I really love designing tabulation machines here at IBM. Such cool technology. I'm not really exposed to the sales side but hear there's a lot of demand from Europe, Germany maybe? Anyway, super-fun technology to work on.
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Tobin Baker
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I barely speak for myself, let alone my employer
that said, fuck authoritarians
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Mr Meeseeks was just a parable about AI alignment
lmao OpenAI trying to bribe a pure mathematician with “lead author” as if that’s a thing
yikes, glad I never went for a .name domain, burn in hell Verisign
We were at Swifts Night Out (awesome family event) and there was a group of teenagers next to us arguing whether the raptor that just charged into the flock and grabbed a swift was a merlin or a kestrel, and I thought, the kids are alright
This Trumpapalooza thing reminds me of Jonestown, except there are no sympathetic victims
RIP Wendell Berry, sharing this again
https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf
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@mitchellh@hachyderm.io that's an interesting analogy, feels like both vibecoding and "resilience engineering" tend to mask systemic risk by superficially and temporarily mitigating the symptoms
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@dan@discuss.systems @regehr@mastodon.social @aburka@hachyderm.io @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @dev@discuss.systems what do you put on your well-done steak
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@mattblaze@federate.social the CDC's initial anti-masking guidance and subsequent reversal (within a couple weeks) was definitely not based on new scientific evidence coming to light
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @matten@freeradical.zone the destination was always dubious, but the journey was pretty fun
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@internic @johncarlosbaez maybe it's "for" conveying some sort of unique selective advantage? that doesn't imply that it's the result of any kind of design or foresight (see Dawkins's books lol).
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@carnage4life@mas.to and strangely, the people who get to declare themselves the good guys aren't always the winners. see: Lost Cause, Clean Wehrmacht
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@internic @johncarlosbaez yeah I might have thought Dawkins of all people would be more careful about this usage, but philosophers often use it in exactly this sense, i.e. "for what?" means "serves what functional purpose?". I think using it colloquially like this is dangerous though, since it implies that every trait of a biological organism or a culture must have some adaptive or functional purpose, when we know that is clearly not true--some things are just random.
seems too good to be true
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@tek@freeradical.zone when Cleopatra invented UTF-8 she was actually closer in time to us than she was to the invention of ASCII
Wife is trying to use ChatGPT for a painting project and it turns out to be very good at hallucinating paint colors.
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@carnage4life@mas.to that doesn't seem to be the kind of attention he's talking about in the clip
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@kestral @0xabad1dea I like to imagine him doing black metal vocals while composing the Grosse Fuge (the most metal piece ever)
Having read this guy's blog (on systems programming in C) for years, I literally cannot believe it is the same person. The proximity of the post date to April 1 gave me a little hope, but the post does seem serious.
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@Lana@beige.party I guess a debunking is in the eye of the beholder, but fine if you think otherwise
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@Lana@beige.party it would be more of a burn if he had received it for actually doing anything
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@carnage4life@mas.to and what about when inference costs are no longer massively subsidized?
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@lindsey@recurse.social on a more pop-CS note, did you see Joe Hellerstein’s recent blog series on CRDTs? Curious to hear more academic opinions on it.
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@andrewrk@mastodon.social lockfree wait queue? We looked at that recently while rewriting our locks and just went with a spinlock guarding the wait queue (doubly linked list was just too convenient)
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social I like to think he and Tom DeLay will be roommates in hell
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looks like PayPal caps passwords at 20 chars, hmmm
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@mattblaze@federate.social other articles I have read about SEAL operations suggest that killing everyone on sight is their normal MO
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@carnage4life@mas.to more like the controlling party of the legislative body responsible for confirming those picks should forfeit their jobs
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @matten@freeradical.zone (I was referring to "The Road to Reality" which I found more enjoyable than "The Emperor's New Mind", I never read "Shadows of the Mind")
And the Nazis unfortunately had to dynamite Warsaw because it was infrastructure used by resistance fighters.
Best advice I got in therapy: “It’s not your fault, but you still own it.”
don't feel bad programmers, mathematicians are losing hope too
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@mattblaze@federate.social but I think it's clear enough now that absolutely any executive authority contingent on "emergency" conditions can and will be abused, now that impeachment is no longer a credible deterrent.
Sergey Brin is a case study in why billionaires should not exist.