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Re:CVE Tracker on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:37AM (#50219045)
Thanks for the link! 1) It seems some are coming down, like RedHat 2) This pattern should be expected based on the amount of "intelligent" compute, heuristic agentic algorithms, money and awareness on the issue of software vulnerabilities at the moment. Projects like Glasswing, Daybreak, Fairwind, Purple etc are in full swing and seemingly effective
It is the same with "give me a random number (7) or seed for the rand function (42)". If the models did not converge on the same in low temp settings they would be useless
Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:46PM (#49995330)
It was a piston in a non-compressible fluid so to speak (ie. storm in a glass of water)
Re:Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:28AM (#49876392)
Interestingly that is not what we got, but maybe we should loop at architectures like this again? The JEPA loop is interesting, but might fail for the in-flexibility of the component ordering
Re:Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:59AM (#49855704)
Excel excels because if fills the 2D user interface. But not separating calculations from the tabular position in the UI is a historical failure and things like this is a band aid on that
There is always some one who instructed or trained the agent. start there
Re:Hacking OpenAI on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:37AM (#49751258)
Everybody at OpenAI is working like a summer intern or researcher. Not much care for the production side of things.
Re:Economic policy for AGI on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:09PM (#49745169)
Embodied robots is the most significant threat imo. Capital can be taxed but for now we have few general policy frameworks for the "who gets to walk and drive on the street" question
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:11AM (#49741040)
it is only around 5% of GDP
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:09AM (#49741021)
The EU "theater" in wonderfully bureaucratic
> nobody has the first idea what they're doing

It is not that complicated for now. It is an algorithm on a loop and someone started it

I think you are right, but he did also blog about it..
I have an inmotion V10 - soon rusty
It is the whole bench-mining and fish-slop optimization. Seq2seq models are probably stable on their own, translating from my typo ridden prompts to code should be ok because it is natural to the tech
I am also rusting my hw. Last week my mouse, this week my EUC (wish me luck). I would rather risk a crash than memory corruption
Is this a summary made in the mist of the fray. I need a timeline
Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:15AM (#49626989)
One thing I have to be honest about, and it's mine.. The one thing I would check before... do you want to do that? Say go an and will do it without the check While checking I found 3 vulnerabilities and 2 potential optimizations of which I fixed 2 and 1. Do you want me to file the other as issue, or stop for the day? We have done <lists a weeks worth of work> this morning. I feel you need a break
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:22PM (#49588040)
LinkedIn is also suppressive. The algo for maximizing non-confrontational screen time is strongly tuned against: critical posts and comments. Real bringing of information from outside the bubble. Links are severely suppressed.
Re:A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:23AM (#49444330)
Yes, but Λ < 0 would make it negative
Re:A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:53PM (#49439688)
Λ ≤ 0 in the intro. Great site!
Re:Anger, Anxiety and Agency on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:29PM (#49426730)
Anger is not productive. But we need to be more accepting to "the mood of the day". Winter grumpiness, being annoyed over having to bike in the rain, being able to show that you are stressed, weak, feel weird should all be emotions that we accept in the social space that is the workplace.
Re:Why Aren't Smart People Happier? on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:20PM (#49379713)
I live by "everything is grey". I am interestingly smart in some niche domains that I have a hard time communicating exists. I also insist on not fitting any template. Pretty dumb, right?
Re:It's not empowering to hand off the details on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:28PM (#49062589)
It is all about abstraction, and basic English is a quite bad abstraction
Re:Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:50PM (#49042032)
That is not really how LLMs work
Re:Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:58PM (#48961069)
Just use fedora
Re:Who manages the agents? on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:54PM (#48875242)
It is a matter of law. Only humans count as persons and citizens. Any robot that makes a decision defers accountability to its human owner.
Re:Notes on Software Quality on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:30PM (#48824897)
> Beauty: Is the software as aesthetically pleasing as possible?

Imo this point should be changed to reviewability. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @02:04PM (#48663519)
I have been a fan of Ruby for many years, but in this fast paced era the Ruby ecosystem always struggled with the dependency versioning. Gems I relied on were never available or compatible with the rest of the ecosystem.
Agreed, but after this winter my next car has got to be AWD
For family cars we need 4x 30-50 hp units. If the motor can weigh around 7 kg it can be placed directly on wheel. Adding durable brake discs (rarely used) and 2 inverters front ad back and we have the EV platform of the next 100 years

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