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NLProc, ML, and the madness of art

#ai #llm #startrek #nlproc #opensource #music #art

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check out this documentary from 1990 called Cyberpunk. be sure to download the torrent and seed!

https://archive.org/details/cyberpunk_201410

Cyberpunk : Intercon : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Cyberpunk is a 1990 documentary that explores the world (and term) that William Gibson invented with his book Neuromancer.  The bulk of the documentary...

Internet Archive
@nixCraft I really tried to ignore the systemd drama as long as my system worked but I guess I have to look for a guide now on how to replace systemd on arch linux. Does gnome even work without systemd?
systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd
@thedansimonson
I share your concerns but part of me finds it incredibly cool. I'm conflicted
Systemd introduced age verification which looks like a Trojan horse for surveillance. As a long-term #Ubuntu user (actually #Xubuntu and previously #debian) what is my best option? #linux
Magnetically hovering guitar strings (sounds unreal)

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Latest newsletter post has a little on Art Brut (due to a museum visit) before the paywall. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-765-art-brut-and-the-squash?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
TITAA #76.5: Art Brut and the Squash Cluster

Tims in Stories - Bullshit Questions - Disorganized Agents - Three.js - WFC - Embeddings

Things I Think Are Awesome
Palm-sized superconducting magnet achieves 42 tesla, rivaling the world's biggest

When we think of powerful magnets used in particle accelerators or for NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), we often envision bulky machines, sometimes the size of buildings. But in an extraordinary breakthrough for physics, scientists at ETH Zurich have created magnets that are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand yet powerful enough to rival some of the world's most powerful magnets.

Phys.org
I find it an expected but thought-provoking point. Most safety methods are post hoc ways to change a model, so they provide weak safety, one can easily apply them the opposite way.
Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10012
Measuring and Eliminating Refusals in Military Large Language Models

Military Large Language Models (LLMs) must provide accurate information to the warfighter in time-critical and dangerous situations. However, today's LLMs are imbued with safety behaviors that cause the LLM to refuse many legitimate queries in the military domain, particularly those related to violence, terrorism, or military technology. Our gold benchmark for assessing refusal rates, which was developed by veterans of the US Army and special forces, is to our knowledge the first dataset of its kind. We present results for refusal and deflection rates on 31 public models and 3 military models. We observe hard rejection rates as high as 98.2% and soft deflection rates ranging from 0% to 21.3%. We also present results on two additional synthetic datasets and show their correlations with the gold dataset. Finally, we perform abliteration using the Heretic library on a military-tuned gpt-oss-20b model, showing an absolute increase in answer rate of 66.5 points but an average relative decrease of 2% on other military tasks. In our concluding remarks, we argue for deeper specialization, including with mid-training and end-to-end post-training, to achieve zero refusals and maximum military task accuracy for closed military models.

arXiv.org

TIL that the NES "blacker than black" palette entry 0d is not just blacker than black, but imitates a sync pulse that can cause TVs and scalers/capture devices to lose sync.

What's more, The Immortal on NES used it to gain 1 more shade of grey. I've yet to be able to run it.