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ren_engineer commented on Should you take creatine?   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/Anon84
ren_engineer · 16 days ago
bodybuilders once again 10-20 years ahead of mainstream science
ren_engineer commented on Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional   404media.co/judge-rules-b... · Posted by u/bradac56
hiatus · 4 months ago
> U.S. District Juste Miranda M. Du rejected this argument, but wouldn’t suppress the evidence. “The Court finds that a tower dump is a search and the warrant law enforcement used to get it is a general warrant forbidden under the Fourth Amendment,” she said in a ruling filed on April 11. “That said, because the Court appears to be the first court within the Ninth Circuit to reach this conclusion and the good faith exception otherwise applies, the Court will not order any evidence suppressed.”

It continues to amaze me that police are the only group who can use the defense of ignorance of the law.

ren_engineer · 4 months ago
cell tower dump and general geofence warrants to Google/Apple were how many Jan 6th protesters were found and charged. Courts threw out all their arguments about this very issue. This is standard practice and was celebrated as cops being smart

here's a Washington Post article lamenting that Google was cutting back on how long they hold location data and how hundreds of people wouldn't have been prosecuted without it- https://archive.ph/r7afb

ren_engineer commented on OpenAI o3 and o4-mini   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/maheshrijal
_fat_santa · 5 months ago
So at this point OpenAI has 6 reasoning models, 4 flagship chat models, and 7 cost optimized models. So that's 17 models in total and that's not even counting their older models and more specialized ones. Compare this with Anthropic that has 7 models in total and 2 main ones that they promote.

This is just getting to be a bit much, seems like they are trying to cover for the fact that they haven't actually done much. All these models feel like they took the exact same base model, tweaked a few things and released it as an entirely new model rather than updating the existing ones. In fact based on some of the other comments here it sounds like these are just updates to their existing model, but they release them as new models to create more media buzz.

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
you'd think they could use AI to interpret the best model for your use case so you don't even have to think about it. Run the first few API calls in parallel, grade the result, and then send the rest to whatever works best
ren_engineer commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak   knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon
canjobear · 5 months ago
> /g/ was the origin of Chain of Thought for AI

Is this documented?

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
Gwern talked about it when GPT 4.5 came out, a ton of breakthroughs with image and text AI came from anons trying to optimize models for their waifus. That's basically the origin of chat models in general - https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1izpgct/comment/mf5...
ren_engineer commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak   knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon
Red_Tarsius · 5 months ago
I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. I enjoyed browsing through sfw boards like /tg/ (tabletop media), /ck/ (cooking) and /fit/ (fitness). I had long discussions about the SW sequels on /tv/ back in 2015-19. The readership was surprisingly diverse and the anonymity lead users to provide more focused replies. With bodybuilding.com gone, the blue boards felt like the last bastion of the old internet.
ren_engineer · 5 months ago
/g/ was the origin of Chain of Thought for AI, also where llama weights were first leaked
ren_engineer commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak   knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon
sgarland · 5 months ago
> bodybuilding.com

Obligatory post about the dumbest argument to ever be had online [0]. It’s so good, the Wikipedia entry [1] has a section devoted to it.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240123134202/https://forum.bod...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodybuilding.com

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
lol that was a bait thread, this is the same place that had a discussion on whether a pitbull could defeat the Sun if it snuck up on it at night
ren_engineer commented on I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636   scottaaronson.blog/?p=880... · Posted by u/Tomte
xnx · 5 months ago
> Hopefully this ends with colleges having their tax exempt status revoked.

Only if we do churches at the same time.

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
churches don't get billions annually in government funding, they are treated like any other charity in terms of donations
ren_engineer commented on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes   harvard.edu/president/new... · Posted by u/impish9208
bretpiatt · 5 months ago
With their endowment above $50 billion, combined with Federal plus Non-Federal sponsored revenue at 16% of operating budget, it makes sense to me they just forgo Federal funds and operate independently.

If all 16% is canceled, then they'd need to draw an additional $1 billion per year from endowment at current budget levels.

That would put them above 7% draw so potentially unsustainable for perpetuity, historically they've averaged 11% returns though, so if past performance is a predictor of future, they can cover 100% of Federal gap and still grow the endowment annually with no new donations.

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
those endowments, especially for the Ivy League schools, aren't liquid at all. They'd take a massive haircut if they had to start pulling funds from it
ren_engineer commented on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes   harvard.edu/president/new... · Posted by u/impish9208
esrauch · 5 months ago
> wrong about amyloid plaques

Sorry... you think that Trump is doing this because of suppression of dissent about amyloid plaques?

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
no, but there would be much more push back against this type of action if Harvard and other universities didn't alienate a large chunk of the population. Why should the taxpayers fund places that openly admit to decades of racial discrimination in admissions

the institutions have already failed their intended purpose, as shown by the research fraud. Propping them up with tax dollars because of nostalgia over the name brand is pointless

ren_engineer commented on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes   harvard.edu/president/new... · Posted by u/impish9208
areoform · 5 months ago
It's not.

The rubicon has already been crossed. If you asked some of the framers of the US constitution - beyond all other factors, unelected powers etc - what was the one defining trait of the government structure they wished to avoid; they'd have replied with arbitrary imprisonment and the suspension of due process.

Please don't take my word for it, hear it from the Prosecutor's Prosecutor. The SCOTUS justice, former AG and former USSG who led the American prosecution against the Nazis at Nuremberg, Robert H. Jackson,

   No society is free where government makes one person's liberty depend upon the arbitrary will of another. Dictatorships have done this since time immemorial. They do now. Russian laws of 1934 authorized the People's Commissariat to imprison, banish and exile Russian citizens as well as "foreign subjects who are socially dangerous."' Hitler's secret police were given like powers. German courts were forbidden to make any inquiry whatever as to the information on which the police acted. Our Bill of Rights was written to prevent such oppressive practices. Under it this Nation has fostered and protected individual freedom.
    
   The Founders abhorred arbitrary one-man imprisonments. Their belief was--our constitutional principles are-that no person of any faith, rich or poor, high or low, native or foreigner, white or colored, can have his life, liberty or property taken "without due process of law." This means to me that neither the federal police nor federal prosecutors nor any other governmental official, whatever his title, can put or keep people in prison without accountability to courts of justice. It means that individual liberty is too highly prized in this country to allow executive officials to imprison and hold people on the basis of information kept secret from courts. It means that Mezei should not be deprived of his liberty indefinitely except as the result of a fair open court hearing in which evidence is appraised by the court, not by the prosecutor
There is a reason why citizenship was not a requirement for receiving due process under the law. Citizenships are bestowed by the government. They can be taken away by the government. The framers held certain rights to be unalienable from human beings - something that no government can take away, and that was the right to not be unjustly detained for your beliefs, your behavior, your dress, your religion or composure.

Suspending due process for anyone is fundamentally un-American. But we have crossed that threshold. What comes next is fairly inevitable - if the process isn't stopped now.

ren_engineer · 5 months ago
the judge you are quoting literally worked in FDR's admin when they were deporting millions of Mexicans, regardless of whether they were born in the US. They didn't get due process

u/ren_engineer

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