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New comment by adt in "For the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 4 new Chinese EVs"

adt — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:17:14 +0000

>just about the leading EV manufacturer in the world.

China is definitely the leading EV manufacturer in the world. And they aren't mourning the smaller market in the US (sales ~16M/y).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy01ele412yo

New comment by adt in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

adt — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:20:50 +0000

We've got quite a list of history-only LLMs brewing on the Models Table.

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

This one is easiest to talk to in a HF space:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tventurella/mr_chatterbox

New comment by adt in "How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds"

adt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:57:53 +0000

Akshually, IBS-D is the least common form of IBS.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3865067/

New comment by adt in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

adt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:22:19 +0000

>Ada's deployment domain meant that Ada's successes were invisible. A software project that compiles without error, runs without race conditions, and has been formally verified to satisfy its specification does not generate incident reports or post-mortems or conference talks about what went wrong. Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes.

Um... this is most certainly not true. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ada was the language of choice at my Australian university for both computer science and software engineering degrees.

I distinctly recall my lecturer telling us a story about a fancy presentation of Ada in military tank (AFV) systems for the DoD. The story goes that during the presentation, in front of a live audience, the presenter AND the audience had to duck after the tank's turret began spinning around and around. The code had entered an infinite loop!

New comment by adt in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

adt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:58:56 +0000

Congrats to the Meta team on being model #800 on the Models Table, I suppose.

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

New comment by adt in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

adt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:44:04 +0000

Same story with Connor Leahy and his GPT-2 clone, though his public articulation of how OpenAI sat him down seems to be glossed over.

OpenAI reached out to me almost immediately to talk and they were nothing but respectful and understanding... After making it publicly known what I had done, I was quickly approached by a range of smart people with good arguments. Many of them helped me update my beliefs in light of new evidence...

The day after my announcement, I got to talk to Jack Clark, Alec Radford and Jeff Wu from OpenAI. We had a nice hour long discussion, where I explained where I was coming from, and they helped me to refine my beliefs. They didn’t come in accusing me in any way, they were very clear in saying they wanted to help me gain more important insight into the wider situation. For this open and respectful attitude I will always be grateful. Large entities like OpenAI often seem like behemoths to outsiders, but it was during this chat that it really hit me that they were people just like me, and curious hackers to boot as well.

I quickly began to understand nuances of the situation I wasn’t aware of. OpenAI had a lot more internal discussion than their blog post made it seem. And I found this reassuring. Jack in particular also gave me a lot of valuable information about the possible dangers of the model, and a bit of insight into the workings of governments and intelligence agencies.

After our discussion, I had a lot to think about. But I still wasn’t really convinced to not release. Even some people inside OpenAI were still discussing the not-release policy. So while I definitely had things to consider, I was still mostly set on releasing...

We shouldn’t be angry with OpenAI for what they did. We should applaud them for making a point before it becomes a true problem. Prophylaxis is much better than treatment. I still disagree with some of the things OpenAI did and how they communicated them, but I now understand that sending a message that it is ok, even celebrated, for a lone individual to unilaterally go against reasonable safety concerns of other researchers is not a good message to send. I want to support OpenAI’s message. So, while it might be a small, mostly symbolic gesture, I will not be releasing my model. Some day, someone like me may be in a situation just like mine, but it won’t be GPT2. It might be something much, much more dangerous. And that is the person I am trying to talk to here.

https://medium.com/@NPCollapse/the-hacker-learns-to-trust-62...

https://archive.md/1HoGz

New comment by adt in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

adt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:37:49 +0000

Source is actually: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

New comment by adt in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

adt — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:50:29 +0000

>1:45 a.m. – The first bank of transformers, riddled with bullet holes and having leaked 52,000 US gallons (200,000 L; 43,000 imp gal) of oil, overheated...