International travel. You can get one of these, put a limited set of files you need on it, travel with it, and if it gets damaged, lost, or analyzed by customs, then it's no big deal. When you get home, you can wipe it and then it's ready for the next trip.
While OpenAI may have modified their contract to remove mass surveillance on US citizens, there is curiously no mention of the other reason Anthropic was dropped by the Pentagon - using AI for autonomous lethal weapons. So it looks like they're still going to do that part. What could possibly go wrong?
This concept has been around for a while...
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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.
The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."
"Lets eat, Grandma!" does indeed have a different meaning than "Lets eat Grandma!"
https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...
Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.
Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.
The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.
What shareholders?
Be kind and rewind!
This guy at least matched the subway train speed by running between two stops:
https://youtu.be/PH_Z8Ghuq6E
Here's a parkour version as well:
https://youtu.be/tXMPRK2LQAE
Tokenization seems to mean taking an asset with value, creating a fake representation of it, selling that to someone in exchange for valuable money, and then laughing all the way to the bank. In the case of a bank doing this, the only difference seems to be that there is not as much laughing involved, because they are already at the bank. And in the case of a bank doing this with "stable" coins (that aren't actually stable), they're also skipping the "asset with value" step.
I do not like this Sam-I-am, I do not like the JVM.
For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.
That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.
Seconded on the Tapo line. I got a Tapo C120 earlier this year and they are surprisingly cheap (currently $28 at B&H) and fairly easy to work with. I found that I needed to initially connect it to their cloud service to get their app working with it, but once that worked, I removed its ability to phone home by blocking the MAC address from the internet on my router. I can still connect to it with RTSP and stream with VLC, replay video with their app, etc. with no need for internet connectivity. Just be aware that if it can't connect to an NTP server that the timestamp in the video will be off... but you can disable the timestamp. It also logs decent resolution video and low bitrate audio to microSD which is handy. I get about two weeks of archived 24/7 footage with a 256 GB card. One drawback is that it is limited to using 2.4 GHz WiFi, which I find to have more interference than 5 GHz in my location. Everyone's situation is different in that regard though.
I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.
That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:
It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.
It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.
I thought they got bought? Did Oracle re-capitalize? I need an upgrade on Niagara.
The latest Sun SPARC arrived at the speed of light... unfortunately it still runs Slowaris
10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.
