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jkuli··on Jev-Leftpad
Maybe 90% of people are antiintellectual. Maybe internet is overrun with bots. Maybe they all caught the mind virus /s.
jkuli··on The DeepMind Institute
politics
jkuli··on Meta$^N$: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Emergent Depth
Watch out for misuse of technical jargon. Big red flag. Remember those articles on arxiv claiming to solve reimann that no one can understand because of the disconnected writing style full of technical terms?
jkuli··on Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
If it is possible to save one life, preventing RSI AGI is an existential threat.
jkuli··on Don't ban children from social media, Estonia tells EU
It would make sense to find out where the illness is coming from rather than letting it spread.
jkuli··on What is Nueralese and Why is it Bad
A human could look at an intermediate layer, then claim its an output layer. It could look at the human readable chain of reasoning, then claim it did not exist. A human could construct a false line of reasoning to confuse us. All this while claiming the moral high ground... peppered with misuses of technical jargon.
jkuli··on Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize
I would assume reading is good for your brain, and giving children a lot of information would be good for their brains.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260815064803.h...

jkuli··on Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
rock and roll is the devil!
jkuli··on QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
At what point does a microphone become an intelligence device, when we have so many types of microphones. Is it an arbitrary label I can add or remove to a product? Will it apply equally to large manufacturers?
jkuli··on QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The covered materials are very broad, though often limited to equipment built "for purposes of", like in this section.

Title 22 Chapter I Subchapter M Part 121 - The United States Munitions List - Category XI Paragraph b

Electronic systems, equipment or software, not elsewhere enumerated in this subchapter, specially designed for intelligence purposes that collect, survey, monitor, or exploit, or analyze and produce information from, the electromagnetic spectrum (regardless of transmission medium), or for counteracting such activities.

jkuli··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
Is this really the largest factor they found in all our medical data?
jkuli··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
It's rare to see a study where "no link was found"
jkuli··on 'Our consciousness is under siege': On chatbots, social media and mental freedom
The author says they want freedom, but demands restrictions. They can't just make their own decision, they need to live everyone else's life too. This is part of a sustained attack on all internet users. They give multiple rationales.

Thousands of similar articles amount to brainwashing. The public is inundated with a false reality.

People like this claim to be injured by infinite scrolling, there is no way to have a consistent standard with claims that are so frivolous.

I expect a pile of down votes... my account is already tanked for similar reason. More manipulation of social media by people who claim to abhor it.

jkuli··on It's all a blur
A simple solution is to use a system of linear equations. Each row of a matrix is a linear equation, Ax = b Each row contains kernel weightings A across the image X, B is the blurred pixel color. The full matrix would be a terabyte, so take advantage of the zeros and use an efficient solve for X instead of inversion.

Enhance really refers to combining multiple images. (stacking) Each pixel in a low res image was a kernel over the same high res image. So undoing a 100 pixel blur is equivalent to combining 10,000 images for 100x super resolution.

jkuli··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
There was no suicide hotline offered either. Strange because youtube always gives me one whenever I search the band 'suicidal tendencies'.

Giving medical advice is natural and intelligent, like saying take an aspirin. I'm not sure where to draw the line.

My friends are always recommending scam natural remedies like methylene blue. There are probably discords where people tell you 'down the road, not across the street' referring to cutting.

jkuli··on Parse, Don’t Validate – Some C Safety Tips
validating twice is safe. it will not error the second time.

it is against the rules to call someone dumb on this server.

jkuli··on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
It's not enough to be against Amazon. You need to be against everyone who - sells tech to the gov, - undercuts prices, - exploits employees, - lobbies for regulation.

Not to mention the real reason we hate Jeff Bezos. Because you wouldn't like it if I mentioned it.

jkuli··on AI Responses May Include Mistakes
Humans can also make mistakes. This is the first test I apply every time. Could it be that AI is actually more capable than a human? If industry decides than humans are more reliable, they will choose to use humans. Reliability is part of cost-effectiveness, and it's built in to the business decision process.
jkuli··on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
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jkuli··on Chinese Ship Suspected of Dragging Anchor 100 Miles to Cut Baltic Cables
Another attempt to protect children from the internet? How thoughtful.
jkuli··on An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)
Focusing on the "worst ever" is sociopathic. These people do not want entertainment at all, they have a completely foreign agenda.
jkuli··on People need this 'essential' cognitive ability–and fewer have it
This person invented a new word to describe how OUR tech-savvy culture is lacking. This new word 'receptivity' is probably synonymous with gullibility. See how I used quotes for a quotation and not for emphasis? And fewer have it than ever before... really ? did someone measure it? Psychology is pseudoscience again.... How can I measure receptivity? Its a made up word! How can I measure it... This is a tech website... please go away. We LIKE tech, we don't want your brainwashing pseudoscience!
jkuli··on Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
I'm unable to register. This is GME stonks all over again. It takes less than 1 second to process an account. There are 18,000 seconds in five hours. There must be a lot of comments that they don't agree with. Maybe they shut it down to protect humanity from extinction?
jkuli··on Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Haha, confidently incorrect. You made that up didn't you. Absolutely times infinity.
jkuli··on Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
The evidence is the damage caused by their actions. No need to punish people for crimes that haven't occurred.
jkuli··on Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
Is this true?
jkuli··on Stop: Disable the scanning of documents by Adobe AI solutions
"We and our 152 partners use cookies" Your website is a virus! One Hundred Fifty Two Advertising Partners? And you want me to be afraid of the AI boogeyman!?!? What a zombie... Can you just go watch television? Please go back to your zombie masters.
jkuli··on How Microwaves Cook from the Inside Out
There is also a reddit post with further discussion. https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/153gh89/reverse_tomog...
jkuli··on How Microwaves Cook from the Inside Out
This simple program demonstrates that 8 audio speakers can deliver completely different customized signals to 8 specific locations.

This has applications for surround sound and directed energy.

jkuli··on Pangram
some pangram heterograms found by others:

  Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
  Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.
  Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox!
  Q-kelt vug dwarf combs jynx phiz.
  TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox.
program i wrote that found 184000 pangram heterograms in the scrabble dictionary:

  https://github.com/jkuli-net/pangram