Magicrafter13

Kinda just fun to watch. Like the old days of Sethbling making neural nets to play Super Mario World, but now with multiple players at once, so we can see co-operation take place.

I don't understand why a modem would need additional hardware to do its own dialing. Why couldn't the software just send the dialing pulses/tones?

Is it something to do with a difference in voltage between dialing noises and regular calling noise?

That's what happens when the real world starts to hit us all, and we realize that the push towards college when we were growing up was largely propaganda (not to say teachers don't really believe in its usefulness, but they can't back it up with facts).

I was 'lucky' enough to only spend $30k on my seemingly-useless Computer Science degree. If I could go back and do it again, out of high school, I would go to tradeschool to become an electrician.

What a waste of money though, I wonder what else that $30k could have gone towards... or hell, just keep it as investments. A $30k piece of paper is in my bedroom though...

I'm not really that upset about college itself, I'm upset about all the people around me who fed me the lie (that they too believed), that getting a degree somehow sets you apart and unlocks all the high paying jobs. I think a master's degree holds more weight, but still.

So, they've discovered capitalism?

What's crazy is that most of the accusations against his moral character are true. He caused a great change to take place in the nation, but he was not an upstanding individual outside of that.

Good thing the FBI doesn't do this anymore hahaha yes we are certainly safe and they are definitely not infiltrating groups and people's minds in order to discredit and trick them into failure.....

The random number generator didn't produce the number I wanted? Shocking!

In all seriousness, uneducated people should not be setting up LLMs (or, frankly, even using them depending on the circumstance). Understand what the technology is. It isn't intelligence, it isn't a person, it's math. Vector encoded data.

Once you recognize that all outputs are possible, including all possible negative outputs, you will be much better at determining proper sandboxing/boundaries.

If you run an LLM and give it two tool calls: read_file and curl, you can have all your data exfiltrated (and, depending on how bad your setup is, it might only need curl...)

Certainly not true in every culture. Because this is not an intrinsic truth of humanity. The evils the author sees as exceptions are actually the rule of our nature, but for one reason or another, most people (in some cultures) these days choose to operate on better principles because the outcome is preferable.

A murderer might enjoy killing, but will only be able to do so for a short time before being caught and imprisoned (or better, executed). But few people have ever been jailed or hurt for exercising charity and kindness on others. It's not that humans are normally or mostly good (we're very clearly not), but that living as such tends towards better and longer lives.

So in that sense I also believe, for the most part, that those around me are more willing to help than to hurt. Sadly those with the most influence on our lives don't represent a random sampling of "most people".

A probabilistic technology (yes I know you can set the temperature to 1, but no one does that, and the output is still not efficiently predictable) is doing "formal verification" now?

Or are they just saying we can use LLMs to generate a piece of code/test that can do formal verification?

not that bold, but I suspect a discussion on the topic would either be unfruitful - or if it was a good conversation, would be shutdown by the site operators

doesn't Apple require a name and a zip code? I would call that unnecessary, even if they wouldn't.

> Any government-approved payment system is ... auditable

Sure, I don't dispute that. Which is also why I wouldn't really call a government-approved system private (unless there are some shenanigans going on).

be that as it may, a general reader will consider a lack of anonymity to not be privacy-friendly - so it appears as deceptive marketing

projects cannot control what people think, but they can control what they say, and attempt to word things in the best way possible

Even I, as a non "general reader" consider this service to be non-private.

a literal interpretation of what I said would be a person, but you could also interpret it more broadly as all demon-kind

both work, and it doesn't really change what I was saying, though my authorial intent was in fact to refer to the person

We should have listened.

a beautiful (static?) website for showcasing a beautiful cipher

excellent work on both fronts (solving, and showcasing)

while he failed to demonstrate that the spirits of men continue to exercise control over this realm (after all, is it not Satan who presently rules this world?), he left something beautiful and interesting that genuinely took a while to solve considering how close it was to the computing revolution

are you the guy working at Chainguard publishing images...?