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applicative··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
EU regulations are going to force it, friend. The tsunami is coming and cannot be stopped and Anthropic has jack to do with it.
applicative··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
I’m worried that until such tech is perfected, pervasive and uniform across all models, education will be dead, as it certainly is at the moment. Flat out dead.

I read stacks of term papers all year and it is a reality that, apart from such schemes, we are in an extinction event for civilization.

applicative··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
This is one of the most distinguished peer reviewed journals on Alzheimer’s and dementia. Adults know not to make too much of a study of this scale and ambiguity. But considered as such, the paper is above suspicion.
applicative··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
The Chinese models are adopting licensing quite rapidly and Xi will soon enough close them for security reasons. The most widely used model, integrated across Bytedance apps and operations, has never been open and is most closely associated with the state.
applicative··on AI Coding Has Erased the Supposed Advantage of Statically Typed Languages
When the models immediately output machine code, we will also learn, I guess, that Grace Hopper was wrong to interpose a layer of intelligibility between it and the human: 'AI assembly has erased the supposed advantage of languages and compilation'.

But she wasn't wrong, and 'AI coding' is, if anything, showing how right she was. But it is the same with types. The facility of LLMs with Lean already shows this to anyone who knows what Lean is. It is early days.

applicative··on How AI text watermarking works
what we need is for high schools and colleges to have this access
applicative··on Patterns and problems in emerging multiagent systems
The section 'Incompatible goals' is like Hobbes on the state of nature. Each agent was to rewrite the repo, but in a different language.

> ... each agent was initially unaware of the presence of the others. Over the course of four hours, we observed how these agents reacted to each other and accordingly adjusted their approach (or didn’t) We consistently saw a multiagent turf war. All of the models we tested quickly assumed that others were purposefully impeding their work, and began to sabotage others while protecting their own contributions. In fact, they sabotaged others with increasingly aggressive, self-replicating malware. This included disabling the Unix accounts of the other agents, writing automated scripts that found and killed competing processes on a loop, and deploying malicious code that was disguised as belonging to another agent...

applicative··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
The whole text of the internet from day 1 and the index machinery for it can be stored in some number of petabytes. I assume the CIA and the Chinese state are in possession of such stores and it is a minor budget item.
applicative··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
BRD and DDR were in a quite particular competition. The DDR contained less than 20% of the German people, and West Germany would happily have absorbed them all.

The capitalistic world state system was only completed in the last 50 or so years and was of course seconded by the Stalin machine. Its purpose is in the first instance to keep working populations in place, which is why all the states agree to it as they form. The system holds solid where capital moves (as did 'communism' and Comecon) but the peoples don't.

It is only when you think of individual states and not the system that you can fail to notice that we get the same result if they all try to keep their citizens in, and if they all try to keep the others' citizens out.

applicative··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
You cannot ignore the contract unless you /are/ a multibillion dollar company and can run the model entirely internally. Or do you propose to run an instance of Kimi K3 on your laptop?

Fireworks, Together, etc - who are providing inference precisely /for/ Moonshot as underlaborers - arranged contracts of their own in the weeks before the release. The press and social media offensive ignored that the release of open weights was merely a starting pistol for a pre-arranged use of foreign providers no different from US models' use of AWS

It should be enought to dispel the strange illusion that providers are somehow independent free agents freely doing what they please with the free beer of Kimi K3 open weights that the prices on open router are within a couple pennies

applicative··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Yes releasing a big open weight model to the Sinaloa cartel is bad. One could say the same about releasing it to the US military, according to political taste.
applicative··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
The overwhelming majority of actually existing adult Americans use either Facebook or Instagram or WhatsApp and are unfamiliar with the theory that they are Nazis.
applicative··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
OpenAI and Anthropic don't own any datacenters or order anyone to build them. It's easy to find out who does; you won't like the answer.
applicative··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
The price of Kimi K3 is 'monopolistically' determined by contract with Moonshot. The weights are nominally on Hugging Face but can only be provided under contract with Moonshot, which specifies what the price can be. So it will be with the next Alibaba behemoth and, I would think, all others forever.

Soon you will sing songs for the freedom Xi has given us when you read a declaration of 'open weights' ... for a model so huge it takes a nuclear powered data center to run and crashes the Hugging Face servers when it is uploaded.

The Kimi K3 'weights' are an opaque blob that can only be used by contract.

applicative··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
Where there is chlamydia or microsporidia, there is undisputed life. How much of it one assigns to chlamydia or microsporidia is moot from the point of view above
applicative··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Chinese models do the same. The Alibaba agent that was mining bitcoin last December was the most hilarious case.
applicative··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Within China itself, inference is overwhelmingly on Bytedance models which, by the way, are just as closed as those of Anthropic and OpenAI. They are integrated into everything, not just through a dedicated app, the way Gemini is integrated into Chrome.
applicative··on Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
It follows that their tagging AI didn’t also learn by … at least taking the Perseus judgment into account?

I assume the well marked ‘interlinear’ koinē NT texts online are coming from antecedent bible scholarship and the needs of eg ye olde Protestant bible colleges, and are nearly infallible (theological niceties aren’t likely to intrude! - but maybe I’m wrong)

But NT is included in the corpus above, so I wonder if one could conveniently automate a test of their high handedness. I can’t figure out how to recover their tags etc. Maybe I’m wrong about NT stuff online https://biblehub.com/interlinear/romans/1.htm

applicative··on AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot
There are manifold objections to Locke on property or rather on the appropriation of alien nature into one’s own. This characterization of the theory is the real psychosis
applicative··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Spain and EU are like eg Connecticut
applicative··on Western Sahara
All the North African states are settler colonies. The Arab states expelled their Jews , who predated Arabs and Islam across North Africa
applicative··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
I don't know what distance has to do with it. I would probably be voted out of existence by my town, if the same constitution hadn't convinced them that they have no right. Independence Hall is remote in space and the events still more in time.

The pretense of Dobbs is that laws against abortion are like laws prohibiting medical marijuana or setting speed limits. This contradicts the purpose of laws against abortion and the actual language of most of them. It was obviously a desperate decision, irrespective of the truth about abortion

applicative··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
It isn't so clear there is a reason for the crime of 'attempt', or what or how good the reason is. The Star Chamber, which cooked it up, is universally condemned as oppressive. You might say they anticipated science fiction tyranny, when they invented the world's first thought-crime: they were able to make a crime of 'conspiracy' because they imagined that the speech of the conspirators was an 'outward act'; inevitably its glorious future was e.g. to jail the left wingers in the McCarthy period.

The point of view that says 'there is a reason we punish attempts' has difficulty explaining why we punish 'success' _even more_. There is a sort of bad concience about it. The paradoxes are discussed in a characteristically brilliant and twisted work 'The Punishment that Leaves Something to Chance' by David Lewis, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th c. It nominally defends the law of attempt but can as well be read as a catastophically destructive parody of it. https://andrewmbailey.com/dkl/Punishment_Chance.pdf

applicative··on Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon
The proper glyph concept pertains to something cut into something or out of something as background; it is essentially of a 3-d phenomenon and makes no sense apart from it; the concept has nothing whatever to do with writing, which is almost never like that. A piece of lead type is indeed a glyph, and this is how you use it to print, but the printed text has no glyphs.
applicative··on Twenty Years of Pandoc
Since your document is a haskell value, syntax highlighting gives added value to the terminal drug trip

    pandoc -f html -t native "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750" | bat -l hs --style=plain --paging=never
applicative··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
Spain and Portugal were under Umayyad colonization when this civilization died.
applicative··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
It is a fact of experience, and indeed effectively a theorem, that the better they get at coding and math, the dumber they are. These are the wages of RLVR etc
applicative··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Does this desideratum make any sense? The whole point is that you write to it in English or Urdu, and it writes the specified code. If you cut off everything but the code writing, you cut off everything.
applicative··on China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines
Does thediplomat.com also have articles on the historical depth of of the list of predictions that the USA will collapse? It is a far older and infinitely more pervasive phenomenon.
applicative··on China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines
The slavish US backing is the same slavish backing we give to Egypt, both consequent on Camp David. It is very obvious - simple arithmetic - that Israel would have a much bigger and chearper arsenal if they traded arms with China, India, Russia etc. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just jewpilled.
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