Major American tech companies are using “scraping,” which involves training AI models on text written by human creators, leading to them “extracting the worlds knowledge” the Chinese National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency claimed in an advisory.
What do you mean spinning off these nieche offerings?
This is akin to a demo / SDK ready to plug into a store, it’s just making it easy for devs to get started. it’s still using core models and APIs, no special magic models.
The gist is, OpenAI hired a high ranking Apple employee who helped other Apple employees get hired by OpenAI and exfiltrate Apple trade secrets in the process.
Given that his departure was marked by Apple products getting more reliable and usable, they arguably did too much in that regard (one of Cook’s more notable bad calls). Once he stopped blocking it, the keyboards were fixed and pro devices regained enough ports for pro users.
Without his support, his protege Alan Dye left for Meta and improved the design skills at both companies.
"I haven't been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code." new flow state is having 10 terminal tabs in diff worktrees and trying to remember what each bit is
It hits the exact same endorphin system as “one more turn” style games like Civ. You can manage a few cities and keep them healthy, but the rest of your empire eventually regresses into a set of chores. Any time you encounter one of your zero growth cities you just queue some thoughtless production automation to keep it out of your “next turn” cycle as long as possible.
Yeah, I see this as a design flaw in Civ. Better to limit the player's moves per turn to keep things moving. There's a game called "Ozymandius" that I quite like, or for a simple online game try Compact Conflict:
Here's hoping someone starts to pull these things together into an app or Web frontend so the rest of us can configure these setups more easily.
(I was wondering yesterday, for example, if LMStudio might roll in speech-to-text capability without everyone instead having to jury-rig some custom install/config.)
one option Ive liked for entering flow state for this is running a small 3b param model and using it as an alternative to stackoverflow or websearch while I code.
I don't often do this, mostly bc I don't care too much about most of the code I write and just want it to work, and then I skip over it and see what's missing and tell the LLM to fix it
i hate that there are so many worktrees now that its a real pain to find the actual file and modify it by hand.
there are so many stupid little changes (e.g., rewording or deleting their numerous comments) that would be done better and faster by me but it's usually just less cumbersome to keep asking the machine to tweak it instead.
Give yourself more credit. Bobby Fischer didn't wake up one morning the chess wiz that he is now, it took years of practice and failing. And we're not talking about chess either. Start prompting one agent on one task in one worktree. Spin up a second agent on a second task in a second work tree. Repeat until you hit flow state for you. It might be at three agents or thirteen. Who cares how many other people are on, get to however many is just under too many for you to manage.
I believe this game had some interesting anti cheat, it would still let you play if it knew it was cracked but would just make your aim worse and worse until you gave up.
One thing is 120bit RSA (readily broken with a graphing calculator at the time of release), another thing is the provenance of the RSA implementation code in the original binary.
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