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pr337h4m··on Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market
The markets on Polymarket for Xi and Putin's successors are going to be 100x bigger in terms of both market size and as a topic of conversation.
pr337h4m··on A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
This is literally nothing - visualizing an org chart using D3 (a JS dataviz library), playing around with open source geospatial datasets, and a Twitter DM downloader for personal use.

Look at the screenshots, not the description by this "politics reporter" who seems to be indulging in evidence-free witch hunts.

pr337h4m··on Alexa+
Check out https://exa.ai/ - iirc they use a link-prediction transformer

https://websets.exa.ai/cm7m8a1ip006rdzzzgxsalirs

pr337h4m··on Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
Signal is headquartered in the US and presumably has no employees in Sweden (and perhaps the entire European Union).

There is utterly nothing the Swedish government can do to stop Signal except for pressuring app stores and/or ISP-level censorship. Preemptive surrender is extremely disappointing, especially for a non-profit - there isn’t even any revenue that can be ‘fined’ by the EU!

pr337h4m··on Grok 3 is highly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection
> xAI's new Grok 3 is so far exclusively deployed on Twitter (aka "X"), and apparently uses its ability to search for relevant tweets as part of every response.

Grok 3 can be accessed on grok.com too; you can turn off web/tweet search there.

pr337h4m··on Brazil justice orders ban of video platform Rumble
This kind of law (if there's actually a law in the first place) is called a hostage-taking law for obvious reasons:

https://restofworld.org/2021/social-media-laws-twitter-faceb...

https://restofworld.org/2022/twitters-censorship-india/

pr337h4m··on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
Short-sighted move, super long video data could be quite useful in the near future
pr337h4m··on Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
"Over a year" according to the founder: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892578309344502191
pr337h4m··on Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
Goal 2 has been achieved, at least as a proof of concept (and not by OpenAI): https://openai.com/index/openai-technical-goals/
pr337h4m··on The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off
For ships, stability seems to be the main problem: https://x.com/BrentM_SpaceX/status/1885450296421208118 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885508628582474040

Not sure about oil rigs

pr337h4m··on Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks?
"Together, Cornell University, the Simons Foundation, members, affiliates, sponsors, foundations, and individual donors contribute to arXiv's operating budget."

https://info.arxiv.org/about/funding.html

pr337h4m··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
Yeah, a 7B param LLM (quantized) is pretty fast on even a previous-generation base model MacBook Air with 8 GB RAM.
pr337h4m··on TikTok is back in the App Store
Any step towards a Great Firewall of America is infinitely worse than supposedly improper non-enforcement of an internet censorship law.
pr337h4m··on 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows
>Regulators may also have to consider whether fewer operators may be better for a country, with perhaps only a single underlying fixed and mobile network in many places—just as utilities for electricity, water, gas, and the like are often structured around single (or a limited set of) operators.

There are no words to describe how stupid this is.

pr337h4m··on More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile
How much of this is due to TikTok siphoning off mobile users?
pr337h4m··on The Age of Agent Experience
We're finally putting the 'agent' in 'user agent'
pr337h4m··on The Zizians and the rationalist death cult
Utilitarianism can be used to justify literally anything, especially when paired with large scale drug use. FTX was just the beginning.
pr337h4m··on DeepSeek R1 avilable in Groq playground
This is a distilled version, not the actual 671B model.
pr337h4m··on MIT Unveils New Robot Insect, Paving the Way Toward Rise of Robotic Pollinators
Huh, a hunter-seeker
pr337h4m··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
Data centers are overrated, local AI is what’s necessary for humanoid (and other) robots, which will be the most economically impactful use case.
pr337h4m··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
Do you think a Great Firewall of America is a good thing? Because that is what this ruling enables.
pr337h4m··on Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?
Pretty decent logistics channel, perhaps a tad too oversimplified imo
pr337h4m··on Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
The main reason why Linux on the desktop has never gone mainstream is that it is extremely difficult to find a good laptop that comes with Linux preinstalled, where the OEM is responsible for ensuring a seamless experience, as any bugs in WiFi, audio, drivers, peripherals, etc. is the OEM's responsibility, not the consumer's.

99% of computer users will never consider replacing the operating system that came installed on their system, they don't want to risk bricking it or losing data.

pr337h4m··on How to Test More Drugs
the latter
pr337h4m··on Torches of Freedom
Motorcycles are a good candidate for such a marketing strategy, especially in South Asia
pr337h4m··on Can A.I. be blamed for a teen's suicide?
I doubt the LLM even knows it is an LLM in the first place. It is likely prompted to behave as if it is the actual character, and since this roleplay has romantic elements the character acts as if she shares a home with the user
pr337h4m··on Tesla Optimus Autonomous Navigation
More details: https://x.com/_milankovac_/status/1846803709281644917
pr337h4m··on Next generation Tesla Optimus hand with 22 degrees of freedom
The robots walking around were Gen 2, this hand is for Gen 3
pr337h4m··on Tesla Robotaxi
Humans don’t use lidar, which clearly shows that a vision-only robotaxi is very much feasible.
pr337h4m··on Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video
>16GB of RAM could become the minimum for all future Macs

If true, this would be a big deal for local LLM inference.

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