@frankstohl@mastodon.social2025-09-18 08:45:10
Quantencomputer knackt 6-Bit Verschlüsselung
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=192046
@phpmacher@sueden.social2025-09-18 15:20:23
Liebe Mit-Menschen,
Ich mach das hier alles nur, damit ihr eure Ruhe vor mir habt und ich nicht straffällig werde
Tag 42: #rausgeschafft
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-14 13:15:38
Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/discords-virtual-reward-orbs-la…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-09-17 19:27:48
YouTube is like heroin because it pulls you in, hooks you, and slowly drains you. It is designed to be addictive and destructive, and that is exactly why it feels so hard to step away from it.
And yes, I know the excuse, maybe your favorite dealer has not set up shop on PeerTube. But that does not change the truth of the comparison.
PeerTube is like weed, it grows more naturally, it is gentler on you, and it still gives you a high without tearing apart your health and your lif…
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-09-16 15:10:58
Im Hauptbahnhof gibt's jetzt ein Café, das auf wienerisch macht, 'Aida' aber zur Melange gibt's nicht mal ein Glas Wasser. Ts.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-07-14 14:25:38
Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/discords-virtual-reward-orbs-la…
@mlncn@social.coop2025-09-17 04:35:12
If there's a shooting in your apartment building, would you feel helped if your building were razed in response? When there's a shooting a block from a police station, do we destroy the whole block including the police station? Whatever Frey's excuse of the moment for destroying the makeshift homes of unhoused people, it is collective punishment— of the victims no less.
(Comment posted on @…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-19 07:51:05
AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-05 13:15:19
"""
In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@davej@dice.camp2025-09-16 22:36:12
After its worst electoral defeat ever, the #LNP’s new direction is… to punch down?
Let’s set aside, for a moment, their eternal hate-boner for the unemployed and the disabled.
Howard relentlessly porkbarrelled seniors and created millions of middle-class welfare dependants who kept the LNP in power for 20 of the last 30 years. Now *they’re* fair game, too?
There’s nobody at the helm. Ley…