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AI that improves itself indefinitely

techcrunch.com
3 points·by russfink·2 maanden geleden·0 comments

Log into 28 vintage computer systems in the browser / Interim Computer Museum

tomshardware.com
3 points·by russfink·5 maanden geleden·2 comments

Ask HN: Why do AI chat interfaces (Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT) all look the same?

3 points·by russfink·10 maanden geleden·4 comments

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russfink
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
TL;DR: the one entry implemented a subleq machine. Google it - it’s a One Instruction Set Computer (OISC). This made me smile. But it also raised a question: when were OISC’s first conceived? Would Apollo and computers of that era have benefitted from this insight?
russfink
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.
russfink
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
Backyard (fault) tree mechanic FTW!
russfink
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
I’m attempting to learn to use a slide rule. It’s quite a history lesson - we take for granted the large precision we get on calculators. But the learning is taking repeated visits, about 30 minutes at a time. I’m slowly getting it.
russfink
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
It must have been the Mule, something even Hari Seldon could not foresee.
russfink
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.
russfink
·25 dagen geleden·discuss
Same. Hit some bug, tried different distro. Soon after adopted a “live off the land” philosophy, adapting to whatever desktop was default on the chosen distro.
russfink
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
I’m kinda new to this - so what you’re saying is the mouse model induces beta-amyliods directly, rather than finding ways to give mice Alzheimer’s, whereas the human tests are for humans that have Alzheimer’s? Meaning we aren’t doing any tests of simply stimulating BA growth in humans?
russfink
·vorige maand·discuss
Unless, in turn, you locate the index itself in pi at a much smaller index. And so on...

Find k candidate indices for your data, then locate each of them. If the smallest one is a significantly smaller index space, repeat.
russfink
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
In the same vein - the Roswell Museum and Research Center - the library portion is underrepresented in its ads. It is a library about the size of an elementary / middle school library filled with supposed accounts and testimony, academic-style papers and reports. One could spend days admiring this collection. (I’m not shilling for it, just pointing out the best part is not the latex cadavers in the other room.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_UFO_Museum_and_R...
russfink
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
It depends on what vintage of Blackboard your IT team has installed. We moved from a circa 2011 BB instance to Canvas in 2022, and it was hands down superior. A different university is running the most recent BB and it’s similar to Canvas.
russfink
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
LLM’s: sometimes wrong but never in doubt.
russfink
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Or, the first time a mistake is detected, a correction is automatically applied.
russfink
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Okay, but what are the cybersecurity implications of this discovery? A new living-off-the-land approach? Resource exhaustion? Covert servers?
russfink
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Sorry for the novice question, but how do you determine this is AI?
russfink
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Not sure I understand the problem this is trying to solve. I can hash a 2Gb file with an empty hash placeholder, sign the hash and store it in the file. Then on decryption, zero out the placeholder, hash the whole file, and compare the result to the included signed hash placeholder without storing 2Gb in memory.
russfink
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Hug of death via Tom’s Hardware
russfink
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
I must be the only one who thinks this, but this is the age of getting things done. I don’t have to worry about syntax or off by one errors, I tell it what to do and it generally does it, instantly!

Oh, and I’m 57 and was programming the Commodore Pet when I was 11. I’m relieved to be (mostly) free of syntactic shackles.

Vote me down, but also prove me wrong.
russfink
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
sedutil-cli —yesIwantToEraseALLmydata $PSID /dev/sda1 or something like that.
russfink
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
This. Most people defer the solving of hard problems to when they write the code. This is wrong, and too late to be effective. In one way, using agents to write code forces the thinking to occur closer to the right level - not at the code level - but in another way, if the thinking isn’t done or done correctly, the agent can’t help.