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David Curran retweeted
Best anecdote in Carol Thatcher's book about her father is when Sir Denis boarded a train at Paddington in which the only empty compartment was reserved for Rosewood Psychiatric Hospital.
Denis travelled alone and in comfort as far as Reading when "all these chaps piled in", accompanied by a male nurse, who counted them before the train moved off.
'One, two, three, four ... who are you?"
"I'm the Prime Minister's husband."
"Six, seven, eight, nine..."
David Curran retweeted
Today: Bodhana… an International Master of Chess at the age of 11…What a sensational player @TangramTx $XBI
David Curran retweeted
The only way out is through.
They're calling it the Bugpocalypse. LLMs are being used to find long-hidden cracks in the software infrastructure, and it's happening at a furious rate. 3% of all compromises in computing history happened in the last week, claims one source? I believe it.
There are people saying public access to the frontier models ought to be locked out, or heavily guardrailed, over this. The problem with that idea can be summed up in one sentence: when lockpicks are outlawed, only outlaws will have lockpicks.
The lockpicks will be Chinese open-weight models, if nothing else. There's no way to stop those from becoming ubiquitous.
There are two futures in front of us. One in which only the bad guys have lockpicks, and security holes go undiscovered until they're exploited. Another in which everybody has lockpicks and is aggressively red-teaming their own software so it gets fixed before the holes are exploited.
The corpus of human code is huge but finite. The number of defects in it has to be finite too. We can fix those defects now; we have a million friendly robots to do it with.
The only way out is through.
David Curran retweeted
Kudos to Melania. Peace for our time. She did it, guys.
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So 3c out of a €7 pint of Guinness goes to the grower of the base material used to produce that pint.
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Numbers that can be written in 5 ways as a sum of two (not necessarily
positive) coprime cubes. 2 were known I've found 9 more.
This is this sequence oeis.org/A047697
and here's another 5 way example.
If you've some spare GPU time and want to help find the first six ways case let me know?
David Curran retweeted
Claims:
Game detects “ad whales,” then periodically gives them smooth runs until they barely beat their high scores. Right at that point, it kills them deliberately and offers a revive if they watch an ad.
$100 million annually in revenue. Hellish.
If you take the industrial revolution as a take off event. It *200 growth rates. An equivalent set of requirements would seem to be
1. Each person uses less energy
2. There are less people
3. Each generation of tools is more accurate
4. People take less time to train
Ben Horowitz on what it would take to actually see an AI "fast takeoff" scenario, using a framework from Databricks CEO @alighodsi:
1. Each new model needs far fewer GPUs than the last
2. Each new model takes less time to train
3. Each new model is more accurate than the last
4. It keeps happening, again and again
"Zero of those four have been met... We're really talking about a risk that's entirely theoretical at this point."
@bhorowitz on @theallinpod
Only one of these happened with the industrial revolution. And it is happening this time. Tools did get better but also '3. Each new model is more accurate than the last'
David Curran retweeted
Come inside TOG! 🛠️
Tríona takes us around our volunteer-run hackerspace in Dublin 12. Electronics, 3D printing, woodworking, craft, amateur radio and plenty more.
Have a look around:
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