I post silly things. Irish, Dublin 15, nerd @Iamreddave@mastodon.ie

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China installed 61GW of wind and 111GW of solar power in Jan-Sep. Wind tracks last year's record pace, while solar is down from that but tracks 2023 which saw a respectable 200GW added. With energy demand growth slowing, clean energy has a good shot at covering all demand growth.
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When U.S. rapper 2 Chainz sampled 84 year old Lehrer his response was "I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?"
My mathematician daughter was browsing in a used bookstore this weekend ... and found this: writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
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Best anecdote in Carol Thatcher's book about her father is when Sir Denis boarded a train at Paddington in which the only empty compartment was reserved for Rosewood Psychiatric Hospital. Denis travelled alone and in comfort as far as Reading when "all these chaps piled in", accompanied by a male nurse, who counted them before the train moved off. 'One, two, three, four ... who are you?" "I'm the Prime Minister's husband." "Six, seven, eight, nine..."
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Today: Bodhana… an International Master of Chess at the age of 11…What a sensational player @TangramTx $XBI
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The only way out is through. They're calling it the Bugpocalypse. LLMs are being used to find long-hidden cracks in the software infrastructure, and it's happening at a furious rate. 3% of all compromises in computing history happened in the last week, claims one source? I believe it. There are people saying public access to the frontier models ought to be locked out, or heavily guardrailed, over this. The problem with that idea can be summed up in one sentence: when lockpicks are outlawed, only outlaws will have lockpicks. The lockpicks will be Chinese open-weight models, if nothing else. There's no way to stop those from becoming ubiquitous. There are two futures in front of us. One in which only the bad guys have lockpicks, and security holes go undiscovered until they're exploited. Another in which everybody has lockpicks and is aggressively red-teaming their own software so it gets fixed before the holes are exploited. The corpus of human code is huge but finite. The number of defects in it has to be finite too. We can fix those defects now; we have a million friendly robots to do it with. The only way out is through.
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Kurt Gödel nearly failed his US citizenship test because he tried to tell the judge how the constitution allowed a dictator take over. Einstein only barely managed to get him through it
Claude just discovered an unpatchable zero day vulnerability in rawlsian liberalism
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those are not my best hours
how attractive are you from 1-10
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thanks for ruining curious george for me
Los científicos llevan más de 80 años comunicándose con los chimpancés mediante lenguaje de signos. Los chimpancés no han hecho ni una sola pregunta de momento.
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I've got loads if anyone needs a big number. Here's a taxicab 28 number. Found today by me
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Here's a big taxicab number
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one day you wrote console.log("here") for the last time and didn't even know it
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突然ですがペンローズルービックキューブというものを考案しました
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Numbers that can be written in 5 ways as a sum of two (not necessarily positive) coprime cubes. 2 were known I've found 9 more.
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This is this sequence oeis.org/A047697 and here's another 5 way example. If you've some spare GPU time and want to help find the first six ways case let me know?
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Claims: Game detects “ad whales,” then periodically gives them smooth runs until they barely beat their high scores. Right at that point, it kills them deliberately and offers a revive if they watch an ad. $100 million annually in revenue. Hellish.
i used AI to reverse engineer the block blaster mobile app.
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If you take the industrial revolution as a take off event. It *200 growth rates. An equivalent set of requirements would seem to be 1. Each person uses less energy 2. There are less people 3. Each generation of tools is more accurate 4. People take less time to train
Ben Horowitz on what it would take to actually see an AI "fast takeoff" scenario, using a framework from Databricks CEO @alighodsi: 1. Each new model needs far fewer GPUs than the last 2. Each new model takes less time to train 3. Each new model is more accurate than the last 4. It keeps happening, again and again "Zero of those four have been met... We're really talking about a risk that's entirely theoretical at this point." @bhorowitz on @theallinpod
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Only one of these happened with the industrial revolution. And it is happening this time. Tools did get better but also '3. Each new model is more accurate than the last'
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We got far more people taking much longer to train, and living longer. And the people were significanly bigger and used far more power. If the last *200 growth rates had more of us needing more why this one needs less resources all the time?
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