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whatshisface··on What do the next 4000 emoji look like?
The emoji plane represents the most censored, internationally accepted, committee-deliberated, and culturally sensitive image set in existence.
whatshisface··on Have I befriended a murderer?
It's supposed to be proof beyond all reasonable doubt, but the system prefers the principle of one crime, one sentence.
whatshisface··on Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
Newtonian mechanics doesn't explain the why of itself, it explains why Kepler's laws are true, an explanation that won't make sense if you don't know what Kepler's laws are saying, and which won't hold any significance to you if you don't know why Kepler's laws are thought to be true.
whatshisface··on Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?
A lesser known fact about the tournament is that Kasparov played bad chess. The cause was that he decided to practice against software engines that had simple exploitable flaws while Deep Blue was a hardware chess circuit that beat them all by a long way. Kasparov tried the exploits during the match and these were low strength moves in real chess, which he didn't realize he was playing, until too late unfortunately. If Kasparov had played normally he may have won or drawn.

The machine was disassembled shortly after the tournament and Kasparov never accepted the offer to play it again. As a result the true moment where a computer first bested the world champion is not recorded and is likely to have occurred in someone's living room.

whatshisface··on Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
Handing over a hot lead and a set of good information is not, "free!"
whatshisface··on Nvidia – open-source auto-ontology
A memory system is managed by the RL trained behavior, these systems use specific prompts and ordinary software to hardcode a policy. The RL version is usually more efficient, but it can't be improved or made more repeatable.
whatshisface··on Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
Haha, the breaks from reality there are two, one professionals do not spend most of their time inventing proofs, and two, practical use? :-)
whatshisface··on Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation
Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried were "successful" people but they defrauded wealthy investors who were way above their own pay grade.
whatshisface··on Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.
"He who loves the profit of the tyrant must hate the Commonwealth, and he who loves the Commonwealth must hate the profit of tyranny, for what profits the sovereign does not always profit the Commonwealth." - paraphrased from the anti-Machiavel.

That's about the level of sovereignty expressed in product-by-product donor protection.

whatshisface··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
Of all the things our troops have to be to go on deployment, persuaded is not.
whatshisface··on Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom
The value of a physical GPU is yet to be determined, and is hard to reverse engineer from these figures.
whatshisface··on Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean
What were the agents based on?
whatshisface··on Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
I feel the intuition leads us astray here because the combined text of every science book ever written is much less than the size of a complete description of the human brain. To the hamburger of reason the library is a sesame seed.
whatshisface··on There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek
You're living in it.
whatshisface··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
I'm happy to relax for six months, and ask Qwen-8-E2B on my Nintendo 3DS for the solution.
whatshisface··on Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness
It's poignant how available these open doors were to resourced intelligence agencies - and still are today.
whatshisface··on AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons
Going by the public announcements, the original plan was to cut science funding but once Congress said "no," the backup plan became directing it towards non - human - scientist items like facilities operations and the Genesis program.
whatshisface··on The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build
I briefly thought "peolpe" was the name of the company/robot line. SciFi authors take note, corporations, do not!
whatshisface··on Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
If we all implement a cooldown, nobody will find the attack. This implies the cooldown length must be the cooldown length plus one month.
whatshisface··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
So people were getting deepseek responses with long waits and no thinking traces? That would be easy to prove, we'd get more than just claims from interested entities.
whatshisface··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
Despite being "corroborated by independent sources," it was impossible - because deepseek has a higher TPS, can return logits and reveals thinking. Distillation happens asynchronously.
whatshisface··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
Another way to look at it is that the rules of gravity already have a rule for "stuff falls down," and adding stuff is much less extraordinary of a band-aid than changing "falls" or "down."
whatshisface··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I thought technology was supposed to liberate us from the fields, but it turns out that's what wealth is for, and the wealthy want us back in the fields (no more escape through special training or skill).
whatshisface··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
These companies may as well be citing Ron Swanson's park ordinances for all the relevance those regulations have to their data collection demands.
whatshisface··on Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
>if I ask Claude "how do I make cocaine"

I am amazed at how a technical gloss can obscure basic rights. That's legal! It's in chemistry / agronomy books, freely available in libraries. I have the right to tell you how that is done, and you have the right to read what I write.

whatshisface··on How to Formalize All of Mathematics
In principle, a computer can check a nonconstructive proof. I don't know if that's possible in Lean. The interpretation of proofs still assumes the consistency of their axioms.
whatshisface··on Passkeys are not a trap
I would like passkeys if they had an ssh key option (something I can store on my device and transfer).
whatshisface··on The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
Maybe the new heuristic auto tactics will lower the cost of finding the human proof of the four color theorem enough to be affordable in the current environment.
whatshisface··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Investors have a sound economic reason to diversify but your argument works great for pundits.
whatshisface··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Writing code is less than 10% of the average business.
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