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from my link log —
The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is "No."
http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2010/12/answer-to-will-you-mentor-me-is.html
saved 2019-08-21

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Angriffswelle auf Arch Linux: Hunderte Paketbeschreibungen mit Malware im AUR

Angriffswelle auf Arch Linux: Hunderte Paketbeschreibungen mit Malware im AUR
Arch Linux wehrt sich gegen eine Angriffswelle, die massenweise Paketbeschreibungen im inoffiziellen Arch User Repository mit Malware verseucht hat.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is demanding answers from a medical journal that recently removed a paper suggesting a link between vaccines and infant death, saying their decision was “of great interest to me”.
The journal Toxicology Reports had removed the paper this spring after editors determined it was so seriously flawed it could harm patients and pose a risk to public health.
Public health advocates immediately criticized the move, and said Kennedy appeared t…

That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
@…

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] Good morning Fedi friends. Is anybody curious about how the #WSocial experiment is going? You know, the private, for profit "European answer to X" endorsed by the European Commission, which is a fork of Bluesky and has quietly gone closed-source before its beta launch (à la #TruthSocial)? I've got numbers for you! Nearly two months in, W Social has almost the same number of accounts as #Eurosky... You know, the European fork of Bluesky that does NOT require government …

The Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Just Weighed In on One of Cosmology's Biggest Arguments - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-oldest-stars-in-the-galaxy-just-weighed-in-on-one-of-cosmologys-bigges…

Well apparently "[Burnham] added that in the 'longer term' the government would look at potentially banning the single-use grills during summer months."
Obviously nothing can be done about it while Parliament is on holiday.
In previously administrations announcing a Minister for Drought seemed be the answer...

Next time answer is no we will not treat this like a regular release when it is an emergency release. Program fixes should be treated as an emergency fix, not a full-blown production release. There is a documented process for this, but I guess it is for 'political reasons' not to go that route.
Also, I will refuse to have an emergency release done on the same day as a production/UA release. Stress levels are climbing.

House Republicans on Wednesday made another attempt to answer Donald Trump’s demand for new restrictions on voting nationwide
by linking the measure to an unrelated spending bill and passing both largely along party lines.
The effort was the latest attempt by congressional Republicans to pass the Save America Act,
which would ban mail-in ballots and impose new identification requirements on voters when they register and cast ballots.
While the Trump administration ha…

House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill
Effort is latest attempt to pass bill that seeks to ban mail-in ballots and imposes voter identification requirements

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

Anthropic has been trying to understand how large language models (LLMs) work for a few years now.
Anthropic isn’t the only one looking at this, but I think the company has made it part of its core mission more than most.
Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has said we won’t be able to control LLMs fully unless we learn more about how they work. 
So this new research is very much in that context.
It goes deeper into the weird mechanisms inside LLMs than ever before.

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it.