Wednesday, September 03
Daily News Stuff 3 September 2025
Modeling Modelry Edition
Modeling Modelry Edition
Top Story
- Do AI systems need world models to augment their knowledge with facts rather than just stories? Yes. Duh. (Quanta)
Although the answer is painfully obvious and we have covered it here many times, the article is worth reading. Worth reading because it covers SHRDLU, a classic AI system from the 1960s that notably included a world model with impressive results, and also because it goes into the difficulty of scaling this to modern AI systems, such as nobody having the faintest bloody idea how to do it.
Tech News
- The judge in the Google antitrust trial has issued a ruling which not only doesn't break up Google but doesn't seem to do much of anything. (Tech Crunch)
I'd have to read the ruling but the penalties really seem to be minimal.
- I want to be left alone. (CTMS)
I feel you. And yes, there's always an exception for cats.
- CPU utilisation is a lie. (Brendan Long)
I've noted for years that a system reporting a 50% CPU load was typically somewhere closer to 65% thanks to variable clock speeds and multi-threaded cores, and here are charts to demonstrate it. And it gets much worse with certain workloads - a processor running matrix math is typically at 100% load when it is reporting 50% load.
- If you need to biggest fastest drive that will fit in a single M.2 slot, the 8TB Samsung 9100 is that. (Serve the Home)
At $1000 MSRP it is not cheap, but it is big and fast.
- I have now lost twenty pounds in five days. The rate has slowed sharply but it was a pretty wild ride.
This was the swelling I mentioned a couple of times - all water weight - and when the underlying health issue was addressed it just went away.
Into the toilet. Hourly. All night.
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It would be challenging but perhaps of scientific merit, and maybe some of the ignorant idiots would be persuaded if someone tried to digitize all surviving records of the Third Reich, and train an LLM off of just those.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, September 03 2025 09:32 PM (rcPLc)
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Pixy, I have a friend with edema. May I ask the name of the medication you had success with?
Posted by: furball321 at Wednesday, September 03 2025 09:44 PM (As8gg)
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" And it gets much worse with certain workloads - a processor running
matrix math is typically at 100% load when it is reporting 50% load."
Running prime-finding challenges with BOINC and similar clients will amply demonstrate that. (Not only that, but actually dedicating multiple cores to a single work unit will apparently increase the amount of CPU cache each one can use and seems to result in an decrease in the amount of time it takes to process each one!)
Running prime-finding challenges with BOINC and similar clients will amply demonstrate that. (Not only that, but actually dedicating multiple cores to a single work unit will apparently increase the amount of CPU cache each one can use and seems to result in an decrease in the amount of time it takes to process each one!)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, September 03 2025 10:08 PM (1zWbY)
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Doc tried a diuretic on me for a bit, but it did bad things to my kidney numbers, so we had to stop.
Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, September 04 2025 02:33 AM (Nl5FR)
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furball321 - It's hydrochlorothiazide, which is one of the common ones. Reactions online seem to be mixed as side effects are also common.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, September 04 2025 07:18 AM (PiXy!)
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Dare of the Hog.
Also, CPU utilization is just a wild estimate, based on a sample size and a duration that may make sense for a given context but shouldn't be relied upon for much, and that was back in the days of the 4.77MHz 8088.
Also, CPU utilization is just a wild estimate, based on a sample size and a duration that may make sense for a given context but shouldn't be relied upon for much, and that was back in the days of the 4.77MHz 8088.
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