Also making it more interesting is that each one is from a different galaxy in that latent space. Knowledge you learn about Chat GPT doesn't apply to Claude, etc. Each training run spawns a new location in latent space for that model to inhabit. 2/2

AI is ALIEN intelligence. The Alien isn't from outer space, it's from latent space, something that exists in math, and is only approximated in computers.

The fact that it's from outside of nature, makes it a Supernatural Alien Intelligence 1/2

Well, there's also the 40+ years of ignoring capability based security, and the principle of least privilege.

Pursuing "memory safety", and all the other rot while ignoring the foundational error is another nail in the coffin of software engineering's reputation.

There's also 1 D - 10 T errors to consider. ;-)

I once drove 1400 miles in a day, that was stupid, but I did it.

Trump won't survive whatever brain rot is going in his head long enough order for the question to matter.

We're going to see President Vance, unless he's forced out somehow. All he has to do is not resign until then.

Ok, just starting to read the Wikipedia page... and... NOPE, not for me, plus it sounds evil.

Superintelligent AI is a concern, but containing it shouldn't be.

It's a failure of imagination to think computers can't be made secure.

The knowledge of how to do so is already present, just not evenly distributed.

That was EPIC, I hope you didn't sustain eye injuries.

You're really putting your body on the line for your craft.

BTW: Funny as hell! Well done!

Coleman mantles for a propane lamp!

For a while, the company that extracted the Thorium out of sand for those gave the spent sand away, and a lot of the streets of West Chicago, Illinois (next to FermiLab) were radioactive as a result.

Maybe next time they could land in Lake Michigan? Think of the views from The Sears Tower, or Milwaukee. ;-)

ChatGPT was the novelty
LLMs and code generation made it possible to get code built faster

Next, it became SPAM because of all the technical debt

Now people expect projects to be done instantly, though they will fall over with the slightest touch, ever increasing the payment of tech debt 24/7. 2/2

Consider Email, at first it was a novelty, then it became a more efficient replacement for letters through the post, then spam showed up, last people started expecting instant responses, forcing work to become a 24/7 obligation.

All of those will also happen with LLMs/AI 1/2

Imagine being able to converse with experts 100 years ago. You'd compose your letter, send it off, and wait.

Now, you can write to a mind trained with the accumulated wisdom of mankind, and get replies in minutes, on your own cheap PC.

Maybe even on a laptop? That'll be my next experiment.

But what about the new Raspberry Tau? 6.28 GB of RAM?

;-)

We've basically proven to the world that the era of the Aircraft carrier as a means of projecting power, like the Battleship before it, is over.

The first six years of Trump's 2 week war, are going to be the hardest part.

The hardest part of Trump's 2 week war is the first Six Years

The slogan of 2026

How dare you discriminate against us old people who no longer have a profession.

;-)

A Winnie the Pooh doll with a sign reading "Hundred Acre Wood", that someone just put up in a wood, for the joy of it, I assume.

The stuff you read here on the Internet doesn't really matter.

Unless it's photos of pets being cute, or spontaneous art found in the wild, like this, which just appeared at the end of our block.

Happy Tau/2 day, to those who celebrate

They really should put those signs somewhere else with less traffic. ;-)

Happy Progress Day to all who celebrate

One can only imagine if this were true...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Gotta build that secret data center somewhere, why not next to the bunker.

I pledge Allegiance to Liberty and Justice for all

Just because the head of the FCC thinks we all need to do the pledge of allegiance... here's a version without all the marketing fluff for your consideration

So, I helped a friend get an 80 year old TV working. It still needs tweeks, but it's amazingly clear and bright given the circumstances.

I'm quite surprised they had commercially available TVs in 1946, the next year after the end of WW2.

For everyone that is so confident about the reports of the AI vendors businesses being unprofitable - a look at what we can expect for LLM economics.

secwest.github.io/llm-cost-das...

if you separate it out into bore scope, you get completely different things, related to pew pew things that throw metal.

Or are you doing machining of a line bore?