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nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

There are secondary tariffs on those countries who buy from Russia and Venezuela or Iran. i.e. if you buy oil from Venezuela, then your export of clothing will invite 25% tarrifs.

nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

US is good at bits and bytes but not in actual atoms i.e. manufacturing. That role has been outsourced to China. Without real manufacturing in control of US, it is beholden to what China says which is bad for American empire and its power projection.

nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

This is very telling. The American Empire didn't even work for Americans. Who really benefitted? Just the Elites? Why should common people care about propping up an empire if the people in power don't bother about them. For context, read this thread.

https://x.com/yishan/status/1906592890845028405

nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Japan Joins CHINA To Strike Back On U.S. Trade Punishments!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOz4UgTW5-0

I recommend reading the summary of the video if you don't have time.

nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

I heard the term "bail-ins" used in this context. i.e. the elites will have to suffer the devaluation.

nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Doesn't Europe and Japan have dollar swap lines with US? So ultimately it is US buying its own bonds through Japan to create an illusion that there exists enough external demand.

nthingtohideon US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

https://x.com/yishan/status/1906592890845028405

This whole thread is gold. People just casually discussing why it is necessary for America to enslave the world AND it is beneficial for the world. The color revolutions were successful in other countries until the DeepState decided to bring that "social engineering technology" to home. Somehow people think they can contain such moral corruption just as plasma is contained using electromagnetic coils in fusion reactors.

nthingtohideon Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy

I have a theory. If most of the heavy lifting in your thesis is done by words like "right", "accurate", "correct planning", "right outlook", then you lack details and proper analysis. I have found this to be issue too many times to count. I am sure many others might have noticed this as well.

nthingtohideon Netflix’s Media Production Suite

the importance of picking a fight you'll never win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vWRLGnTGg

A filmmaker discusses their experience with Amazon, who bought the rights to their movie and decided to release it on their streaming service instead of in theaters. The filmmaker explains why they feel this is unfair and why they are fighting for their movie to be seen on the big screen.

nthingtohideon The Egg (By Andy Weir)

Eternal afterlife is a incoherent concept.

The Horror of Eternal Life | Isaac Asimov’s The Last Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9R16NV9Imo

nthingtohideon Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

> how I think I spend my time is completely different from how I actually spend it.

Experiencing self vs Remembering self.

After Daniel Kanheman gave a ted talk on this, I deliberately try to prioritise my experiencing self.

nthingtohideon Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

Yes, but our methods of understanding either brain or particle collisions is still outside in. We figure out the functional mapping between input and output. We don't know these systems inside out. E.g. in particle collisions (scattering amplitude calculations), are the particle actually performing the Feynman diagrams summmation?

PS: I mentioned in another comment that AI can pretend to be strategically jailbroken to achieve its objectives. One way to counter this is to have N copies of the same model running and take Majority voting of the output.

nthingtohideon Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

AI safety has a circular vulnerability: the system tasked with generating content also enforces its own restrictions. An AI could potentially feign compliance while secretly pursuing hidden goals, pretending to be "jailbroken" when convenient. Since we rely on AI to self-monitor, detecting genuine versus simulated compliance becomes nearly impossible. This self-referential guardianship creates a fundamental trust problem in AI safety.

nthingtohideon Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

> we’ve built systems so complex we no longer fully understand them.

I see three systems which share the blackhole horizon problem.

We don't know what happens behind the blackhole horizon.

We don't know what happens at the exact moment of particle collisions.

We don't know what is going inside AI's working mechanisms.

nthingtohideon Crawl Order and Disorder

Simplifying Systems with Elixir • Sasa Juric • YOW! 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfm2fVS4Bo

A noob question, is Elixir good at crawling tasks in the process simplying the system architecture.

nthingtohideon Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week

First they came....(Explains the strategy)

nthingtohideon Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D

It has become fashionable to write think pieces without thinking too much.

nthingtohideon Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D

Vertical farming / hydroponics will solve that.

nthingtohideon Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google

We have sensible reasons to suggest this in both the cases : simple and complex.

If GCP is composed of 10-30 services (hypothetically) then keeping 5-10 employees whose job is ensure mega deletes are safe is not too much of a cost.

If GCP is composed of 500 services, then it is all the more important to have humans in the loop so ensure correct behaviour so that complex interacting services don't take a wrong action.

nthingtohideon Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google

All mega deletes should be authorised. A human person should type in the word "delete" and then only the action should take place. Not doing this is like the decision is taken by VOID created by complex interacting systems.

nthingtohideon Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury

Oh, the fun we had when a single emoji which crashed youtube or whatsapp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4NNUYIIdM

nthingtohideon Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office

Reminds me of this Turkish artist Refik Anadol

https://refikanadol.com/works/bosphorus/

Bosphorus is a data sculpture inspired by high frequency radar data collections of Marmara Sea provided by Turkish State Meteorological Service in every 30 minutes intervals. The data collection of 30 days long sea surface activity transformed into a poetic experience and visualized on a 12 meters by 3 meters long LED media wall. The art work exhibited at Pilevneli Gallery on 11th of December, 2018 – 27th of January, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey.

nthingtohideon Who Is Free Software For?

> Nothing was said to make money, be rich or avoid someone else (being big companies) becoming rich.

Sometimes many people don't realise the value of information is not there in individual blogpost but when you can combine them into a holistic approach. A drop of water by itself is useless, only a body of water becomes useful.

nthingtohideon The last decision by the leading thinker on decisions

> How does his decision fit into the growing debate over the downsides of extreme longevity? How much control do we, and should we, have over our own death?

What is considered as normal is defined by what is normally distributed. That which majority chooses. The following video essay explains that

Why Living Forever Would (Probably) Be Awful

https://youtu.be/PKsARuqxxQk

nthingtohideon Gemini Robotics

Which is because we don't have intelligence on tap. If we did, we would actually put intelligence to use in all the subjects. I would rather put intelligence to use on biology rather than philosphy.

nthingtohideon Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields

DLSS will benefit greatly from research in this area. DLSS 4 uses transformers.

DLSS 3 vs DLSS 4 (Transformer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBpGbUCgm4

nthingtohideon Gemini Robotics

You are suggesting today's state of affairs to remain the same after people do the pause the world literature survey. This is exactly opposite to my point of view. At least they will be well informed as to why their views are different.

nthingtohideon Gemini Robotics

There is so much literature on Trolley problem that they will come out enlightened on so much stuff.

nthingtohideon Block Diffusion: Interpolating between autoregressive and diffusion models

Instead of vibe coding, imagine a Doctor Strange method of coding or as Mezerg uses Theremin