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Comment · 1 day ago
Just like pilots, SREs will have to spend a minimum number of annual hours in the simulator to keep their skills sharp.
Comment · 2 days ago
I use DoorDash all the time. Here in urban San Diego, there are lots of restaurants with no nearby parking – so you either have to park blocks away in a residential neighborhood or have a companion who can grab the food while the driver circles the block. Or carry your tacos home on the bus.
Comment · 3 days ago
The Center for Principled Agentic Intelligence (CPAi) is a partnership between the UC San Diego Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing and the School of Arts and Humanities. Bringing together researchers across data and computer science, high-performance computing, arts and humanities, the center will study the broader questions advanced AI systems raise about human values, oversight and accountability — and determine when trust in them is warranted.
Comment · 28 days ago
A Princeton researcher showed that a known flaw in Georgia's ballot scanners, still unpatched in places, lets someone with public records and cheap AI tools work out the order ballots were cast and potentially link them to voters. He recovered the order for nearly 99% of in-person ballots in 114 counties and says secrecy can be broken entirely in small ones.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Are we slowly discovering what evolution already "realized" via optimization of human brains? i.e., procedural knowledge is easier to maintain than a library of facts, and facts can be accessed in external repositories if one knows the procedure for doing so.

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