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TruffleLabson Mace AI founders warn of AI double agents amid banks detecting unauthorized AI

"Mace Ai founders warn of AI double agents amid banks detecting unauthorized AI agents"

TruffleLabson I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid

Thanks for the Bill and Ted reference at the end ;)

TruffleLabson A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

Is this comment on shipping costs from Asia to Nigeria/Bangladesh based on your experience? If there is a less expensive way then share the approach to help others :)

TruffleLabson Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking

Not functioning... "This site can’t be reached" - Slashdot effect?

TruffleLabson Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks

Not sure how text (ascii) can be watermarked ...

TruffleLabson Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks

Archive.is link

https://archive.is/8n95Q

TruffleLabson New faith-based university coalition find systematic religious bias in AI models

"First studies from new faith-based university coalition find systematic religious bias in AI models

Researchers at Baylor, BYU, Notre Dame, Yeshiva find vast gap between user expectations of religious representation and answers from ChatGPT"

TruffleLabson I’m writing again

For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D.

Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." -

"The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed."

"A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned only a master's degree."

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/16/business/compressed-data-...

TruffleLabson Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

"The parent said, 'Only through questioning teachers and school administrators did we learn the researchers would put stickers on children who opted out, but no further information was provided on whether they would still be filmed.'"

That labeling I'm sure would have social consequences- singling out people and giving them a label is a path toward exclusion in other activities and make wearing a sticker a sigma... :(

TruffleLabson Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude

"the user dumped their entire college computer files in Claude in a last-gasp effort."

Claude has limits that would make this simple statement be much more complicated-

Via Claude "So the chat upload file size limit is actually 500MB per file (not 30MB as many third-party sources claim - those appear to be outdated). The 20-file-per-chat cap and the 30MB-per-file limit in Projects remain consistent across plans. The real constraint at any subscription level remains the context window - how many tokens Claude can hold in memory at once during a conversation. "

TruffleLabson Saying Goodbye to one line of APL

FYI Page certificate is bad (expired, wrong, etc.).

TruffleLabson Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

Thanks for the details :)

I was half expecting you to find the Pixter Color VM to be a Forth like interpreter ;)

TruffleLabson Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

"The deal with the hackers included the return of stolen data and digital evidence that copies had been deleted, Instructure said."

does "yes, I deleted the data" in an email count as digital evidence?

TruffleLabson Canvas's owner strikes deal with hackers who disrupted schools

"The deal with the hackers included the return of stolen data and digital evidence that copies had been deleted, Instructure said."

does "yes, I deleted the data" in an email count as digital evidence?

TruffleLabson Canvas's owner strikes deal with hackers who disrupted schools

Archive version https://archive.is/59wEu

TruffleLabson Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

Time to start a project to make a handcrafted lacquer face for some other calculators; I have a few HP-80 (https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp80.htm) to test the idea on ;)

TruffleLabson Introduction to Beaver Triples

Opera was better on page reading... safari was crashing a bunch

TruffleLabson Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification

For an easier interpretation of the Science.org article, see "Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find"

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-antarctica-sea-ice-collapse-dr...

TruffleLabson FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX

National Center for Health Statistics Deaths and Mortality

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

TruffleLabson Java script error: why The Devil Wears Prada 2's Starbucks tie-in leaves a taste

When culture & movie makes a technological title ;)

TruffleLabson Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages

My work on DoD ADA projects tended to focus on DoD STD 2167 (mid to late 1980s).

Sadly the review meetings focused on document structure instead of thoughtful software design and analysis. ADA didn't help; it was cumbersome to get working well, and ADA experience in the contracting agencies was low. The waterfall approach made the projects slow to implement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOD-STD-2167A?wprov=sfti1

TruffleLabson Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

https://www.edwardtufte.com/product/napoleons-march/

Via Edward Tufte

"Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales."

TruffleLabson We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

This is just writing; terse maybe and maybe not grammatically correct, but people write like that.

TruffleLabson We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

"Written by an LLM" based on what data or symptom?

TruffleLabson Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language

Why? =>

"Moment Engineering by Moment Technology wants to access your {GitHub account name} account Personal user data Email addresses (read-only), profile information (read-only) This application will be able to read your private email addresses and read your private profile information."

TruffleLabson MacBook Neo

We are back to colors! https://appleclamshell.wordpress.com/color-guide/

TruffleLabson Number Research Inc

Do we get digital stickers for the numbers we found? ;)

TruffleLabson Snow Simulation Toy

This is fun to see :) thanks!