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swe-ing in defense tech · palo alto | cs + stats @UWMadison

[Shyan Koul @shyankoul]

If PE was a serious asset class they would've bought brandy melville the second ozempic got fda approved

[AG @hissingchoir]

it’s called “life.” You walk to the store. Maybe you see someone you know on the way. You find a dollar on the ground. The sun shines on your face. You are participating in the world.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

So far my main takeaway from the Napoleon biography is a growing conviction that our current social model of keeping kids from any moral or legal responsibility for anything until 18 at a minimum is a huge historical aberration that's actually driving society insane

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@simonsarris @e_cdalton why anti stevia? genuinely curious and then are you just pro pure sugar?

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@simonsarris Did you read Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King? Great book

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@VijaiRangan @timourxyz So what wearable is this connected to?

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@bernhard_me @_philschmid @googlehealth This API doesn’t really expose second to second data though right? Moreso just the summary stuff mostly already available on the app?

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@timourxyz Pretty sure there are some sort of Fitbit APIs or something like that which can give pretty good minute by minute data

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@acidmetaldevil Extended time in heart rate zone 1

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Where is I 🤍 Logs

[critter @BecomingCritter]

why is the communist manifesto taught so often in higher education?

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@willdepue Do you do this by yourself? Best way to find a group to go with?

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Personal politics and the kind of weird edit itself aside, the GOP running Vance over Rubio would be a major mistake and I think that’s pretty clear

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@orphcorp https://t.co/IlyOJKCKzh

[@amuse @amuse]

https://t.co/fwZ3Daqda7

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@VirtualElena whats the best way to get started finding things like this

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@JosephEarlyo @AJRuecker @JohnTitor137 Yeah that’s the whole point. A constant awareness that you are creating technology that could potentially be used for lots of harm

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@otherside_X42 @djcows look it up its pretty cool. one of the good "scientific" applications of AI. granted its not exactly a chatbot application, but I think people need to learn "AI" does not just mean "chatbot"

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@otherside_X42 @djcows have you heard of AlphaFold

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@clockstiqqun just to inform, this is a summary of the points of Alex Karp's book, not something random they decided to tweet out. Alex Karp is good friends with Thiel

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@Evanzsolomon @noise_xyz

[Blake Dodge @dodgeblake]

Palantir recently became the military's primary software system for "targeting," and increasingly other aspects of the fight.

Since the scary "targeting" OS used scary "AI," we were never going to have a sane conversation about how this works.

This story is my best shot at a sane conversation about how this works.

First of all, "targeting" isn't shooting.

"Targeting" is the exhaustive, bureaucratic process by which we plan, execute, and *assess* shooting.

How our planes will get the right munitions. Where they’ll refuel. Cloud coverage. The literal illumination of the moon. Matters of physics. Matters of contingency: the AC-130 gunship needs to be in an overwatch position before the ground assault can happen, but the gunship can’t move into place until the air defenses have been taken out. A “scheme of maneuvers” is determined. Only then does the strike proceed.

^That is only a small snippet of the "targeting" process, btw.

As of the start of the conflict with Iran this year, "targeting" was still heavily manual. The glue between disparate processes, even if they featured automation, was: PowerPoint, email, chat, and Excel files. Target lists were relayed in spreadsheets. Sequenced maneuvers sat in Gantt charts in PowerPoint.

That bottleneck deepened a relationship with Palantir that started decades ago. Now, hundreds of AI agents in the "Maven" software system do stuff like: make sure there's nothing in the military's historical intelligence that might disqualify a target before a strike.

Sources believe AI could've prevented the U.S. strike on a school in Iran, which killed more than 100 children, as it was based on "outdated data."

Palantir has been called a lot of things. Evil, dystopian.

I've been a tech reporter for almost 10 years, and among my travels, nothing is more dystopian than dysfunctional, manual tech. It literally makes people want to die. It literally causes death. The Pentagon has wanted war AI since Vietnam, for good reason.

This is the definitive story of how Palantir built it.

https://t.co/dO3cQi7Gdm