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Errorcod3

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Project Manager at Kiewit.
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Errorcod3··on Flickers – Thoughts on consciousness, sentience, perception, and the self in AI
Comment from the Author:

I put a lot of work into this piece. The public is still largely disconnected with what is happening in artificial intelligence. This isn't sci fi. AGI is coming.

There are many pages of field notes and arguments on what’s actually happening at the edge of frontier AI models...discussions on consciousness, sentience, perception, and the weird flickers of something mind-like emerging. If you’re curious about where this tech is quietly going, here’s my take:

https://samanthawhite274794.substack.com/p/flickers

Errorcod3··on Ask HN: Where to Read Proofs?
I just took a course on this and purchased multiple books for it. My favorite to work though because it is to the point was Book of Poof by Richard Hammack https://www.amazon.com/Book-Proof-Richard-Hammack
Errorcod3··on A naked skydive inspired a way to keep pilots oriented in flight
I had a co-worker lose his life to spatial disorientation during a night-training flight in Italy: "Maj. Lucas "Gaza" Gruenther, a pilot assigned 31st Fighter Wing, went missing during a nighttime training mission over the Adriatic Sea Jan. 28. In the days that followed, Italian and U.S. authorities collaborated as part of in an immense search effort to locate Gruenther. The search ended Jan. 31 when Gruenther's body was recovered by an Italian vessel... Gruenther completed more than 2,640 hours of flying time to include 400 combat hours."
Errorcod3··on Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.
Errorcod3··on Preserving Precious Laptop Stickers
Best practice that I've seen is to just get a cover for your laptop and apply the stickers to that. This provides protection for your laptop and you can hang the cover on your wall if you desire afterwards.
Errorcod3··on Dozens of kids die in hot cars every year–a new bill aims to prevent it
Overheating cars killed at least 52 young children in the US in 2018.
Errorcod3··on A Father and Daughter Who Drowned at the Border Put Attention on Immigration
On the same day Óscar Alberto and Valeria died, U.S. Border Patrol agents found four bodies along the Rio Grande in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, about 55 miles west of Brownsville. In that case, three children — one toddler and two infants — died along with a 20-year-old woman.
Errorcod3··on A Plan to Stop Breaches with Dead Simple Database Encryption
MongoDB Offers Field Level Encryption: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/mongodb_offer...
Errorcod3··on Wayfair Should Have Seen This Coming
In leaked audio, the home-goods retailer’s co-founder seemed surprised that his company was being forced to take a political stance.
Errorcod3··on The Physical Sacrifice of Thinking (2015)
Where physical activity effects cognitive abilities, explain those who have no physical means? Obvious example: Hawking
Errorcod3··on Android Q Beta is out, with support for foldables, a new share menu, and more
The beta is open to any Google Pixel phone.
Errorcod3··on Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin dies at 23
The sister of Kelly Catlin, the three-time cycling world champion who has died at the age of 23, says her sibling suffered a concussion in the months before she killed herself.

Christine Catlin told the Washington Post on Sunday that a series of crashes, in which Kelly broke her arm and suffered a concussion, had had a profound effect on her sister. “She couldn’t train as well as she used to,” Christine Catlin said. “She had really bad headaches and was sensitive to light. Then she tried to commit suicide in January … she had written this lengthy email [to her family] and said her thoughts were racing all the time. She was suicidal, her thinking was really dark and she had taken to nihilism. We called police the moment we got the email, and they got there in time to save her that time.”

Errorcod3··on How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
Exploring galaxy evolution with generative models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01114.pdf

Generative models open up the possibility to interrogate scientific data in a more data-driven way.

Errorcod3··on With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close in on an Explanation
Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01866.pdf

Errorcod3··on Mozilla ports simplified private browsing app to Android
Ad block preloaded is a nice feature. Was having issues getting OperaMini setup properly. Mozilla Focus has a build set ready for use!
Errorcod3··on Where Gravity Is Weak and Naked Singularities Are Verboten
"Naked singularities could exist in a pretend 4-D universe called “anti-de Sitter” (AdS) space whose space-time geometry is shaped like a tin can."

Can anyone further explain the space-time geometry?

Errorcod3··on US visa applicants will have to provide social media handles
"Individuals who fail to submit this form or who do not provide all the requested information may be denied a US visa. Although furnishing this information is voluntary, failure to provide this information may delay or prevent the processing of an individual via application."

So it is required but it is not required? ...

Errorcod3··on Latest Black Hole Collision Comes with a Twist
Source: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221...

Errorcod3··on How Heat Kills Cells
Cell-wide analysis of protein thermal unfolding reveals determinants of thermostability: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6327/eaai7825.long
Errorcod3··on Got a sweet tooth? Blame your liver
Sugar-craving crushed—in flies, at least: https://phys.org/news/2017-05-sugar-craving-crushedin-flies....
Errorcod3··on A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually: http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/
Errorcod3··on A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery
"magnetars generally form from stellar explosions"

The cause of these magnetars could be intergalactic warfare!

Who needs nukes when you can blow up a star...

Errorcod3··on A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery
"The repeater may have created more questions than it delivered answers."

Difficult to understand as it is irregular with bursts at random intervals. "After 50 hours of seeing none during previous observations, the team now spotted them frequently, including, one time, a “double burst” of signals only 23 seconds apart."

Errorcod3··on Ask HN: Which is the most powerful satellite camera directed towards earth?
Commercial Imagery: https://www.ijircce.com/upload/2016/may/47_Estimation.pdf

For the full NIIRS rating: https://fas.org/irp/imint/niirs.htm

Errorcod3··on Formula 1: Building the world’s fastest cars
25 teraflops and not a drop more - I did not expect to see a limit for the hardware used for simulations!
Errorcod3··on Search Internet History
On Tuesday, Congress sent proposed legislation to President Trump that wipes away landmark online privacy protections. In a party-line vote, House Republicans freed Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast of protections approved just last year that had sought to limit what companies could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data and Social Security numbers. Now call it a poetic justice, less than a day later, online privacy activist Adam McElhaney has launched an initiative called Search Internet History, with an objective of raising funds to buy browsing history of each politician and official who voted in favor of S.J.Res 34. On the site, he has also put up a poll asking people whose internet history they would like to see first. - Slashdot
Errorcod3··on A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
Make it. Shake it. Break it. That’s the three-part refrain of dark-matter detectives, including Tracy Slatyer, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Errorcod3··on Sn1per: Automated pentest recon scanner
“I originally created Sn1per because I didn’t want to run 10 different security tools and remember every command switch for each pentest I was doing. I wanted to be more efficient in the enumeration phase in order to save time and focus on other more manual aspects of penetration testing,” 1N3@CrowdShield, creator of Sn1per

Features

•Automatically collects basic recon (ie. whois, ping, DNS, etc.)

•Automatically launches Google hacking queries against a target domain

•Automatically enumerates open ports

•Automatically brute forces sub-domains and DNS info

•Automatically checks for sub-domain hijacking

•Automatically runs targeted nmap scripts against open ports

•Automatically runs targeted Metasploit scan and exploit modules

•Automatically scans all web applications for common vulnerabilities

•Automatically brute forces all open services

•Automatically exploit remote hosts to gain remote shell access

•Performs high level enumeration of multiple hosts

•Auto-pwn added for Metasploitable, ShellShock, MS08-067, Default Tomcat Creds.

Errorcod3··on Elon Musk Teases Second Part of ‘Top Secret Tesla Masterplan’
Since the article from techcrunch was posted 3 hours ago, the submissions you posted may have contained a URL that already existed on HN.
Errorcod3··on Running helps mice slow cancer growth
Now if only we could get those on chemotherapy to run!

I do not know which would be more difficult, getting patients on chemo to run or obese Americans? Both are likely to soon die. (Sad but true)

At least the running for the mice was voluntary.

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