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lexi
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thought launderer, accursed magus, aspiring victim of communism
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the web has become such an unbelievably hateful sack of user-hostile shit. every single image is displayed with js now, for no legitimate reason
"cap'n, the transwarp conduit's destabilizing! there's too much teleparallel torsion on the tetragyro. we've got to pull oot, she cannae take much more!"
"reverse the polarity, Mr. Scott!"
screaming

will people never learn
Every night I sleep in a big bed with my boyfriend, and it’s not connected to the internet
it would be kind of morbidly funny if it we end up figuring out a legit FTL mechanism but it maxes out at like. 1.2c
anyway it would be huge if this turns out to be practical and actually not a hoax. haven't been able to find much information about it beyond that one talk tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDu1URwLxD8
(APEC crazy is normally not subtle. "worldgov is hiding the TRUTH about secret Nazi electrogravitic rockets so the Lizard People can keep their retrocausal ftl warp drive monopoly, WAKE UP SHEEPLE" is more their speed)
I say "serious-seeming" because this was an APEC talk, but the guy in question (Dr. Jacob Cassibry) is a real physicist at a legit university, doesn't come across as especially deranged, and he showed videos of the tech in use, so I didn't dismiss him out of hand
this seems like it would be a really big deal because it lets you manipulate materials that normally wouldn't be practical to affect with electromagnetism. the team's intended use was *fucking artificial "gravity"*
one of the most intriguing things ive learned recently is about a phenomenon called dielectrophoresis. normally it's used to manipulate microscopic objects but a fairly serious-seeming professor gave a talk where he claimed he & his students had managed to scale it up
(and no entanglement does not count)
one thing I really liked about The Expanse was how so much of the protomolecule tech was built on breaking locality. nonlocal interaction is used so casually in lazy sf, but it would be an almost Singularity-scale big deal if we achieved it irl
lisps are always a problem though. the differences in syntax between e.g. janet and scheme aren't distinctive enough and they all have subtle variations in semantics. interesting LLM failure mode
it's even managed to generate Janet code with a bit of prodding. not many models have managed that so far
dang. ling-flash 2 looks pretty impressive. like goddamn this is a ~100B parameter MoE and it's running on my desktop as fast as models a third its size normally do
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how do I keep managing to injure my index finger just enough that I have to rerecord my print on my phone
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qntm @qntm.org · 1d
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so that's where llms learned to talk
"Energies freeze in their own fire, they deter themselves."
- Simulacra and Simulation
whom gods destroy, they first make assmad
like holy fuck you idiots none of this is newsworthy or interesting. for years now there have been decensored open-source models on huggingface, freely available to download, specifically tuned for porn production and "erotic roleplay." anyone can run these on their own hardware
the fucking porn thing is a new low
the western AI corps feel like nothing but a distraction at this point. i am so sick of the media fanatically gargling the effluvia of Cyberpunk Nightmare Megacorps ##42 thru ##47, when actually interesting things are happening elsewhere
used bot salesman "has got just the deal for you," inside sources suggest. and that's not all,
sam altman stop talking for five entire minutes challenge
thus always to the parasite-lords