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how does one learn to routinely get up before the sunrise? trying for about a month already. anytime in daylight (eg. 5am in the summer) is easy, but waking up while it’s still dark seems next to impossible :/

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A stunning example of how efficient market and arbitrage trades enabled by mobile phones help to avoid waste, stabilize prices and increase welfare (Fish markets in Kerala, India, 1997-2001) https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098864

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Welcome to the dark side of the cyberpunk. Once-theoretical timing attacks are now a reality. (TLDR: Cops still can't decrypt the messages, but they can track who's chatting with whom comparing the small spikes of traffic as the message gets delivered) https://wz.ax/timing-is-real

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i see “1 day remaining to reconnect your ethereum address” but also I see my address in app and no reconnect just add address”, is something wrong?

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I thought the AI x-risk is bullshit as robot growth will always be limited by power consumption and speed of real-world interactions. But it seems even pure virtual models are already collapsing as they consume too much of synthetic output during training. Processed foods 2.0!

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thunderstorm is love

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intense air defense fire at night reduces worries a lot but it definitely does not help with sleep as it's LOUD. sigh.

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Finished The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti. Took me some years and over 10 attempts to finish it. Will read again after a while. Shall you read it? Yes. Why? That would be a spoiler. Skip the foreword. It praises the book, still it would plant prejudice in you, as any other summary would.

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It's ironic how the entire Ledger shitshow could be avoided from their side if they chose to release the seed recovery together with a NEW device and a NEW set of promises. Even if the firmware was the same and the devices would differ only in packaging and some default settings.

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Just got a prompt from VMWare to install a security update. Multiple hypervisor escape vulnerabilities, host privilege escalation. Interesting times. (VMSA-2023-0008 if you want to read more, but the details are boring)

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agile https://i.imgur.com/MioBuWH.jpg

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SOOOOOQA max swap file size on macOS is hardcoded 100GB https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/2ff845c2e033bd0ff64b5b6aa6063a1f8f65aa32/osfmk/vm/vm_compressor_backing_store.c#L150

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ok, a nontrivial networking question: how does one route all traffic of a specific app (or user) thru specific gateway/interface/vpn on Mac? fail-closed optional, just prioritizing gateways is fine. it's UDP traffic so proxies are not an option

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sometimes i think about stitching the telegram UI with the Signal backend, to have the tg UX w/nice properties of Signal

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf Reflexion: an autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection (haven’t read beyond the abstract tbh)

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very interesting. https://twitter.com/BlinkDL_AI/status/1638555109373378560?s=20 https://i.imgur.com/8DFsYYY.jpg

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Mind-blowing effort to push the narrative “LLMs must be regulated to be safe, only OpenAI should be allowed to license them, or else”. Or else the fragile monopoly of OpenAI will be commoditized away. Monopoly, not the jobs. Oops. https://twitter.com/rubinovitz/status/1637651591191842816?s=20

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nice soup of observations in case your haven’t had time to play recently https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-engineering/

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Seems I've finally found how to demystify LLMs to ppl who weren't into ML. It's the first intuitive/"analog" UX. Questions -> code translator. Ppl really just discover what WAS possible to do with the computers. In particular, how to /search/! Eg see https://wz.ax/gpt4code

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while the public is ranting, Bellard ships ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text completion, question answering, classification, chat, translation, image generation, ... https://wz.ax/textsynth-server

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