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I'm a bipedal next token predictor, in English and in C++.

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united24media.com 13d ago

Leak Reveals Possible Secret Russia-China Military Plan to Disable Starlink

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www.theverge.com 2mo ago

AI research papers are getting better, and it's a big problem for scientists

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gizmodo.com 2mo ago

Extortion Using Smartglasses Is a Thing Now

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www.theverge.com 3mo ago

My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski's dad was a CIA operative

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www.caranddriver.com 3mo ago

The Only Privately Titled EV1 Is Getting Restored with GM's Help

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 4mo ago

Pulsed High-Power Radio Energy Can Cause Harmful Effects on the Brain (2024)

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www.bloomberg.com 4mo ago

BlackRock $26B Private Credit Fund Limits Withdrawals

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legiscan.com 5mo ago

California introduces a bill (AB-2047) that will limit the use of 3D printers

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hackaday.com 5mo ago

New Tool Makes 3D Printed PCBs, Fast

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www.universetoday.com 5mo ago

Exclusive Photos of the Recently Found 30-Ton Argentine Meteorite (2016)

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pubs.usgs.gov 6mo ago

Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

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www.nature.com 6mo ago

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

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www.nbcnews.com 7mo ago

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue CCP talking points, tests show

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old.reddit.com 8mo ago

Michael Burry is going all in on shorting the bubble

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www.mercurynews.com 9mo ago

SB 79 passes, landmark victory for California YIMBYs

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en.wikipedia.org 11mo ago

Beaver Drop

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avi-loeb.medium.com 12mo ago

Is the Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Alien Technology?

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www.iter.org 1y ago

New records on Wendelstein 7-X

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www.adamgingery.com 1y ago

History of the Claque: A Look into Entertainment's Original Laugh Track

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www.axios.com 1y ago

Seagull hitches ride on a garbage truck for 80 miles to find food

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www.jalopnik.com 1y ago

New Tires Could End Up Ten Times Tougher with Harvard's Crack-Resistant Rubber

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www.reuters.com 1y ago

Beta Technologies lands passenger-carrying electric aircraft at NY airport

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nachrichten.idw-online.de 1y ago

Wendelstein 7-X sets new performance records in fusion research

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arxiv.org 1y ago

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

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investorsobserver.com 1y ago

U.S. banks are sitting on $500B worth of unrealized losses

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rlg.fas.org 1y ago

The Garwin Archive

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret

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www.pnas.org 1y ago

Dormant volcano Uturuncu has seismic activity with "low eruption risk"

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www.mskcc.org 1y ago

mRNA Vaccine Shows Sustained Immune Response in Small Pancreatic Cancer Trial

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www.koko.org 1y ago

Why Teach American Sign Language (ASL) to a Gorilla?

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But me asking questions is in fact my trying to understand, is it not? I ask a stupid simple question with a slightly rude tone, and then I get downvoted by a bunch of pedantic insiders. Although to be fair it appears some are trying to help.

Look dude, every field develops its own terminology. It's not a conspiracy, just an emergent property. But it always makes getting into the field, or understanding what's in the field, much harder than it needs to be.

Yes, I understand one function of jargon, which can be useful to insiders in that it conveys a precise meaning. But, it can be confusing to outsiders, and that is also a useful thing for insiders. In the context of LLMs, what other function can produce p(next token) if not the LLM? And, you just about make my point for me with regards to jargon being confusing by misidentifying what the policy actually is (something i never would have noticed :) In any case, it's an interesting paper. Thanks for all your down votes everyone.

"This is notably fast given that this is the first time that an Android driver bug I reported was patched within 90 days of the vendor first learning about the vulnerability."

This makes me feel better about Google, but also makes me kind of frightened of the rest of Android. I wonder what Apple's response time is?

I was thinking something like an esp32 + mesthastic / LoRa + REST API on the LAN, discoverable via multi cast. The "landline" is a tablet or phone with an app that talks to the esp32. Separately, a parent with the app does the Diffie-Hellman key exchange over SMS, NFC, or some other channel with the friends who also have the app, and you know their identity. The phone app updates the device with the friend's keys, they do the same thing on their end, and voila you're in business. The kids can talk securely, you can read that the kids say via the LAN, no goddamned third parties.