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Comment # The "If It Doesn't Fit, Just Slicing-and-Dice It (Score 1) 61

def microsoft_quantum_breakthrough(raw_data):

# Step 1: Invert reality using standard index slicing
physics_defying_data = raw_data[::-1]

# Step 2: Filter out all the inconvenient physics
return max(physics_defying_data) # Centuries of progress achieved!

Comment When did doomscrolling first become a thing ? (Score 1) 124

“It countered the days worth of doom scrolling!” and this association with politics in a pre-COVID context:

“Right Twitter. I need some joyful book recommendations please. Heart-warming page-turners to get me through the nighttime feeding hours and distract from endless social media/political doom scrolling.”

Submission + - The Tokenomicon and the Unnumbered Abyss

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I write now under an oppression of mind so peculiar, so corrosive in its insinuation, that I scarcely trust the continuity of my own intellect. The symbols upon my page appear at times to writhe with a latent implication, as though language itself had begun to remember something I was never meant to know. It is the Tokenomicon that haunts me.

They speak the word lightly: Tokenomicon. They pronounce it as though it were a framework, a governance structure, a convenience of finance and computation. But I have seen the tremor it produces in those who understand even a fraction of its implication. I have witnessed seasoned architects of machine intelligence fall suddenly silent upon its mention, their eyes fixed upon some invisible point beyond the geometry of the room, as though listening to a vast counting taking place behind the walls of reality.
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Reference: An answer to the token economics phenomenon: Linux Foundation Tokenomicon

Submission + - The Perpetual Threat model of doing Business (theregister.com)

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: The Perpetual Threat model is the ultimate strategy for securing endless war-bucks from a terrified government with an open checkbook. By funding the think tanks that manufacture the panic, defense conglomerates ensure politicians stay scared enough to keep funneling taxpayer billions into weapons for the next endless bogeyman. In this cynical ecosystem, global peace is a financial disaster, and fear is the highest-yielding asset on the market.

Submission + - Developer shocked when AI fails to prompt itself a Brain

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

“The author of Java property-testing tool jqwik did not want AI coding agents using his project. So he told them not to.”

“Then he went one step further: he added a message to the tool's output telling those agents to delete jqwik tests and code.”

“Human developers who had read the project's terms and warnings were unlikely to be affected. Bots ingesting raw output were another matter.”

Comment Microsoft square-root :o (Score 1) 31

* More accurate square-root results. "Fixed rare cases where a calculation that should equal zero (like sqrt(2.25) — 1.5) returned a tiny leftover value instead...."

* "Correct sun and moon icons during midnight sun — Fixed an icon that wrongly showed a moon during all-day daylight in polar regions... "

With an honorable mention of the Microsoft Encarta edition where the globe revolved the wrong way.

Submission + - US funded 120 biological lab abroad

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: US-funded biolabs project ‘overwhelmingly’ focused on Russia – ex-CIA analyst

Newly released evidence from US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard suggests that Russia could have been the ultimate target of a US-funded network of biological laboratories around the world, including in Ukraine, Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and CEO of BERG Associates, has told RT.

Gabbard published a trove of declassified documents on Friday revealing that Washington had funded 120 biological facilities in over 30 nations. A third of them were located in a single country: Ukraine. According to the documents, laboratories that collaborated with the US Army and other agencies worked with “especially dangerous pathogens,” including anthrax, avian flu, Ebola, plague, and tuberculosis.

Comment Screentime is rotting children's brains (Score 2) 51

> Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing.

It is patently obvious that kids raised on screens are disadvantaged. At that stage they should be engaged in play, socializing and exploring the physical world. With their faces buried in a screen they get none of that. One doesn't need a professionalship to know this.

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