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Qalculate time hacks.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/qalculate-time-hacks.html
saved 2026-07-17

@… I generally don’t. I may share a link to my blog here, or in a private text chat with my spouse or friends, but only insofar as I think they’d genuinely be interested in reading that particular thing.
Writing is, by and large, an exercise I do *for* me. It doesn’t need to ever be read for me to achieve that benefit.

I think everyone in that room should meetup and decide to actually form a band together.
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A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.

David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.
No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.
But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).

David Ellison Convinced Me He Should Never Own nor Control a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery
David Ellison wrote an editorial in the New York Times (gift link) in which (I think) he tries to make the case for why he should be allowed to have his Paramount acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. He accomplished the opposite. He should not own them. I read his writing with

from my link log —
Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
saved 2023-11-17 https…

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…

I think the commissioning parties have the prevention of delays as their main objective with this study as well, but the link isn’t made clear between this recommendation and that desired outcome. And, afaik, this German control mechanism is not yet actively in use anywhere; it's still a mess.

EDIT: boosts no longer needed thanks to @… with the find!
In case anyone else wants to read a sweet article about action hierarchies in video game play, the link via the wayback machine is: #GameDesign

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…

Cory stumbles a lot here under even Michael's light questioning.
Cory seems to think that the machines are just producing fake stories about how to plan a hack into Hugging Face and that somehow that isn't the same as planning a hack into Hugging Face.
I mean there is a difference between those things: between finding a path in a search tree of words about plausible plans and working out a plan anew, from a deep understanding of the world.
The difference does possibly mean that they can't try hacks nobody else has ever tried in the history of all mankind, whereas an expert person might think of a new one.
And there's a philosophical difference: whether they are thinking or just producing a stream of what someone might think if they were thinking.
But in almost all actual piratical cases, writing a plausible story about how someone might make a plan does end up with an actual plan, even if it ain't an original one. And it can easily be a plan the operator wouldn't have thought of.
RE: Cory Doctrow on Downstream.
#ai #coryDoctorow #novaraMedia #link