Notices by Aether ??? (aether@poa.st), page 12
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 07:16:24 JST 
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Yes, that is correct. You are monsters. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 21:39:17 JST
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@udongle @Owl Need more booze -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 17:26:32 JST
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Lol, he dodged a bullet. She isn't a good person. Materialistic and wanting it all. I hope he managed to fulfil his ambition to get that adoption done. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 18:56:25 JST
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Microsoft has won its court battle with the FTC over its acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, which is rather like a cat winning a fight with a crow over who gets to eat the rear end of a dead mouse.
The FTC was seeking an injunction, which has been denied. That means the acquisition can go ahead, and any further action by the FTC would be up against a fait accompli.
The FTC has appealed the ruling on the basis of nothing. They have filed a notice of appeal but not given grounds. Presumably there will be a reason given at some point, but they need to think of it first. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 21:14:23 JST
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Kiss of death to The Voice -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 20:48:38 JST
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French president Emmanuel Macron has figured out what is really to blame for the nigger rioting in France, video games.
npr.org/2023/07/07/1186316124/france-riots-macron-video-games
Because the problem couldn't lie anywhere else. It must be Sonic the Hedgehog and his insatiable lust for golden rings. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 19:25:59 JST
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The mans a saint -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 15:24:55 JST
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Self-respect teaches you how to dodge bullets. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 20:43:48 JST
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After the Netherlands announced it would stop selling even second-tier chipmaking tools to China, the Chinese embassy sent them a frowny face emoji.
tomshardware.com/news/china-wants-netherlands-to-not-ban-exports-of-asml-tools
There is only one company in the world (ASML based in The Netherlands and probably the most important company in the world now) that makes the most advanced equipment for producing silicon chips, and they're also a key supplier even for less-advanced devices. So this not only prevents China from making chips on advanced processes of 7nm and below, it will cripple the country's ability to produce chips at 14nm over time. It already has machines since they were not previously restricted, but now it can no longer buy more or procure replacement parts.
That pushes them back to 28nm (the 20nm node sucked except for Intel's proprietary version) and 28nm when TSMC is ramping up 3nm will not get you anywhere.
The restrictions also hit flash memory, DRAM production, and logic chips like microprocessors.
Can China build its chipmaking tools? Sure. When not sure, it could be a few years or two decades. Even if they steal the designs, which they probably already have, they currently need the factories to make the parts to make the machines to make these machines. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 19:34:11 JST
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The wife is correct -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 19:42:54 JST
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He is a realist -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 20:40:27 JST
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A new LLM called phi-, with 1.3 billion tokens, scores over 50% on the HumanEval problem set.
twitter.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1671326369626853376
GPT-4 scores 67% - but uses 1.7 trillion tokens.
twitter.com/swyx/status/1671272883379908608
How did they achieve this miracle? They trained phi-1 using textbooks rather than on the internet.
What does it means? It means you can produce an AI that is smart enough to perform simple tasks and small enough to run on your laptop or, probably, your phone.
What else does it mean? It means to score 85% on that test using the same approach as GPT-4 you'd need something like 2 quadrillion tokens, which would cost billions of dollars to train even if you could find that much data. And then years to "align" to get it to stop giving obviously wrong answers because you stuffed it full of nonsense.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Also, phi-1 took four days to train.
arxiv.org/pdf/2306.11644.pdf
Speaking of garbage, don't use textbooks published after 2010. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:27:27 JST
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GPT-4 can pass MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science curriculum with a perfect score.
huggingface.co/papers/2306.08997
A remarkable result.
Except it fucking can't.
flower-nutria-41d.notion.site/No-GPT4-can-t-ace-MIT-b27e6796ab5a48368127a98216c76864
The second paper highlights two problems with the first.
1. - 4% of the problems in the test set cannot be solved with the information provided, or in some cases, at all:
>Below you are given the delays for the different gates you were permitted to use in part D above. Compute the propagation delay of your circuit from D.
That's the entire question. There is no part D above, yet the claim is that GPT-4 answered this question correctly. There are many questions like this in the test set - this second paper links to a spreadsheet with the complete list of questions, good and bad.
2. - the answers provided by GPT-4 are scored by GPT-4. If GPT-4 tells GPT-4 that GPT-4 got the question wrong, GPT-4 gets to try again indefinitely.
Supposedly the answers were verified manually, but if so, they did a poor job because they missed all the wrong questions.
3. - not included in the paper, but posted today on Twitter, the original code used to run the tests leaks the answers used for verification by GPT-4 to the GPT-4 instance answering the questions.
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:13:13 JST
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The Washington Post is shilling for EVs claiming that they won't crash the electric grid.
archive.is/AmbXV
It accepts that, yes, EVs will require massive upgrades to the electric grid, but claims that the grid has grown at that rate before.
Well, it hasn't, but it almost did.
Once. Fifty years ago.
Briefly.
EVs are fail
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 23:26:41 JST
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After a remarkable performance by Reddit's CEO in an AMA event, many of Reddit's largest subreddits have reversed course on their plans for a two day outage in protest over recent changes the the platforms API and are now planning to go dark indefinitely.
theverge.com/2023/6/10/23756476/reddit-protest-api-changes-apollo-third-party-apps
Whoops.
Reports are that CEO Steve Huffman didn't answer a single question from developers, spending all his time whiffing paid softballs.
Here's a list of all the subreddits going offline in protest.
reddark.untone.uk/
It's a lot. Most of the big default subreddits, which, to be fair, are all troon-ridden shitholes.
The default subreddits that new users are subscribed to will be going private so that new users can't access them at all.
Which will improve the site, but I don't know if Redditors will see it that way. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 21:01:46 JST
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It must totally be economic factors -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 20:53:24 JST
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It must be exhausting having to live like one of these things -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 17:59:05 JST
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Remember, all of these children of fucked-up failed starlets are just choosing themselves to be trans.
It's just a coincidence that their mothers are all attention-seeking weirdoes and whores. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 19:37:49 JST
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An experimental AI combat drone being tested by the US Air Force turned the tables when stymied from achieving its goals by a no-go signal from its operator; it decided to take the human out of the decision loop permanently.
tomshardware.com/news/ai-drone-simulator-turns-tables-on-operator
This story came out a couple of days ago. Still, I held off on it because it sounded more like a morality play than the kind of accident that happens with advanced weapon testing, which tends to be loud and messy and not relegated to a presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society.
And there were two issues with the way this story was first reported:
1. It was a simulation rather than a live test of actual hardware.
2. None of it ever happened. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 18:22:05 JST
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Reddit problems
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