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I’m finding this very interesting… An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it’s evolved “brain” that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play.

prologic@JamessMacStudio
Sun May 25 21:44:41
~/tmp/neurog
 (main) 130
$ go build ./cmd/ttt/... && ./ttt
Generation  27 | Fitness: 0.486111 | Nodes: 44  | Conns: 82

… experimenting with building and training a tic-tac-toe game, which evolves a. neural net that learn to paly the game against the best evolved champions 😅

Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs
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Training Solo: On the Limitations of Domain Isolation Against Spectre-v2 Attacks
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Distributed training of LLMs on consumer GPUs
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Pinellas County Running - Long run: 8.00 miles, 00:09:07 average pace, 01:12:50 duration
last long run of the training plan. legs were heavy again today. first half hour had a nice sprinkling going on but that humidity crept right in afterwards. more tired than i should be and need to try and keep these next few runs light
#running

Erlang Solutions: Looking Forward to ElixirConf EU 2025
ElixirConf EU 2025 is only two weeks away! Soon, it will once again be time for the Elixir community from Europe and beyond to come together, connect, and learn from each other about Elixir and its ecosystem. There will be dozens of talks from speakers across the community, training opportunities, and more.

This year’s event is being held in Kraków, Poland from May 15-16, with optional training available o … ⌘ Read more

10 Ancient and Obscure Strategy Games from Around the World
Strategy games have been part of human culture for thousands of years. Long before modern board games or digital entertainment, people across ancient civilizations invented clever ways to test their wits, train their minds, and challenge their friends. Some of these games, like chess, Go, and backgammon, survived and are still played today. But many […]

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I tried mobility training for 30 days ⌘ Read more

New bike season
Yesterday, I started my new bike season and took my bike for a fun ride of about 25 km. I rode the first part of the “Städtepartnerschaftsradweg Braunschweig - Magdeburg” (City partnership cycle path Braunschweig - Magdeburg) between my hometown and a village called Königslutter. The weather was perfect and I truly enjoyed it. For the way back, I took the train that I reached just in time. ⌘ Read more

How to Run DeepSeek LLM Locally on Mac
If you follow AI news, or even tech news, you might have heard of DeepSeek by now, the powerful Chinese Large Language Model that has capabilities rivaling ChatGPT while having dramatically lower training costs. DeepSeek is designed for advanced reasoning, with general purpose natural language and ChatBot abilities, task competency, research, while also being excellent … Read More ⌘ Read more

This time it’s just a station to change to another train. Another hour and a half to my new/old home station. ⌘ Read more

FOSDEM 2025
I recently attended the large Free and Open Source Software conference
FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. I went there by train, of course,
via Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Cologne. The same route back.

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I lived in the rather expensive, allegedly fancy hotel Le Châtelain in
Brussels. It was really not that fancy, but they had a … ⌘ Read more

All aboard the cat train ⌘ Read more

1st Beta of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Released for Testing
While Apple may have just released the final versions of MacOS Sequoia 15.4, iOS 18.4, and iPadOS 18.4 to the general public, they’re already back on the beta train. This time around we’ve got the first beta versions of iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5. It’s not clear what the focus of these … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/02/1st-beta-of-ios-18-5-macos-sequoia-15- … ⌘ Read more

My cat peed in the toilet (without any training) ⌘ Read more

Bureaucratie : la discrète évasion intérieure des Français
L’État français est obèse, et sa bureaucratie est, lentement mais sûrement, en train d’étouffer le pays. Cependant, certains Français résistent et s’adaptent. On l’a vu : le pays s’appauvrit visiblement et si l’on peut débattre sur les explications profondes de ce constat – les politiciens sont incompétents ou des traîtres à leur propre peuple, à vous […] ⌘ Read more

Yes, Mozilla Receives USAID Money.
The Firefox maker spends millions from tax payers on “social and political” training, “centering marginalized groups”, and “engaging race, gender, sexuality perspectives”. ⌘ Read more

“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
Article URL: https://www.jmspae.se/write-ups/kebabs-train-stations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165112

Points: 500

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The train never had a chance. ⌘ Read more

Swimming Australia hopeful AI can deliver Olympic gold
Artificial intelligence is being rolled out at training pools nationally as part of Australia’s bid to top the swimming medal table at the next Olympics. ⌘ Read more

Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971446

Points: 518

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(#uodljqa) > The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for incit …

The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.

Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform. This paper is pr … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI doesn’t like it when you use “their” generated slop without permission
OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. ↫ Cristina Criddle and Eleanor Olcott for the FT This is more ironic than writing a song called Ironic that lists situations that aren’t actually … ⌘ Read more

DeepSeek is Copying Existing Al Data, Censoring Results, and Collecting Your Data for China
What do you get when you train your Al on an existing (error-filled) Al, censor it on behalf of a Communist government, and data mine your users? ⌘ Read more

On my way to FOSDEM 2025
I’m leaving by train for FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium tomorrow
morning, arriving tomorrow evening, Goddess willing.

During FOSDEM I’ll probably mostly be in the Security devroom.

My presentation about the Tillitis TKey is on Saturday at 14:30.

I’m bringing some TKeys, both enduser and unlocked, and a couple of
TKey flash programmers if you want to … ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation’s Mandatory DEI Training
Lunduke takes the “Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation” certification, which focuses on BLM, Pronouns, Critical Race Theory, Micro-Inequities, and DEl. ⌘ Read more

10 Incredible Times Ordinary People Performed Movie-Style Stunts
Cinema would not be the same without stuntmen and women. Most of the time, when the world sees movie stars leaping from great heights, engaging in combat, and crashing through glass, it is actually another person with years of training performing the stunts. But every so often, ordinary people find themselves thrust into the same […]

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Pinellas County Cycling: 7.75 miles, 00:05:28 average pace, 00:42:22 duration
cross training
#cycling

Pinellas County Running: 5.03 miles, 00:09:19 average pace, 00:46:55 duration
easy five to complete the first week of marathon training. my left glute/hip had some twinges
#running

Pinellas County Running: 3.14 miles, 00:09:12 average pace, 00:28:55 duration
third day of training with just a base run. definitely feeling the squats and lunges i did two days ago!
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Pinellas County Running: 3.12 miles, 00:08:53 average pace, 00:27:44 duration
first day of marathon training. i do not have a race in mind but wanted to start training again. was going too fast but 48F and just feeling overall good.
#running

That’s it for work in 2024. Vacation! And next year will (probably) start with an AWS training course. ⌘ Read more

The Uniform
[Based on a story I wrote during upper-secondary school based on real
events. I translated it recently from Swedish and edited some of it. I
removed most (all?) elements of fiction.

Not a typical night, since it’s at an event in another city, but it
gives a taste of what partying in, say, 1989(?) was like. And yes, I
really usually drank two bottles of wine during a pre-party in those
days. Not unusual in the crowd I was hanging out with, I’m afraid.]

I was maybe 17 or 18. I was going to Härnösand, two train sto … ⌘ Read more

Company caught up in I-Med privacy scare plots US land grab
One of the hottest health technology start-ups in Australia has hosed down concerns about how patient data is treated to train its AI platform. ⌘ Read more

The ‘death clock’ that predicts the day you’ll die
The AI was trained on a dataset of more than 1200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. Its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers. ⌘ Read more

Easy run: 5.06 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 00:49:08 duration
kept it easy. legs were a bit tired, but wanted to enjoy the weather. not sure if i should start training again for a marathon just in case or just wing it.
#running

How to enter the Kubestronaut orbit and beyond 🚀
Certifications & Training post originally published on Medium by Giorgi Keratishvili Introduction Most probably, your LinkedIn feed is full of posts from people speaking about the Kubestronaut program or even becoming one of them, and you… ⌘ Read more

CNCF and Andela Announce Partnership to Train 20,000+ African Tech Professionals
The partnership will upskill African tech talent on Kubernetes basics; extend opportunity as global borderless workforces grow Salt Lake City, UT. – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America – November 15, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®),… ⌘ Read more

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they’ve been trained on and can’t apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.

@bender@twtxt.net Ha! Maybe I should get on the Markdown train. You’re taking away my excuses.

Le GPSR pointe le bout de son nez et vous allez adorer !
Mario Draghi, le plombier de la finance, nous l’a bien dit : la bureaucratie, les contraintes et les normes délirantes sont en train de tuer l’Europe. Or, ça tombe bien : une nouvelle jolie charrette de normes fumantes arrive tout juste. Et alors que les citoyens européens et leurs entreprises terminent à peine la digestion de l’épais […] ⌘ Read more

Streamlining your MLOps pipeline with GitHub Actions and Arm64 runners
Explore how Arm’s optimized performance and cost-efficient architecture, coupled with PyTorch, can enhance machine learning operations, from model training to deployment and learn how to leverage CI/CD for machine learning workflows, while reducing time, cost, and errors in the process.

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Meta admits Australians cannot opt out of ‘predatory’ AI data scrape
Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU. ⌘ Read more

Which Apple Watch Models Support WatchOS 11? Here’s the List
WatchOS 11 features some intriguing new capabilities for Apple Watch, particularly for health and fitness. With a new Vitals app, training load feature, customizations for and the ability to pause Activity rings, Translate app for Apple Watch, Cycle Tracking app, Smart Stack, customizations to the Photos face, and more, it’s easy to see why Apple … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/09/05/watchos-11-supported-apple-watch-list/ … ⌘ Read more

Docker Desktop 4.34: MSI Installer GA, Upgraded Host Networking, and Powerful Enhancements for Boosted Productivity & Administration
Discover Docker Desktop 4.34’s enhancements that boost security, scalability, and productivity for developers. This release includes a readily available MSI installer for simpler Windows deployment, improved authentication processes, smart storage compaction for WSL2, and seamless NVIDIA AI Workbench integration for streamlined model training and local development. ⌘ Read more

Bridging cultures: empowering Japanese contributions to the Kubernetes community
Community post by Xie Ziyi, Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan Organizer, Cloud Native Community Japan Organizer, and Software Engineer, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd. What is Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan is a training course held in… ⌘ Read more

From my bed, I can hear a noise outside that is most likely a confluence of insects and distant freight trains but sounds eerily like the static-laden cacophany of an old radio. I would go out to see what it is, but a small part of me is worried I might end up walking into an episode of “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” if I do.