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shawabawa3··on LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
> How can it intuitively know what "traumatic over-training" should mean for LLMs without ever having been taught the concept?

Because, and this is a hot take, LLMs have emergent intelligence

shawabawa3··on High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
If Russia nukes Ukraine (or anyone else) NATO would declare war on Russia, that's the only reason Russia is not using them
shawabawa3··on OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
AI and tech companies

Collapse might look a little like the dot com bubble (stock crashes, bankruptcies, layoffs, etc)

shawabawa3··on Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
What car?

I've driven like 5 modern rental cars in the last year and none of them locked out the touch screen while driving, and most needed the touch screen to change the temperature controls

shawabawa3··on How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq
If there was less tourism there would be even less demand for archeologists and the guy would have likely been forced into an even lower skilled job
shawabawa3··on Scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
Pins and needles is usually acute, and harmless

Chronic pins and needles should be checked urgently by a doctor as it's very serious

shawabawa3··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
This is the case in the UK, another win for our bulky plug socket
shawabawa3··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
how long were you in jail? How did you get out?
shawabawa3··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
> If you decide you don't want a relationship with either of those companies you will be extremely disadvantaged.

Even more worrying is the inverse of this - if Google and/or Apple decide for whatever reason they don't want a relationship with you (aka they ban you for no reason) - you are completely screwed

shawabawa3··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
Also isn't there like 5-10% fatality rate?
shawabawa3··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
i wonder if there was a single black or asian member of this particular military group, presumably not
shawabawa3··on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend
My guess is that the summaries are never actually read, so accuracy doesn't actually matter and the AI could equally be replaced with /dev/null
shawabawa3··on Sequoia backs Zed
They literally stopped developing for about 5 years, it wasn't just about the team not keeping up
shawabawa3··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
As a counter point

I absolutely hated server browsers. Spending ages waiting for slots to free up on decent servers. Trying a new server only to find it had 100 shitty mods installed. Servers where the admins randomly kicked or banned people, or blatantly cheated

Even just joining mid game was annoying

Give me matchmaking any day

shawabawa3··on What is the average length of a queue of cars? (2023)
> Moreover, if the reasoning above was correct, observing a queue of 22,849 cars would be essentially impossible!

One of the cars in the 100,000 cars is going to be the slowest car, and when that car appears every car behind it will join that queue

So on average wouldn't you expect there to be one large queue of 50,000 cars at the back?

shawabawa3··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
> In the UK, most councils have made parks alcohol-free zones

Uh, citation needed?

Some small parks, cemeteries, kids playgrounds maybe

Every large park in London at least is full of people drinking

There's even a kids playground next to a pub in London fields where I often go drinking with other parents while the kids play

shawabawa3··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
This is very cultural

In London on sunny days the park is 100% rammed with people sitting in circles on the grass drinking, from like noon to sunset

shawabawa3··on Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices
I use it to send an alert when CO2 is too high too open some windows

I live in an old 1930s house in the UK so no HVAC or anything more automatable sadly

shawabawa3··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
Google did a weird thing where they poached windsurf employees, licensed their tech and hired the CEO and upper management, leaving a shelled out company behind

Looks like employees were given an exploding offer to join Google and sacrifice windsurf shares at a low valuation, or stick with windsurf

If you stuck with windsurf you then joined cognition in a later acquisition

shawabawa3··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
You have to know some of the background

Google poached windsurf employees and licensed their tech, paying out billions to upper management but apparently offering a fraction of the value of shares

This employee chose to stick with windsurf instead of moving to Google

Windsurf was then acquired by cognition for an unspecified but probably quite low amount

So this employee is now at cognition

shawabawa3··on Intel CEO Letter to Employees
My understanding is that say the average employee had 6 levels of management up to CEO before, now they have 4
shawabawa3··on Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests
Your two statements contradict

If 1g of shrooms has 5mg psilocybin, to get a dose of 5mg/kg would be like 75g for an average man (still feels very high but nowhere near 1kg)

shawabawa3··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
> Honestly yeah, why do you need your "workout chain" while taking your wife to a medical exam?

sounds like people wear them all day, so it would more be a case of "why would i take this off?"

I would have thought the dozens of huge warning signs around the MRI room would have tipped him off but i guess warning fatigue is a thing

shawabawa3··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
Not at all

It's more like a chess engine claiming master level performance (back when that was an achievement)

shawabawa3··on Arizona resident dies from the plague
What debacle? That masks only reduced transmission by about 30% and not 100% and a large statistically illiterate portion of society didn't understand that 30% reduction is better than 0% reduction?
shawabawa3··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Are you sure there wasn't an audible alarm?

The switches were re-engaged within 10 seconds so isn't it possible they quickly heard a warning alarm, realised the issue and fixed it? (Of course, not quick enough in this case)

shawabawa3··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
These switches are used at the end of literally every flight

The biggest problem with these theorising comment threads is the confidence people who know nothing about flying spout their theories

(I know nothing about flying)

shawabawa3··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
This also makes sense with why nobody on the recording mentions re engaging the fuel switches

The pilot denies shutting off the fuel, then realises he'd done it accidentally and quietly reenables them hoping there's enough time to save them

shawabawa3··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Bare in mind there have been there have been what, 100+ million flights? so "virtually impossible" things can, and will happen
shawabawa3··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
What exactly does that mean?

The project you linked to was completed pretty quickly and is supplying 2.5GW to the UK grid

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