoc··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
No, it's just incredibly bad reasoning. I've not been in a car crash yet, but I don't conclude that therefore talk of road safety is FUD.
Havoc··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
Dismissing something as false just because you haven’t personally experienced it is quite something
Havoc··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
OP can be glad he’s in the tech space.

In finance it’s even more unhinged. Lots of value creation through synergies while avoiding boiling the ocean and aligning priorities.

Havoc··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
It’s not the same event but I know there is a pretty good docu on YouTube by wendover explaining Glastonbury festival logistics that may be of interest if this is your thing
Havoc··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
Actually had a plumber here earlier today which was an ordeal so have been asking that myself too...
Havoc··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
I don’t particularly like the horse to engine angle because it doesn’t capture the issue well.

When we automated physical activity people that were crowded out moved into knowledge work. Now we’re automating knowledge work so people move into ???

Leisure? Become a useless class? UBI? Something else entirely?

Havoc··on Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
Interesting - I didn’t even notice it’s not supported. Must have been added via extension because I definitely have mcp active on pi.

The idea of using jev as a cheaper faster subagent for specific use cases is interesting. Will have to experiment with that!

Havoc··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
I bet they're trying to build a 72 but want to instrument a 71 with modern sensors to get there.
Havoc··on Dots: Always-on agents
Always a sure sign to be wary if they can’t square the product with data protection
Havoc··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
Should have at least nationalized it like lottery is in many countries to maintain some control.
Havoc··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
This just comes across as a disingenuous attempt by Anthropic to get big daddy gov to limit competition from China
Havoc··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
We do seem to be in a “everything is allowed” era
Havoc··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
I’m a bit more optimistic about wars where there isn’t a strong religious aspect on both sides. Can still be bloody (WW1/2) but doesn’t have the same dynamics that make me so pessimistic about the Middle East
Havoc··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Your response to me saying everyone is blaming each other is to give your opinion as to who is to blame?

See why I’m not optimistic?

Havoc··on Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs
Regardless of whether the concern is genuine or not I think it’s pretty safe to say that there will be no meaningful slow down. We are for better or worse about to find out what happens in this AGI saga…

At least we live in interesting times

Havoc··on OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
They sure seem pretty bad at this containment thing
Havoc··on As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
Depends on the type of lawyer / work being done.

If it’s just copy paste templates then you never really needed a lawyer in the first place. Thats paralegal at best

Havoc··on When did Google get so weird?
They send users?

That seems surprising given that the complaint is generally that ai uses it without sending users

Havoc··on When did Google get so weird?
Their core product - Google.com - is also just plain broken often late. Just returns nothing. Neither search nor AI.

Pretty incredible given how much of their valuation rides on it

Havoc··on CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)
The fact that it can be deduced in some cases by some people is missing the point that a test of humanity shouldn't be country specific at all.

>The ones with liveries on the side that are all the same color.

Which is also not true for some countries...

Havoc··on HomelabFest will be in St. Louis in September 2027
That’s cool. I hope this succeeds
Havoc··on Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?
> I ran the agent 100 times. In 88% of the tests, it didn't open the external website. It either hallucinated a discount code or simply ignored the instructions.

Bad model? Don’t think I’ve ever seen a model ignore a link in instructions. It always wants to see what’s there

Havoc··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
That seems pretty wild to me

Wonder if it works with all the functions - most of which would assume one value

Havoc··on Plan mode is dead
Switched from opencode to pi and I do kinda miss planning mode. I like spending a bit more time in that phase and having multiple providers LLM look at the spec doc etc

That’s very much coming from a desire for improved quality than understanding though

Havoc··on A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models
Likely works even better with fireworks ai since they have proper grammar support
Havoc··on Too AI; Didn't Read
Really don't like the weird grey yellow sites...they're just ugly
Havoc··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Amazing - was looking for some benchmarks around this earlier
Havoc··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
I was looking at the table further down - UK results. Even ignoring the studies marked dubious it's still averaging well into double digits
Havoc··on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated
I wouldn't say "every instance" is is preemptively doubted, but there is a wikipedia page on false accusations for a reason. With most studies indicating double digit % of false accusations. (and some numbers far higher than I would have guessed [0])

I'd say a better phrasing is that innocent until proven guilty applies - just like with other crimes. Crowd sourced lists aren't that so treating them with some caution is warranted.

I can see how even an unreliable list may be of use practically to women though even if process wise it is quite dubious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#Estim...

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