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> This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where individuals can use this powerful new capability to reach their full potential, pursue their interests, and improve their lives and the world more than ever before.
Plus this[2]:
> Since 2019, thousands of deceptive advertisements on Facebook have used the likeness of the highly prominent businessman to promote scams, racking up thousands of victims, according to the suit.
> The billionaire's legal team argues that Meta's artificial intelligence tools optimised and personalised fraudulent ads before distributing them, thereby making Meta an active participant, rather than a mere intermediary.
Make for a fun juxtaposition today.
[1] https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/andrew-forrest-meta-s...
I get that it’s designed to run on a CPU, big GPU or MacBook (although the way that was phrased confused me at first).
I’m struggling with what a “decoder-only” model is good for.
> Det är ingen ko på isen – “There’s no cow on the ice” (Sweden)
Articles about GoLang assembly language[1] are particularly vexing because the instruction parameters are bass-ackwards - source, destination - like AT&T syntax, but register references are missing their % sigil and so appear to be MASM-style[2].
Authors blogging from deep inside some technical tent should take pity on readers who are not so deeply in the tent and offer a brief primer on assumed knowledge.
Any mistakes in the above should be viewed as confirmation of my confusion.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
In a functioning democracy, the masses would demand higher taxes on the wealthy to fund social support. The oligarchy has already bought out democracy in the US and other places to ensure that doesn't happen. So to keep the masses in line, a system of totalitarian oppression is required.
The implications of this are going over my head (and TFA should explain it better). I gather that 2230 is a form factor 22x30mm and there's also a 2280 M.2 SSD form factor.
Is this just saying that there's a missing mounting post? So it wobbles? You can't use a certain form factor?
* Source: am Australian and annoyed enough to follow reporting and discussions.
> You didn't install a native binary. You didn't configure JNI. You didn't cross-compile anything for your target platform. It just works, because the Wasm module is hiding inside a regular JAR on your classpath.
> WebAssembly changes this equation. Take a proven C or Rust library, compile it to Wasm, and run it within JVM boundaries. You keep everything the JVM gives you: guaranteed memory safety, fault isolation, platform independence, advanced JIT, observability, and the "write once, run anywhere" promise. The Wasm module becomes just another artifact inside your JAR, an implementation detail that your users never need to think about.
And from TFA[2]:
> The previous article focused on wrapping C and Rust libraries. Those languages compile to Wasm straightforwardly because they manage their own memory. But a growing number of languages target the WasmGC proposal instead: Kotlin/Wasm, Dart, and others. Google Sheets already runs its Java-based calculation engine through WasmGC in production. Endive passes the full WasmGC spec testsuite
[1] https://foojay.io/today/a-new-generation-of-java-libraries-i...
Love it! XD
I agree, and I think, as with physics, mathematical research produces building blocks whose utility won't be realised until later.
I'm not letting gam gams anywhere near that shit. She can continue writing her own apps in assembly language - it's good for her brain health!
I did Nazi that coming.
I have IBS - which could lead to nutrient deficiencies - and I've passed the initial pre-screen gate for ADHD assessment (coming soon). I also suspect autism, but the reward to cost ratio for assessment of that doesn't thrill me at the moment.
A different gut microbiome might simply be a way to solve nutrient deficiencies.
To me, asking if a function has something wrong with it is just a very basic code review - something that should happen with every function. A competent, security conscious engineer would respond the same way as the model, unsurprisingly, since the model is... modelling competence.
The article doesn't quantify accident risk, from what I can see.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), however, actually has quantified the relative change in accident risk. [1]
The table in the linked document (N/A = not available):
Crash Risk Culpability
Alcohol (BAC = 0.02) 1.03–1.19 1.36
Alcohol (BAC = 0.05) 1.38–1.75 2.19
Alcohol (BAC = 0.08) 2.69–2.92 3.63
Cannabis 1.11–1.42 1.20–1.42
Antidepressants 1.35–1.40 N/A
Antihistamines 1.12 N/A
Benzodiazepines and Z-hypnotics 1.17–2.30 1.41
Opiates 1.68–2.29 1.47
In Australia, the legal limit for Blood Alcohol Concentration when driving is 0.05. We are subject to roadside drug testing that checks for alcohol, methamphetamine, cannabis and cocaine. But not benzos, opiates or depressants, AFAIK. In almost all Australian states and territories, having a cannabis prescription is not a valid legal defence against loss of licence when a roadside test detects cannabis metabolites. The tests do not indicate impairment, only past use within the last few days. The Australian political class actively resists changing the law to be fair to medicinal cannabis patients.If the system was really fair, it would perform a field sobriety test to prove impairment. Recognising that cannabis use only increases crash risk by the same amount as a legal BAC would be a good start.
[1] https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/ef4cc327-723b-42c9-b...
curl | sudo dd of=/dev/sda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13