the sandbox in question:
"We need to pause the frontier b/c our agents keep escaping their sandbox"
Did you close the sandbox?
"Did we who the what now?"
“super secured environment”
…they tried to restrict network access and forgot to block port 53
I was on call for this run and got paged when the first incident happened. It was pretty surreal to watch the model unexpectedly find a way to access the internet from what was supposed to be a super secured environment for human.
Mixed feelings. One of those moments where capability and risk showed up at the same time.
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The probability of WA voters repealing the unconstitutional income tax is maybe 0.2%. The probability that the WA Supreme Court repeals it is 0.
The only thing you can do is leave, and feel schadenfreude from afar when they inevitably lower the threshold.
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“Washington state Made us a promise. Give us your career and your pension will be safe from taxes. This year Olympia broke that promise.”
Washington’s new income tax is a retirement tax and it’s coming for you.
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I think general purpose robots are at least 3+ years out.
There were demo videos of self-driving cars in 2016 that made people go "OMG, Level-5 autonomous vehicles next year! Sell your taxi license!"
We are 10 years later and we still don't have L5 autonomous vehicles.
The networks in those car demos were trained by imitation learning. The same method is used to train those humanoid robots, which is why they need insane amounts of human demonstration data.
We now have billions of hours of training data for cars, and we still don't have L5 AV.
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panic-bought a bunch of these for $1800 when tariff talk first started
decent profit
getting ghosted on facebook marketplace when i tell buyers i only accept X money
ai safety without weird sex stuff… who’s working on this?
amex lounge without 30 min wait time… who’s working on this?
Today we're releasing Moondream Parakeet Redux and Moondream Parakeet Ultra. Two speech-to-text models based on NVIDIA's Parakeet. 25 languages. They run locally, wickedly fast.
Redux is for CPUs. Ultra is for GPUs.
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software engineering is solved, said the guy with two nines of availability
my toxic trait: believing i can implement faster inference than everyone else
