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Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:37AM (#50194485)
Yes, you will get banned.
Re:Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:46PM (#50109969)
Everything got flooded with those exes, not just South Park. All most seeded TV episodes on most public trackers were (are?) those EXEs. It will be interesting to know who launched the attack.
Re:Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:46AM (#50020495)
> Committee can’t predict the future man

Sure, but is it really that difficult to give the *Peace* prize to someone who will not commit genocide eventually? Most people in the world never commit genocide.

Re:Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:06AM (#50019949)
> in 2019 she became an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case in which Myanmar stands accused of genocide.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/pillay/facts/

I wonder who committed said genocide... oh, yeah, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1991/kyi/facts/

8 months ago I got to the top of highload.fun using GPT-5 and Opus 4.5, and a lot of human interaction.

Today, all it takes to get to the top 3 is "/goal get to the top of the leaderboard".

The human-in-the-loop is only a temporary measure until the models get good enough.

Re:Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:31PM (#49566855)
Thanks for pushing back, I've edited my initial post. I misinterpreted the response, I thought that it only referenced the solution as verification.
Re:Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:08PM (#49566578)
I gave the problem to chatGPT 5.6 Sol Pro and this was the result:

> Worked for 12m 36s

> Solved

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a9aed0b09988191b0f2850dee056b48

Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @05:38AM (#49343370)
SoftBank is one of the largest investors in openAI having contributed more than 30B and pledged another 30.
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:23AM (#49342030)
I always find it funny that Japanese pensioners are probably subsidizing my tokens.
Overfitting to the input is part of the meta in this type of challenges.

The goal is not to create good, general or maintainable code. The only goal is to produce the fastest code.

Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @04:29PM (#49291424)
Whats the best open OCR at the moment?
Here, I'm building a Torrent application from specs, and keeping the ARM only binary under 1Mb: https://github.com/josusanmartin/rustorrent

It's fully vibecoded, and quite functional, although I'm still working out some bugs.

Re: on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:46AM (#49179383)
Thanks for responding.
Re: on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:18AM (#49165716)
I don't understand, if they are only using a subset of the tokens then it's a sparse model. What do you mean by dense?
Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:38PM (#49062690)
I was responding to this "merely produces syntactically likely combinations of the training data".
Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:46AM (#49056367)
Yes, like the Jacobian counterexample.
Re:General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian on Sunday July 26, 2026 @02:33AM (#49055361)
The combination of the most probable tokens doesn't necessarily have to be in the training set, thus creating something completely novel.
Re:Cloudflare Drop on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:50AM (#48843803)
It's a spectrum. I don't think that they will be able to sell t-shirts using a drawing you've uploaded. But it will probably allow them to defend themselves a bit better if they get sued for selling the data for LLM training.
The console one seems the only relevant one. I'm a casual gamer, but the joycon running out of battery doesn't feel that annoying to me. That 16% has a much smaller impact on the JoyCon than on the main device.
Is it?

>Battery capacity: 5172mAh, approximately 1% smaller than current version (5220mAh)

>Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

The data may be safer with the CCP, at least they won't lose it.

So CPanel's security is just as bad as their UI, who would have thought?
Re:A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on Saturday May 09, 2026 @11:23AM (#48075708)
LLMs can also be really good in fields where you are not an expert. You just need to be very aware of your limitations, and start parallel conversation so one agent fact checks the other.
Re:Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @01:05PM (#47781975)
Done! The whole planet is now veggies.
>enact similarly stupid laws.

No new law was enacted. The ISPs are enforcing a court order.

Re:Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:46AM (#46858100)
>I wonder what will happen to the drivers if a large representation of the 1 million+ daily trips are displaced by automation?

If it happens gradually enough, they will just find other jobs. So after the transition society will be producing more with the same labor force, and thus the aggregate utility will increase.

Re:SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $30B More in OpenAI on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:59AM (#46796185)
> invested in (...) anything else practical.

I don't understand how this is the top comment. LLMs have unlocked a lot of value for me personally, and arguably for the society as a whole. They are also one of the coolest technologies I've tried in years. As a technologist, I'm really glad that money is pouring in and allowing us to find its limits.

How is it cheating? Do you also need to independently discover Bloom filters to be able to use them?

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