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chpatrick··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
You can take your laptop to a busy place, make a "free wifi" hotspot that runs everything through mitmproxy and you can steal everything.
chpatrick··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
These are open weight models, nothing is stopping distillation anyway.
chpatrick··on Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement
I'm Hungarian and there have been countless positive changes in only half a year. The people in charge are also way more competent than the last lot who all got promoted based on loyalty.

* Billions in EU funds restored

* State funded propaganda shut down

* Tax cuts for low earners

* European prosecutor's office joined and anti corruption agency established with real power, crooks already going to jail

* Forint 363 to the euro compared to 400 in 2023

* Homophobic law repealed

* Term limit introduced for MPs and PMs

* Rail overhaul plan

* No more kowtowing to Russia

chpatrick··on Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement
There's a spectrum between the Netherlands and North Korea.
chpatrick··on Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test
Blofeld from You Only Live Twice.
chpatrick··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
Personally I think it's a geopolitical play by China to take the US AI labs down a notch. (I'm not complaining.)
chpatrick··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I think I'm pretty aware of the implications. It's just not something I have control over. But right now, I'm enjoying getting stuff done. If they eventually take my job or upend civilization, it's going to happen whether I use them or not.
chpatrick··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
It can't really do it yet, but if it will, then it's out of my control and I'll have to find another job.
chpatrick··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I agree. The part I enjoyed was designing interesting solutions to problems, the coding itself was often tedious. Now I can just focus on the fun and creative part.
chpatrick··on I love software rendering
Sure, software rendering mostly used nearest neighbor, but it's not crisp because it's software rendering, which is what the article claims.
chpatrick··on I love software rendering
"Software" isn't the point. You can do the exact same math on CPU or GPU. OpenGL supports nearest neighbor texture filtering on whatever hardware you run it on since 1992, one year before Doom even came out.
chpatrick··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
Both can be true. OpenAI clearly fucked up but agents unexpectedly collaborating and hacking infrastructure unrelated to their task is clearly going rogue.
chpatrick··on Gemini 4 Argon
I don't know, that's exactly what Opus 5.5 feels like to me.
chpatrick··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones. The battlefield depends on SpaceX
Is Ukraine using Starshield or the commercial one? I thought it was the latter.
chpatrick··on Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones
This is like the CEO of Lockheed Martin deciding what can be bombed...
chpatrick··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
You had to make your website work for IE users with weird tricks because among other things it had a different way of rendering CSS.
chpatrick··on Gemini 4 Argon
The thing is that if you do know what it's talking about then it gets you the information the quickest that way. If you're not an expert you can always ask it to explain. I don't want it to ELI5 by default.
chpatrick··on Gemini 4 Argon
I wouldn't even call it a quirk or a chance encounter, every response it gives is sycophantic and overwritten.
chpatrick··on Gemini 4 Argon
I'm the opposite, I found Gemini so annoying that I had to stop using it, Claude was a breath of fresh air afterwards.
chpatrick··on QGIS: No AI contributions permitted
Plenty of them annoy millions of people but there wasn't any budget or time to fix it.
chpatrick··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
It didn't have an EV battery either.
chpatrick··on QGIS: No AI contributions permitted
Will it? Plenty of open source projects have bugs unfixed for decades because it's too tedious to fix by hand and would take five minutes with AI these days. I've also found that good LLMs can be more diligent in updating comments, tests, etc.
chpatrick··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
...his point is we don't know if it is a cure or not, and it would be good if humans had an idea instead of just having to take the AI's word for it.
chpatrick··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
"its model predicts [...] will kill cancer cells"
chpatrick··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
What if it takes your five years to live down to two in horrible agony?
chpatrick··on German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism
Only if they did it in public.
chpatrick··on German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism
Right, because it's illegal.
chpatrick··on German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism
I think in Germany it has a pretty specific meaning actually...
chpatrick··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Yeah I guess the Jacobian conjecture must have been disproved without reasoning.
chpatrick··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Well, but we do we have these words, and they are useful. An airplane and a bird both travel through the air. A human and an LLM both make logical deductions.
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