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quantum_state··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
The concept is like the perpetual machine in the 1800s. It is simply an impossibility. Please avoid wasting time.
quantum_state··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Very good shorthand
quantum_state··on Anthropic Doesn't Want Open Weight Models Banned. Just All That Makes Them Good
So pathetic … Anthropic …
quantum_state··on Design Is Compromise
Another way to put it: design is the outcome of an optimization against a given set of objectives and constraints. This would also help to keep track of the reasoning underlying changes in the design to provide an audit trail.
quantum_state··on The arguments against open source AI are bad
These companies are using anything at hand to trick people out of their money … be very careful…
quantum_state··on Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria
Short-termism has been undermining the US for a long while now.
quantum_state··on Latent Space as a New Medium
Lots of misconception about GenAI ...
quantum_state··on How sea stars build materials that can see
Very fascinating ..
quantum_state··on Optimization Solver as a Service
This may be useful for small demos. For large scale MIP with millions of variables, one needs to have the solver at hand to support custom algos with techniques such as column generation, etc. to achieve time to solution and economics of compute resources. A remote API will not fit.
quantum_state··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
Would like to think we human are better than what is implied by the course in that we would not mistaken our model of reality as reality itself.
quantum_state··on Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says
To make America great again, we need to rid private money from politics and election. A public pool should be established with well defined rules and transparency to fund election and campaign. It is a basic investment in healthy democracy.
quantum_state··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
As people say, unchecked power corrupts. These big techs are all corrupt in their own way.
quantum_state··on AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
Very much indeed. The term itself is not properly defined, strictly speaking.
quantum_state··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Here it goes again ...
quantum_state··on Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
The US consumers are now becoming more and more like captive preys ... in the names of whatever special interest groups would make up ... so sad and outrageous!
quantum_state··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
At some point, people would not know if they have the deal or not have the deal in this new era of quantum e-business ...
quantum_state··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Monitoring employee at work is a shady business .. we all should say no to it.
quantum_state··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
It would spell the start of major corruption and the end of American sciences. God, please do something about it!
quantum_state··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
In the last 40 years, China has been building while the US has been wasting money and lives fighting wars. Can we learn to really put America first for once?
quantum_state··on Greg Brockman interview [video]
It’s a matter of fact that OpenAI betrayed its origin.
quantum_state··on Molecular quantum nanosensors functioning in living cells
Very intriguing ...
quantum_state··on Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
Yet just another human fooled by LLM ...
quantum_state··on Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
Is this common sense and by definition of what an average is?
quantum_state··on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
Can’t think properly seems to be the real issue. That’s one of the reasons that SE domain is mostly in ruin. AI won’t help, only to delay a bigger mess.
quantum_state··on DeepSeek v4
Europe will not be independent as long as there are US military bases there. Saying otherwise would be kidding oneself.
quantum_state··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
This trend will continue as long as tax payers money is wasted in useless and unnecessary wars …
quantum_state··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
Claude Code has become useless anyway in the last few weeks. I want my money back!
quantum_state··on Laws of Software Engineering
Unfortunately, violation of any of these laws don't seem to have immediate consequences. That's why the IT industry is in ruin.
quantum_state··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
Claude Code started to suck since a couple of weeks ago. I want my money back!
quantum_state··on How Passive Radar Works
Would suggest to take a look at Jackson’s book on classical electrodynamics to get some intuition.
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