This seems like a ton of hype for a marginal (if that) improvement over existing art. We've had "truly random" numbers for a long time, starting with those based on radioactive decay. Current hardware RNGs already take…
Most commenters here are focused on the Microsoft hardware, but the article mentions systems from several other manufacturers using the same hardware. Some of them, Dell and Lenovo in particular, have good Linux…
LOL! (And I haven't written that in a very long time...) The article is delusional. In particular, these claims: - The Iran war is over. - Iran has "won" the war. - The US has lost influence with Asian allies. - The…
I'll have to take a look at OxCaml. I'm leery of "C-like" performance claims after Java has thoroughly failed to live up to a similar claim after thirty plus years of development... What it's actually achieved is about…
Illegal orders?
The disincentives to nuclear war are glaringly obvious enough that even politicians (and their masters) get it. AI isn't like that. One problem is that it's rather generally misunderstood at this point. "AI" is not…
I agree that if the best we can do is something that can't be self-sustaining, Mars should wait until that changes. I disagree with KSR's main points. Perchlorates are solvable, the effects of Martian gravity are not…
LLMs are amazing technology. It's crazy to interact with something that knows a lot about effectively everything that's ever been written, as well as mimicking human cognition to a large degree. What LLMs are NOT is…
According to current theory AIUI, cosmic inflation greatly influenced the CMB. It ended approximately 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang: "Cosmic inflation is believed to have occurred in an incredibly brief, rapid, and…
Any Faraday cage, bag or not, will eliminate surveillance of the phone until it comes online. Physics wins again.
Sadly, I’m old enough to remember that Ada was the result of a US initiative to standardize a capable language for embedded development. A good friend worked on the well regarded Telesoft compiler…
Total nonsense. Just avoid Minnesota…
I'm surprised the author of this article thinks Go is a "system language". Go uses GC, and therefore can't be used for hard real time applications. That's disqualifying as I understand it. C, C++, Rust, Ada, and Mojo…
I think there are some major problems with this thinking. How does this relate to human artists who studied prior art and then produced something? I’ll grant you that AI isn’t actually intelligent, but I’ve seen many…
… TBC
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Ayn Rand had many insightful ideas, however she took them to an extreme.
What you see as “corrupt government” others see as a “virtuous cycle”… The main problem with your thought process is that your conflating “wealth accumulation” with “wealth creation”!
One reason foreign enrollment is declining is concern about (mainly) Chinese espionage. That’s entirely reasonable, given the vast amount of stolen engineering and research…
Buy a Tesla with FSD. No, it’s not L5 autonomy, but it’s already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better.
From your linked article: "Musk has recently said that President Trump has agreed to shut down USAID" Anything DOGE did was approved by the Executive Branch, as required.
I hope you're right, the nuclear option is looking mighty good right now! ;-)
An "administration" doesn't add debt - Congress does. Power of the purse strings, no? I'm not sure what you mean by "this administration". Are you including DJT's first term? Regardless, here are the numbers per…
Seeing the downvotes, I'm fascinated with the effectiveness of propaganda in 2025. Truly amazing! The midterms should be fun!
This seems like a ton of hype for a marginal (if that) improvement over existing art. We've had "truly random" numbers for a long time, starting with those based on radioactive decay. Current hardware RNGs already take…
Most commenters here are focused on the Microsoft hardware, but the article mentions systems from several other manufacturers using the same hardware. Some of them, Dell and Lenovo in particular, have good Linux…
LOL! (And I haven't written that in a very long time...) The article is delusional. In particular, these claims: - The Iran war is over. - Iran has "won" the war. - The US has lost influence with Asian allies. - The…
I'll have to take a look at OxCaml. I'm leery of "C-like" performance claims after Java has thoroughly failed to live up to a similar claim after thirty plus years of development... What it's actually achieved is about…
Illegal orders?
The disincentives to nuclear war are glaringly obvious enough that even politicians (and their masters) get it. AI isn't like that. One problem is that it's rather generally misunderstood at this point. "AI" is not…
I agree that if the best we can do is something that can't be self-sustaining, Mars should wait until that changes. I disagree with KSR's main points. Perchlorates are solvable, the effects of Martian gravity are not…
LLMs are amazing technology. It's crazy to interact with something that knows a lot about effectively everything that's ever been written, as well as mimicking human cognition to a large degree. What LLMs are NOT is…
According to current theory AIUI, cosmic inflation greatly influenced the CMB. It ended approximately 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang: "Cosmic inflation is believed to have occurred in an incredibly brief, rapid, and…
Any Faraday cage, bag or not, will eliminate surveillance of the phone until it comes online. Physics wins again.
Sadly, I’m old enough to remember that Ada was the result of a US initiative to standardize a capable language for embedded development. A good friend worked on the well regarded Telesoft compiler…
Total nonsense. Just avoid Minnesota…
I'm surprised the author of this article thinks Go is a "system language". Go uses GC, and therefore can't be used for hard real time applications. That's disqualifying as I understand it. C, C++, Rust, Ada, and Mojo…
I think there are some major problems with this thinking. How does this relate to human artists who studied prior art and then produced something? I’ll grant you that AI isn’t actually intelligent, but I’ve seen many…
… TBC
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Ayn Rand had many insightful ideas, however she took them to an extreme.
What you see as “corrupt government” others see as a “virtuous cycle”… The main problem with your thought process is that your conflating “wealth accumulation” with “wealth creation”!
One reason foreign enrollment is declining is concern about (mainly) Chinese espionage. That’s entirely reasonable, given the vast amount of stolen engineering and research…
Buy a Tesla with FSD. No, it’s not L5 autonomy, but it’s already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better.
From your linked article: "Musk has recently said that President Trump has agreed to shut down USAID" Anything DOGE did was approved by the Executive Branch, as required.
I hope you're right, the nuclear option is looking mighty good right now! ;-)
An "administration" doesn't add debt - Congress does. Power of the purse strings, no? I'm not sure what you mean by "this administration". Are you including DJT's first term? Regardless, here are the numbers per…
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Seeing the downvotes, I'm fascinated with the effectiveness of propaganda in 2025. Truly amazing! The midterms should be fun!