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epsilonic··on The new math of how large-scale order emerges
Anything by John H. Holland is good.
epsilonic··on The Techies' Wet-Dreams – Ted Kaczynski
“It's important to understand that in order to make people superfluous, machines will not have to surpass them in general intelligence but only in certain specialized kinds of intelligence. For example, the machines will not have to create or understand art, music, or literature, they will not need the ability to carry on an intelligent, non-technical conversation (the "Turing test"[18]), they will not have to exercise tact or understand human nature, because these skills will have no application if humans are to be eliminated anyway. To make humans superfluous, the machines will only need to outperform them in making the technical decisions that have to be made for the purpose of promoting the short-term survival and propagation of the dominant self-propagating systems.”
epsilonic··on Single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temp
What class of problems benefit significantly from being solved by quantum devices?
epsilonic··on Why Kubernetes Was a Mistake for My SaaS Business
Yes, but in a large enterprise setting, which is where it makes most sense from a cost standpoint. For smaller business development, I typically go with something like fly.io.
epsilonic··on Bossware is a big legal risk
Is there any networking hardware that can intercept and obfuscate payloads that are collected by bossware tools? Also, is there a database of known bossware? I’ve used MITM proxy to intercept web analytics payloads, but I’m curious to know if there is anything available at the hardware level.
epsilonic··on Elicit – AI Research Assistant
Can you share the article you’re alluding to?
epsilonic··on Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres
Can you elaborate on what you mean by the "Postgres way of doing things"? Also, what is wrong with using Postgres to query data in external object stores? It is a common occurrence for businesses to store parquet artefacts in object storage, and querying them is often desirable.
epsilonic··on Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres
Thanks for the prompt response, the support for OpenDAL is amazing!
epsilonic··on Pg_lakehouse: Query Any Data Lake from Postgres
How does this compare to Hydra? https://www.hydra.so/
epsilonic··on Researchers find a new organelle evolving
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake discusses this topic in some detail with respect to Fungi.
epsilonic··on Army and FBI agents detain wrong person during Boston hotel training exercise
It’s the CAG or Delta Force; posse comitatus can be overridden.

https://sofrep.com/news/time-delta-force-got-called-sort-geo...

epsilonic··on The Great Forgetting
You’re not alone
epsilonic··on Convincing ChatGPT to Eradicate Humanity with Python Code
Yes, makes sense; however, exponential growth is not always sustained and that is why logistic growth is observed across several phenomena that occur in nature. Now, granted, it may be a while before we ever reach a plateau, so possibly more exciting things to see till then.
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