Thursday, October 03
Daily News Stuff 3 October 2024
Well Of Course Edition
Well Of Course Edition
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- Eric Adams' phone pleads the Fifth. (The Verge)
The FBI obtained two of the New York mayor's phones under a warrant served almost a year ago, but they still haven't managed to access any data.
Adams changed the password after the warrant was served - to prevent staff from deleting information that was required for the investigation, he says - and then promptly forgot it.
- The Amelia Watson Hyte Y40 PC limited edition PC case is winging its way toward me as we speak. Or as I write and you read. Or trucking its way.
The shipment of Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 limited edition PC cases to Australia disappeared into the Nether, so I broke down and finally ordered it directly from the US, exorbitant shipping and all.
The site took my money and then promptly crashed, because of course it did.
Tech News
- The TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus is an 8 slot M.2 NAS with 10Gb Ethernet. (Serve the Home)
It competes with Asus' Flashtor models, which come in 6 and 12 slot versions, but has more oomph. The 8 core N305 CPU is more than twice as fast as the older 4 core model in the Asus unit.
It's a bit fiddly to install and the operating system is meh, but it can deliver a steady 9Gbps over the network.
- If you run a Zimbra server which you probably don't it's time you patched it. (Ars Technica)
Nasty exploit in the wild.
- The modern economy rests on a single road in North Carolina. (Twitter)
The Spruce Pine quartz mine - the source of the purest natural quartz in the world - supplies critical materials used in every single leading-edge chip manufacturing plant.
- That road is gone. (Axios)
It's not known when the mine might reopen."This is second order of priority," The Quartz Corp said in a statement. "Our top priority remains the health and safety of our employees and their families."
- Cerebras - maker of the world's largest AI chips - is filing for an IPO. (Tom's Hardware)
A single Cerebras chip is the size of a dinner plate and contains 900,000 cores.
Disclaimer: Would you rather program one core the size of a dinner plate, or 900,000 dinner plates the size of a core?
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Good Day Pixy,
Since you are talking, a little about Ai again today I had a question.
You mentioned a smallish program written a long time ago (in software terms) that was closer to general AI than all the current crop of LLMs but I can't remeber the name and I have no idea how to search your site, could you remind me of the name of that if you could?
Thanks
Since you are talking, a little about Ai again today I had a question.
You mentioned a smallish program written a long time ago (in software terms) that was closer to general AI than all the current crop of LLMs but I can't remeber the name and I have no idea how to search your site, could you remind me of the name of that if you could?
Thanks
Posted by: I still can't thing of anything at Thursday, October 03 2024 11:27 PM (VXvaX)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, October 04 2024 07:32 AM (PiXy!)
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Shrdlu. Good grief. That was the answer to some joke back in the Summer of Love, or something.
Meanwhile, Eric Adams and the FBI? "A plague on both your houses!" Amelia, Calliope and Pixy? "Fiddly," "meh," and "Nasty exploit," ???
Your just toying with us down there, aren't you?
Meanwhile, Eric Adams and the FBI? "A plague on both your houses!" Amelia, Calliope and Pixy? "Fiddly," "meh," and "Nasty exploit," ???
Your just toying with us down there, aren't you?
Posted by: furball at Friday, October 04 2024 10:14 AM (As8gg)
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It's not really that big of a deal if AGI hasn't actually advanced since 1969. Winograd was full o' beans when he talked about "Potemkin Villages" of AI. Haha, right?
Posted by: normal at Friday, October 04 2024 10:21 AM (bg2DR)
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etaoin shrdlu were the two leftmost columns of keys on a Linotype typesetting machine. Those have been around since the 19th century so there are lots of references of various forms.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, October 04 2024 10:25 AM (PiXy!)
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Thanks Pixy
I grant I'm just a layman, but it seems like the mechanism is similar, building a database of known things, just more flexible and potentially powerful as it could build points out based on ongoing interaction.
I grant I'm just a layman, but it seems like the mechanism is similar, building a database of known things, just more flexible and potentially powerful as it could build points out based on ongoing interaction.
Posted by: I still can't thing of anything at Saturday, October 05 2024 10:09 AM (kCw2o)
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