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ghywertellingon Where things stand with the Department of War

Technological surplus was created and then it was usurped and used for nefarious purposes.

ghywertellingon Where things stand with the Department of War

Erwin Schrödinger might have abused children because why not, "everything is a wave after all. does it really matter what one wave does to another?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_...

ghywertellingon Where things stand with the Department of War

This question has been boiling in my brain for quite a long time.

Consider a hypothetical scenario where one spy chinese or russian programmer working in Google or Meta might have siphoned off (copied and uploaded) all the important code (Monorepo) to the Mothership and all of us are now sitting ducks.

I am sure, this question might have crossed your minds. I have no idea. if blueprints for the TPU chip design could get leaked, imagine what might have already happened?

ghywertellingon The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me

During time of peace, prosperity and ZIRP like phenomenon, self help takes on the form of Law of Attraction, The Secret etc.

During time of war and uncertainty, self help takes on the form of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

We are conditioned beings, we respond to the macro environment and dynamics.

ghywertellingon India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

Or she was conniving like Skylar in Breaking Bad as she convinced the investigator that she got hired because she seduced the owner.

ghywertellingon Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

If LLMs can identify a person across websites, I can ask LLM to read up his posts and write like him impersonating him and then this feeds back into the tools identifying him. I can probabilistically malign a person this way.

ghywertellingon Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

One point I see less discussed, not related to the post, is "We never trained people to pay for software. If there existed proper global payment mechanism for software companies, the whole trajectory would look different. People are ok to pay 5$ for a coffee but not for software which makes their lives easier."

ghywertellingon Facebook is cooked

You only ever need a Meta account. The next content format will be brought to your door by Zuck even before you know you need it.

ghywertellingon Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring

Even if that isn't the case, isn't it the fact the AI labs don't want their models to be edgy in any creative way, choose a middle way (buddhism) so to speak. Are there AI labs who are training their models to be maximally creative?

ghywertellingon Poor Deming never stood a chance

We need to appoint people who really CARE. When CEOs hop from company to company, the culture of CARING takes a backseat. Everything becomes transient with no one with deep technical or cultural knowledge at the driving seat. This is the reason people who have been at the company for long time should get a chance to transform it from within like Satya Nadella.

ghywertellingon Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

Information is being erased from Google right now. Things which were searching few years ago are totally not findable at all now. One who controls the present can control both the future and the past.

ghywertellingon AI is going to kill app subscriptions

The areas where errors are tolerated with human / "classical algo" fallback is the best field to disrupt with AI. Call center jobs. Recommendations. Search, Curation. Wherever the current process is already stochastic and has a human or rule-based correction loop, AI just needs to be cheaper and roughly as accurate to win.

ghywertellingon Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Earlier gamers got punished by crypto and now they are being punished by AI.

ghywertellingon I gave Claude access to my pen plotter

Pale Fire book is shown in the movie Blade Runner 2049

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtLvtMqWNz8

Solving Nabokov's Pale Fire - A Deep Dive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wEEaHUnkA

Pale Fire is what we call as Ergodic literature

Ergodic literature refers to texts requiring non-trivial effort from the reader to traverse, moving beyond linear, top-to-bottom reading to actively navigate complex, often nonlinear structures. Coined by Espen J. Aarseth (1997), it combines "ergon" (work) and "hodos" (path), encompassing print and electronic works that demand physical engagement, such as solving puzzles or following, navigating, or choosing paths.

Ergodic Literature: The Weirdest Book Genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKX90LbnYd4

"House of Leaves" is another book from the same genre.

House of Leaves - A Place of Absence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJl7HpkotCE

Diving into House of Leaves Secrets and Connections | Video Essay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du2R47kMuDE

The Book That Lies to You - House of Leaves Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCQJUUXnRIQ

I went into this rabbit hole few years ago.

ghywertellingon MinIO repository is no longer maintained

Make hay while the sun shines. Be glad that the project happened.