I have a word for you: Polydactyly.

(But yes, I know what you're talking about, and yes the AIs don't seem to know that. Or else they assume a lot of polydactyly.)

Send the plans to Ukraine. They're good at this stuff, they'll figure out how to make it bigger.

"...their new security protocalls will spread to the other 53 states." Whoa, by then we'll ten new states? Let's see, Canada has ten provinces. So as a requirement for becoming part of the US, they'll require that each individual province become a separate state.

(No, I don't really think this--Canada is doing fine on its own, and Trump has--fortunately--zero chance of annexing Canada. Most likely you hit the 5 key when you intended to hit the 4 key. :), since you gave the correct current number of states in your first paragraph.)

Wolfman Jack would like a word...

Science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, 1953 "Brain Wave" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Wave). The plot postulates galactic waves that dampen the effect of neurons. Mammalian life on Earth---including humans---developed within one of those waves. When the wave passed, humans and other life became much more intelligent.

I suspect GP's point is that every malware blocker in every browser is likely to treat this kind of script as hostile, except for Chrome because Google are currently nerfing the ability for blockers to intercept hostile scripts in one of the most blatantly user-hostile changes they've ever made.

If Apple play along with Safari then every other browser and its malware blocking plugins are about to be toast in a huge retrograde step for Internet privacy. But not even Cloudflare is going to get away with blocking every iOS device if Apple continues to allow blockers to intercept this kind of script.

Did anyone mention recently that simultaneously controlling both the most popular web browser and several of the most popular ad-supported web properties might be a little anticompetitive, and that it's about time that Google was broken up? It's probably time for that drum to start beating a bit louder again.

And people making predictions about those booms and busts have been wrong pretty much forever.

DeepSeek is doing exactly that.

DeepSeek is 30 times cheaper than OpenAI and delivers better results.

The reasons DeepSeek is cheaper are its use of less energy and the smart use of prompt caching.

Cuba gets slammed by a lot of hurricanes, which are bad for both solar panels and wind turbines.

How much in additional taxes or airport fees are you willing to pay for that?

DeepSeek is designing a tensor processor. The instruction set is very simple. Mostly just lots and lots of parallelized low-precision multiply-and-accumulate.

LLMs and humans are both unreliable, but make different mistakes.

Use one to check the other.

Disclaimer: I have used Mechanical Turk many times, but not recently.

Except the summary says that earlier acquisition is more effective than learning "recently".

Most children don't learn a second language by choice, but because they are in a multilingual environment. My daughter is bilingual because from birth to age 10 she shared a bedroom with her monolingual Mandarin-speaking grandmother.

I had an RPN calculator in high school, so that made learning Japanese much easier.

When I was in the military, I was deployed to the Western Pacific. I learned Japanese and Tagalog so I could talk to girls.