mastodon 4.7.3I like edge computing and long walks away from cloud billing.
"It's different with AI."
Specifically, transformer and diffuser NN architectures + Moore's law. Marvin Minsky's "AI" never got off the ground. LSTM architectures aren't decoder-only, but apparently if you scale them up to the param counts of currently successful GPT-architecture models like llama, they start talking like llama too.
Oh no. Connor Leahy got a haircut.
The Moment that Reset Robotics [VLA]
https://youtu.be/2mrGMMmrVNE
NotebookLM generated two very different cartoon selfies of Stenberg for these infographics about the same topic.
"The first big leap in corporate personhood from mere property rights to more expansive rights was a claim that the Equal Protection Clause applied to corporations."
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/history-corporate-personhood
A lawyer who helped draft the 14th amendment (the one ratified right after the Civil War) was later hired by a train megacorp to help them bore a path through interstate red tape by fabricating private journals supposedly containing convenient discourse and debates from his government job.
First day with an SO-101. I think I'm gonna try to train it to handle magnetic tape cartridges without needing precisely machined (and expensive) archive bot assemblies that fill up a whole room.
It's a very fitting complement to what the original has become (a sort of Big Lebowski, Children of Men genre-breaker thing that audiences slowly realized was a lot deeper than its immediate neighbors).
Rage virus hits the UK 10 yrs before the in-universe public would have found out about the IRL Jimmy. So, the psychotic postapocalypse guy choosing to style his cult after Savile becomes a borderline supernatural link.
Casting master thesbian Feinnes to do vague apologia is Garland being meta 😋
A trip down memory lane.
Feb. 2023: "'This is the moment I've been training for,' said the pun-generating AI"
https://paulcalhoun.substack.com/p/this-is-the-moment-ive-been-training
Examples:
- "The story of a boy who was born with one eye in the wrong place was told from an unexpected angle."
- "If you get distracted while sanding, you'll soon be in the red."
- "An elephant's opinion carries a lot of weight."
- "Two electricians had such different tastes, they went to a waffle outlet for a discussion."
(Not top-knotch, but a good pun is its own reword.)
"...broadcast its destination signal as “CHINA OWNER_ALL CREW” as it traversed the chokepoint."
https://gcaptain.com/second-bulk-carrier-claiming-to-be-chinese-passes-through-hormuz/
"A shipping source familiar with the matter said that according to tracking data, many ships were turning their AIS ship tracking transponders off before crossing the strait, which included Dynacom vessels."
Reminds me of that one scene in Lord of War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwpytWlJTxQ
There it is. My first solar repeater.
HUNC.
The comments.
Claude Code just text-completed "FUCK" after an unfortunate response from a tool call. So that's where we're at.
ChatGPT 5.3:
💪 The “chad Neville” thing (movies vs books)
This is where your memory is mixing two things:
In the books:
He becomes tougher, more confident, battle-worn
But not described as some giga-chad warrior physique
In the movies:
Matthew Lewis undergoes one of the most famous glow-ups ever
By the last film he genuinely looks like:
- a soldier
- a resistance fighter
- borderline “British infantry lad”
"Building a foundation model for robots means training a general AI on massive, diverse data from many robots (and even humans) so it can learn general skills instead of being programmed for specific tasks. As explained by Sergey Levine, the goal is to help robots generalize and adapt to new, unpredictable situations—much like how ChatGPT learned language from broad internet data."
“We are grateful for what Les and Abigail (Wexner’s wife) have done. We are, of course, watching carefully the news events that are playing out,” Bellamkonda said. “At this point, I have no reason to act and in any precipitous manner.”
"Hannibal Lecter has made meaningful contributions to the culinary arts community," Bellamkonda continued. "We are following the investigations carefully, though I would caution against reacting emotionally to isolated allegations."
"We find a small adverse effect of competition on moral behavior in a meta-analysis involving 18,123 experimental participants. Importantly, however, the variation in effect size estimates across the 45 designs is substantially larger than the variation expected due to sampling errors. This “design heterogeneity” highlights that the generalizability and informativeness of individual experimental designs are limited."
