Tuesday, October 15
Daily News Stuff 15 October 2024
Unfazed Invaders Edition
Unfazed Invaders Edition
Top Story
- The Internet Archive is back online after the recent DDOS and data breach. (The Verge)
Currently it's read-only - that is, you can look up existing data but you can't request it to save new websites. But all the existing data is intact.
Work continues on restoring full functionality.
Tech News
- A Nobel Prize winner (Geoff Hinton) has called out OpenAI for placing profits (the company is not remotely profitable) ahead of safety (what safety?) (WCCFTech)
I swear, ever prominent figure in AI appears to have performed an auto-lobotomy with a grapefruit spoon.
- Google has signed a deal with nuclear energy developer Kairos Power to run its data centers using, well, nuclear energy. (CNBC)
Specifically using nuclear energy from small modular reactors which in turn use molten salt cooling. There are currently, let's see, zero of these operating in the United States and only three in the world.
The first reactor is planned to be online by 2030 but I suspect Elon Musk will have his Mars colony before that happens.
- I do not know why they did that: The iKOOLCORE R2 Max is a mini-PC with maxi-networking. (Liliputing)
A 4 core Intel N100 or 8 core N305 CPU, up to 32GB (maybe 48GB) of RAM, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI, USB-C with DisplayPort, and two M.2 NVMe slots.
Here's the catch, though: Intel's N-series CPUs don't have a lot of I/O bandwidth, and after all the network ports are catered for, the M.2 slots get just one PCIe lane each... Of PCIe 2.0.
That's 500MB per second, when even a budget drive like Crucial's P3 Plus can deliver 5000MB per second.
The kicker is that the 2.5Gb Ethernet ports have PCIe 3.0 connections, when they max out at 250MB per second and cannot possible use that.
- NASA's Europe Clipper mission is on its way to Europa - pure coincidence - courtesy of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. (The Register)
It is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2030, just like everything else.
- If you are running Windows 10, a year from now Microsoft will finally stop bothering you with pointless updates. (Ars Technica)
I bet they don't though.
Disclaimer: I didn't order that. Did I? D-6.
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AI Safety means "you can't make deep-fakes of Kalama!!"
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, October 16 2024 12:49 AM (zx18t)
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I wish I had a clue. What do the D-12, D-11. . . . D-6 numbers mean?
Or does it just mean I'm one of the unknowing dweebs being snickered at by the cool kids?
Or does it just mean I'm one of the unknowing dweebs being snickered at by the cool kids?
Posted by: furball at Wednesday, October 16 2024 01:06 AM (As8gg)
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They are just observing Europa right, not attempting a landing there?
Posted by: Bob in Houston at Wednesday, October 16 2024 01:31 AM (YBLgY)
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Well, you see, some thousands of years ago, humans started making boats out of animal and vegetable materials.
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Quoting wikipedia Battleship "came into us in the late 1880s to describe a type of iron clad warship", and the HMS Dreadnought was commissioned in 1906.
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The plastic version of the board game came out from Milton-Bradley in 1967. (Saus on year is again wikipedia.)
The problem with the AI PhDs is that people who become PhDs are often the type of person to outsource their thinking to academia. If you have key elements of your thinking outsourced to academia, you go mad when academia does. If you instead outsource to ideologies, parties, or political movements, you are insane when they are insane.
Apparently there was a real money supply behind an infowar effort to drive AI experts insane. However, their fundamentals were bad. Both because academic experts have bad fundamentals now, and because a lot of crazy people selected themselves into being AI experts.
There are two parallel crashes ongoing now. One is public regard for academics. Another is american and perhaps world wide political realignments, because of status quo and establishment figures being nuts for stunts that were never going to work.
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Quoting wikipedia Battleship "came into us in the late 1880s to describe a type of iron clad warship", and the HMS Dreadnought was commissioned in 1906.
...
The plastic version of the board game came out from Milton-Bradley in 1967. (Saus on year is again wikipedia.)
The problem with the AI PhDs is that people who become PhDs are often the type of person to outsource their thinking to academia. If you have key elements of your thinking outsourced to academia, you go mad when academia does. If you instead outsource to ideologies, parties, or political movements, you are insane when they are insane.
Apparently there was a real money supply behind an infowar effort to drive AI experts insane. However, their fundamentals were bad. Both because academic experts have bad fundamentals now, and because a lot of crazy people selected themselves into being AI experts.
There are two parallel crashes ongoing now. One is public regard for academics. Another is american and perhaps world wide political realignments, because of status quo and establishment figures being nuts for stunts that were never going to work.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, October 16 2024 01:38 AM (rcPLc)
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D-6 is probably six days until something happens (like Pixy enjoying a bosco).
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, October 16 2024 03:07 AM (zx18t)
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