varx/social

@cwebber@social.coop "We decided to scoop the researchers before they could publish" probably doesn't sounds as exculpatory as OpenAI is hoping.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems This one threw me recently. Biologists sure get up to some stuff, huh.

@BlindHedgehogStew@mastodon.stickbear.me Hi, please don't post unsolicited AI output, that's very rude.

2010: Whee, I'm a software engineer! 2015: Hmm, can I really claim "engineer"? We're not *that* rigorous. 2020: Actually, yeah! Some of this really is engineering! 2026: Never mind. We're a bunch of fucking clowns.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Yeah, the deletionists are out of control. (Always have been, tbh.)

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I mean in practice it mostly sounds exhausting. But I like the idea that I *could*.

@futzle@old.mermaid.town Didn't know about it by name, but yeah... wild stuff.

@autolycos@beige.party @mcnado@mstdn.social Oof. Loudest thing I've ever heard was a bike tire exploding in a basement (concrete floor) a few feet from my ear. Got the "bang" and then complete deafness. Then the whine of my hearing slowly returning, which took about a minute. My hearing hasn't been quite the same since. Can't imagine something loud enough to take tens of minutes for hearing to return properly...

@xgranade I've been pondering whether I should create a website that allows local restaurants to have a simple-ass web page for free. (Name, description, phone, address, and optionally hours and menus and other things that change frequently.) It wouldn't be particularly hard to do, and it could be a mostly-static site so hosting costs would be minimal. Most of the work would be verifying new pages (i.e. going out to visit the restaurant and make sure they exist and aren't GrubHub being a MITM).

@rayotron@mstdn.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Honestly, that's so brave of you.

@EricIndiana@mastodon.social Gives tesselation vibes. :-)

@vfrmedia @prw @Aleums Reckon there should at least still be some decent hardpoints to mount ropes to.

@drwho @globalmuseum I saw some comments pointing out how the turtle doesn't close its mouth afterwards, and maybe has had a broken jaw. I have no idea, but yeah, that could explain some things. (Unlike those commenters, I don't blame the people on the boat for not doing more. Pulling that turtle up would be a non-trivial task, and they may not have realized the full situation at the moment.)

@cmconseils I don't think that's right but I'm not smart so I'll have to take your word for it.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @BenjaminHCCarr They also describe this occurring in near-starvation circumstances (no sucrose), but I suppose they could be incorrectly discounting the fungus' ability to break down the agar for energy. I'm curious, what would you need to see to find such an experiment compelling? (Absent the discovery of specific biochemical pathways for harvesting the energy.)

@aparrish you can just make up a type of guy

@aparrish @nelson A lot of programmers don't seem to understand that security is the *absence* of a feature. Sure, features can sometimes be verified by looking at a program's behavior. But you can't use that to show that a feature is missing. The should-be-missing feature might be something like "Eve can read Alice's messages to Bob". If vibe coders are only checking for the presence of features, then can never detect the "presence" of security.

@jp Do they have to be operational? :-) Anyway, I'm noticing a suspicious bump around 8. The octopi have infiltrated fedi.

@futurebird@sauropods.win @byakushin@mementomori.social We have a binocular dissecting scope at home and it's pretty reasonable for bugs. The mag is only 1.7-3.4x (total) but it's great to have room to manipulate samples by hand above the stage. We got it from a bio dept that was replacing all their scopes with fancy new ones. This one is many decades old, cast iron. It doesn't even have a lamp — there's a mirror for backlighting. :-)

@redsad@ohai.social pretty sure that it's called "favestarring" anyhow

@ai6yr Will DM with plausible info I found on the web.

@monkeyborg @anne_twain @sashin Also, you can look at the other articles that the "author" wrote: https://biolecta.com/authors/prof.-linda-tran/

• "Diverse Adaptations of Land and Sea Animals"
• "Mathematics in Programming: Essential Insights"
• "Understanding Dark Matter: A Deep Dive"

Unlikely that this is all one, real person.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird I suspect it strongly depends on what the actual ground-truth situation is, here. Like, if the fungi actually can fully independently derive energy from ionizing radiation, and that allows them to eat carbon sources that are otherwise metabolically unfavorable — I feel like that's something you could test. But if there's actually an interaction with a food source/pathway, that would be pretty hard to untangle. So it seems hard to know how hard this would be, up front.

@firephoto I always plant seeds sideways because I get nervous about this.

@mayorbeetles Always blows my mind when people say that sort of thing about a social species. The whole point of culture is that it's not in your genes (for better or worse).

@aparrish SHITE i BRATS 😆

@janeishly ...OK, after poking at it for a bit, my conclusion is that it is several switch statements in a trenchcoat, not "AI" of any sort.

@aparrish @nelson It turns out that if you want to establish that a piece of software is secure, you're going to have to understand it. That's why we're seeing such basic vulnerabilities in slopware.

@riverpunk @n_dimension @kate They're doin' a silly.

@emily_s@mastodon.me.uk I can't see the middle as anything other than an open penguin mouth, e.g. https://www.penguinsinternational.org/what-lies-inside-the-penguins-mouth/

@aphyr@woof.group Suspect this is the beginning of a villain arc.

@hazelton@sparkgap.marsfreeradio.org I'm no electrician but I know chonk when I see it.

@aparrish@friend.camp What's the enticement to pay for the GPL alternative? I feel like it's not common to write code that links against an add-on.

@crazyeddie @drwho @globalmuseum Well, I believe them that it came up to the boat, and they only started filming after. I don't think this is a case of people abusing an animal and staging a "rescue" for views—how would that even work? As someone noted here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLU3CvNuC6d/ -- the boat crew may not have actually had any way of bringing the turtle to a specialist.

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @MichaelPorter@ottawa.place Shit, that's big news! I'd love to make me some ferrofluid. Got a favorite recipe? Also, I'm interested in keeping and playing with it in a well-sealed container, but I'm not sure how dirty the walls will get (and impede visibility).

@NanoRaptor Fabulous! Now I can tell off the people who have been trying to get me to put my faith in it. 100%, high confidence. Wow.

@niq unbelievably menacing aura

@ai6yr Are you looking for an acquaintance/introduction specifically, or just any contact information?

@NanoRaptor I've heard that Pangram is far more reliable than most such detectors... but I'm skeptical. However, if you're throwing some text at a bunch of detectors, that would be a good one to include.

@Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz A lot of these don't work too well on my laptop because the vertical viewing angle is shit. :-P Might play around with this with different colors. (Not the existing tool, but variations on the image you posted.)

@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social @_thegeoff@mastodon.social @simonbp@social.linux.pizza Planets: Threat, or Menace?

@gsuberland@chaos.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I got 0.0031 but I definitely learned some things about this 15 year old laptop screen in the process. I should probably try again. :-P

@glyph Right, but if you're saying "this can't happen" you should be sure you're being creative enough in your imaginings. :-) (Again, I don't think this is a likely scenario. But it is one that violates your assumption about hardware.)

@warandpeas@mastodon.social In this case, *definitely* the all-in-one, because it seems you've accidentally reversed the first two images in the split-out version. :-) (But yeah, I also generally prefer all-in-one. I'm a sighted user on a laptop and this is closest to how I read comics normally.)

@ktims@nonexistent.ca @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt holy shit I actually do, don't I... I think my oldest domain is drinking age in the US now. (My first web dev experience was in 1996 but I didn't get my own domain until much later.)

@glyph This *strongly* depends on what you mean by "singularity". I think you're conflating that with "hard takeoff paperclips scenario" or something. I can just barely (barely!) imagine a future where someone manages to use AI to get a more efficient form of AI, which would allow further bootstrapping without requiring more hardware. Same hardware gets more compute. You're spot-on about the supply chain limitations, though. Good luck to the AI that wants to dig up more cobalt or whatever.