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After TEN LONG YEARS, Order of the Sinking Star is out Now! On Switch 2, PS5, and ... it's at the top of Popular New Releases on Steam, already!
Thank you everyone for your support during this long, long, long, long, long development!
Making retro sticker bombs for a client now.
I really feel like I am at the peak of my abilities. Nothing is a stretch, everything was always possible, now it is just faster.
Being a jack of all trades is a super power in this new age. Currently doing product development of hydraulic fittings for a metering orifice. I really can do everything.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training
There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America — run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country!
Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses
There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane.
Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records, offshore payroll claims, and suspicious INTERNATIONAL MONEY flows
"HSI agents have visited problematic OPT employer work sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida."
"Foreign students themselves are entering false addresses and employer names into the student and exchange visitor information system."
"But we are uncovering evidence of organized fraud that spans national and international borders. This is not accidental. It is deliberate, coordinated, and criminal."
"To give you an example, one employer we visited claimed to employ only three foreign students through OPT, while our records show over 500 foreign students claiming to work there."
"The company's representatives were unable to answer basic questions about the business and deferred HR managers in India."
"OPT employers are required to directly train foreign students, but we've seen multiple examples of alleged employers claiming that all management is overseas in India."
"We've also discovered multiple state networks which are large networks of alleged employers claiming to train thousands of foreign students in OPT, then farming them out to unreported third party employers, making oversight nearly impossible and raising serious national security issues."
If you are the first appointment of the day you do not have to wait at doctor's offices. I am not a morning person, but this has saved me years of waiting.
Talk about old school, @htmx_org made the grade. I haven't read an infoworld article since early 2000's. Used to have clippings from it posted all over my cubicle. infoworld.com/article/422177…
Yeah. I think they should all be rounded up and put through a preemptive nuremberg trial.
noaudiophile retweeted
Replying to @borrowck_novel
I was trying to achieve this
nitter.gq/nktauserum/status/2101…
noaudiophile retweeted
astra playing NetHack:
- score: 48,978
- BALROG progress: 49.4%
- max dungeon depth: 17
- max experience level: 14
important note: this is a cherry-picked episode (best of 10), and Astra has been able to modify its own game-playing harness
no privileged information or unfair game modifications, but it uses tools such as pathfinding to previously visited landmarks and code-written trackers for previously observed entities. these offload a fair amount of low-level reasoning, while Astra remains responsible for choosing what to do at every step
imo, the ability of LLMs to autonomously create tools that amortize low-level control costs (and then interpret and use their outputs in-context) is remarkable, and one of the reasons i'm excited about LLM agents. like, we could run the same tool computations and... concatenate the outputs into a flat vector for an MLP... but it would still have to learn what those outputs mean and how to use them. with LLMs we get free hierarchies and natural separation of responsibilities...
anyway, i'm now running episodes with the default settings from BALROG for a more fair comparison
the auto-research programme continues. will report back!
full run below ⤵️



















