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karunamurti··on Could AIs Become Conscious?
We simulate biological neurons digitally. Give them enough resources to grow, give basic instructions to do feedback loop and to improve. Maybe even suggest the AI to design mechanical vessel for AI.

That consciousness definition will get blurry fast if we don't know what's going on under the hood.

karunamurti··on Jim's TrueType QR Code Font
OpenType specification is Turing complete, its hinting engine does math during rasterization and its GSUB (Glyph Substitution, a layout and shaping engine) does glyph stacking, QR code correction, etc to finalize the QR. The nice thing about it is if you copy and paste it, it goes to the original text.
karunamurti··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
No wonder Magnus lost 4 times in a row.
karunamurti··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
In Japan there's a karaoke chain that rents sewing machine.
karunamurti··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
China already produced their first graphic card that got Microsoft WHQL certification.

Is it competitive enough? Probably no. Is there a software ecosystem for Chinese hardware yet? Probably no. But you know it will come soon.

karunamurti··on Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence
With Chinese robotics capabilities and silicone doll capabilities they can be the forefront in the humanoid robotics if everything converge.
karunamurti··on Claude Fable 5
ugghh, benchmarks?
karunamurti··on Who's the smartest corvid?
Another case of brain efficiency : jumping spiders. They have less than half of ant's neurons, but instead of bruteforcing computing power they have a different specialized wirings.
karunamurti··on Snuffleupagus, a newly described species, is an adorable little predator
Chat, give me information about using copyrighted material in taxonomy.
karunamurti··on Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
And the implication is they can modify tomato's DNA to produce nicotine, just like Tomacco from The Simpsons. The Simpsons always predict everything.
karunamurti··on Google API keys can remain usable for up to 23 minutes after deletion
So, Google Zanzibar propagation is up to 23 minutes?
karunamurti··on Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world
Even nitrocellulose for ammunition is produced in Xinjiang. So still depends on China.
karunamurti··on L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility
I took Lotus 1-2-3 course along with Wordstar and dBase when I was in elementary school. Good times.
karunamurti··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
The fact that someone can access production database without approved privilege escalation is totally the organization's fault. Not a Cursor failure, nor a Railway failure, nor a backup-architecture failure. Unless the organization identify the root cause, the problem can happen again.
karunamurti··on Goodbye to Sora
Seedance just launched, but they nerfed it. I guess so it can't generate things with preexisting IP.
karunamurti··on Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image
Are the commands fully compatible with Redis? We use a lot of commands like TTL PTTL EXPIRE PEXPIRE to create various rate limiters.
karunamurti··on China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built
Eh, China's route is around 15 times more expansive and longer, similar punctuality, and way cheaper ticket per km, about 10-15 times cheaper. The only thing annoying for China's HSR is security check on the terminals.
karunamurti··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
All rendering without real photo is off-putting.
karunamurti··on Digg.com relaunch public beta is live
Will binky79 makes a comeback?
karunamurti··on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
They just debuted in house DDR5 2 days ago: https://wccftech.com/cxmt-debuts-domestically-produced-ddr5-...
karunamurti··on Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2
So Christmas is near the corner then.
karunamurti··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
I just memorized curl like a lunatic.
karunamurti··on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
You can if you're local. Either IC card or credit card or payment app. I helped developed Merpay, one of the local payment app. These days I almost never use cash.

In China it's even better, even street vendor use QR payment.

karunamurti··on Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ
Newer DJI drones can see cable down to 4mm using LIDAR and other methods. So yeah, Amazon has some catching up to do.
karunamurti··on China's Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink
There are a couple dozens of companies trying to do space cleaning. Let's see if some can succeed.
karunamurti··on Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?
Isn't Skia controlled by Google?
karunamurti··on The History of Windows XP
They should've keep the Watercolor style. It's more beautiful than Luna style IMHO.
karunamurti··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
It's not bad in a sense of taste, but it's bad in a sense that there's a lack of option in phone camera.
karunamurti··on .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean
Somebody didn't know about https://github.com/github/gitignore
karunamurti··on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope
They're in panic mode and nuke all mode because one payment facilitator in Europe under investigation.
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