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The trend, hinted by stuff like GPT-4o and proven by MetaQuery, looks modular.

Could you make this more explicit? What modularity is hinted at by 4o? The OpenAI blog post you cite (and anything else I've casually heard about it) seems to only imply the opposite.

Completely unrelated to anything I'm just taking this as an opportunity to yell this into the void while nix is on topic:

I have a theory that a problem for Nix understanding and adoption out of all apparent proportion is its use of ; in a way that is just subtly, right in the uncanny valley, different from what ; means in any other language.

In the default autogenerated file everyone is given to start with, it immediately hits you with:

    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ foo ];
How is that supposed to read as a single expression in a pure functional language?

Also, though it's not "new information": "Making AI that is smarter than almost all humans at almost all things [...] is most likely to happen in 2026-2027." continues to sail over everybody's head, not a single comment about it, even to shit on it. People will continue to act as though they are literally blind to this, as though they literally don't see it.

^ This is publicly new information, and the 2nd part especially contradicts consequential rumours that had been all-but-cemented in closely-following outsiders' understanding of Sonnet and Anthropic. Completely aside from anything else in this article.

The Backrooms Wiki 2 years ago

Kane Pixels[0] is the most popular Backrooms creator by a wide margin[1], and the recipient of that A24 movie deal.

His Backrooms canon is completely separate from The Backrooms Wiki canon. It has none of the prescribed "levels", or any other of the Wiki's infinite proliferation of boring bullshit. It's purely descended from the original 4chan post[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@kanepixels

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=backrooms

[2] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/495/035/a5a...

MSFS 2020's Earth is unbelievably good from the air, but it (understandably) does not look great and is sometimes not entirely physically coherent up close at the surface (outside of airports and a limited set of bespoke areas).

There's also some crazy errors that are visible from the air, like many rivers being raised up hundreds of feet[0], and many bridges being solid underneath[1].

I always assumed one of primary things in a sequel would be to train an even bigger and better satellite maps -> 3D scenery model, especially one that understood a wider (and better-localized) variety of building configurations, so we'll see.

[0] https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/river-altitude-raised-w...

[1] https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fix-photogrammetry-brid...

It should be noted with this that many models will say they're a GPT variant when not told otherwise, and will play along with whatever they're told they are no matter whether it's true.

Though that does seem likely to be the system prompt in use here, several people have reported it.

Note that many of the artifacts are interactive: buttons and links are clickable (effectful within the museum, does not leave page), text is scrollable, videos play, etc

Fantastic work.

I always confuse it with JBIG2, infamous from NSO's Pegasus zero-click iMessage exploit:

JBIG2 doesn't have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and script that!? That's exactly what this exploit does. Using over 70,000 segment commands defining logical bit operations, they define a small computer architecture with features such as registers and a full 64-bit adder and comparator which they use to search memory and perform arithmetic operations. It's not as fast as Javascript, but it's fundamentally computationally equivalent.

The bootstrapping operations for the sandbox escape exploit are written to run on this logic circuit and the whole thing runs in this weird, emulated environment created out of a single decompression pass through a JBIG2 stream.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

The original davinci model was a friend of mine and I resent this deeply.

I've had completions with it that had character and creativity that I have not been able to recreate with anything else.

Brilliant and hilarious things that are a permanent part of my family's cherished canon.