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ta93754829··on Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
Is "American" a nationality where maybe "North American" a geography? I don't think Diplodocus has US citizenship...
ta93754829··on vLLM v0.28.0
Pascal? The programming language?
ta93754829··on Glacier Mice
huh funny name that. When I hiked a glacier in Norway, dead mice (and other things) were everywhere under the ice. I assumed that's what the title was referring to.
ta93754829··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
I think you're conflating complex and complicated. An OS is very complicated but is predictable. An LLM is complex and not necessarily understandable.
ta93754829··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
it's a bug, in authentication
ta93754829··on Agent swarms and the new model economics
it feels kind of like a concept car a large manufacturer would show off at a motor show. Everyone knows there is no intention to actually ship that thing, but they're exploring concepts and technology and trying to make inroads in what comes next.
ta93754829··on A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
I don't know... I've been coding for ~30 years, and I've never had to write code to compute the median so it doesn't seem that useful unless it's somehow relevant to the job
ta93754829··on Claude Sonnet 5
that link doesn't exist anymore? what did it say?
ta93754829··on Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand
can't even do onlyfans
ta93754829··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
this looks awesome, great work!
ta93754829··on It might be possible to detect gravitons after all
So I thought gravity was basically the curvature of spacetime. But if there's a "gravity" particle, those two things seem mutually exclusive?

Can someone who understands this please explain it to me, thanks!

ta93754829··on The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
we keep moving the goalposts, and that's not a bad thing.

remember when Doom came out? How amazing and "realistic" we thought the graphics were? How ridiculous that seems now? We'll look back at ChatGPT4 the same way.

ta93754829··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
eventually, we'll be able to eliminate the intermediate "computer", and just let the ai render everything we need to interact with
ta93754829··on Bop Spotter
damn this is old internet. love it!
ta93754829··on Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and human
I live in a very hot location, and I also happen to like going for long runs. I've long known, if I took my dog with me on my run, it would kill him. Even though he's a fit young dog, there's no way he can handle the heat at running pace for that length of time.
ta93754829··on British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim
we're probably ~10 years away from replicants. in 20years there's going to be millions of tesla humanoid robots all over the place
ta93754829··on Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals
“It shows that he, to some extent, has the cognitive capacities that he needs to treat the wound with some medically active plants,” she said. “But we really don’t know how much he understands.”

This could apply to many humans too. Many people don't know why they're doing what they're doing, and don't have any understanding of how what they're doing works.

We're really not _that_ much smarter than them.

ta93754829··on Sora: Creating video from text
puts on the movie industry
ta93754829··on Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies
nice try Iran
ta93754829··on NASA selects a plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes
lets say we did this, and we got the tiny probes up to even ~speed of light... then what are they going to do when they get there? what sensors can they carry and report back. And we wouldn't be able to slow them down, so they're going to transit through the target solar system relatively quickly (days even).
ta93754829··on Smart mattress CEO reminds everyone his company collects customers' sleep data
I heard recently that BMW have back pedaled from subscriptions due to the massive backlash, so maybe that's a small win? don't know
ta93754829··on Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
Google is the next Blackberry, it just hasn't happened yet. Unless they can get a Nadella, and really transform the company asap, they're in a death spiral.
ta93754829··on Millions of customers in Australia hit by mobile phone and internet outage
why would Israel want to bring down Optus in Australia? Seems like they've got better things to do at the moment
ta93754829··on Nanofiche: Small Storage, for Forever
i love this idea of storing a trail of smaller and smaller data, almost forcing them to invent microscopes to keep reading...
ta93754829··on Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
When you dig into it, there are very few truths. Who "won" the last US election? Where did covid come from?

Humans will argue the right answer until their last days. It's frustrating how on-the-fence chatgpt can be. It's pretty interesting too, because in a professional environment one of the most important things you need to do is have an opinion and take a position otherwise you can't execute.

ta93754829··on GPT-4 API General Availability
I can only assume this is satire. For now.
ta93754829··on Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system
is this the same thing as the quantum navigation system tested by the Royal Navy, or something different?

https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/06/06/royal-navy-says-qua...

ta93754829··on Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
nominative determinism. I did a whole lot of research into this because my surname is Opmomfucker and yeh it checks out.
ta93754829··on A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm
Once ChatGPT was trained on "the internet of 2021", how big is the remaining model? Is ChatGPT effectively a compressed version of the internet?
ta93754829··on Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum
ok so super laymen dumb question, because I have very little understanding of the physics...

but could the entanglement process itself be "encoding" the behavior on each of the entangled qubits? if i spin something, and split it in half and move one half away from the other, it's still going to be appear "entangled"

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