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> You are discussing with a llm? Never happened to me and I use llms all the time. Why would you need to discuss if you know best? Just tell it what to do and course correct it. It's not rocket science.

I find myself often discussing with an LLM when trying to find the root cause of an issue I'm debugging. For example, when trying to track down a race condition I'll give it a bunch of relevant logs and source code, and the investigation tends to be pretty interactive. For example, it'll pose a number of possible explanations/causes, and I'll tell it which one to investigate further, or recommendations for what new logging would help.

For reference, the repo with the Python code from the "Darwin-Gödel Machine (DGM)" paper mentioned by the post:

https://github.com/jennyzzt/dgm

Although the Mindstorms line is discontinued, nowadays there's the Lego SPIKE Prime (it's marketed more towards classrooms). Like the Mindstorms EV3, you can program it with either a visual block language or MicroPython.

Do you have a source on that? Their article from a month before the invasion seems like the opposite of dismissal: https://warontherocks.com/2022/01/putins-wager-in-russias-st...

> A large war in Europe is likely in the coming weeks. The current security architecture of the continent, the future of NATO, and America’s role in shaping security outcomes there are all at stake. Beyond Europe, this conflict would have profound implications for U.S. defense strategy, and may upset America’s best-laid plans to focus on the eroding military balance with China. Ukraine, whose fate hangs in the balance, may be at the center of the crisis, but Moscow has a greater goal in mind: the revision of Europe’s security order. The Russian armed forces have conducted a substantial buildup around Ukraine, with Moscow threatening unilateral military measures if it is not able to achieve its goals at the negotiating table.

> Remember when they announced contact lenses to help people with diabetes?

For anyone curious about what happened with that: https://web.archive.org/web/20181117031510/https://blog.veri...

> Our clinical work on the glucose-sensing lens demonstrated that there was insufficient consistency in our measurements of the correlation between tear glucose and blood glucose concentrations to support the requirements of a medical device. In part, this was associated with the challenges of obtaining reliable tear glucose readings in the complex on-eye environment. For example, we found that interference from biomolecules in tears resulted in challenges in obtaining accurate glucose readings from the small quantities of glucose in the tear film. In addition, our clinical studies have demonstrated challenges in achieving the steady state conditions necessary for reliable tear glucose readings.

Wow, TIL.

According to Brian Krebs: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114343835430587973

> Hearing a bit more on this. Apparently it's up to the CVE board to decide what to do, but for now no new CVEs will be added after tomorrow. the CVE website will still be up.

Yup, they're pretty clear that they see the NOAA as an enemy to be defeated:

> The document describes NOAA as a primary component “of the climate change alarm industry” and said it “should be broken up and downsized.”

Direct link to the repo for DC's laws: https://github.com/DCCouncil/law-xml

I wonder how many deaths the USAID cuts will cause in the next decade. Congrats again to everyone who voted for this.

Given the growing focus on AIs as agents, I think it's going to be a real issue sooner rather than later.

I might be misreading it, but I don't think the comment you're replying to supports China's expansionist ambitions.

Worth noting that Rollins is the same USDA Secretary who advocated for Americans to keep chickens in their yards to counter rising egg prices. Besides that not making financial sense, it also creates even more vectors for H5N1 to spread.

It was just single-CPU, but I had the ABIT BH6 with a Celeron 300A, one of the most overclockable setups ever. Mine was stable at 450mhz without any special cooling.

My understanding is that the challenges around IV fluids aren't around producing the fluid, but rather ensuring that the containers are sterile and remain sterile.

Yep. From the article:

> This lack of transparency could become a greater issue under the Trump administration, which has vowed to ramp up the government's cyber offensive operations, suggesting that the government demand for zero-day vulnerabilities may increase over the next four years. If this occurs, the government’s previous statements that the VEP favors disclosure and defense over withholding and offense may no longer be true. ...

> “The VEP and that number of 90 percent was one of the few places where the president and the White House could set the dial on how much they liked defense vs offense,” says Jason Healey, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and former senior cybersecurity strategist for CISA. “[The Trump administration] could say we’re disclosing too [many vulnerabilities]. If the default [in the past] was to disclose unless there is a reason to keep, I could easily imagine the default is going to be to keep unless there is a reason to disclose.”

An actual answer (linking to archive.org since usaid.gov has been taken down): https://web.archive.org/web/20250117221701/https://www.usaid...

> The information about USAID’s development and humanitarian assistance programs is intentionally open and public; to perform the agency’s mission, USAID employees work directly with non-government organizations, contractors, United Nations organizations and host country governments. However, in order for USAID employees to effectively and efficiently carry out the agency’s programs, they often must have access to sensitive and sometimes classified information provided by other federal departments and agencies. Such information may pertain to U.S. foreign policy and relations as well as security conditions and threat data.

Many in the GOP are generally opposed to federally-funded free tax return filing: https://pennsylvaniaindependent.com/politics/irs-direct-file...

> In December, however, Kelly and 28 House Republican colleagues wrote to President-elect Donald Trump to ask him to end the program: “We write to urge you to take immediate action, including but not limited to a day-one executive order, to end the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) unauthorized and wasteful Direct File pilot program. The program’s creation and ongoing expansion pose a threat to taxpayers’ freedom from government overreach, and its rollout and structural flaws have already come at a steep price.”

I think they mostly started with geolocation-dependent names in the early 2010s, e.g. Kashmir and Palestine.

> There was an open letter in 2020 summer from a lot of "prominent scientists" that claimed that suddenly social distancing didn't matter because BLM.

If you're referring to this letter, that characterization is pretty much the opposite of what it says: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-lette...

Prediction: The US deficit will be higher in 2028 than in 2024.

How much do you think the deficit will be reduced by the digital information-scrubbing described in the post?

> Genuine relationships, rooted in empathy and a steadfast commitment to the good of the other, are essential and irreplaceable in fostering the full development of the human person.

This reminds me of one of the main themes of Neal Stephenson's 1995 novel "Diamond Age": being "raised" by an AI agent, with vs without a caring human in the loop.

It's kind of odd that blog post doesn't mention that the biographical assessment it's talking about was only used between 2014 and 2018.

> Considering that the head of the FAA and TSA were forced to resign

For context, the heads of the FAA and TSA are supposed to serve 5-year terms. The FAA Admin (Michael Whitaker) who was forced out started serving in Oct 2023. The TSA Admin (David Pekoske) was first appointed in 2017, and then nominated for another 5-year term in 2022.

As far as I'm aware, this is the first time those positions have ever been told to resign by a new administration.

From your link:

>Biostatisticians Jager and Leek criticized the model as being based on justifiable but arbitrary assumptions rather than empirical data, and did an investigation of their own which calculated that the false positive rate in biomedical studies was estimated to be around 14%, not over 50% as Ioannidis asserted.

This is so great. I loved Stunt Island back in the day.

For reference, the company is Atlas Biomed. I remember seeing their product show up all the time on Amazon (they have a box design that looks kind of like a multicolored QR code).

Same. TIM's designer/coder Kevin Ryan actually made a spiritual successor called Contraption Maker, it's pretty fun and still has regular updates: https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/

Yes, from PEP 760's draft: https://peps.python.org/pep-0760/

> This change is not backwards compatible. Existing code that uses bare `except:` clauses will need to be modified. To ease the transition:

> * A deprecation warning will be issued for bare `except` clauses in Python 3.14.

> * The syntax will be fully disallowed in Python 3.17.

> * A `from __future__ import strict_excepts` will be provided to invalidate bare except handlers in earlier versions of Python.

> A tool will be provided to automatically update code to replace bare `except:` with except BaseException: