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I would usually alt-tab to browser, open up any good LLM in 1 keystroke, write a short prompt, optionally paste the output of "ls" or "find" if context matters, then just copy and paste the result. This tool adds context but I'm fine without it.

Related: Vatican hosts quantum science workshop to spread benefits of technology

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2023-12/vati...

Assuming it is the best when the private servers are controlled by someone who lets you use it, is it still the best when that connection is severed or when trust is broken by the nation controlling the servers, data and code? What if some president decides your nation's airstrike is not to his taste and... cancels it? What will you do then, tweet angrily about it, ask for a refund? Talking of course primarily about ODIN/ALIS.

I'd take a bicycle without electronics over an electric vehicle that decides not to start, any day, when picking military hardware.

Saying the pilot did nothing wrong means the plane did something wrong; sell less expansive planes to foreign countries. Throw him under the bus; sell more expansive planes.

I hear America is looking for efficiency and reduced gvt spendings, I'd say the F35 program is a good candidate to start, especially since now many countries aren't so fond of the whole "send all of your military data to our best friends the US of A".

LLMs as a tool that you use and check can be useful, especially for code. However, I think that putting some LLM in your customer-facing app/SaaS/game is like using the "I'm feeling lucky" button when Google introduced it. It only works for trivial things that you might not even had to use a search engine for (find the address of a website you had already visited). But since it's so cheap to implement and feels like it's doing the work of humans for a tiny fraction of the cost, they won't care about the customers and implement it anyway. So it'll probably flood any system that can get away with basic mistakes, hopefully not in systems where human lives are at stake.

I just discovered your blog, love the format and content! Gotta have to try out that search engine too.

Thanks! Looks nice, the DOM part seems to be very well made, I can't draw cards from stock on Firefox though. Dragging cards works well, it's just the click on stock that doesn't seem to register.

It works when I first load the page, then stops working after a new game.

First time I've played any game through the end just because I wanted to see an ad! It's really well made, gotta confess I went the CLI route because I don't know how to design GUIs with moving parts. Also, I wanted to play my game with controls tailored for the keyboard layout (ASDFGHJ keys control the columns if using QWERTY).

Nice! I should add only-winnable generation to my own Solitaire, it's adfree, although it has extremely clunky controls.

Well, it was designed for the terminal, try the webconsole version here: https://rpigab.gitlab.io/solitaire-cli/

Source: https://gitlab.com/rpigab/solitaire-cli

That's awful.

I just tried uploading a couple files from PC to Android phone, ublock Origin had marked sharedrop.io as potential badware, disabled it because I knew it to be decent software, then once the file was uploaded (not before), I watched with horror as it redirected me to limewire and showed me that my file was in some bucket probably on some server that I never meant for it to go!

Thanks ublock Origin, I'll never doubt you again. Unless you get bought too. No one is safe.

I only read the comments usually, if the comments are good, maybe I'll watch the video.

That's probably another reason why Google kills so many products that are successful, but not successful enough for Google's whole system to justify keeping them alive and secure.

C++ often perform significantly worse than assembly for many kinds of code where you care a lot about performance. You can bring that performance closer together with bits of ASM in your C++ but at that point you might as well use ASM.

It is not, if the developer only does what is expected. I believe when you have to perform this, the Android authorization asked to the user is complete control over the network adapter settings.

Apps that have to link hardware via Wifi sometimes do, they take complete control over wifi in order to create a wireless access point and make the device connect to it during setup. I think Nikon camera remote control does this, also Meta Horizon, with Meta Quest VR headset, IIRC.

There's also Wifi ranging feature, but it shouldn't need to expose SSIDs to the app, I don't know the API, it should be limited to giving a precise location:

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2024/11/android-15-wi-fi-ra...

This is also why some Chinese apps put everything inside a single app and request every permission there is, then track you through Wifi SSIDs seen by your device.

I wouldn't call it horrifying because here in this context it's to protect kids (and Disney's brand of course) but I think this is similar to the situation of mobile games like Call of Duty mobile, where probably more than half of ranked games are played with you alone in a lobby full of bots with real-looking usernames (no other human playing) and because it's played mostly on smartphones, barely anyone uses text chat, so not many realize they are playing with bots until they get to high ranks where it becomes obvious that some games you get crushed by everyone, and some games you get 30 kills without dying and you get a tactical nuke, when you're supposed to be in the top 5% ranked.

Dead internet, everywhere. I'm not even sure why there are bots in ranked, since so many people play this game, I don't think this was made because you get longer wait times to find opponents in higher ranks. Maybe to make you feel better about your skill level.

They even lied about it in community updates:

  Since release we have seen many different inquiries of all types about Bots in Multiplayer and Battle Royale. We know you all have a great many questions about this, so let’s talk about Bots. We added bots into Call of Duty: Mobile to provide a way for new players to grow, learn, and thrive without the constant threat of a full team of higher level & more experienced players continually dominating them.
  They still provide a challenge while allowing you to learn the ins & outs of levels, test out new builds or weapons, and gradually increase your skill. Bots are not present in Ranked matches and in other modes as you grow in skill, you’ll see fewer and fewer bots present. We appreciate all of feedback surrounding this and we will be looking to improve those systems throughout the lifespan of the game.

Some games with limited chat definitely feel that way too, I usually don't play them much unless they have a decent singleplayer experience.

Worst way to find out that your spouse is cheating on you, and is married to two people at the same time unbeknownst to them. The AI knows.

The process is extremely lossy, but guessing a likely prompt should be doable if they used an LLM just to inflate word count, to reverse it, just remove redundancy and noise. Saves you time.

This helped a lot, thanks! I now see a similiarity where I was missing the bridges between geometry and lossy information channels. It's really interesting, though it's a really complex problem.

> Mathematicians often visualize this problem in terms of spheres. You can think of each code word as a high-dimensional point at the center of a sphere. If an error-filled message (when represented as a high-dimensional point) lives inside a given sphere, you know that the code word at the sphere’s center was the intended message. You don’t want these spheres to overlap — otherwise, a received message might be interpreted in more than one way. But the spheres shouldn’t be too far apart, either. Packing the spheres tightly means you can communicate more efficiently.

I went to math prep school for 2 years, attended 12 hours of math class in agebra and analysis per week, which I think proves I've done more math than most people in the general population, and this makes no sense to me. It either lacks introduction required to understand the analogy, or I've become really dumb. I want to understand this based on what the article says, but I can't. I can't represent error-filled messages as high-dimensional points. It's easier for me to imagine what the intersection between 4D spheres would look like in geometry.

I found this for anyone interested in understanding 4D spheres without knowing too much math: https://baileysnyder.com/interactive-4d/4d-spheres/

I'll buy the AI LLM that finds the prompt that was used based on the output, and replaces posts and emails by their prompt so I can actually understand the intention of the author and not spend my whole afternoon going through all bullet points with highly redundant information.

/s, of course, but not that unrealistic.

It's a Jpeg, and there's no active scripts, it's mainly meant for the video, but they went through the hassle of getting a domain name and uploading this, nice.

RTL is so much fun, it's the gift that keeps on going, when I first encountered it I thought, ok, maybe some junior web app developers will sometimes forget that it exists and a fun bug or two will get into production, but it's everywhere, Windows, GNU/Linux, automated emails, it can make malware hardware to detect by users in Windows because you can hide the dotexe at the beginning of the filename, etc.

Here it is today in GNOME 46.0, after so many years, this should say "selected": https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/306737fb-6b01-467... In previous GNOME versions it would mess up even more text in the file properties window.

Here's an article about it, but I couldn't find the more interesting blogpost about RTL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/09/right-to-left-override-a...

Once you've made the money, better to spend it on building materials and (local) labor than keeping it in the bank or investing in Dubai nonsense projects or NFTs, don't you think?

Thank you for recommending the 3M Precise Mouse Pad with Repositionable Adhesive Backing, I might grab one for the office!

I've gamed on old keyboards, membrane keyboards, mechanical gaming keyboards (for a long time), and now... I purchased a Logitech MX keys mini wireless keyboard (no numpad) and MX Master 3S mouse and game with those.

Using the 2.4GHz logi bolt usb receiver when I'm on PCs or server (way easier than bringing cables to the garage), and bluetooth for my phone or Steam Deck. I was initially repelled by the half-size arrow keys, for use in terminal or certain games that don't use WASD, but I made up my mind, and I'm really fine like this. Hope it lasts, but generally Logitech peripherals do.

I also have to switch peripherals from gaming PC to work laptop every day, so wireless really helps put less cables on my desk. And I can bring it with me should I need to keyboard away from home, but usually I'm AFK when not at home.

Goodhart's law on citation count... Too easy to game. It seems many people do this, and it works for them, because even if their peers just know who is doing it, they're still making bank, see Didier Raoult's paper mill.

See also: The Retraction Watch Leaderboard. Who has the most retractions?

https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard...

Yes, because insurances don't have them valued, they just trust owners for the price.

Then it's even more profit because they get to keep the paintings to insure again, sell again, or put them on display at the owner's house? I'm not sure it's that easy to get away with.

It's almost impossible to self-detect signs of improvement when the nature of long COVID is so different from one person to the other, and fatigue comes and goes over the course of days or weeks. It's not even placebo, it's just that it comes and goes, so if you are trying out some new thing, you're gonna start when you're feeling the worst, and get better after a few days because you can't get any worse, then after some time it gets bad again, but patients would think it's normal because their body is being accustomed to the new thing, and request to try more of the thing, even if it does nothing.

We need measurable results, and actual clinical studies over long periods of time.

Trying out this kind of supplements based on "Some patients who have taken them have claimed signs of improvement" is like trusting professor Raoult in 2020 and use chloroquine to treat COVID because he's the only one selling hope.