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https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Ive seen the tickets generated by the model that have trickled to my team. They are legitimate, but i can’t speak to model improvement because its a pilot program.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

The implication would be that GPT-4.5 was not judged to be human 27% of the time. You can't determine how often humans were judged correctly as humans from that data point.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

Francis Galton, namesake of the Galton Board,(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_board) had this to say of the Central Limit Theorem:

"Order in Apparent Chaos.-I know of scarcely any-, thing so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the " Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and • in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason."

https://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/galton/search/books/...

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

Ask a divorce lawyer that question.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

I work for an global company in the industrial automation space. Not only is there is a major effort underway to offshore jobs and manufacturing from the US, but our customers around the world are pulling way back on capital expenditures, citing US policy uncertainties as a primary reason.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Life After Work

>>> "For each human, there could be thousands of robots, effectively an army of tireless servants for each individual."

yeah, blog at me after a few years of managing even a small fleet of robots

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

From the report:

> The MP initiated a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers through the on-duty supervisor of flying (SOF)

"MP" is the pilot

> A conference hotel is a call that can be initiated by the SOF to speak directly with Lockheed Martin engineers to discuss an abnormality/malfunction not addressed in the PCL (Tab V-13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1). While waiting for the conference hotel to convene, the MP initiated a series of “sturns” with gravitational forces up to 2.5Gs, as well as a slip maneuver (i.e., left stick input with full right rudder pedal) to see if the nose wheel orientation would change (Tabs N-12, BB-201- 02). Upon visual inspection, the MW reported no change to the nose wheel (Tab N-13). The SOF informed the MP he was on the phone with the conference hotel and Lockheed Martin were getting the LG subject matter experts (SME)

So the pilot was, in effect, on the call, even if not directly on the phone. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing an F-35 pilot had radio comms with the SOF who was on a phone line. It's a layer of indirection, but the pilot was essentially exchanging info in real time with the conference call. Its not a stretch to colloquially say that the pilot was "in the conference call"

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police

Crime counts are normalized to crime rates with respect to population, not land area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

And you'll see that Washington D.C. doesn't make the top ten for rates of any of the major violent crimes (murder, rape, etc.) nor for the "Total" violent crime.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore

"deportation" flights to Guantanamo Bay have begun.

https://apnews.com/article/deportation-flights-military-indi...

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore

You're shocked by how many billions go completely unaudited?

okay then...how many billions are completely unaudited?

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00088-3

The original article this one links to is a better read.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon llama-fs: A self-organizing file system with llama 3

“In batch mode, you

In watch mode, LlamaFS starts a daemon that watches your directory. It intercepts all filesystem operations, updates i and uses your most recent edits in context to proactively learn and how, so you don't learns predict how you rename file. e.g. if you create a folder for 2023 tax documents, and start moving 1-3 file in it, LlamaFS will automatically creates, and move the right!”

Come again? Was AI used to generate the documentation?

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon GPT-4o

I would prefer a robotic, unrealistic voice so I don’t start subconsciously thinking I’m hearing a real human speak.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space

"Each megasat could then convert gigawatts of power into a microwave beam aimed precisely at a big field of receiving antennas on Earth. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity."

What are the consequences if, for some reason, the aim becomes not-so-precise?

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)

I taught this problem to a group of high schoolers as part of a statistics curriculum. It was engaging for two reasons:

The topic of the vitriolic responses to Marilyn is not boring.

It’s a great problem for illustrating the importance of simulation in statistics. By breaking off into pairs, half of whom played the switch strategy and half of whom played the stay strategy, we did hundreds of trials and found empirical evidence in favor of Marilyn’s answer. Furthermore, by actually playing the game, whatever any ambiguity in the wording of the problem was quickly resolved.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Fossil versus Git

Source control is all about managing diffs. Large files are fine, binary doesn’t make sense. Most of the time binary file diffs aren’t human readable.

I store binary files outside of git but keep build logs containing binary file CRCs on git

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Interstellar puzzle based on graph theory

Nice. Made me nostalgic for http://planarity.net/

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon STM32 family grows to microprocessor/Linux level with STM32MP1

It has its warts, but I had the opposite experience in general. Bringing up peripherals on ST has been easier than all other vendors I’ve worked with (TI, renesas and the older PICs) TI was the worst code I dealt with.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE

Mathematically, computation is deterministic. The author dismisses or ignores the many ways that the physical apparatus driving the computation can force the result of a software application to be a function of time.

Calling GetTimeOfDay() could do it.

Clock frequency drift between multiple processors could it.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Pneumatic Antenna Launching Systems

One should also be aware that the pressure rating is a function of temperature. Extra caution should be taken when operating in cold environments. Also the cooling effect that occurs when compressed air rapidly decompresses should be considered.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief

I think this headline is subtlety misleading. From the article:

>>> “William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan.”

It implies Epstein was meeting with the CIA chief, when the actual revelation was that he was meeting with the Secretary of State (which is probably equally noteworthy)

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers (2016)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons

>And now you know why riding with body armor is pointless.

I can confidently say I am among the elite in terms of urban riding competency, having logged at least 15,000 miles riding around Los Angeles.

I’ve crashed three times. Two of those were were the result of a combination of bad luck and me taking unnecessary risks. The other one was entirely unavoidable, and totally the result of a negligent driver. In that case I slammed my head hard on the pavement, broke my helmet, and managed to ride away shaken but not seriously injured.

The point is I have skills too, I’ve avoided countless accidents by employing them. I also wear a helmet to further reduce that risk.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Daily steps and all-cause mortality

Measuring time is more convenient than counting steps or calculating distance, in my experience.

A normal pace for me is about 100 steps per minute. It’s a convenient way to estimate steps taken.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world

The UN estimates that there are about 7.9 billion people, up from about 6 billion in 1999.

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population-dashboard

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes

What's funny is that Joe Rogan was an active participant on the 'open web'. He had his own a website with a blog and discussion forums, and the podcast started as vlog entries in a text blog.

For example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040622121025/joerogan.net/main...

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account

Twitter also requires you to a have a cell phone to sign up for an account. I have a work cell and a land line, neither of which can be used for creating a personal twitter account. This barrier to entry is good for me too.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Proposed bill in New Hampshire would enshrine free software into law

The New Hampshire legislature has a ‘liberty’ caucus composed of libertarians (but members of the Republican Party). This bill is sponsored by a very progressive democrat and another member who’s a physician who recently switched parties (R->D) basically because of the libertarian’s opposition to Covid policies. So it will be interesting how the “freedom” fighters vote on this bill given their tension with the bill’s sponsors.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Proposed bill in New Hampshire would enshrine free software into law

The New Hampshire legislature has a ‘liberty’ caucus composed of libertarians (but members of the Republican Party). This bill is sponsored by a very progress democrat and another member who’s a physician who recently switched parties (R->D) basically because of the libertarian’s opposition to Covid policies. So it will be interesting how the “freedom” fighters vote on this bill given their tension with the bill’s sponsors.

dwpdwpdwpdwpdwpon Why Decentralization Matters (2018)

>> But the hardware-based networks of the past are fundamentally different than the internet, a software-based network.

This struck a nerve. The internet is most certainly hardware based. While distributed databases are great, there is an extraordinary system of hardware that will always need to be produced, maintained, and powered to keep such databases operational.