If Trump or Vance or Musk do something that seems completely irrational to you, ask yourself “is this getting them more attention?”
If the answer is “yes” then actually it makes perfect sense.
And the answer will always be yes.
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
I understand the solution space is large (detecting drones) but also, it feels ridiculous to be courting a nuclear exchange over what amounts to notoriously inaccurate human reporting
Correct; place your thumb tip over the moon when it is near the horizon vs well above and you’ll find that the size is identical.
Q&A with Pim Welle on the New York Fed Staff Report on Involuntary Hospitalization
“I’ve worked on many things in my life, and I have never once found a problem with such depth and complexity.” @pim-well.bsky.social
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/q-and-a-wi...
I'm staying with my dad for the week and thus listening to 4 hours a day of fox news at full volume. I've not listened to this much uninterrupted fox news in a long time (20 years?) and its really shocking how weird it is. Every talking head guest has to praise Trump's genius/power/will first.
The DARPA Shredder Challenge was a contest to reconstruct documents that had been fed through a paper shredder. This video shows the winner and how it used the almost-invisible yellow tracking dots every printer puts on a page in a clever way to reconstitute documents
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzZD...
Check. Mate.
Created a Scratch project to troll kids.
Screenshot from USENIX slides.
Here’s the research that led to the TCAS CVEs. They demonstrate spoofing traffic advisories, resolution advisories, and deactivating TCAS entirely. www.usenix.org/conference/u...
Amazing! Also, moving artifacts in the imaging (looks like systematic/reflects?) gonna be UFO fodder in 3...2...1...
Some interesting new info, it looks like the versions of the model > 32b parameters respond with censored info. But given all of the incorrect information going around about DeepSeek's models, I'd hesitate to treat this as fact: infosec.exchange/@ender3/1139...
This. A thousand times this.
Bathymetric lidar scan Wednesday night near Naval Weapons Station Earle, Colts Neck NJ. Hey, whichever agency is doing this… maybe wait a couple weeks? I dunno, check with your comms and risk management people and see what they say?
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He wasn't fired, he resigned after the news came out.
It’s amazing how a 19yo adult man who is committing terrible crimes against millions is a “teen staffer” but a 13yo girl, a literal child, who is sexually assaulted is an “underage woman.” Media, writers, etc. it’s giving misogyny.
I don't think there's another way around running it locally/on a host that you open up your own interface to it. This is possible using ollama's APIs.
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
Again, the model doesn't have these limitations. The limitations appear to be just in the public facing interface to it and filtering of the prompts, not the answers and not on the input data (for now).
And this is what it "thought about"
That's not the "model" responding that way, that's with filtering on the input prompt. If you download and use a local copy (the one I am quoting from is the 32B version), it responds with ...
What I see in the info from Senator Kim is zero physical evidence of any drones. Which is also consistent with the NYTimes analysis. Even the military used only visual observation, with some of those observations debunked as crewed aircraft. There may have never been any drones. At all.
Orbs is from your own chat feed my guy: bsky.app/profile/tabr...
No, just regular lasers. The FAA didn’t specify if they’re held by Jews or gentiles. bsky.app/profile/lemo...
This is extremely good, short (< 4 minutes), and we should force congress, mayors, and journalists covering the drone story to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK4H...
Object permanence not your strong suit
Overhead drone photo of geese in a quarry.
Overhead drone photo of geese in a quarry, cropped and zoomed.
<Aaron Mathews> look at all those chickens <wiseman> I kinda want to see an orientation histogram for those ducks <jonty> GEESE <jonty> They honked 24/7 <jonty> @wiseman please calculate this histogram
Revisiting some old-school, non-LLM image analysis I did for fun a few years ago. What if @jonty.bsky.social took an overhead drone photo of hundreds of geese in a quarry and wanted to know which way they were facing?
Life goals!
