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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:47PM (#50342615)
Recursive self-improvement getting here quicker than many people thought. I'm sure many will be recalibrating P(doom) because of this.
The fear and anxiety caused by threats issued by those with the capability and proclivity for violence against those with no defense against it is the injury.
Some people may not be as privileged to be immune to being terrorized by violent threats as you are.
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:55PM (#50132749)
Its been decades since it was invented so perhaps we'll find out soon.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:31AM (#50128239)
>Tinted glass windows are designed to mimic the copper coating that gives spacesuit visors their gold radiance.

Aren't spacesuit visors actually gold plated, not copper?

Re:Yes, and on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:57AM (#50022395)
Maybe read my comment again. I wasn't disagreeing with you.
Re:Yes, and on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:42AM (#50022173)
>You can predict which changes in the source code will lead to which exact changes in the behavior of the compiled program.

A vanishingly small percentage of coders are thinking about this when they're coding. Compilers do so many optimizations that most work-a-day programmers don't think about as well. If you're one of those people who care about the exact instructions coming out of your compiler, you're just inlining assembly.

Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:55PM (#50000358)
What was the prompt for the widow's bay egg?
>There are airliners that have been in service for over 50 years.

Are there any airliners that have flown for 24 years non-stop?

Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:13AM (#49751088)
$3500 when you consider they returned $3000 of that back to OpenAI in the form of burnt tokens.
Doesn't sound like many of them are going to be there, so I wouldn't feel the need to as well.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:53PM (#49721244)
Compared to gemini-cli that they took out behind the woodshed, I hate it.
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:36AM (#49692779)
Or ruin.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:21AM (#49621936)
Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm.
Re:JetZero on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:03AM (#49055505)
Sounds fixable by making the outer seats cheaper.
Re:JetZero on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:02AM (#49055498)
I give absolutely less than zero f's about no windows for 2" more legroom.
Re:NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:37PM (#48939880)
Not even just broke, they completely disabled people's ability to use it. Took it out behind the woodshed.
>Steam is basically one giant used game market in that you get stuff constantly for 50-90% off.

I don't think thats comparable at all. You're not buying used games, you're buying discounted games. Sony can discount games too. Steam doesn't have a secondary market either.

We just seem to trust Valve more to not rugpull our purchases.

They want this even more than they want $100 games. Rockstar not shipping discs for GTA6 and PlayStation ending disc production is the perfect two pronged approach.

Honestly gamers have been stomaching this for decades with Steam so Sony wants in on some of that sweet sweet action as well.

Re:Nano Banana 2 Lite on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:04PM (#48739855)
Using it for "staging" shitty rentals is pretty gross, but I used Nano Banana to make some mockups for a bath room remodel I'm doing and it worked pretty great.
Code switching in the post LLM era.
Re:Pac-Man, but you're the ghost on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:51AM (#48524810)
Pac man in Pac-man has cornering.
Re:Pac-Man, but you're the ghost on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:20AM (#48524429)
Yeah its AI slop without the corner easing. But maybe they can AI it better.
Re:Pac-Man, but you're the ghost on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:20AM (#48524427)
Cool AI slop but the lack of corner easing like the original game makes it less fun.
A broken clock is still occasionally right.
Given the current climate I'd be inclined to declare "tyranny" also but in this case I think given the degree of potential damage the slamming on of brakes is warranted when the alternative is, to strain a metaphor, going full speed off a cliff at relativistic speeds.
Not selective availability. COCOM Limits that prevent a GPS chip from operating above a certain speed and altitude.
Not that I'm ever one to support anything this regime does but I'm kind of okay with them pumping the brakes on this until we really get a handle on what the

The USG has limited capabilities on technologies from GPS chips to thermal imaging with "national security" implications for a while and now they're doing it but it seems people don't like how ill defined "Mythos-class" means. Would it be better if it was some %X on some benchmark that the frontier model peddlers could just limbo under to make it "acceptable" for release? Do we just accept that jailbreaking will never be prevented?

The part of all this I do have a problem with is the national state cybersecurity cat-and-mouse this kicks off. Will the US tech landscape have enough time to safely get a "Mythos-class" model to harden itself before China releases or leverages a "Mythos-class" cyber munition?

Maybe now we'll get a good voice prompt experience with Gemini on iPhone out of this deal.
I'm guessing its a combination of needing to acquire a massive amount of land among a limited number of candidate locations and then layering logistical constraints on top of that.

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