grupthink

I wonder who is behind this agent. I wonder who stands to gain the most attention from this.

I've implemented something similar to this using Golang Channels during Covid lockdowns. You don't get an emergence of intelligence from throwing random spaghetti at a wall.

Ask me how I know.

You can 3D print it and attach it to a boiling kettle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z33HIAFuKoQ

I loved his articles and stories. Hopefully his sites are archived before being taken down.

That wasn't an actual security update; that only fixed a broken toggle switch for "Advanced Data Protection" in Settings. I'm talking about patches for vulnerabilities.

iPadOS 15 hasn't been receiving the security updates for vulnerabilities that have been released for iPadOS 18.

I have a perfectly functional iPad 5 that no longer receives software updates. It'd be cool if Apple would at least give it security updates, or allow alternative browser engines that don't have this vulnerability. If my iPad gets pwned, my day is going to suck.

System 1 and 2 is a myth. There is only memory and computation. For a complex problem, retrieving from memory is fast, and performing computation is slow. Furthermore, when performing computation, there are different heuristics that you can use to think about a problem, e.g. If you want to predict the orbit of a satellite, you can use Kepler's laws which gives you the full sweeping elliptical motion. Alternatively, you can use Newtons laws for which you need to calculate each time step. Alternatively, you can calculate all the quantum interactions between the satellite, earth, and sun (are we going to call this System 3 because it is more rigorous and is "closer to metal"?).

Would it be better to store the hash of each output into 3 different arrays?

e.g. currently, it's doing:

    [input] -> [3 hashes] -> [single storage]

but, I'm wondering if it's better to do:

    [input] 
    -> [hash a] -> [storage a]
    -> [hash b] -> [storage b]
    -> [hash c] -> [storage c]

...this way, the output of the 3 hashes don't affect each other during the set and membership-check. I wonder how that would affect how much more data you can store. I'm sure someone has considered this.

Agreed. It's like dining out versus having a healthy home cooked meal. Restaurants will sell you delicious food loaded with sodium, sugar, and fat because they want you to crave their food. Likewise, when you outsource your family values, entertainment, news to social media, you meet a similar problem.

Relatedly, beware of the hidden ads in social media. It takes much less money to astroturf a community like reddit than to advertise through conventional means (e.g. commercials, product placements, banner ads). You may be aware of ads on youtube, but you may not be aware of the ads in the comment section. I've seen youtube comments as follows:

    Ed: Christ! My stock portfolio has gone down so much since the pandemic... it hurts.
    Bob: Mine did too, however in the past year I've been able to recover financially.
    Ed: Really? Please help me, how did you recover your losses?
    Bob: I'd hate to share my secret, but Jonathon Harris provided me with amazing investment tips.
    Sal: Mr. Jonathon Harris helped 10X our portfolio! You can reach him at jonharris@gmail.com

</ad scam>

That was my re-enactment of their discussion. Sure, that was an example of an obvious ad. But think of all the times you read a conversation about a product or service and became convinced to try something just based on a conversation between two supposed strangers online? I've never bought anything from a conventional ad, but I've purchased plenty of things after reading what the socials say about a product, and that makes me ashamed of myself. Word of mouth is effective for a reason, but it's insidious online. And that's where they get you. Steel your mind, when online.

All dimensions are a factor. Life could exist on different time-scales (e.g. it moves so slow we thought it was inanimate). It could exist on different physical-scales (be so large we don't realize we are a part of it). Or, it could exist on an entirely different plane of existence (on a desolate planet in a shard of silicon that is turing complete and quietly simulating its own recursive universe).

Wouldn't your iPhone still receive spam SMS text messages with Apple Messages? And isn't Apple Messages commonly exploited by NSO Group (Zero-clicks)? Maybe I'm wrong, but this does not appear to be very fort-like.

Heh, I recall seeing many posts arguing against benchmarks when all Macs equipped with an M2/8GB/256GB SSD scored much, much lower than the M1/8GB/256GB SSD. People said the synthetic benchmarks were not representative of real world use and you'd never notice the difference. 'Twas a battle of the optimists, pessimists, and realists. In reality, 'twas just Apple cutting costs in their newer product.

> I'll eat at Cockroach Joe, but I won't pay. I also like to tell people I don't pay because it goes against my virtues. But I'll still go there to eat.

Fixed.

Let me get this straight. The sister gets caught. The sibling expresses concern for impending legal action, but in spite of this, goes online to share EVEN MORE details that could be used against them in court, and cries "woe is me" and "farewell".

This canary story feels like a contrived story intended to scare potential leakers inside the company.

The money flow looks like this:

Ad -> YT -> Content Creators

You prevent YT and Content Creators from making money when you block an ad.

Blocking ads of these products, means when you purchase a product (shampoo, razors, etc) more of your money goes into these companies that created these products.

And, in your case, who pays the content creator for the content you enjoy? and who pays for the engineering and infrastructure that delivered the content?

And, since you never saw the ad, you likely didn't buy any product either.

If my sister was caught doing something illegal, the last thing I would do is reveal more details about her inside leaks online (that could be further used against her in court).

It feels like a cautionary tale for would-be leakers inside of Apple.

Banning has nothing to do with it.

You use passkeys as a preferred login method.

If you do not have your passkey, you can tap "Try Another Way" and use your password as usual.

Mentioning safety in Korea is irrelevant. Kia and Hyundai cars in Canada (and other countries) are sold with an immobilizer, and don't have this ignition switch security vulnerability prevalent in the U.S. model.

Additionally, TikTok must be scrutinized/penalized for distributing this "educational" material. Their algos have a strong influence on teens. This content doesn't appear to exist on Youtube (I just did a quick search). Meanwhile, in China, you are censored for merely sharing photos of Winnie the Pooh on Douyin.

I would like to thank OP for creating this. I watched this yesterday and thought the visuals were fun, playful, and rare in this day and age. More than that, it felt like I was on the phone with an old friend revisiting old memories that we both shared. I love hearing people like this tell their story because their passion and enthusiasm is contagious. And, well, I didn't realize the effect this would have on me at the time, but your message has stayed with me, and helped me feel inspired enough to get some creative work done this afternoon. I just kept thinking about how ephemeral and fleeting everything is. And that I really needed to seize the day! Thank you OP. I hope you will share more of your stories with us again soon. Cheers.

My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

All these people are playing with fire. Nima was jailed twice: 1) DUI 2) illegally selling switch blades. Nima's sister (married) had an affair with Bob Lee (also married).

It would be simulating causality. If you had a water maze that was large enough - with enough gates, switches, and circuits - then it would be turing complete and simulate its own universe. But the more likely scenario is that it doesn't compile into anything. The point is, given enough time, and space (it's going to be one large maze) it's capable of applying the same rules of causality, and calculating the same math across all universes. That said, if your quarks and neutrinos blip in and out of existence, you can blame it on the turbulent water maze(s) higher in our simulation stack. :)

A computer is a computer, and our universe is a computer. So, it's possible we're living in a simulation but not one that was intentionally constructed by a higher life form, but rather, a simulation that emerged from nature (e.g. electrons whizzing along the surface of silica rock on a desolate planet). Our universe could recursively be computers all the way down.

It's not that simple. If you have a model that actually does something useful (e.g. not just doing matmul & conv2d) your model will fail to run on ANE and, instead, the device will move it over to CPU/GPU and turn your iPhone into a heater. I literally had to continually wipe down my iPhone with a wet towel to keep it from overheating so I could build, ct.convert, run, and debug a model I was working on. Apple doesn't document how to keep operations on ANE. A model created by coremltools may run on either CPU, GPU, ANE, but you don't get to choose. And, if you don't know what you're doing and naively build a model, you will likely run on CPU/GPU only. If your batch is too large, too small, if you need to transpose tensors, if you need to expand mismatched tensors to matmul them together, if your model has an IF branch, or a loop, if you breathe the wrong way, your model silently falls off ANE. But you don't know what caused it. You have to open Netron and guess. Also, it may run on ANE on one device, but not another. There's no documentation from Apple about any of this. So, no, you do not simply "use CoreML to program it".

I use Sublime Text 4 on an M2 Mini and it's mostly perfect. However, a few days ago, it exhibited a strange pattern of behavior where it would freeze every 2 seconds. No beachball, just froze and unfroze repeatedly. I didn't experience this with any other application. I'm all USB - no bluetooth. Looking back, the only thing I changed that day was I turned off my 3rd monitor from the DisplayLink Manager. I have 3 monitors connected (Thunderbolt Display, HDMI, and DisplayLink). I think there's a high chance it's related because I frequently experience a problem where if I disable the 3rd monitor, ST4's editing surface will rotate 90° if I move the window to the top corner of my 2nd monitor. It's a strange sight.

I've since kept the 3rd monitor on and haven't had any problems. So, if anyone has this problem, try fiddling with your DisplayLink connection: perhaps try disconnecting the adapter completely and/or try turning it off/on from the manager.

I stopped using Phoenix a few years ago, but I'd do something roughly as follows:

- Imagine a grid where each cell is a 1x1 square mile based on lat/lon

- When a device moves to a new cell, have it join the phx-channel representing that 1x1 cell. It must also leave the previous phx-channel of the cell it occupied. If your devices move very slowly, have them recalculate the cell/channel they belong to once an hour (for example).

- When an anomaly occurs, send a message to the channel. Every device in that cell will receive the websocket message. You may also choose to send your message to the 3x3 cells that surround just the cell where the anomaly occurred.

- If you need to tell all devices something, use broadcast.

Feel free to change 1x1 mile to 1x1 meters or whatever.

Is there an ad blocker for Safari on iOS that can deal with Youtube ads? AdGuard requires you to do a dance every time you reload the page.

Interesting. I woke up to find that my iCloud & App Store accounts got locked. I was able to recover my account by resetting my password though. I wonder if it's related to this outage.

Did Bard make a mistake?

        Q: "What new discoveries from JWST can I tell my 9 year old child?"
        
        A: "JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside our solar system"

Source: NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World - https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/09/01/nasas-webb-takes-its-...

So, it took the first picture of a (particular) exoplanet, which is not to be confused with the first picture (ever) of an exoplanet. There is a misunderstanding here.

Is that concurrency? The CPU is not switching between tasks; rather, it's scheduling 2 callbacks to fire after a 3000ms delay.

If you could perform 2 tasks (e.g. console.log(Array(1e8).fill(0).map((a, i) => i)), and have both run to completion without a significant delay between the two tasks, that'd be impressively concurrent.