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Comment · 6 days ago
In high school math ,we usually had a stanupin the beginning of every lesson. Basically th entire class on their feet answering rapid fire questions from the teacher , usually some stuff that had been taught in the previous lesson. No calculator/notes just doing math in your head to get to sit down and start the class. Gnereally sucked when we were going through it , looking back though made digesting the material easier as you had to know, not just cram or hope for a calc or scrap paper to caluclate with.

So basically a oral pop quiz for math. i think could work well to complement homeworks by making sure the material as taught is actually inside the students heads.

Comment · 11 days ago
Given thats the obvious and rational choice for any gov anywhere to make. Considering the sensitivity of data flows as well as potential leaks/sabotage.

This however goes beyonnd that as its been written to be as vaguely worded and anbigously as to spread the maximum amount of FUD, catching in its net even a locally running DS llm or any 'derivatives' i take that to mean any quantized/distilled models even touching on DS.

This is basically the same play that was done in regards to Huawei , next step as was in that case would be the US gov going around the planet and intimidating other govs to drop DS. THen tack the same allegations to the rest of the Chinese OS models , rinse and repeat.

With OSS locally hosted models the anology is more akin to the Hallowee Documents by Microsoft from the 90-20's in regard to linux and attempts to kneecap its spread.

Comment · 13 days ago
Im going to go with it will be both , the Golden aspects and the Dark will co-exist depending on many factors but most especially the society and recption towards the changes it will usher not only in the way scientist and institutions choose to use the tools(basic research and advanced, peer review and citations) but also how the society will engage with it (awards accolades and grants).

From a historical eye looking back the 'Dark' ages in europe coincides with the Islamic 'Golden' age and the eventual convergence led to the Enlightenment , when tose ideas that had been verboten in europe worked on it the rest of the world as far as China were reintroduced and sparked a new cycle of learning.

Similarly i see especially in the US dominated block netering into a partial Dark - with researchers taking extra pains to hold their research/data closer lest it be scooped and credit/funds/accolades go a brute force LLM run by a competitor.The few that would still publish openly will be the candles holding the ideals of open source collaboration AND communication.

At this point in time it seems to me that the China affiliated labs and orgs are more open in diffusing the knowhow , and coincidentally the society does not appear as anxiety ridden regarding the advent of LL tools.Maybe due to the established Shenzen mindset where everyone copies/learns from everyone else and the only thing that clears is the speed of execution.

In any case probably a convergence back to a equilibrium and a second Enlightenment after a generation.

Comment · 19 days ago
I believe that the imprtatnt bit that many will come to understand ,maybe after costly mistakes is that 'tasks can be automated, jobs cannot(yet)' one still needs the discernment to know what the sequence of tasks lead up to meaningfully.

It kinda reminds me of the story of the Toyota process , while their car product lines were/are heavily automated the process still relies on the smalll teams on the line to spot/solve and iterarte over mistakes/inefficiences then add the refinements back onto the automated tasks.

Similarly althose stories of radilogists going jobless have not panned out , as interpreting slieds is a 'task' that a radiologist does.

Semantics , yeah but it does shape the way of thinkings regarding jobs/economy and not to mention the whole anthropomorphizing by the AI labs and boosters. In essence the wordings can/could introduce a healthy dose of reality/skepticism to the wildest predictions regarding job losses etc.

Comment · 22 days ago
IMHO its mostly been proven that special intrests , corporations hold more influence than the electorate. To that extent that bot wings of the uniparty basically persue the same agenda with very little variation in econ/pol while distarcting everyone with nonstop culture war bs. Ergo its more feasible to playact at parades thsn it is to have a proper industrial policy for example that would mean hosing Wall Streeet profits to do. so.
Comment · 24 days ago
Hm i dont know ,if they were MY tunnels i would be ok with them there.Someone elses tunnels just rub me the wrong way , like stepping in someone elses house with the furniture still there.
Comment · 29 days ago
Once again pointing to the importance of established UI/UX patterns and keeping as close as possible to user workflows.
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Comment · 1 month ago
As the details which are sketch and unverified independently so far , were all taking the description of events as reported. There were no isolated VMs , just rules to the agents to only send GET requests, not in a simulated test environment but the real internet.

Additionally apparently there was no monitoring of outgoing traffic?

These are all pretty standard hardening processes for any Ops team , harden the environment and if no external access is required setup a segragetad VLAN which basically denies any attempt to 'break out' to any other network space.

Still on the security environment , outgoing trafic is usually monitored with alerts to prevent data exfiltration from hacks/rogue workers etc .

Robust systems will immediately catch a supposedly sandboxed piece of code making 10s of calls to the internet where none should be available and any monitoring dashboard would be lighting up like a christmas tree.

Again no external audit of their environment, prompts or 'sandbox' is available so were all speculating here.However imho their 'controls' seem lackluster at best , nonexistent and negligent at worst.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah similar to the AWS data cneter getting trashed in UAE by cheap drones and short range missiles. I think only 3 states have the capabilities necessary to knock out satellites , and one or two others with latent potential. For the rest of the planet its basically untouchable unless theres more wisespread proliferation in missile tech.
Comment · 1 month ago
Similarly to Starlink , which was hyped as a low codt alternative for marginalised people/areas and sucked in enormous subsidies to that end. While being more or less a proof of concept for a military command and control network , thats the same way this should be looked at.Especially with data centers being vulnerable on ground, coupled with the ability to reposition the space based units to be 'closer to the action' as it were.

So bottom line a proof of concept for DARPA funds and eventual inegration into the military command and control nodes.

Comment · 1 month ago
Its basically that staring at the log patterns in graph form or system stats you get a pretty good idea of what 'normal' looks like and anomalies stick out pretty quickly.

Though having a person interpretingthe degradation progress and relaying it to the rest of the team could be a usable scene.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think its the way their kernel architecture has diverged to this point in time.Seeing as it depends on structures/primitives in DRagonfly that dont exist in the other BSDs. Making a port a bit of a challenge.
Comment · 1 month ago

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