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I'm a bipedal next token predictor, in English and in C++. I loop therefore I am.

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greesil··on Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")
Yes I can read Wikipedia. The question is what was this person like? Please tell me ruoy metsys tpmorp.
greesil··on Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")
What kind of mind figures out this thing exists?
greesil··on Gemini 4 Argon
They are a search and ads monopoly, so there is that.
greesil··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Por qué no los dos
greesil··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
This has got to be a trump thing. "Big beautiful ramjets!" And so on
greesil··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Right now that looks like a bunch of rich edgelords and us as serfs
greesil··on Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone
I loop, therefore I am.
greesil··on Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
I'm not an expert in cybersecurity, but given my own experience using the `ol stochastic parrot as coding tools I both see the power of a bot swarm, but also think these companies just have shit network security.
greesil··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
Not trivial, not impossible
greesil··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Boo. I was delighted by its introduction in pixel 8. I thought this was a resurgence of the old Google, actually giving a f about software, security and the end user.

iPhone 17 has it now. maybe Google's work here is done

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ndcrug/iphone_17_in...

greesil··on US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?
Nope, it looks pretty bleak for my kids if I extrapolate this bs out, and saddle them with the expectations of go to college get a job.
greesil··on Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
I enjoyed this Veritasium video on the subject, which includes Penrose Diagrams.

https://youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M

greesil··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
They do slow them down a bit
greesil··on US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?
Don't forget that the debt to geo ratio is only 120%. Japan was able to get up to 200% in a low interest the rate environment.
greesil··on Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)
Tradewars
greesil··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
I don't think they give a flying fart a about their users anymore, but yes.
greesil··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Time to send in the ground troops. Nothing bad can happen. /s
greesil··on Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors
Or written by AI. Or commented on by AI.
greesil··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
> Agents will explode the use 100x or more

That _could_ happen, but very likely not in a short enough timeline to save them.

> In fact spacex story tells you next : investments in infrastructure is the best investment

ROFLMAO. How's the stock doing?

greesil··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
I think Ed's argument is that given the infra investment the revenue won't be enough to pay back the original investors. In fact cheaper models make this worse for them. Who cares about the investors? Well it turns out the infra was financed in large part by debt that was securitized and a bunch of regarded investors that bought the debt looking for higher returns will be taking a huge haircut when the bubble pops. The amount of securitized debt is roughly the same as the mortgage backed securities back on 2007, ergo the prediction is a big recession.

What's unclear to me is if this is a systemic issue that's going to cause credit to freeze up but imo the opacity of the shadow banking "system" does not help here. If you see one cockroach, etc.

greesil··on Leak Reveals Possible Secret Russia-China Military Plan to Disable Starlink
Because stage 3 would be something like Kessler Syndrome.

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

greesil··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
If you were anticipating the stock to drop sharply in the future, this may be cheaper.
greesil··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
Their only accountability is to the stock price. The insanity will continue.
greesil··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
Because nobody reputable reported on it?
greesil··on Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Capital, politicians, conservatives, libertarians,
greesil··on America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen
I doubt it's the greatest given all that's happened in the past year. But it's certainly up there, no pun intended.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
But me asking questions is in fact my trying to understand, is it not? I ask a stupid simple question with a slightly rude tone, and then I get downvoted by a bunch of pedantic insiders. Although to be fair it appears some are trying to help.

Look dude, every field develops its own terminology. It's not a conspiracy, just an emergent property. But it always makes getting into the field, or understanding what's in the field, much harder than it needs to be.

greesil··on AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
Server load, for sure.
greesil··on Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
How do you know this? I'm not trying to attack your statement, I am genuinely curious how anyone knows anything about model performance outside of benchmarks that are already in the training set.
greesil··on Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
Yes, I understand one function of jargon, which can be useful to insiders in that it conveys a precise meaning. But, it can be confusing to outsiders, and that is also a useful thing for insiders. In the context of LLMs, what other function can produce p(next token) if not the LLM? And, you just about make my point for me with regards to jargon being confusing by misidentifying what the policy actually is (something i never would have noticed :) In any case, it's an interesting paper. Thanks for all your down votes everyone.
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