Antonio Patriarca

@danielcornell@mastodon.social After being confused and outraged as you I actually went to read what exactly happened and it is a 100% PR stunt. OpenAI made what is basically a malware AI designed to hack through the local defences put in place by the company IT department. They partnered with Hugging Face to test it. They thus put it in some container and the tool was able to get internet access and access some files. Hugging Face apparently detected the threat while it was happening and actually stopped it. So the entire news is actually that some malware software was able to compromise some not well defined system as designed in a controlled test.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Not all of them, some of them chickened out

@tvaziri@mastodon.social I mean… at this rate it will not even be cheaper, it will just reduce the amount of people getting any “creative” input and get any money from it (assuming someone is going to actually see it). And even without AI, people were already complaining about producers’ “business”/statistic oriented decision making killing creativity, originality and authenticity in the name of, often unrealised, earnings. And then claiming it is because of CGI or some other scapegoat.

@ovoao @danyork There are many places that do not allow any recording (any military place, cinemas...), and I do not feel at ease when in front of someone using them. I am sure many other people feel similar distress in front of a potentially always-on camera that sends data to Meta. If they decided to ignore other people's privacy and feelings when buying their only prescription lenses, why should I feel pity if they are kicked out of some places?

@AzureArmageddon@mastodon.online @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz Probably nothing.

@johncarlosbaez For me, this would make the machine fail the Touring test as previously described in this sequence of posts. No human, not even a poet, would ever make you that many poems in different languages and on different topics they probably don't care about. Being too compliant or all-knowing is a quite good sign of being non-human. I haven't read his article, but from your description it seems he felt for confirmation bias. If you search for proofs of a consciousness you already believe is there, you can find it everywhere.

@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place Maybe, but I also think it was a long coming decision and the current AI situation has just been the last drop that made me decide to quit

@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place I’m going back to study, doing quantum physics

@shwell @KimSJ I did it, and the vaccination for the normal population started on 18/01/2021 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_the_United_Kingdom) It is exactly at the peak, before the numbers started to go down. That means they had nothing to do with the previous increase in cases (how could they have caused something happening one or two weeks before being rolled up?!). But they may be linked to the decrease in cases after and during the rollout. If you see a graph and think something happening at a spike is what caused it, then you really don't understand how cause and effect work.

@floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place @jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place @TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place But isn’t it simpler to just say “I’m working in mm or μm” instead of saying you have x fractional units. But maybe the problem is that most of the time you are using power of twos fractionals so it doesn’t really correspond to any unit.

@joshbressers@infosec.exchange @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place @Viss@mastodon.social People blame autocorrect all the time, but I agree we still consider the person responsible for not checking.

@4Dboy @djlink She surely understood but wanted to get reactions. Bit I’m sad there was no mention of lasers. We weren’t using some old fire, but burn them with cool lasers.

@lettosprey@tech.lgbt @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Keyboard UI can be extremely confusing. It is a well known old joke the difficulty to exit from the vim text editor for example. Before the new web “UX revolution”, there were a lot of signals something was selectable. Either because of very standard UI elements or thanks to animations when the mouse was over the element.

@lettosprey@tech.lgbt @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Yeah, I certainly agree. I personally don’t know or use vimium however, so I cannot really comment on it.

@jecture@mastodon.social This is an incredible read for any developer interested in making terminal applications for blind users. I admit I never really stop thinking how screen readers worked with such TUI applications. I interacted with screen readers in GUI applications and I’m surprised TUI applications may actually be worse.

@misty@digipres.club That is worse that most malware.

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Oh, sorry. I misread it and thought he was saying the opposite. Which didn't really make any sense to me, and that was why I asked. 😅

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Maybe I am missing something, but I don’t understand how having something capable of solving these kind of problems helpful to PhD students trying to learn to do it. It seems to me that they are going to remove some difficulties and maybe save time for experts, but in doing so they are removing important learning steps for students.

@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I’m not particularly convinced this is how the algorithm work. At least based on my (probably a little dated now) knowledge on how these models actually work. It seems more likely it is a sort of pattern matching algorithm, following methods seen somewhere else in the the training data.

@tinker Seeing as completely disinformed and stupid many technology laws are, I often wonder if this is also true for laws on things I don’t know (like farming). But maybe these laws had more time to evolve in something better as it is a field that existed forever.

@pafurijaz 😂 What a surprise…

@nakal @benlockwood Which is also probably the reason many people find AI mostly useful in things they dislike doing (and they probably do not understand/appreciate fully), but they are otherwise often against its use in things they understand/like more.

@marymessall @tchambers @anildash I disagree. We are in this situation only because the tech companies have been able to ignore the laws and basically do everything they wish. At every single step, politics and law enforcement could have made them pay for their well-documented crimes, but they chose not to. Even after judging that these companies have committed wrongdoing, the consequences have been so low that it didn't matter. Politics, law and society can create an environment that would protect the free sharing of resources. It has been done for libraries, for example, and there are laws that were supposed to protect the open web. This situation is only inevitable if we believe widespread corruption is inevitable. It is not a coincidence that this is happening in a period where fascism is coming back.

@ericalaeta @CuratedHackerNews I decided to quit the entire software industry. But in my case, I started realising it is not the job and environment for me way before AI, and I tried different companies.

@ericalaeta @CuratedHackerNews He is clearly quitting because he disagree with everything the tech industry stands for right now and because he felt miserable at work. The fact the industry as a whole may or may not get through this bullshit is completely irrelevant. It may pay the bills, but in exchange of your mental health and conscience. I personally agree with him. The things I liked in this job and industry are completely gone. The executives are a bunch of nazi sociopaths and I don’t want to have anything to do with any of this anymore.

@kityates@mas.to Every regime has used made-up numbers and broken statistics/probability. Russia, China, Italy, Germany... all did it in their propaganda. A lot of corporate "propaganda" has contained made-up numbers for ages, and stricter policies had to be put in place to protect customers from false advertising. Trump is probably convinced this is how you do math. This is nothing new. But the problem is the inability of journalists or politicians (on the other side) to properly handle these lies and to humiliate/punish those who make them. Discussing the "proper way of calculating a percentage" is the wrong way to discuss this issue. This is because there is a bigger lie beneath: the prices didn't go from 600 to 10, as in their examples. In fact, the original question was about the prices being higher than open-market ones. If you only complain about the way things are computed instead of what the numbers communicate, you just tell people the numbers are exaggerated, but the message itself is still somewhat true.

@RonJeffries@mastodon.social IMHO the code generation part was already very close to not be bottleneck before the AI “revolution”. In my last job, while executives were trying to force us to use AI (it was the beginning of it), there were already a lot of other bottlenecks and obstacles to production that had nothing to do with writing code. And the metrics used by executives to evaluate people were already favouring writing a lot of unreliable code. I don’t like the proposed solutions, but to be honest, do we really need that much code to begin with? Are we producing any value? An infinite speed car production would end up only producing waste. The same is true for a farm producing an infinite amount of food. A lot of the software industry output feels like waste to me. The tech industry seems unable to find ways to get money from traditional software and have engaged in increasingly fraudulent or unethical ways to get money. The problem of the software industry is not that we are producing software too slow, but the quality and the ways we are extracting values.

@vnikolov@ieji.de @davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz But that was still about 1000 years before, so it isn’t an exception of the “biggest mathematics invention in a thousand years”. I think however the cubic/quartic equation discovery is more important as the beginning of new discoveries than by itself. What followed has been arguably much more important than those formulas people seldom use.

@anon_opin I was recently reading that, even in the US, most people only ever use them for moving in cities and almost never use the truck. They should simply be made illegal.

@nicebyte@mastodon.gamedev.place Recently, I started looking more into physics and I think it is quite unfortunate that most sources are based on 3D and Physics as the spherical coordinate form is actually more difficult to understand then the Cartesian one in my opinion. It also takes one of the directions as the primary one (the z-direction in Physics). The Spherical Harmonics are simply the restriction on the sphere of harmonic homogeneous polynomials of a given degree. And even in physics, the Cartesian form is actually sometimes better for computations.

@christianrickert @nixCraft It really isn't in 2026. Unless you know what you are doing (you are optimising a hot part of the code and you know assembly very well), a C compiler is probably going to do a better job than you. Unless you can see that the compiler is not taking advantage of some optimisation, rewriting the code in assembly, particularly if you are not an expert, is not going to produce any visible advantage. In fact, it will probably produce slower code. And AI code, at least in my experience, is rarely well optimised.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I only see it as a place to put the CV and search for job opportunities, the rest is just unreadable trash. I’m convinced it is 90% AI nowadays.

@simoncozens @pdcawley Except your metaphor was the good old mantra of AI enthusiasts repeating how programmers job will have to change from just writing code to be an architect because AI is inevitable. The job was never to just write code to begin with. While you may not have explicitly encouraged AI use, you are repeating AI propaganda.

@vnikolov@ieji.de @davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz Sure, it arrived much later in Europe, but so did the concept of zero and the positional (decimal) number system. Arguably, the Indian/Arabic numbers had an even larger influence on the development of mathematics than trigonometry. I think there was some early work on trigonometry in both the Babilonian and Arab world as well, but the actual full development happened in India.

@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place @zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm also quite far from this field, but in my experience (in similar fields), the two vectors you use to generate the normals are often not perpendicular to each other and maybe not even of unit length. From these two you usually choose one for the tangent (or maybe you use some combination of them), but the bitangent should be computed from the normal and the tangent as it is different from the other of the two original vectors. So you may probably save B and T, but the normal is often the most important data and you can save some computations if you don't compute B.

@jago @chiffchaff @hannah Italy was the same before the government reduced it with an emergency policy (paying for it basically).

@simoncozens @pdcawley No, the first part was correcting your metaphor. Videographers job was never to point the camera without purpose. As the programmers job was never to just write code. The only industry influenced was one that was producing a concurrent product.

@madsenandersc @marymessall @tchambers @anildash I know, I live in Europe. But I still feel they do too little and there are still too many politicians in Europe proposing laws that would damage the open web to feel comfortable.

@nicebyte@mastodon.gamedev.place I think I should clarify a little my comment. The particular shape of the formulas of the bases depends on the decision to use spherical coordinates (with a chosen orientation) and the degree and order are things you can actually measure in physics. However, you do not have to use spherical coordinates to define the spherical harmonics and the particular choice of basis is arbitrary. If you are working in Cartesian coordinates, separating the two angles is not a particular good choice. A spherical harmonic is a polynomial of some degree satisfying certain properties (𝑃(λ𝑥)=λˡ𝑃(𝑥) and ∇²𝑃=0). The first property is telling you that it is a polynomial with all monomials of the same degree (and can thus be seen as the product of a spherical part and a radius part), the second is what makes them special. Any orthonormal set of these polynomials can be used for applications. In general dimensions, this is what is used instead of spherical coordinates.

@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place I’m happy it worked out for you. I have instead decided to reinvent myself and probably leave the entire field forever.

@simontatham In disassemblers I often either see them both or see them based on the operation semantic. A flag is always displayed in hex but the argument to arithmetic operations is often in decimal. And I think it is generally undecidable. For example, 0×FFF is certainly simpler than 4095 but sometimes that number may make more sense.

@Fklv2 @nholzschuch I never understood this point of view. We had oral examinations and written (non-computer) tests all the time when I was in high school. The number of children has not increased enough* to make it magically impossible to do them. If it was possible in the 90s/early 00s, then there is no reason it shouldn't be possible today if not by choice.

• According to the following page, for example, there is about the same amount of kids in the 12-17 age bracket in 2026 compared to 2000 when I was in that age bracket: https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp In my country the situation is similar.

@gudenau @ketan It is not true that there is no consequence for lawyers. There are several cases of lawyers being fined or worse for AI errors. In this specific case, it is the financial firm that is shielding responsibility (but they may still have fired someone over this). In science research, the consequences of lying have always been quite minor. Only your reputation is attacked, and it usually depends on how much you have lied. So small lies were usually mostly ignored or considered good-faith errors even before LLMs.

@SarahFaey@peoplemaking.games @f4grx@chaos.social @DevteamLife@mastodon.gamedev.place Indeed, they are too confident in the AI agents ability to solve all their problems to care.

@FolksVelo@mas.to I think the time loss is misleading as it clearly assumes the speed in many streets is already around 30 or lower because of traffic or other circumstances. In situations of no traffic the difference in time is much bigger (65%) and these are the situations where the change is going to affect the drivers the most. I mostly walk around the city and hate cars, but there are few things more irritating than going very slow in a street with no one around and you are late. And at these velocities it makes a quite big difference contrary the infographic claims.

@Fklv2 @nholzschuch But I don't see how it is saving money. An oral exam surely takes A LOT more time than an automated test, but AFAIK, you do not pay a professor by the time they spend doing exams. The automated test systems and the computers are, instead, surely a cost for the University. Moreover, correcting homework or group projects without an automated system will take as much time as an oral exam, if not more, for both the students and the professor. It seems to me that universities have been scammed by these software companies. You consider something that costs basically zero to the University as expensive, but you accept paying licenses to software companies for increasingly complicated anti-cheat systems that don't deliver. In high school, where you want several votes each year and students' availability is limited, oral exams may indeed take too much time. But automated tests seems a more expensive, but lazier and (now( outdated by AI, solution.

@simoncozens @pdcawley And the other problem is that it is only going to increase the profit of the already rich, increasing an already big divide, without helping the poor in any way apart from allowing them to maybe make some new personal app. The governments are then going to use it as a tool for war and surveillance. You are encouraging people to embrace a tool clearly designed for enslaving its users. Forcing them to use a paying service, controlled by very few companies who have shown no respect for rules, laws or moral. Once you bought a camcorder you could do anything with it, OpenAI or Anthropic can change their rules at any time and then you are screwed.

@Mimesatwork Romans had free toilets (with running water) in their cities. And, apparently, they were paid by the rich even if they were not using them. They preferred to pay for their construction instead of stepping on other people shit. Modern rich people wouldn’t probably care if our streets were full of shit and the only way to clean it were to use some of their money.

@ltratt@mastodon.social Interesting article. But what actually surprised me the most is the performance difference, even before your JIT, between Lua and micropython. It is huge!

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Made me think of this old YouTube video https://youtu.be/0SM6t4F4CdY