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tpolm··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
> There is no reorganisation of the model durring inference.

one could argue that model can reorganize / interact with prior knowledge captured in text form (edit files) hence there can be reorganisation

tpolm··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
HIV did not exist in human population before XX centiry. Crossings from SIV are extremely rare - vaccinations is about HIV, not SIV
tpolm··on Grok 4.5
any kind, like, literally anything that would explain where did your statement come from :)

maybe the data proving that "more often" with numbers

tpolm··on Grok 4.5
> facts keep aligning with the left more often

[citation needed]

tpolm··on Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones
So what prevents enemy from creating 20knparticipants constantly sending fake data?
tpolm··on Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones
I wonder how this system can be protected from spam - if anyone can send data there, enemy can, too
tpolm··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy.

Everything! Everything! Like all the deer, all the rabbits, all the decoys! Obviously we trust Kokhanovskyy

tpolm··on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Come on, Russian "страна наиболее вероятного противника" (the country of the most likely enemy) was always the military name of the US since the Cold War. Now used in military texts and also as a sarcastic cliché
tpolm··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
If the survelliance tech is so great, why post amber alert messages with the license plate numbers all over all highways to help find the car?
tpolm··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
What is expensive in nuclear energy? Reason there is not more of nuclear reactors is not the cost, it is regulation. Regulation can be changed (it also seem to already have, recently, IIRC - starting 2024 NRC law changes by Biden admin and later by Trump admin)
tpolm··on Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs
> The US just cannot build cheap energy

Nuclear power anyone?

tpolm··on Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
Vegas: ordering a tax "to a hotel" - hotels have different entrances, pickup / dropoff there during crazy times is hard. Uber UI for Vegas is unique / some features are designed to make it easier for driver and passanger to find each other

Airports: different regulations, different rules for pickup/dropoff. Also scammers who pretend to be in a car, walk with their phones around pick-up ares in airport and do bait-and-switch (saw that in Istanbul SAW and in Dubai Al Maktoum)

tpolm··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
Second this

Have the same pattern, issue is cortisol/stress, not sounds / etc that happen precisely at night

Built simular things tonwhat Op did (thoug using Oura for sleep tracking, not Garmin)

Result: no statistically significant variations in sounds, CO2 normal etc. Cortisol is what doctors/AI told me first

tpolm··on Proof of Corn
Modern-day Turing test: AI receives $100,000 and must make $1m
tpolm··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
well, produce own steel. Own processors, own drug precursors...
tpolm··on Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account
Does oobe trick no longer work?
tpolm··on SAP plans voluntary buyouts or job changes for 8k employees in restructuring
Oh, this is surely AI, not something related to SAP "voluntary" leaving the Russian market.
tpolm··on I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans
Money
tpolm··on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
It wasn't Russian pension, it was the famous Soviet pension, yeah.

Not so ironical much, eh?

tpolm··on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
The Wikipedia article says that he had a lifetime pension and died in his 70s from stomach issues.

Where did you get this "died in poverty" nonsense from?

tpolm··on Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave
simple: more layoffs
tpolm··on Want quick answers? Ask questions well
http://aka.ms/nohello
tpolm··on Preparedness Paradox
Well, why not "look at Sweden", then?
tpolm··on Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job
Heard this many times but without detail. What exactly is expensive and time-consuming? Chicken/Beef, beans, pasta, rice, some greens, salt, pepper. Cooking simple dishes and putting them to a freezer can be done on weekend. What exactly is expensive and time consuming in US?
tpolm··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
For some reason was not banned for that, but for something totally different
tpolm··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
8chan
tpolm··on Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
there were more than two recent incidents lately:

- YouTube outage this November 2020

- August 2020 outage of Google Suite including Gmail

in both cases no postmortems were published

tpolm··on Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
somehow they managed to build complex systems like gmail, continuously develop new features there and not have massive outages due to "migrations" - suggests that something that they were doing right, they are no longer able to do
tpolm··on Post Mortem of Google Outage on 14 December 2020
it is interesting that is both cases (recent gmail and this one) it was a "migration":

"As part of an ongoing migration of the User ID Service to a new quota system"

"An ongoing migration was in effect to update this underlying configuration system"

it was not a new feature, not a massive hardware failure, it was migrating part of the working product due to some unclear reason of "best practices".

both of those migrations failed with symptoms suggesting that whoever was performing them did not have deep understanding of systems architecture or safety practices and there was no one to stop them from failing. Signs of slow degradation of engineering culture at Google. There will be more to come. Sad.

tpolm··on The Asian flu epidemic of 1957 was a turning point for antibiotics (2007)
Thalidomide, anyone?
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