True random is almost impossible for computers to generate. The biggest issue is that the algorithms are known and they are generally seeded with numbers that aren’t quite random.
Computers can generate numbers that are close to random, but will still have enough data to reverse engineer.
True random, or the closest we have, is atmospheric noise or tracking points from radioactive decay.
They didn’t change the reference, they defined an AU.
Even when you completely ignore that bullshit monologue from Altman, something is fishy with this.
While just speculation, I think they are positioning for a sale as that is going to be the only way to get any value from their shares. (Aside from dividends, if that is a even a thing with pre-IPO equity? They can’t really IPO being a non-profit and it makes sense to sell the company off.)
Anyone else case to spitball any theories? They can’t be an investor sinkhole forever so there has to be a way for profit to be extracted eventually.
You are aware these are Swiss and French companies, right?
Noobs. I have a MAPP gas/oxygen torch that burns at 2900° C in my garage.
And that is scary. If the is one takeaway from observing the universe it’s that there are always bigger and stranger things out there somewhere.
Something tells me this isn’t a bad thing. If there is an edge of the universe, it’s probably going to be a very strange place.
I taught myself QuickBasic as it was the only thing I knew that was related to copying C64 BASIC out of magazines. (QBasic was packaged with DOS 3.11 I think and I was able to get a full copy of QuickBasic somehow. That was about +30 years ago? Dunno. I was about 12 at the time.) I didn’t know what other languages were out there besides TurboPascal. I did learn simple Pascal, but that was a short chapter.
I actually met someone else in the area that was learning to code, and of course, we wanted to write a game. The only way to code for a mouse at the time was to write an INT33 handler, so it kicked off our interest in asm. (I still use asm for MCU stuff on occasion, but it’s limited.) I quickly diverged into writing some really nifty… eh… “boot sector code” so that kicked off my career in security.
And yeah, it’s the same phenomenon for me: I just think in terms of bits and bytes getting shifted around and I still refuse to believe in “magic”. (Slight jab at Rust coders there, but in good fun.)
Fast forward to today, I train “kids” fresh out of college as part of my job now. The first thing I do is start giving them weird tasks that require they actually understand how something like an fopen() actually works.
(Funny story. I refused to “show my work” in math class for simple f(x) problems as I viewed it as unoptimized code. Lulz. I was such an autistic dork.)
That, 200%!
When I started in computers, years ago, I transitioned from QuickBasic directly into assembly. Ever since then, I can kinda “read the Matrix” (Blond, Brunette, Redhead…) and forget about how confusing a raw binary or how a mess of a dmp looks to someone else. (To me, I really just see patterns and nothing massively complicated.)
“It’s just data.” - You would be surprised how fuzzy that statement is for some people. It’s almost exactly like telling someone who doesn’t speak any English that “the sky is blue”. It’s totally cool though! Learning about the internals of any computer is really just a very long chain of “aha moments” as many concepts aren’t intuitive.
I was wondering if this was ever going to be done due to how much AI investment is floating around. It kinda makes more sense for many of the shitty AI projects that have been proposed over the last few years.
I dump memory more often than you would think. It’s usually not obfuscated or encrypted in any meaningful way even though it is fairly trivial to do so.
It’s good practice to scour through any bloatware installed on windows laptops. Since bloatware is generally written by the lowest bidder, you can find all kinds of keys and phone-home urls (sometimes with all the parameters) and other weird things. Just fire up a decent hex editor and search for strings in the dump file. You don’t need to know jack about reverse engineering either.
It would force everyone who still wanted to use Facebook to upload more fresh data and get hooked again in the process. It’s not a relevance play. It’s a “we want all your new data” play.
I’ll use snake_case and camelCase in the same project. Fuck the system and stick it to the man. You don’t need AI for shitty code structure!
(Don’t worry. I am not a professional dev, but I know how to piss them off really quick…)
It’s going to take me a bit to wrap my head around how they explain the relationship to thermodynamics in that paper.
(Yes, this edit corrected a post where it seemed like they forgot about thermodynamics. They didn’t, I just didn’t scroll as far as I should have in the article.)
See, that is what I thought at first until I thought about the proportions. Having one arm shorter than the other is possible…)
(FYI, my comments are ~50% /s)
That’s the right arm, not the umbilical cord, my dude.
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Welcome to the downward cycle of stimulants, depressants and anti-depressants.
Having been down that path of excess for a good number of years, my only path was straight down. From personal experience, my only path for normality was to stop all of that shit.
It sucks to quit and it sucks to learn how to do this life thing without chemical enhancement. It’s a whole bunch of suck all over the place. However, life eventually got easier to handle and I didn’t have the rollercoaster of drunkness or numbness going on any more.
It took a couple of years, but I would consider life fun again. It just took a while to learn what “fun” actually was for me.
It’s a medical requirement for me to ditch coffee now, unfortunately. However, now that I don’t have a hangover every morning, there is less of a need to drink coffee by the pot anymore, so there is that.
Lick me.