swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

As long as line go up then everything is going ok ☺️/s

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Saw a video talking about Google officially releasing “nano banana pro” which i regret to inform you is a real product and that the video was not a shitpost.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We should transition to NIMH technology. As in, let’s experiment on some rats to make them superintelligent and get them to solve all our problems.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Glad I clicked the link, I was pretty sure hj meant handjob.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

noted! The dub was so bad i didn’t even think about whether or not it was autodubbed. Fortunately, through the combination of my rapidly fading japanese language skills, experience in code switching between english and other languages, and the spirit of aku-soku-zan, I managed to understand a lot of it beyond the premise itself.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

NAS: Found out just now that Simone Veil’s pictures for sad children is back online, and has been for a while now. Her art meant a lot to me when I was reading it. Just letting you all know in case it meant something to you too.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The dub on that video is truly something, lmao. I counter with this:

毎日牙突、どれの式、ラララ〜

(to the tune of the mameshiba jingle)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (10 children)

second take from me. Here's the full tweet:

one of Earth's top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work, open for all to read in a widely read venue on that science topic, where it will receive far more peer scrutiny than any lesser forum provides

I'm going to read this as a joke because he didn't end it with a period, and he is secretly beefing with aella

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, fair. Wasn't so much sneering at the idea of data storage, but the "data lakehouse" jumped out at me as a possible fun term to bring up.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

I’m pretty sure a data lakehouse is a database where if you insert data in it, it only appears two years later/earlier, and if you try to read from it, all the entries come from two years in the future/past. It’s very prone to predestination issues but can help with finding love

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

yeah and I’m a brain surgeon because sometimes when I pick my nose I go a little too deep

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i hear sodium batteries are emerging as an alternative to lithium, but note that I also don’t know shit about this domain

 

No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

 

Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

 

original link

“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

 

Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

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Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

 

This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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