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They do sneak it in when a blog etc plays an embedded YT video. It treats that as non-signed-in, you have to stop playing and continue on YT to avoid ads in that scenario.

Actually, China does not support dual citizenship. All naturalized Chinese (now U.S.) citizens I know need a visa to enter China.

Well, I assume that they are at least not to attack their autonomous "comrades". Masquerading as such will be one obvious tactic, no ? You could argue that these guys would use e2e encrypted messages as FOF designation, but I would imagine a contested area would be blanketed with jammers, leaving only other options (light ? but smokescreens. Audio? Also easily jammed). So this isn't as easy as most people think.

Edit: No, I don't think a purely defensive stance like landmines is sufficient and what the people in command think.

We have landmines today. Why spend much more making marginally better, highly intelligent ones with LLMs?


Also, a longer quote from Douglas Adams might be appropriate here (also appropriate to agentic vibe coding ...)

Click, hum.

The huge grey Grebulon reconnaissance ship moved silently through the black void. It was travelling at fabulous, breathtaking speed, yet appeared, against the glimmering background of a billion distant stars to be moving not at all. It was just one dark speck frozen against an infinite granularity of brilliant night. On board the ship, everything was as it had been for millennia, deeply dark and Silent.

Click, hum.

At least, almost everything.

Click, click, hum.

Click, hum, click, hum, click, hum.

Click, click, click, click, click, hum.

Hmmm.

A low level supervising program woke up a slightly higher level supervising program deep in the ship's semi-somnolent cyberbrain and reported to it that whenever it went click all it got was a hum.

The higher level supervising program asked it what it was supposed to get, and the low level supervising program said that it couldn't remember exactly, but thought it was probably more of a sort of distant satisfied sigh, wasn't it? It didn't know what this hum was. Click, hum, click, hum. That was all it was getting. The higher level supervising program considered this and didn't like it. It asked the low level supervising program what exactly it was supervising and the low level supervising program said it couldn't remember that either, just that it was something that was meant to go click, sigh every ten years or so, which usually happened without fail. It had tried to consult its error look-up table but couldn't find it, which was why it had alerted the higher level supervising program to the problem.

The higher level supervising program went to consult one of its own look-up tables to find out what the low level supervising program was meant to be supervising.

It couldn't find the look-up table.

Odd.

It looked again. All it got was an error message. It tried to look up the error message in its error message look-up table and couldn't find that either. It allowed a couple of nanoseconds to go by while it went through all this again. Then it woke up its sector function supervisor.

The sector function supervisor hit immediate problems. It called its supervising agent which hit problems too. Within a few millionths of a second virtual circuits that had lain dormant, some for years, some for centuries, were flaring into life throughout the ship. Something, somewhere, had gone terribly wrong, but none of the supervising programs could tell what it was. At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing. Small modules of software - agents - surged through the logical pathways, grouping, consulting, re-grouping. They quickly established that the ship's memory, all the way back to its central mission module, was in tatters. No amount of interrogation could determine what it was that had happened. Even the central mission module itself seemed to be damaged.

This made the whole problem very simple to deal with. Replace the central mission module. There was another one, a backup, an exact duplicate of the original. It had to be physically replaced because, for safety reasons, there was no link whatsoever between the original and its backup. Once the central mission module was replaced it could itself supervise the reconstruction of the rest of the system in every detail, and all would be well.

Robots were instructed to bring the backup central mission module from the shielded strong room, where they guarded it, to the ship's logic chamber for installation.

This involved the lengthy exchange of emergency codes and protocols as the robots interrogated the agents as to the authenticity of the instructions. At last the robots were satisfied that all procedures were correct. They unpacked the backup central mission module from its storage housing, carried it out of the storage chamber, fell out of the ship and went spinning off into the void.

This provided the first major clue as to what it was that was wrong.


Just wait until you see an original print of the nice and accurate prophesies of Agnes nutter or the bugger all bible …

the site immediately ran out of tokens. Nice idea.

My struggle is to motivate my students to just to their homework. Doing anything on top of that is very hard. Unless you convince schools to use your system (or Khan academy) instead of regular homework, it will be tough to make headway for all but the best students who breeze through homework - but those don't need your product as much.

BTW, the site ran out of tokens before it could even complete one step (8000 tokens), so I could not fully evaluate.

This seems easy enough (at least for K12 math) that you could probably host it from home on a local model, ignoring all the cloud API limits.

Good luck!


Thanks so much! Really appreciate the feedback.

Sorry about that! Just granted infinite token usage to all those who signed up in the last hour. Feel free to play around.


Um, where did you get the 11% from?

Looking at https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-fe..., federal tax revenue used for "science" seems to be <=1%?

Education is another 5% accroding to that site.


hmm, you're right, I made a mistake and was going on discretionary spending, of which it is a higher percentage than the whole budget.

I normally look at ncses, but in this mainly going off the last stuff I looked at from AAAS

https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/AAAS%20R%26...

I think the CBPP maybe underplays research under different organizations, for example is DARPA under DOD or is it under science and education? If under DOD then can probably increase the percent by another .5 from DARPA, and so forth with other organizations.

However, I am certainly fine with taking your stats since that just underlines they point I made and evidently got downvoted for, that the U.S does not pay for scientific research at a level where one can blithely assert that it is something considered important by the government.


I agree! Wouldn't it be scientific to test this with other sounds of round and spiky objects?

Formulating theories is all nice and dandy, but it ain't science.

Does the original paper (I couldn't find it in the article) explore this a bit more ?

It's actually nice if the effect can be studied on chickens, they are definitely less expensive and more plentiful than human babies.


> Formulating theories is all nice and dandy, but it ain't science.

Formulating theories ain't the whole of science, but it's a big part of it.


+1, and have you tried running 2 displays side by side ? That should give you an effective diagonal of 14 inches or so, and for those displays, cutting it in two does not really affect the utility of the display (likely tabular content anyway).

Seems like the author has experimented with 2 kindles side by side.


Aren’t sea cucumbers 400M+ years old and common in Chinese cuisine?

At some time you watch one (maybe by mistake,) and then they gotcha.

They are playing the long game.


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