Sam

Reading about Clavicular and am wondering why we're trying to make a poor kid with body dysmorphia and drug addiction famous? He's obviously unwell.

A surprising result. Is Gemini 3.1 pro really this dishonest?

In the 90s, Hitachi came up with a bizarre way to conserve memory bandwidth. Their SuperH architecture, intended to compete with ARM, was a 32-bit architecture that used…16 bit instructions. The benefit was really high code density. If you can fit twice as many instructions into every cache line, the CPU pipeline stalls way, way less. This was *really* important for embedded devices, which were often extremely bandwidth constrained in the era. Sega famously used the processors for the Dreamcast, and ARM actually ended up licensing their patents for Thumb mode! I think perhaps the weirdest thing about SuperH was its concept of “upwards compatibility”. The ISA itself is a microcode-less design, all future instructions were trapped and emulated by older chipsets. It’d be slow…but you could run future code on very old chips! Very neat design, a massive success through the 90s and 2000s, that slowly faded.

No decent philosopher believes ‘machine consciousness’ is (or ever will be) a thing.

Ye’s early artwork has reportedly been reappraised at $3.1 MILLION 🎨 ▫️ The collection was previously valued between $16,000 and $23,000 on Antiques Roadshow in 2021

BREAKING: The SEC has reportedly eliminated the Pattern Day Trader rule, replacing it with a new intraday margin system. The requirement to maintain a $25,000 balance to engage in day trading is being scrapped.

New post: We show that small, cheap models can detect the flagship Mythos FreeBSD zero-day (CVE-2026-4747) using a simple harness we call nano-analyzer Models down to 3.6B active params (including open-weights ones you can run locally) would have detected it 100-1000x cheaper

The CEO of Krafton (creator of PUBG) asked ChatGPT to create a "corporate takeover strategy" to prevent a company they acquired from hitting a revenue target within a certain time window (which would trigger an additional payout). ChatGPT (against his lawyer's advice) suggested locking down the acquired companies Steam account to prevent them from publishing Subnautica 2 in the time window, which the CEO of Krafton followed. ChatGPT's advice did not hold up at trial and the judge was not happy. The opinion is a wild read and includes several direct quotes from the Krafton CEO's ChatGPT conversation. I feel like it's gonna take a few more high profile examples like this until executives start realizing that conversations with ChatGPT are not privileged and you probably shouldn't describe your questionably legal schemes to them in detail!

Blessed be the aesthetics.