Good (?) car spotto: this Defender which has clearly not been on anything rougher than a freshly-graded gravel road any time this decade

@whitequark After burying my head in arxiv for a while I've decided LLMs themselves are interesting (but don't exist in a vacuum). When people call them fancy autocomplete, or make a big deal about non-determinism, I think they're directionally correct in noticing the stank around LLMs and avoiding them, but it still comes from a place of either wilful ignorance or uncritically repeating things they heard on the internet. I don't look up to that or aspire to be like that.

To make a more specific point, I'd like people to stop interpreting everything that comes out of a softmax() as a probability density function just because it's non-negative and sums to 1. Next-token prediction is a useful objective for pre-training because it's a way to kickstart the model to learn higher-level representations unsupervised, but the reason it's called pre-training is you *keep going after that.*

If it wasn't for:

* the data theft,
* the vandalism of public internet infrastructure,
* the environmental damage,
* the widespread copyright laundering and "clean room" re-implementation of code that is in the training data,
* the erosion of social norms around contributing to open source,
* their ability to one-shot intelligent people into believing bullshit,
* their corrosive effect on your intellectual abilities,
* the concentration of the means to write code in a handful of US companies,
* the impending financial crisis,

...then I'd support their use. I don't see most of these changing though. The only actually-open-recipe-open-data models I'm aware of are Nemotron, and they underperform given their size and architecture, so perhaps the secret ingredient is crime.

Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it was, in essence, a 76,000-square-foot artificial wound. Trays full of meat, blood, and water, each one heated to the exact right temperature to stimulate screwworm growth, moved through the facility on a monorail system timed to the lifecycle of the screwworm.

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-screwworm

"The United Kingdom is a voluntary association of four nations" says a British politician in Belfast without a hint of irony.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/uk-ireland-leaders-fear-union-future-nigel-farage-led-government

Meta Glasses are Cybertrucks for the face.

OH: don’t eat the toilet paper

Some gore for all you fellow #3dPrinters

Back in March of 2025 a branch named "dual-state" was created in the DtCyber GitHub repository. Steady progress in implementing support for the CYBER 180 series of CDC supercomputers has been made on that branch since then. The work has finally reached the point where the code is mature enough to be merged back into the main DtCyber branch, and that merge occurred today.

The dual-state feature represents a very significant enhancement to DtCyber. Thus, DtCyber's major version number has been incremented. As of today, the latest version is DtCyber 6.0.30.

All models of CDC CYBER machines previously supported by DtCyber continue to be supported, and they continue to run all of the operating systems they've been running until now. That includes COS, KRONOS, HUSTLER, NOS 1, NOS 2, NOS/BE, etc. In addition, DtCyber now also supports a new machine model: CYBER 180 Model 860.

The CYBER 180 Model 860 was a dual-state machine. It implemented both the CYBER 170 instruction set and the CYBER 180 instruction set, and it could run NOS or NOS/BE concurrently with the NOS/VE operating system. The CYBER 180 series machines and NOS/VE were state-of-the-art in their time, but in retrospect, they came to market too late to be very successful, and they missed the paradigm shifts represented by minicomputers and personal computers.

The CYBER 180 and NOS/VE are historically significant in that CDC placed an enormous bet on them. CDC invested many millions of dollars and at least a decade of development in these technologies. Instead of designing technology to succeed the CYBER 170 that represented an incremental improvement, CDC designed the CYBER 180 as a radically more advanced machine. For example, the CYBER 180 was a byte-addressable, 64-bit machine with a 44-bit segmented address space and virtual memory. Each process could have as many as 4096 segments of memory, each up to 2 gigabytes. The highest end models of the 180 series also had vector instructions. The CYBER 180 had 16-bit PP's too.

NOS/VE was also radically different from its NOS and NOS/BE predecessors. It was strongly influenced by MULTICS and contemporary academic thinking about state-of-the art operating system design and user-friendliness. To facilitate migration from NOS or NOS/BE to NOS/VE, most of the CYBER 180 models supported the CYBER 170 instruction set in addition to the CYBER 180 instruction set, and NOS or NOS/BE could run concurrently on the same hardware as NOS/VE. NOS/VE had a kind of "hypervisor" called the Environment Interface (EI) that enabled the machine to run the two very different operating systems concurrently.

The EI also enabled communication between NOS (or NOS/BE) and NOS/VE. Prior to general availability of the CDCNet product, the EI enabled NOS (or NOS/BE) to serve as a frontend to NOS/VE. For example, a NOS application named VEIAF was provided to enable users to log into NOS/VE interactively via NOS. NOS could also submit batch jobs to NOS/VE and receive output from NOS/VE to be printed on its printers.

A preconfigured dual-state system can be installed using the install.js script in the NOS2.8.7 directory of the updated GitHub repo. For example, to create an up-to-date repo, build DtCyber 6.0.30, and install a dual-state NOS and NOS/VE system, execute the following commands on macOS or Linux:

git clone https://github.com/kej715/DtCyber.git

(or git pull to update an existing repo)

cd DtCyber

make -f Makefile.macos all

(or for Raspberry Pi 4 or 5: make -f Makefile.linux64-armv4-a all)

(or for other 64-bit Linux systems: make -f Makefile.linux64 all)

cd NOS2.8.7

sudo node install rtr dual-state-860

On Windows, use VisualStudio to build the DtCyber solution, and then execute the following commands to install the ready-to-run dual-state system:

cd NOS2.8.7

node install rtr dual-state-860

Note that node.js must be installed on macOS/Linux/Windows to run the install.js script that installs the ready-to-run dual-state system.

The install.js script installs a CYBER 180 Model 860 running NOS 2.8.7 and NOS/VE 1.8.3AA. Both NOS and NOS/VE will have logins INSTALL and GUEST (with passwords same as usernames). As soon as the NOS/VE console window (the window titled TPM 0) displays the prompt

sou/

NOS/VE has finished its deadstart process, and you can log into it. This can be done by logging into NOS as usual and then entering the command:

HELLO,VEIAF

To shutdown NOS/VE gracefully, enter the following command in the NOS/VE console window:

terminate_system

cheers,
Kevin

A classic.

heartbreaking: worst person you know makes a good point

RE: https://ohai.social/@redsad/116864159640938298

The maxim that people become more conservative as they age only holds if they have something to lose from the system changing.

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#shodansafari #infosec

OMV.BMF

who up , the pixar movie where they war crimes

TIL a species thought extinct, the black-footed ferret, was rediscovered after a ranch dog brought home a dead one which kickstarted its conservation comeback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1unbggx/til_a_species_thought_extinct_the_blackfooted/

How to Win the Title of Miss World

there is no ego as fragile as that of a chatbot user who encounters even the slightest pushback to the lies provided by said chatbot

Talking about regional convenience stores with my wife and said "I haven't seen a Wawa in years".

Which is true. But as soon as I said it, I realized I *have* seen awawa far more recently.