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Wednesday, November 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 November 2024

Weapons Of Mass Distraction Edition

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Disclaimer: Turns out that bees are not legumes.  Who knew?

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Tuesday, November 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 November 2024

Potato Edition

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Disclaimer: I'm not saying it was aliens....

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Monday, November 11

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Daily News Stuff 11 November 2024

State Of The Thing Edition

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  • Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. (MIT)

    No fucking shit. Thanks to the big brains at MIT for bringing us this world-shattering news.
    The researchers found that a popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without having formed an accurate internal map of the city.
    Despite the model's uncanny ability to navigate effectively, when the researchers closed some streets and added detours, its performance plummeted.
    When they dug deeper, the researchers found that the New York maps the model implicitly generated had many nonexistent streets curving between the grid and connecting far away intersections.
    It's a stochastic parrot. We know.
    This could have serious implications for generative AI models deployed in the real world, since a model that seems to be performing well in one context might break down if the task or environment slightly changes.
    Again, anyone who has used AI for more than a couple of minutes is fully aware of this.
    "We needed test beds where we know what the world model is. Now, we can rigorously think about what it means to recover that world model," Vafa explains.
    It doesn't have one.
    The researchers demonstrated the implications of this by adding detours to the map of New York City, which caused all the navigation models to fail.
    Yep.

    Years ago, engineers tried using genetic algorithms to optimise a particular electronic circuit to use fewer transistors. They got a result that worked, but nobody could explain how.

    Turned out it worked by the coincidental passive properties of the circuit, and not due to the transistors. The moment you made the slightest change to the operating conditions, it failed entirely.


Disclaimer: Unless I have to work late. If I have to work late, which I usually do...

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Sunday, November 10

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Daily News Stuff 10 November 2024

Oops All Scorpions Edition

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  • Beata Halassy had breast cancer - for the third time, despite chemotherapy and a mastectomy.

    She had cancer.

    She gave it measles and it died.  (Nature)

    Beata is a virologist so she prepared her own virus culture - a mild strain intended for vaccine production - and had a colleague administer it.  She has now been cancer-free for four years.

    Naturally she wanted to publish the results of her research - on herself.  That's where the real problems started, because scientific journals didn't want to touch it.

    On the upside - apart from the whole thing about being alive - she now has funding to repeat this research to try to cure cancer in pets.


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Disclaimer: You thought he was buying a social network in terminal decline.  He bought a solar system.

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Saturday, November 09

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Daily News Stuff 9 November 2024

Snake Edition

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Tostada Video of the Day



What Does the Election Mean for Twitch Streamers Video of the Day



Asmongold is no dummy.  He doesn't always agree with Trump, but he recognises a gravy train when it presents itself.



Disclaimer: Ours is not to do or die, ours is but the pecan pie.

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Friday, November 08

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Daily News Stuff 8 November 2024

Pork Bun Edition

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  • We've already seen AMD's latest chip, the Ryzen 9800X3D, demolish the competition (including other AMD chips) for playing games.  But how does it perform for the kind of work I do, like running databases, compiling code, processing mathematical models?  (Phoronix)
    For the geo mean of the more than 300 benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D surpassed the Core i9 14900K and landed just behind the prior gen Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors. Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 1.34x the performance.
    This is an 8 core CPU competing against Intel chips with 24 cores.  Yes, the huge Phoronix benchmark suite compares both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads, but then I run a mix of single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks in my daily work.

    Its performance here is nothing short of amazing.  35% faster than the preceding generation is huge.  I want one.


  • And it's sold out.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Seems there was some pent-up demand out there; supplies are selling out as soon as they arrive in stores.


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Disclaimer: Beware of the derg.

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Thursday, November 07

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Daily News Stuff 7 November 2024

Overunder And Promisedeliver Edition

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They Are Becoming Self-Aware Video of the Day



Not At All Tech News

Mint and Dokibird have been playing hardcore Minecraft for nine hours now.  Calli, IRyS, and Biboo have been playing Space Marine 2.  

And Hololive is adding new generations as fast as Nijisanji members can graduate.



hololive DEV_IS FLOW GLOW - the naming scheme is getting out of control - is basically the Gen 8 of the Japanese branch, or in other words, that branch's tenth generation, since the numbering scheme has also gotten out of control.

When I first started watching vtubers, back during the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague, there was no Hololive EN, no Nijisanji EN, no Phase Connect or Prism Project.  I watched Hololive JP's Haachama and Coco, who spoke English, and Korone, who didn't really but she has so much energy and enthusiasm that it never mattered.

Now there's hundreds of them.  I even watched the election results being presented by a vtuber named Kirsche.



Disclaimer: Ame, you need to update the aquarium.

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Wednesday, November 06

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Daily News Stuff 6 November 2024

Return Of The God Emperor Edition

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Disclaimer: Congratulations, America.  You may now proceed to gloat and belittle your enemies for the traditional three day period before getting back to the hard work of saving civilisation.

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Daily Foxu News

The First Foxu In News

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Tuesday, November 05

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Daily News Stuff 5 November 2024

Torment Nexus 2.0 Edition

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Showa American Story Video of the Day

Warning: This video depicts zombies - maybe people too, but definitely zombies - being killed in extremely gruesome ways.



It's basically a Chinese game developer's take on what America might look like if Japan had bought Texas at some time in the 1980s and then everyone got eaten by zombies.

While the recent title from Bioware, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is basically a 50-hour DEI lecture from a blue-haired HR staffer with a sociology degree, this game is insane in a good way.



Disclaimer: Guys, you're getting out-competed for creativity by literal communists.

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