Readit Newssquirrel commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God".
Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.
Shed Simove actually did this, with some funny results: https://www.shedsimove.com/content/i-changed-my-name-god
squirrel commented on Generative AI's failure to induce robust models of the world garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/pmcjones
I find Gary's arguments increasingly semantic and unconvincing. He lists several examples of how LLMs "fail to build a world model", but his definition of "world model" is an informal hand-wave ("a computational framework that a system (a machine, or a person or other animal) uses to track what is happening in the world"). His examples are lifted from a variety of unclear or obsolete models - what is his opinion of O3? Why doesn't he create or propose a benchmark that researchers could use to measure progress of "world model creation"?
What's more, his actual point is unclear. Even if you simply grant, "okay, even SOTA LLMs don't have world models", why do I as a user of these models care? Because the models could be wrong? Yes, I'm aware. Nevertheless, I'm still deriving subtantial personal and professional value from the models as they stand today.
He cites o3 and o4-mini as examples of LLMs that play illegal chess moves.
squirrel commented on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 simonwillison.net/2024/De... · Posted by u/simonw
squirrel commented on How Uber tests payments in production news.alvaroduran.com/p/cr... · Posted by u/ohduran
Regardless of what developers think, the payment providers generally forbid it. For example, Stripe says:
> Don’t use real card details. The Stripe Services Agreement prohibits testing in live mode using real payment method details. Use your test API keys and the card numbers below.
Also very interested. I wonder if we could get a comment from a Stripe person or a recently ex (like @patio11 ) to clarify what’s allowed and what’s just ignored.
For about 20 years, chess fans would hold "centaur" tournaments. In those events, the best chess computers, who routinely trounced human grandmasters, teamed up with those same best-in-the-world humans and proceeded to wipe both humans and computers off the board. Nicholas is describing in detail how he pairs up with LLMs to get a similar result in programming and research.
Sobering thought: centaur tournaments at the top level are no more. That's because the computers got so good that the human half of the beast no longer added any meaningful value.
squirrel commented on Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident microsoft.com/en-us/secur... · Posted by u/nar001
Telling that there’s no mention of eBPF, which is standard on Linux and available on Windows, but hasn’t been brought into the main Windows OS. Static analysis might or might not have caught the Blue Friday bug, but it certainly increases the protection level over the current do-as-you-wish model for kernel modules.
squirrel commented on Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games asvarga.github.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/mlavrent
Successful moves don’t always commute. Black has just moved his pawn from g7 to g5. White submits what he thinks is an en passant capture, fxg6. Black submits a knight move, Ng6. One order removes a Black pawn, the other a Black knight.
As others point out, the actual bodycam footage will be definitively probative for the events it records. But there are plenty of cases where the report itself leads to later actions that may be tortious or criminal, and finding out who's to blame for the exact wording used is highly relevant.
Example: AI incorrectly reports that during A's arrest, A made incriminating allegations about B. Based on the report, the police get a warrant and search B's house. When it turns out B is innocent, B sues the department, and when the report turns up during discovery, we're off to the circus.