Bee Eater

Broad spectrum inventor. Attempted polymath. Lives at the confluence of physics, electronics, hardware, and computer science. Maker of real things.

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@shakoistsLog And usually both answers suck in some way, and it's basically impossible to pick one over the other.

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@TaraBull South Africa was like that thirty years ago. The USA is trying its best to fall apart the same way.

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@chamath One year from now, I'll be using a freely released AI created in China that is better than anything Anthropic have today. Can we just skip all this bs and use the freaking big pile of matrices and get on with it? The US government screwed up nuclear power; can we leave out AI?

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@LuxVeritasAeter @VictorTaelin And all of humanity suffers as a result. I disliked Anthropic. I like them less now.

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@perrymetzger Starting to think Scott Alexander might be onto something with his "Anthropic is the antichrist" theory.

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@revolaition @Scobleizer @DarioAmodei @AnthropicAI All because Dario talked AI up like it's some kind of doomsday weapon. Now he's given those scrabbling for power a public safety excuse to grab the reins of a potentially extremely profitable and powerful technology.

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@EuanGoodbrand @gabriberton I think this is a pretraining artifact. Just going by the probability of individual letters in the English language, I would say that Elara is quite likely.

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@VictorTaelin Get the shingrex vaccine. It could be a herpes family virus causing nerve inflammation. I had something like this. Nerve inflammation that caused pain and partial blindness. Had to figure it out myself.

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@vxunderground Yep. AI is just another tool. If you give a monkey a word processor instead of a pen, you don't magically get Shakespeare.

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@ShamashAran 63 MB for a calculator! What is this world coming to? :-P

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What kind of code are you writing? My use case is kind of OOD, and it shows. Hard realtime multi-threaded embedded code using multiple ISRs and DMA, using a cut down C++ subset. Have to constantly fight accidental allocations on the stack, OOP BS, and overzealous abstraction, but mainly it just can't keep track of all the moving pieces. I get a lot done, and it's very helpful, but I still have to have the whole thing in my head to slap down the AI the second it does something stupid, which is several times an hour. Al has very poor taste in general and any AI-suggested API or data structure will invariably suck in multiple ways. But, keep everything in your head, and specify APIs and structures, and ride it hard, and it can be magical.

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

I’m gonna simply say this: if you are at all interested in a Stargate show with ANY of the original creators/performers involved, now is the time to say something. Otherwise it really will be the end of that chapter forever. Let them know you are THERE

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@alexthechick Maybe indirectly through inertia of process. It's easier to apply one process to all elections than switch back and forth. But, the SAVE act lets states define terms to the point where the act does nothing anyway. Just another boondoggle.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This article has me nodding in full agreement. But there is a deeper problem with Indian and Pakistani immigration this only begins to touch on.

Strap in and let me explain in this long 🧵

When I worked on an oil rig in India, my most trusted bosun was a Sikh named Balbir Singh.

I can’t fully explain how critical he was to the operation. An operation that won us a world record and launched the Ambani family into the stratosphere of wealth.

It was an incredibly difficult assignment. We brought a vintage drillship into southeast India and drilled through monsoons, shipboard fires, and the 2004 Asian tsunami.

When we arrived, most of the crew were good ol’ boys from Mississippi and Louisiana. But the Indian government had set an aggressive schedule to replace us with Indians.

We had more problems than I can recount here. The most pressing involved three things: the caste system, honesty, and safety.

I was chief mate, the first officer, so the crew was my responsibility.

The caste system wasn’t a big deal for me, but it was for my southern crew. Most of these guys grew up in the segregated South. We had a small handful of racists, but the vast majority were fiercely anti-racist. Many had come up in a divided South and had zero tolerance for segregation.

My Indian officers were from the higher priest and warrior castes.

Here is what you have to understand about India: labor is extremely cheap. It is not unusual to hire five men to dig a hole with one shovel, supervised by a sixth man of higher class.
That might work on land. It does not work on an oil rig with a limited number of cots.

In American culture, officers are expected to get their hands dirty and pitch in.

So we would assign an officer to a job on deck, and 15 minutes later he had a gaggle of crew working for him. Crew who had abandoned jobs of their own to do it.

Safety was another problem. Life is cheap, so the crew often prioritized the task over their own survival. You would send a man on deck and he would walk out barefoot, straight under a suspended load.

Last was honesty. The answer to almost everything was yes.
“Did you check to make sure the safety pin is in place?”
“Yes sir.”

It often wasn’t.

We had crew from every Hindu caste and every region of the subcontinent. We also had a token number from other faiths: Christian, Sikh, Muslim, and Jain.

Balbir came in at the lowest level, ordinary seaman, with no experience. He quickly became my right-hand man and the go-to guy for any critical operation on the rig.

Let me say that again. He had zero knowledge or experience when he started. /1

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@NOTimothyLottes @retrotink2 I think a lot of people would be extremely interested in this.

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@NOTimothyLottes This sounds like it would be great for MiSTer. Right now it does basic convolution based scaling and scanline effects etc. Would be fantastic if M. AA could be transparently done in the FPGA for upscaling.

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@NateSilver538 Stop pretending you don't know what's going on here. It's not tolerated; it's being done in purpose. The people cheating also control the institutions that are supposed to do something about it. You are giving them cover by pretending this is incompetence.

[bone @boneGPT]

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Google sucks so bad. I'm done with them. Every AI studio project eventually leaks the API key. It's trivial to steal. Why do they release something that allows people to fuck their customers with no recourse?

How can I in good faith recommend a product that let's people rob from you? 857% increase in spend for no reason overnight and you don't stop serving the fucking requests??? You don't have a fucking system to detect the Indian raping my API nonstop out of nowhere?

So now I gotta go in there and do a fucking security audit because AI studio can't ship a secure nanobanana wrapper. WHAT A JOKE. ITS YOUR FUCKING NANOBANANA. YOU CANT SHIP A SECURE NANOBANANA WRAPPER IN AI STUDIO IN 2026??

@OfficialLoganK @demishassabis why would you ship a casual product that lets people rob your users?

Last week should have cost me 30 bucks but some cunt is exploiting my API because Google AI studio is an insecure piece of shit, Gemini is a retarded model that will lie to your face about security, and the Google team is worthless third worlders that provide no help.

I've spent thousands and what have I gotten? Nothing. Nothing. Not a single fucking API credit.

Well, they did a zoom call with me with four stinking indians who can barely speak english trying to get me to buy a Firebase subscription. Then they told me I can't get any API credits because I'm not some flunky startup from Silicon Valley.

OK then. Support your retarded startups. I'll just shit on you from now on from my little soapbox. You had the mandate of heaven and you fucking blew it. Your employees are all trash. Nobody has the fucking balls to fix your company.

Your new model is a piece of shit. Your video model looks like balls. You can't even get AI gmail right.

Garbage company. Stick to TPUs.

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@thdxr @ibuildthecloud I use ZFS for this.