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We can send information at the speed of light. It's quite easy, actually.

If (and that's a bit of an ask to be honest) I understand this correctly, the weights will look very different from what trained weights look like. Very sparse, not uniformly random.

I mean, this is a cool demo, but that's about it. It shows that you can build a model that holds secrets which are genuinely encrypted until the model gets the correct input. But it's also trivially detectable, so the framing seems a bit misleading.

This is such a bad video. Someone else's video, cut over multiple different times, a horrible slurred AI voice, shaky filmed screen with a guy talking over… Each layer adds nothing, but somehow this is the version worthy of sharing?

The phrasing makes it sound like you are using them through a chat interface. Have you tried something like Claude Code? The real value only starts materialising once it has sufficient access to your environment.

It's a function of scarcity. Generation (or "writing" as it used to be known back in the day) is now cheap, so judgement and taste are the new bottleneck and therefore the difference between slop and effort.

I don't know why, but in my head Firefly as a whole occupies roughly the same spot as a boring Farscape episode.

Stargate is just one of those rare shows that (apart from, uh, certain episodes) aged incredibly well. I really miss optimistic television where people are competent at their jobs.

Even the whole "science person solves the problem under pressure after getting an insight" thing suddenly seems a lot more realistic now that LLMs have actually become good.

The real story here is that people are selling modded Pis as higher-memory versions. And this check actually caught them + is circumventable. The restriction is somewhat annoying to a small subset of enthusiasts but seems to catch genuine fraud.

Then there's a difficult question to answer: Who should get to use AI and who shouldn't?

The data centers aren't there for no reason, they track demand (and a large helping of hype). It's the same question that arises with cars. A single person driving a car is relatively unproblematic. It's when individual usage adds up that it becomes problematic. And what did decades of car opposition do? A lot less than what happened when a better way to do it (read EVs) came up.

The same argument has been used against most data center operations from the beginning. You can criticise specific bad actors and bad practices (like Musk and his blatantly illegal gas turbines) without morally condemning an entire field of technology through the lens of religious environmentalism. There is nothing about the technology that prevents data centers from running 100% renewably.

This feels more like unrelated political dissatisfaction packaged to hitch a ride on the AI discourse train. The experience of struggling for solutions only seems to disappear if you lack ambition. Keeping the amount of thought you put into problems constant only requires broadening your horizon to new problems.

The $199/$299 prices were never real. Those were on carrier-subsidized plans.

I'm not sure you can engineer your way out of the fundamental problem: You have a lever with both arms converging into a fragile display fold. Sand and dust can't not be brutal on that.