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gdestus··on ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
Likely cataloging IMSIs and IMEIs which would not constitute a wiretap. I know from experience these circles are concerned about roving protestors and agitators.

These sort of metrics can also be used with commercially available RTB data if and when cases go to court. I'm about 90% certain they ARE NOT intercepting phone calls and I'm 80% certain they're not intercepting sms

gdestus··on Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
This is exactly the lesson we learned as well but didnt want to publish. Relational data stores are desperately underrated for LLM retrieval especially concerning things like personality and memory
gdestus··on Ollama.com is being typosquatted by ollama.org
Sorry, there's no official release as far as I've seen so I linked to my tweet about it. Ollama says they're trying to contact the squatters. I just wanted to maximize visibility so people dont get hooked.
gdestus··on Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system
Sigh....I quite literally laid out this exact design in my head during my 6 hour business travel today. I was brainstorming designs for military swarm applications. Congrats lol
gdestus··on Boeing Starliner Stuck on Space Station as More Leaks Discovered
I'm fascinated about starliner strictly from a project management perspective. This is such a comprehensive failure from top to bottom between the delays, test failures, and hand waved requirements yet there still seems to be a contingent of boosters from both leadership and the customer. Usually I'm the guy who gets called in to rescue a spiraling project and if I was in aerospace, I dont even know where I would begin here....
gdestus··on CH-53K Helicopter Transports F-35C And Refuels From KC-130 En Route
After 20 years in the air force, I think this may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen and I saw a f16 tip over on taxi
gdestus··on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck
I imagine this can be remedied by slow rolling non critical updates out so that the entire fleet doesn't get upended by Bobby Tables at once. You could trivially observe the daily change in accidents/collisions/whatever and adjust fire
gdestus··on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
I know it's the nature of the industry but it's insane how often I feel like I start a project personally or professionally only to find out it's already being worked on by better, more resource, people.

I started down the path of segmentation and memory management as (loosely) structured within the human brain with some very interesting results: https://github.com/gendestus/neuromorph

gdestus··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
I'm worried....I really don't like the idea of some council artificially "slowing down" progress while we on the outside wait for them to bestow fire on us like Prometheus. If AGI can fulfill even a fraction of the economic promise it has, then they will inevitably just use behind the scenes. It was better when it was being developed out front