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organizations are fractal

They built Warhammer 40k servitors

Thanks - edited for clarity that it was certainly not my quote.

Shocking statement from a US Govt Official:

“It’s a shame that @DarioAmodei is a liar and has a God-complex. He wants nothing more than to try to personally control the US Military and is ok putting our nation’s safety at risk.

The @DeptofWar will ALWAYS adhere to the law but not bend to whims of any one for-profit tech company.”

Yes agree, but it seems gemini drops off more quickly than other foundation models for some reason.

My strange observation is that Gemini 2.5 Pro is maybe the best model overall for many use cases, but starting from the first chat. In other words, if it has all the context it needs and produces one output, it's excellent. The longer a chat goes, it gets worse very quickly. Which is strange because it has a much longer context window than other models. I have found a good way to use it is to drop the entire huge context of a while project (200k-ish tokens) into the chat window and ask one well formed question, then kill the chat.

I never played this, but it reminds me the C64 Ghostbusters game which I loved!

I love the gemini models and think Google has done a great job on them, but no model series I use seems to get context rot more in long conversations. Which seems strange given the longer context.

I absolutely adored these books as a kid! Spend every dime of bookfair money on them every year and used to beg my parents to take me to the library to check out others.

I love the framing of them in this article as the gateway drug to interactive entertainment.

In addition to Korea being one of our most important military allies in the world, you need batteries for military drones, and the US is way behind in the development of a domestic manufacturing supply chain for next gen batteries.

So now we know clearly that nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration. Or at least, more important than either the domestic economic interests of their own base or strategic national security interests.

DSPy was ahead of its time and still underutilized.

Wow, if this is true this is some serious Black Mirror line crossing.

Out - A scammer convincing a grandmother to send money using an AI generated voice of their grandchild asking them for money

In - A legal ad tech company using an AI generated deceased grandmother to ask their grandchild to purchase a product

The US successfully eradicated screwworms here in 1966 with a brilliant integrated sterile insect technique - I think the very first use of it (and had previously funded helping other countries control it also). But if we had another outbreak spread, I doubt there's any shred of competence left in this current gutted federal government to do anything like that again. Maybe they can have the new ICE folks try to deport the screwworm flies.

Related to this, is anyone aware whether there is a benchmark on this kind of thing - maybe broadly the category of “context rot”? To track things that are not germane to the current question adversely affecting the responses, as well as the volume of germane but deep context creating the inability of models to follow the conversation? I’ve definitely experienced the latter with coding models.

Yes please, I'm also interested in hearing more about what you're building CyberMacGyver

This is, in part, one of the reasons why I am interested in the emerging diffusion based text generation models.

Linking energy use to the environment is a political choice, and Greenpeace are some of the worst offenders for making the situation worse by opposing nuclear power at every turn.

The conflation of AI and use of natural resources / energy use is mostly a political choice and a straw man.

Petroleum - oil and gas - changed the world for the better. Not without creating other issues, but the dramatic increase in crop yields and overall standards of living, and dramatic decrease in famine are irrefutable. As we enter the AI era, worth taking that lesson that even the most beneficial of technologies can and do create unintended side effects.

France is shining brightly on many levels at the moment.

It lasted until Mistral released 3.1 Small a week later. Such is the pace of AI...

European defence companies are about to see the biggest demand boom of our lifetime.

I started trying to read more long form content on substack and have very happy with their path, though they aren't really a social media comp to twitter like the ones mentioned in the article.

Also check out pyscript.com, to create and host PyScript apps.

Not sure Crowdstrike as a company survives the onslaught of legal issues and reputational damage. At least, as a viable growth business. Maybe, at all.

This story just within the last days:

"Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say"

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-princi...

I would like to know if the people citing, "Teachers bringing their personal political and social views into the classroom (54%)", as the reason why K-12 Education is going the wrong direction actually have any experience with this or know any examples, or are they just parroting the points of political leaders that are doing the bidding of donors trying to drive school vouchers?

This is a really nice insight that I wasn't aware of. Many thanks.