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Itsmecv

Itsmecv@social.threefoldeight.com

<p>I host social.threefoldeight.com. Day job at Starbucks Tech. Dad. Coffee and tech enthusiast. I speak a little German and Russian - occasional posts in those languages.</p>

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    Learning about the Optimal Stopping problem from &amp;quot;Algorithms to Live By&amp;quot; by Brian Christian &amp;amp; Tom Griffiths. How to maximize your odds of picking the absolute best option in a pool of size N: 1) Reject the first N/e options (approx 37%) to establish a strict benchmark. 2) Instantly commit to the very next option that outperforms that baseline. Read more on the secretary problem math: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem #Math #AlgorithmsToLiveBy #DecisionMak...

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    Wolf packs of Washington map from WDFW data.

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    The German quality of life is so much better in tiny ways. I&amp;#39;m watching the German World Cup stream. All wc games (not just Germany ones) are streamed free on German broadcast and online, and no commercials during the mandatory water breaks unlike US. In the US you have to pay $20 for a recurring FS1 subscription and watch commercials. 🤦

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    The world is ai arming. Europe is driving for cloud sovereignty so they can decouple from us capitalism and drones with ai automatically deciding to Kamikaze into what the drone thinks is a Russian occupant rather than a Ukrainian babushka is the current state. We’ll be pouring resources into those capabilities just like the atomic era.

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    Anthropic’s Fable getting contained by the us gov is pretty wild. This is really history making. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949553/anthropic-fable-5-mythos-5-government-national-security

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    When Anthropic was asked to shut down Fable to foreign nationals they suddenly had an identify problem. A big one.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/116776423121111489 This seems ominous…

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    Here’s an early example of cryptography used by Sumerians encoding glass making recipes so as to assure confidentiality. tablet | British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1929-0715-1

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    This sucks https://www.theverge.com/science/957630/omb-killing-science-budget-grants-research