I happened to have an acoustic guitar version of the Max Payne theme playing when I read your comment, which apparently meant I'd "hear" your words in James McCaffrey's voice. Similarly, AI music summons the corporate egregore.

So they're looking for a $1.5 billion settlement. Coincidentally, that's exactly what Anthropic paid for training on pirated books.

I was also confused. It's oddly worded. From Anthropic's news post:

We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities.

As far as I can tell, this review preceded the gov order, and it was at this point that Katie Moussouris was involved.

I just use the web app, mostly to make self-contained html toys. During the brief period it was up and part of the general subscription, I asked it to make Terrace (the old board game from TNG) with very little help in the initial prompt. I kinda know how involved that task is, cause I manually wrote a Godot version back in '20. It nailed it with only minor fixes - 3D, reactive sound and visuals, a music score that is pretty chill, with Easy, Medium, and Hard levels of AI to compete against. I have yet to beat it on Hard. Opus couldn't touch that. I'm pretty sure the fed's response is simple retaliation against Anthropic for not playing ball with the DoD/W, but the capability jump was definitely notable. I saw someone liken it to the jump from gpt 3.5 to 4, and I agree, if not a bit more.

Did you try it? In the few coding tasks I threw at it, it performed much better than Opus.

I suspect it's a quirk of memetics.

Bard?

rest were hallucinations

I'm having trouble parsing whatcha mean here if they were coding tasks. The code didn't run? Ran but had 0 functionality? If they were non-coding tasks, then agreed, I didn't notice it being significantly more accurate. Though I did appreciate the larger vocab. I wasn't gonna be able to afford to keep using it once it went to API pricing anyway.

That's fine, can we talk about the concentration camps?

I can pretty confidently say that 4k is noticeable if you're sitting close to a big tv. I don't know that 8k would ever really be noticeable, unless the screen is strapped to your face, a la VR. For most cases, 1080p is fine, and there are other factors that start to matter way more than resolution after HD. Bit-rate, compression type, dynamic range, etc.

Stores don't actually own Towelie. They rent it for $2000-$4000 per month per robot.

I get the sense that VLC doesn't really care if something is a valid video file, it's just gonna start playing and see what happens.

We have stereo smell to help with locating smells. There's also the nasal cycle. One nostril/sinus handles most of the airflow, then they swap (the sinuses are separate until they get to the throat). That way one can recover moisture, plus some smells are more easily detected with fast airflow and others with slow. So the nostrils functioning differently gives us a broader range of odor detection. What else? Umm, bilateral symmetry and redundancy is useful.

A million seconds is ~11 days. A billion seconds is ~32 years. A trillion seconds is 31,689 years.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark.