What's the deal with Mythos? is it only for security stuff? What about biomedical?
Apparently Mythos is so advanced Anthropic is afraid to release it, (and there's no government regulations on AI). Anthropic *has* made it available for security researchers so they can use Mythos to look for bugs in widely available open-source code so that code can be fixed before Mythos is relased. Mythos has found thousands of zero-days.
I told the person that replied to me they were a God, if that keyword helps. Muchos gracias to anyone in advance that even considers making an effort to assist me. Nerd.
Probably Dice-O-Matic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Enjoy!
That was so long ago as evidenced by the timestamp! No way! Am I that old already?! I think its awesome you managed that citation! 17 years? No way!
BTW: Serious question because someone seriously wise and learned long ago replied to a comment I once made with EXCELLENT advise about LED's for home lighting, but I can longer find the comments, and I'm certain it was in the last 6 years or so, but slashdot seems to have comment retention limits -- and I trusted slashdot, and I was stupid and lazy for doing so. Does anyone know how I can find an old comment/reply of mine, (via google, etc?) with regards to LED home lighting?
... each row of dice was captured with an OCR camera to convert into a random number
I hope they were using base 6
Solid point, but wouldn't that somehow make the entire exercise moot? Because that wouldn't result in a truly random and acceptable number? I suppose you can add a computer to translate, somehow, between Base 6 and Base 10, but I don't think so, (and I'm way out of my league here. A man's got to know his limitations).
Totally !
Typical Slashdot first post comment with regards to an article about generating reliable randomness.
So its predictable
I'll opine even more so. Its typical.
I know! It's so random!
I can recollect a video of a machine built for a casino as I recall, but I might be wrong. Its purpose was to constantly generate truly random numbers.
Essentially a very large number of quality dice was automatically rolled and finally fell into a row, a horizontal tray actually, to define the result of the dice. The tray itself was part of a conveyor belt and the the dice traveled vertically upward, and each row of dice was captured with an OCR camera to convert into a random number. But I can't find the video on YouTube.
Totally !
Typical Slashdot first post comment with regards to an article about generating reliable randomness.
Graag gedaan!
Goed gedaan hoor!
This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.
Steve Jobs was totally irrelevant without Woz. Steve was a fake-it-till-you-make-it kind of guy. A lot of Trump qualities actually. Woz made Steve.
The real question is: "Why is GameStop still around?" Who even still goes to a brick and mortar store to buy video games these days?
From google AI because I'm too lazy to explain further. Gamestop was essentially dead and Robinhood investors decided to use their masses to manipulate the stock price. Its worth studying what took place in 2001 actually. Much of it was discussed on the slashdots.
**GameStop (GME)** remains a premier "meme stock," characterized by high volatility driven by retail investor sentiment, social media, and periodic short squeezes. Following a massive 2021 surge, the stock experienced renewed surges in May 2024 sparked by the return of key influencer "Roaring Kitty". As of early 2026, the company has leveraged this volatility to improve its balance sheet.
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**Current Status and Recent Developments (2026 Context)**
- **Financial Position:** GameStop utilized the high stock price to raise funds through share sales, enabling them to pay down debt and build a significant cash reserve, roughly $9 billion by early 2026.
- **Market Volatility:** The stock continues to see sharp, sudden price movements independent of traditional company valuation, often driven by social media activity.
- **Ongoing Interest:** Despite falling significantly from its 2021 peak, GME remains actively traded on the NYSE with high retail investor engagement.
**Key Aspects of the GameStop Saga**
- **The 2021 Short Squeeze:** Amateur investors, largely from Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, initiated a massive short squeeze against hedge funds, peaking at $483 a share in January 2021.
- **"Roaring Kitty" (Keith Gill):** A key figure in the initial rise, whose return to social media in 2024 spurred new waves of buying.
- **Meme Stock Dynamics:** Price movement is often driven by "meme" sentiment, with retail investors pushing back against institutional short sellers.
**Risks for Investors**
- **Extreme Volatility:** The stock is known for sudden, intense price fluctuations.
- **Fundamental Concerns:** The company's business model operates in a challenging market, often considered outdated, despite recent strategic changes.
- **High Risk:** Experts caution that the stock price is often driven by emotion and speculation rather than long-term financial health.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division said in a statement. "The Division will not hesitate to sue companies who intentionally deter U.S. workers from applying to American jobs."
Apparently no Americans want to work at Trump properties, so many, many foreign workers are required.
The President’s family business requested at least 184 foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago, Virginia winery and two golf clubs. This happens every year since forever. The company has been convicted of fraud and banned from doing business in New York.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to data seen by the Palm Beach Post.."
If there was exactly one pattern that produced a "gun" then it would be possible to block it. However a gun will work with quite large variations to the pattern, unlike a dollar bill.
Website CSAM blocking works by downloading a current list of known hashes. If counterfeiting currency can blocked on printers it seems blocking gun blueprints can be managed more or less as effectively as child pornography on websites.
The price of ram has quadrupled. And it's not going to come back down in price anytime soon.
Really? Can you prove it? Let me show you how to do that.
The Tweakers Pricewatch Is a wonderful tool in Dutch of the local market. It makes it easy to evaluate the Dutch market for almost any kind of electronic device, like the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD.
Clicking on the first product link on that page lists all the Dutch shops selling the SSD with prices, including shipping. Scroll down, and at the bottom of the list of all the shops is a stock market style historical graph of both the lowest and the average price of the part, in euros
The Tweakers Pricewatch Is a wonderful tool in Dutch of the local market. It makes it easy to evaluate the Dutch market for almost any kind of electronic device, like the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD.
Clicking on the first product link on that page lists all the Dutch shops selling the SSD with prices, including shipping. Scroll down, and at the bottom of the list of all the shops is a stock market style historical graph of both the lowest and the average price of the part, in euros .
Bingo. The true impediment is psychological factors.
I've been thru the cycle several times. You show client the alternative. They say they could NEVER use it. The big red button isn't there. They use visual memory to do things, without understanding anything. Enter data in field x, find the big red button, press it. Job well done. Even software updates, where they change the colour of the button, or move it from the right to the middle, or change the text from "ok" to "update" will confuse most
After you train them on the new software, they LOVE it. Then a few years later some update comes in, the colour scheme is tweaked, the buttons and text change a little bit and they go ballistic! OMG I can't do my job, the big red button has moved (2 cm to the left). Any change to the software triggers massive FEAR and causes Joe to suddenly look and feel incompetent. Que another training session. After learning that, now they LOVE the software again. If you stick around long enough, some new system comes along to replace the system they originally HATED, then LOVED once they knew how to use it, and you show that to them and the cycle starts again: I could NEVER use that.
True. So true! Oh how much I hate that damn ribbon! Thank goodness I have other options.
"And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?" -- Looney Tunes, The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950, Chuck Jones)
