I'm not convinced he's done the calibration, at least in his demo video. It's pretty bad, imo. I think he's just running it on the raw unrectified images. For anyone wanting to play with this, OpenCV has a number of…
Regardless of the validity of the terrorism charge, it seems pretty reasonable to call what he did destruction of evidence. Now, if he had taped "pass:1234" on to the inside of his phone case, and the CBP official had…
What about that chinese cat feeder whose app requires a suspicious number of permissions, and requires max version of android 2 versions behind the current one? Or maybe your security camera has a "free" plan without…
I hope sincerely hope they don't currently use "proprietary technology" like: Wolfram Mathematica ($890/yr) Magma ($2500/yr) Maple ($680/yr) COMSOL ($1500,yr) Matlab ($500+/yr) Seems like a very strange position to…
sure? The point was that there are a number of recognizable brands that have fewer stores than pandas in existance. If you do want by to go by 'sales volume', it looks like the cost to rent a panda is about $1M/yr, for…
Looks like there's about 2,500 pandas in the world. https://www.franchisetimes.com/top-400-2026/ Pandas could fit in the top 20, beating out Panera bread (2,225).
That's the charitable way of interpreting it. The less charitable way is that they're bitter that open-source has basically been used to train their replacement, and that they want to turn programming into effectively a…
I mean, it seems a pretty open-and-shut case. The author literally admits he copied the code. From one of the comments he makes: > @kuckir, to be clear about the lineage: PhotoSuite started from the Photopea build…
You then decide to ask it to vary the unbleached:white flour ratio. You ask it to suggest flavor combinations based on 14th century english cookbooks. What happens if the dough is knead it for 3 minutes? 30? Substitute…
As a EE by trade, AI coding has been life changing. I can read code, but since it's not my day job, trying to get a meaningful understanding of multiple codebases is frankly weeks of time. I no longer have to beg and…
Looks like 1200 people in the last year. 1200 / 350e6 = 3.4 micromorts. By comparison, getting out of bed at age 45 is about 6 micromorts. The UK have about 13,000 arrests per year over social media etc. Without…
Think you have an error -- it's t_hot / (t_hot - t_cold) With those numbers, ideal carnot would be 500/(500-357) = 3.5. Multi-stage could potentially get you to a COP of 2 or so. So 0.5MW.
Would you? In the UK, they can't force you to speak, but not answering questions can be interpreted as evasion / "adverse interference". They do not need a warrant to search your phone. Not providing them with a PIN can…
> ...the mere possibility of them getting broken is no rational reason to abandon rules altogether. Of course I agree with that. The problem is the enforceability / detectability of this on a global scale hovers around…
The greater the competitive advantage, the greater the incentive to "cheat" the rules. I am highly skeptical everyone will play by the rules, even if you could get people to agree on paper. The difference between…
I think in principal, "If AI leaders genuinely believe the technology is existentially risky, that’s a good thing" because the assumption is a rational AI leader therefore wouldn't be building it if it were…
if I imagine on apple silicon this is buried deep in silicon / ISP IP block, and isn't a discrete IC.
> Now here’s a real risk involving measles that I sometimes worry about. What if the measles virus experienced a set of immune escape mutations where suddenly existing vaccines no longer work? If this happened the…
Citation needed. A kid that's 15.5 yrs old is more than able to be unsupervised for a few hours. c'mon. The only state that I can find with the oldest age defined is 14 in Illinois (but it's defined as "for an…
Agree. >>Both URLs were registered yesterday!<< The "Leadership" photos all look the same, with the AI-airbrushed style. Also amazing how they both only have three people. What a coincidence. I can't find any of the…
Is the PC mainboard separate from all the tek ASIC etc stuff? If so, what's the interface? PCMCIA? PCI? I'm just wondering how difficult it would be to use a more modern bit of kit in there instead of the Celeron.
Bit off topic, but if you suffer from canker sores, SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) is a known contributor to that in some people (me included). It's a bit hard to find toothpastes without it that aren't also fluoride free,…
That seems like enough prior art to invalidate much of what could conceivably be considered novel in the pending patent...
I remember Microsoft introduced a DRM / certification program they called "Playsforsure". Two years later they introduce the Zune, which could not play "Playsforsure" music people had purchased from MSN..
So what you're saying is, we have a blueprint and it's theoretically possible. That makes it worse. Co-operation from our northern neighbor would be appreciated. But, perhaps, not required, given a thirst great enough.
I'm not convinced he's done the calibration, at least in his demo video. It's pretty bad, imo. I think he's just running it on the raw unrectified images. For anyone wanting to play with this, OpenCV has a number of…
Regardless of the validity of the terrorism charge, it seems pretty reasonable to call what he did destruction of evidence. Now, if he had taped "pass:1234" on to the inside of his phone case, and the CBP official had…
What about that chinese cat feeder whose app requires a suspicious number of permissions, and requires max version of android 2 versions behind the current one? Or maybe your security camera has a "free" plan without…
I hope sincerely hope they don't currently use "proprietary technology" like: Wolfram Mathematica ($890/yr) Magma ($2500/yr) Maple ($680/yr) COMSOL ($1500,yr) Matlab ($500+/yr) Seems like a very strange position to…
sure? The point was that there are a number of recognizable brands that have fewer stores than pandas in existance. If you do want by to go by 'sales volume', it looks like the cost to rent a panda is about $1M/yr, for…
Looks like there's about 2,500 pandas in the world. https://www.franchisetimes.com/top-400-2026/ Pandas could fit in the top 20, beating out Panera bread (2,225).
That's the charitable way of interpreting it. The less charitable way is that they're bitter that open-source has basically been used to train their replacement, and that they want to turn programming into effectively a…
I mean, it seems a pretty open-and-shut case. The author literally admits he copied the code. From one of the comments he makes: > @kuckir, to be clear about the lineage: PhotoSuite started from the Photopea build…
You then decide to ask it to vary the unbleached:white flour ratio. You ask it to suggest flavor combinations based on 14th century english cookbooks. What happens if the dough is knead it for 3 minutes? 30? Substitute…
As a EE by trade, AI coding has been life changing. I can read code, but since it's not my day job, trying to get a meaningful understanding of multiple codebases is frankly weeks of time. I no longer have to beg and…
Looks like 1200 people in the last year. 1200 / 350e6 = 3.4 micromorts. By comparison, getting out of bed at age 45 is about 6 micromorts. The UK have about 13,000 arrests per year over social media etc. Without…
Think you have an error -- it's t_hot / (t_hot - t_cold) With those numbers, ideal carnot would be 500/(500-357) = 3.5. Multi-stage could potentially get you to a COP of 2 or so. So 0.5MW.
Would you? In the UK, they can't force you to speak, but not answering questions can be interpreted as evasion / "adverse interference". They do not need a warrant to search your phone. Not providing them with a PIN can…
> ...the mere possibility of them getting broken is no rational reason to abandon rules altogether. Of course I agree with that. The problem is the enforceability / detectability of this on a global scale hovers around…
The greater the competitive advantage, the greater the incentive to "cheat" the rules. I am highly skeptical everyone will play by the rules, even if you could get people to agree on paper. The difference between…
I think in principal, "If AI leaders genuinely believe the technology is existentially risky, that’s a good thing" because the assumption is a rational AI leader therefore wouldn't be building it if it were…
if I imagine on apple silicon this is buried deep in silicon / ISP IP block, and isn't a discrete IC.
> Now here’s a real risk involving measles that I sometimes worry about. What if the measles virus experienced a set of immune escape mutations where suddenly existing vaccines no longer work? If this happened the…
Citation needed. A kid that's 15.5 yrs old is more than able to be unsupervised for a few hours. c'mon. The only state that I can find with the oldest age defined is 14 in Illinois (but it's defined as "for an…
Agree. >>Both URLs were registered yesterday!<< The "Leadership" photos all look the same, with the AI-airbrushed style. Also amazing how they both only have three people. What a coincidence. I can't find any of the…
Is the PC mainboard separate from all the tek ASIC etc stuff? If so, what's the interface? PCMCIA? PCI? I'm just wondering how difficult it would be to use a more modern bit of kit in there instead of the Celeron.
Bit off topic, but if you suffer from canker sores, SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) is a known contributor to that in some people (me included). It's a bit hard to find toothpastes without it that aren't also fluoride free,…
That seems like enough prior art to invalidate much of what could conceivably be considered novel in the pending patent...
I remember Microsoft introduced a DRM / certification program they called "Playsforsure". Two years later they introduce the Zune, which could not play "Playsforsure" music people had purchased from MSN..
So what you're saying is, we have a blueprint and it's theoretically possible. That makes it worse. Co-operation from our northern neighbor would be appreciated. But, perhaps, not required, given a thirst great enough.