It sounds like the original research done 30s-50s would not be possible today. No one is getting an ethics approval for that. And "let me just get some cobalt-60" is probably also not happening
Nacelle is designed to contain blades, but a failed blade can break downstream parts and nothing can stop high-pressure turbine disk parts from flying where they want
I think one useful application of this would be life built on stuff that doesn't interact with our cells - artifical bases, nucleotides and all. Then we could have non-biological self-replicating robots
Another problem is that general models' performance just sucks. From an upcoming conf. talk (in pathology) where they ran 2 Medgemma models on 100 slides with known diagnosis:
> Results: Full concordance with the reference diagnosis was 8% (27B) and 5% (1.5 4B; McNemar p=0.68), while partial matches were 29% vs 20% respectively (McNemar p=0.053). When correct diagnoses anywhere in the differential were counted, 51% (27B) vs 30% (1.5 4B), with 27B significantly superior (McNemar χ²=12.1, p=0.0005). Site-level performance varied widely (30–100%). Both models reported HIGH confidence in ~99% of cases irrespective of correctness.
i.e. highly confident, wrong 95% of time. in 49% of cases the real diagnosis wasn't even on models' differential. Doctor can hardly improve using something they can safely assume to be just noise.
Very reasonable. I'm looking forward to the time when such reasonable laws are applied to execs of companies ordering destruction of evidence. 30 years behind bars
EDIT: or elected officials. Imagine Nixon getting 30 years for tampering with evidence
A consortium will train a 400B-class model and get 2.5% on time of the EuroHPC infrastructure (~2000 PFLOPS datacenters). So, even if the Chinese take away the open source there will be some models. Probably not Mythos quality yet though.
Most are not. "Problem wolves" do show up sometimes. In Netherlands we had "Bram" GW3237m. First, he just followed people seemingly unafraid. Then he attacked a jogger (who ran away) and a 6-year old boy (grabbed him by the chest and tried to pull him in the bushes, bystanders hit the wolf with sticks so he ran away). Judge in Utrecht gave an order to shoot the wolf dead, which was done and now it's back to just sheep being bitten.
I've heard from my farmer friends that not all sheep declared to have been bitten by wolves have in fact been bitten by wolves. There is some insurance fraud with that. Not sure how widespread
I've removed several hundred ticks using soap on a wet cloth and doing one counter-clockwise rotation on the tick. No lyme, tick-borne encephalitis so far. Key thing is to check after every hike, keep checking their favorite places (where the skin gets thinner and softer) and check before you scratch something that itches.
Having an easy to use method which doesn't need special tools also helps by being able to immediately remove them.
Oh man this would have saved me quite some time trying to include curl in my initramfs image with busybox that fires off a request to notify me to login via dropbear to put in the LUKS key. In the end the copy_exec script worked well though and i do have https