Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."
Comment 95% figure is incorrect. (Score 2) 39
95% of INTERNATIONAL internet traffic is routed through undersea cable. The VAST MAJORITY of internet traffic here in the US is domestic, and not routed through undersea cables.
Comment Maybe host more locally? (Score 1) 39
Really, what is so much traffic routed undersea? Local CDNs and geo targetting should be used more!
Comment You're one of today's (Score 1) 20
Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!
Comment No one online seems interested in acknowledging (Score 1) 37
That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
Comment Re:Precedents only matter when SCOTUS says they do (Score 2) 180
The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.
Comment It's not just IT workers. (Score 2) 125
Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.
Comment I work in a SCIF (Score 2) 51
I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.
Comment Re:Not news in Canada (Score 1) 173
"diesel engines are known for being especially difficult to start in cold."
When I was in the Army in Korea in 1985/86 one of the duties on the duty roster was to start every vehicle in the motor pool every 4 hours and run it for half an hour to keep it warm. Nothing like getting up at 0200 on a Sunday morning to spend an hour in the motor pool.
Submission + - Another One Bites The Dust
wiredog writes: One of the few remaining blogs from Ye Olden Days of blogging, Dave "I am not making this up" Barry's Blog, is shutting down with the end of Typepad.
Comment I remember buying my first Linux (Score 5, Interesting) 66
Yes, buying. I lived in Cedar City Utah and first encountered Linux in a RedHat 2.0 beige box at a gaming store in Red Cliffs Mall in St George. Probably in 1994 or 5. Came with a couple of manuals, a boot floppy, and a CD. Had the 0.95 kernel. Getting dial-up configured was interesting since the ISP only knew about Trumpet Winsock... Then leaving it running for a few hours in the evening to update everything.
Within a week I was at the local BN buying O'Reilly books.
Comment Re:LLMs predict (Score 1) 238
what kind of behavior would demonstrate that LLMs did have understanding?
An LLM would need to act like an understander -- the essence of the Turing Test. Exactly what that means is a complex question. And it's a necessary but not sufficient condition. But we can easily provide counterexamples where the LLM is clearly not an understander. Like this from the paper:
When prompted with the CoT prefix, the modern LLM Gemini responded: âoeThe United States was established in 1776. 1776 is divisible by 4, but itâ(TM)s not a century year, so itâ(TM)s a leap year. Therefore, the day the US was established was in a normal year.â This response exemplifies a concerning pattern: the model correctly recites the leap year rule and articulates intermediate reasoning steps, yet produces a logically inconsistent conclusion (i.e., asserting 1776 is both a leap year and a normal year).
Comment billions of watts? (Score 1) 49
it's called Gigawatts.
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