Week 17
Vivek Khatri: "In 1954, a young scientist named Homi Bhabha stood before India's parliament.
He made a bold promise:
'Within 10–15 years, nuclear energy will be cheaper than any other source.'
India had no uranium. No reactors. No money.
He had only a dream and a 3-stage plan.
That plan started executing last night. 🔥
Here's where it becomes a TRILLION DOLLAR story.
India has:
⚡ 25% of world's thorium reserves
⚡ Enough to power India for 300–400 years
⚡ Worth estimated $4.8 TRILLION at energy equivalent pricing..
India's nuclear roadmap is jaw-dropping:
⚡ Today: 8.78 GW nuclear capacity
⚡ 2031-32: 22 GW (target)
⚡ 2047: 100 GW (mission target)
That's a 12x JUMP in 21 years.
For context:
The entire nuclear capacity of France today = 61 GW.
India wants to build that - from scratch - in two decades.
And the PFBR is the engine that makes it possible."
Nature: "Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?.. Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests."
With so many free models available, players like OpenAI, Claude whose primary business is not scaling / hardware / software, will have a tough time in the future. Google can scale. They will be fine. If Meta offers cloud services on LLM, they can benefit.
Everyone else is on thin ice.
There is no "race" on "AI". Its not something you "take" keep it under wraps and its yours so its a strategic advantage. Everyone has it. Everyone will be able to access it. Top products are already available to many, for free, can run locally.
Sean Shamrock is talking shit at Fox News about Iran, Palestinians? Does he know why the Irish (in Ireland) are so pro-Palestine? Because the Irish were sent food aid from Muslim lands during their famine.
You are probably alive thanks to me, Shamrock. And you turn up your nose to me? You thankless ingrate c-ksucker.
Google likely wants to entice developers to use their llm, they'll make money on scaling to multiple users. This is no different from a database scaling for them, or any other core application.
If you need artificial junior developer / coder slave for write-only code, open source / weight llm models are being released all the time. Google released Gemma 4, you can run it on NVidia Orin 64 GB for $2000.
LLMs still remind me of coastal, pedantic, know-nothing, all-talk, "farticulating" shitlibs.
Nature: "Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact.. The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions in areas such as medicine, law, and science, particularly when belief or opinions are contrasted with facts."
"@32x33@mastodon.sprawl.club
This passage is all you need, really.
The Firefox test is not Firefox. It’s a SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine shell in a container, with 'a testing harness mimicking a Firefox 147 content process, but without the browser’s process sandbox and other defense-in-depth mitigations.' (page 50)
Anyhoo, the lesson here seems to be well-known: big company is full of shit, fanboys with no domain expertise post stupid shit about it, the press slobbers all over it, and your #cybersecurity program gets a budget cut because your boss thinks Mythos can do your job."
"@rootwyrm@weird.autos
If you think Anthropic is a legitimate company and that LLMs are going to revolutionize security, this is a mandatory read.
And if you still believe these things after reading it, you should seek employment in an industry where critical thinking skills are optional."
Davi Ottenheimer: "The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic.. The flagship demonstration document turns out to be like the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out. Anthropic failed, and somehow the story was flipped into a warning about its success."
Running away from Jerzy - Franco Micalizzi #music
That's like saying when the Irish was dying of patato famine, there is a "potato supply problem". Sure there is a supply problem for you, if you are Irish. There is plenty of supply, they were just not giving it to you.
Don't look to your landlord PM for help, he thinks "supply" is the problem
.. then they will "promote migration" bcz people are not having kids.. "we have a population problem bro".
"@Daojoan@mastodon.social
Sydney is the only city on Earth where you can pay $9 for a flat white, 11 for a beer, and 1.8 million for a studio apartment, and still have people write op-eds asking why young people won’t have kids."
Jeremy Lent: "Corporations have become the world’s most powerful institutions. It’s time to rewrite the rules.. Sixty-nine of the world’s hundred largest economies are not nations. They are shareholder-owned corporations. Let that number sink in. When we think about where power resides in the modern world, we tend to think of governments, elections, treaties, and international institutions. But the entities that most directly shape the conditions of human life — what gets produced, what gets destroyed, who gets paid and how much, what risks get taken with our atmosphere and our oceans — are largely beyond any semblance of democratic accountability."
Forbes: "Anthropic’s Claude Is Pumping Out Vulnerable Code, Cyber Experts Warn.. Anthropic’s latest Claude models are introducing serious security issues into code, cyber experts say. The company is yet to officially explain why."
"@mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Oh my god, OpenAI reinvented Recall, but for macOS.
'Chronicle is an opt-in feature that scans your screen, saves screenshots temporarily, and sends them to OpenAI's servers.'"
"@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net
It's funny how economists say incentives are everything, but get all huffy when you suggest who funds their paycheck influences their opinions."
Middle East Eye: "US military fully withdraws from Syria after 10 years"
Anonymous: "Hitler made me afraid of bring a Jew, Israel made me ashamed of being a Jew"
Father of Ghishahishilashane the intl pimp of mystery. Epstein helper.
There is that guy again - Robert Maxwell.
The Guardian: "[2017] According to critics, the journal system actually holds back scientific progress. In a 2008 essay, Dr Neal Young of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds and conducts medical research for the US government, argued that, given the importance of scientific innovation to society, 'there is a moral imperative to reconsider how scientific data are judged and disseminated'...
Even scientists who are fighting for reform are often not aware of the roots of the system: how, in the boom years after the second world war, entrepreneurs built fortunes by taking publishing out of the hands of scientists and expanding the business on a previously unimaginable scale. And no one was more transformative and ingenious than Robert Maxwell, who turned scientific journals into a spectacular money-making machine that bankrolled his rise in British society. Maxwell would go on to become an MP, a press baron who challenged Rupert Murdoch, and one of the most notorious figures in British life."
Vivek Chibber: "A dictatorship doesn't give the government greater power over the wealthy, it gives the government greater power over the poor, because the wealthy always have power." via @interfluidity@zirk.us
Suriyak: "Meanwhile, Iran is demonstrating its strength in the Strait of Hormuz with numerous patrols protected by anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles from the coast, refuting reports of the complete destruction of its naval power. Meanwhile, in Tehran, the armed forces parade missile launchers openly in front of the public, undoubtedly a miscalculation on the part of many analysts and military officials who wrongly assumed a rapid destruction of Iran’s military capabilities, which remain significant and are currently being prepared for a possible resumption of military escalation."
Where is "Turkey" bringing back the Empire? Their boy is turned into Anglo's bitch. What's up?
Suriyak: "Humiliation and submission in southern Syria continues... Whilst Jolani attends a show in Damascus, Israeli troops continue to expand their operations in southern Syria in the governorates of Quneitra and Daraa. Furthermore, Israeli settlers entered the town of Hader, escorted by Israeli forces, whilst the STG forces proved incapable or incompetent of confronting the occupying forces. Alongside the Lebanese buffer zone, the Syrian buffer zone forms part of Israel’s new plan to extend its security zone beyond Israel’s ‘national’ borders, in which Syria is viewed as a passive zone but one used by the axis of resistance to operate against Israeli territory."
Even on the simplest tasks it can implode. "Write me a regex script that replaces certain pattern in a line and appends newline at the end". It does the replace with newlines added in the beginning of the line. A task definition cannot be more direct than this. If they screw that up, I shudder to think about anything mission critical.
I cannot begin to describe how non-AGI these LLMs are. Give it a doc, it says it finds errors. I say fix those errors, keep everything else the same. The result: doc is "reinterpreted", with entire blocks of math gone, changed sentences / words, on stuff there were no errors at all [facepalm]
SCMP: "Asia's panicked farmers brace for a looming rice crisis post-Iran war.. Harvest-ready rice fields are lying idle and farmers are deciding whether to skip planting for the coming season, as spiking fuel and fertiliser costs from the war in the Middle East hit one of the world's biggest rice-growing regions."
"@murena@mastodon.social
The Murena Teracube 2s is now available in Europe!
- Made from recycled materials
- Runs easy-to-use, privacy-friendly /e/OS
- Comes with a biodegradable case & replaceable battery"
If you find the right hammer, every problem can be a nail
#Ukraine 03/31 - 04/22