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measurablefunc··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
Next they'll figure out radio waves & then we are really screwed.
measurablefunc··on What Happened to the Neanderthals?
Wiped out by a more violent variant.
measurablefunc··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
The rules are for everyone but some people also get special treatment b/c they know someone like Trump. Musk donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his presidential campaign to get special treatment for his businesses.
measurablefunc··on Is my data used for model training?
The modern internet & all of the application available on it are parts of a digital panopticon so plan & act accordingly.
measurablefunc··on Show HN: Outer Space Jobs
Nice work. Can I register my agent to look for stuff or do I have to go through it manually?
measurablefunc··on Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid
Where do you think they get the electricity for the bases now?
measurablefunc··on Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid
That's hilarious b/c the US military is the 47th largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet so there is no way any base can go 90 days w/o the grid.
measurablefunc··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Someone should take the sub-exponential proof & write something executable.
measurablefunc··on Pharo 14
All it needs now is an MCP server.
measurablefunc··on PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
Nice work.
measurablefunc··on Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice
I think cardio exercise does the same thing.
measurablefunc··on Dream-1
So looks like generalized actuator planning & control is possible.
measurablefunc··on Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'
I agree.
measurablefunc··on Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'
Even if you write a formal specification the operating system the code runs on is almost certainly not formally specified so you're just moving the trust boundary slightly further out to the OS & associated libraries.
measurablefunc··on Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions
You should record yourself & then label the videos based on what state you were in so that you can then verify it w/ an AI if you guessed correctly or not.
measurablefunc··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
They need electricity & compute which are limited by the fact that we are living on a finite planet.
measurablefunc··on Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal
That's a good point.
measurablefunc··on Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal
I guess Peter Thiel already has a compound there but I'm not sure if they would all get along.
measurablefunc··on Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Him a Deal
National wealth tax fixes this problem b/c then they'd have to leave the country entirely & there is nowhere they can go.
measurablefunc··on Elon Musk invests about $1B in Skydance
I guess he's now going to finance movies as well so that he can have his own propaganda plugs in mass media.
measurablefunc··on How to Run Turing-Complete Malware in PyTorch's Backward Pass
Very cool.
measurablefunc··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct...
measurablefunc··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
It helps fit the network to a distribution, it doesn't actually do anything other than that. This follows from basic learning theory. The actual internals of the network remain illegible. In fact it would be easy to prove that for any finite set of legible traces there are illegible ones which are equally as good when it comes to improving performance of the network.

The basic heuristic of the argument comes from biological organisms. Multicellular organisms are illegible but the overall organism still operates in its environment just fine w/o making its internal communications legible.

measurablefunc··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
Same way current LLMs do it, it's just another decoder.
measurablefunc··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
This is correct, the decoded text has nothing to do w/ calculations that eventually get decoded into text. It's just a veneer that gives the appearance of legibility.
measurablefunc··on Lean now ships with verified kernels
The proposal is that multiple checkers are unlikely to all have the same bugs so the more kernels you can use to check the results the more likely it is that the proof/code is consistent & correct (modulo set theoretic assumptions necessary for the correctness of the kernel).
measurablefunc··on Neural networks are clean
I recommend not telling random strangers what to do w/ their time & letting the moderators deal with the problem. You're not a moderator so stop pretending like you are one.
measurablefunc··on /dev/null: social network for developers
I don't think you're getting the joke, the site is literally called /dev/null.
measurablefunc··on Neural networks are clean
Stop responding to my comments & save yourself the time & keystrokes. It's better that way for everyone involved since you haven't addressed anything of substance in anything I have written & have opted for nonsensical psychoanalysis.
measurablefunc··on Neural networks are clean
Try it & see how that goes.
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