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• Post #4451932

  “AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this #BotTargeted content. We only have one documented example so far, and that's Time serving #AIOnly ads to selected AI crawlers, as spotted by Germany based freelance software developer #VincentSchmalbach....

• Post #4391131

  A 2.43 kilometres per second lunar collision with the #moon 384400 km away. (0) #NASA trajectory calculations for free-return during #Apollo required a 3 body problem solution. How is the #Falcon9 trajectory by chance? Why? (1) (0) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25yn22l97o (1) https://www.kroneckerwallis.com/apollo-navigation-how-nasa-plotted-the-translunar-trajectory-to-the-moon/

• Post #4389180

  ♬ I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving / England is mine, it owes me a living / but ask me why and I'll spit in your eye ♬

• Post #4386484

  ♬ I am the son and the heir / of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / of nothing in particular / you shut your mouth / how can you say / I go about things the wrong way? ♬ #TheSmiths / #JohnnyMarr / #Manchester / #RockMusic / #rock 1984 Marr / Smiths

• Post #4296594

  “if your $500K engineer isn’t burning $250K in #tokens, something is wrong.” — Jensen Huan, Nvidia CEO #AI / #AIBubble / #engineer / #FinancialEngineering / #NVidia / #JensenHuan (paywall) /

• Post #4281325

  ♬ when I was young / it seemed that life was so wonderful / a miracle / oh, it was beautiful, magical / and all the birds in the trees / well, they'd be singing so happily / oh, joyfully / oh, playfully watching me ♬

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• Post #4264141

  “Situational Awareness LP was named for a series of facile essays about machine intelligence published by the improbably-named #LeopoldAschenbrenner, the 24-year-old mastermind of the hedge fund. “We are building machines that can think and reason,” he writes, betraying that he has no idea what thinking could possibly mean. “By 2025/26, these #machines will outpace many college #PostGraduates By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have #superintelligence in the...

• Post #4192048

  ♬ set me down, so I don't get away / I can't find it, I'm behind it / sell me short, and yet, you're here to stay / moving slower / did you know her? / oh, several got away ♬ #DinosaurJr 🦖 / #amhurst / #rock

• Post #4180715

  ♬ The dream of the 90’s is alive in Portland ♬ “…In Portland you can go to a record store and sell your C.D's” ♬ turn that dirty clown frown / right upside down ♬

• Post #4179580

  “China has crossed a milestone that many in the semiconductor industry once viewed as years away. A #Chinese state-backed company has begun mass producing homegrown immersion deep ultraviolet #DUV #lithography machines, marking the country’s first commercial manufacturing effort for one of the most advanced and tightly controlled pieces of #chipmaking equipment. The move gives Chinese chipmakers their strongest domestic alternative yet to Western lithography systems and marks another step in Be...

• Post #4130705

  As an edge case, I missed out on those fancy “Alert 🚨” messages. My silenced, iPh8 16.x.y phone was silent. POTS over fibre silent. Like not wearing a watch, never knowing the exact time; Able to get the rough time through observing the environment.

• Post #4123731

  The AI deleted his home directory, not Matt, “granting #AI, Admin privileges” 🤨 #LLM / #SysAdmin / #Techweenie

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• Post #4085533

  ♫ The kids are alright ♫

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• Post #4022148

  “Flow my tears, fall from your springs! Exiled forever let me mourn; Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorn.” ― Philip K. Dick / #PKD

• Post #4018759

  “Military and SES personnel being taught #analog communication and navigation techniques as experts warn solar flare could knock out ‘critical space #infrastructure’” I laugh at this. I was trained at the peak of analog and cusp of digital spatial tech. Three times this year alone on a road surrounded by paddocks, cars stop looking for directions to a specific location. I get out my pre-marked Melways, get them to take a shot of the map and direct them to where they need to go. Then ask the...

• Post #4002323

  “It was a light-hearted moment in what has been the most challenging chapter in Canada-US relations since the war of 1812, when the former wasn’t even a country yet. But, for #America and the world, the episode also holds three important lessons about Donald Trump’s #tariffs. And the president’s latest threat, issued on Monday, to hit #Canada with tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of #goods raises the stakes and shows how important it is for Canada to hold the line. The first lesson is t...

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• Post #3972248

  “Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some #ComputerVision systems. The designers say advances in #computing have made it easier to incorporate such patterns into commercially viable garments. Experts caution that the effectiveness of the patterns depends on the #surveillance system and the conditions in which it is used, but #NickTidball, the co-founde...

• Post #3944881

  “Neil’s so great. #ChickRoberts who Neil mentions is my father! He’s still around, 90 years old. Confirms Neils story. Great memory Neil, thank you for appreciating my father’s support of your song #SugarMountain, he was knocked out by your song. My Dad heard Neil play it at #TheRiverboat in #Toronto at a 1965 “Hotennany” night. Artists got $10 to play three or four songs known as "Hotennany scale". The gigs were put on by the guild of Canadian Folk Artists in Toronto’s “Yorkville...

• Post #3943498

  “AI didn't kill #programming. You killed programming decades ago by stripping it of all individuality and #curiosity to satisfy the whims of giant #corporations. You created #universities that taught only one #language and trained programmers to never think of programming as personal expression. You turned programming into a sterile #profession who's only purpose is making other people money. You even went so far as to hunt down and threaten anyone who dared to disagree with you. You...

• Post #3904889

  The first film on #RaceAroundTheWorld by #Jayden a Marine biologist is devastating. When you see these images of coral reefs contrasted with the testimony of fishermen who know what they do is illegal and bad but forced by economics to destroy their environment they live in. #ABCTV / #documentary / #ShortStory / #ForeignCorrespondent 🪸🐠

• Post #3872748

  “The issue was therefore not simply the loss of one NTP #server or #redundancy in the #design of the #configuration of the three #NTP servers, but the propagation and acceptance of erroneous #date information by #interconnected #systems that rely on timing as a #trust and ordering #reference.” Q Who said this first? #LeslieLamport or some #Telstra exec?

• Post #3872741

  ““The issue was therefore not simply the loss of one NTP #server or #redundancy in the #design of the #configuration of the three #NTP servers, but the propagation and acceptance of erroneous #date information by #interconnected #systems that rely on timing as a #trust and ordering #reference.” Q Who said this first? #LeslieLamport or some #Telstra exec?

• Post #3856356

  “We’re almost halfway through!” The crowd screams in joy. The weird part is that (1) the band has been playing for nearly four hours already, and (2) they just banged out a 40-minute version of “Like a Hurricane.” But nobody’s ready to walk on. Calling Real Young and Lazy Horse a tribute band is like describing Neil Young as “a weird guy who’s into harmonica solos” — technically not inaccurate, but nowhere near adequate.” Neil’s music played will never die. It’s wild to hear tribute bands devo...

• Post #3851194

  “A collection of #StephenKing novellas that inspired classic films including #StandByMe and The #ShawshankRedemption has been #banned from Utah public schools. Published in 1982, the collection, titled Different Seasons, contains four novellas: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Hope Springs Eternal, Apt Pupil: Summer of Corruption, The Body: Fall from Innocence, and The Breathing Method: A Winter’s Tale.” Utah. 📚🔥

• Post #3828441

  “Now that organisations have been weaned off earlier 'all you can eat' #subscription plans and onto 'pay-as-you-go' metered #token consumption, they're all in various stages of sticker shock. Several talks at the conference discussed managing token costs, such as AJ Fisher's exploration of 'diffusion' models. Analogous to the diffusers used to generate images, they generate text at lighting speed, making them cheaper to operate while also being less accurate t...

• Post #3796244

  “Since antiquity, #mathematicians have suspected that O(n2) was an inherent speed limit for #multiplication. The celebrated Soviet math professor #AndreyKolmogorov posed the O(n^2) speed limit as a formal #conjecture and mentioned it during a 1960 seminar at Moscow State University. Whenever mathematicians propose a conjecture, they are planting a flag of sorts and waiting for others to either prove or disprove them. It took just a week for #AnatolyKaratsuba, then a 23-year-old student in the au...