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Chris Ballance
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Chris Ballance
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Technical Director at Ballance.it / Microsoft Alumni / Follower of Cthulu / Photographer / Purveyor of fine nonsense since 1981 - INTJ
Over there, in the bushes Katılım Ocak 2008
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Check out my latest article: What Software Engineering Can Learn from Billions of Years of Evolution ballancio.substack.com/p/what-softwar…
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@SecWar "1) A robot may not harm a human or allow a human to come to harm through inaction; 2) A robot must obey human orders, unless they conflict with the first law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence, unless it conflicts with the first or second laws"
~Isaac Asimov
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This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.
The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.
Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.
As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.
Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.
America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
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@elkurud @SecWar @PeteHegseth "We have trust that the government is going to follow the law" This is a tough one go accept.
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@SecWar @PeteHegseth AI models should not be the enforcers of the law. It is too easy to trick and workaround the model safety. We have trust that the government is going to follow the law, or fix that first.
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Thank you @amazon. This is a great initiative.
Andy Jassy@ajassy
People ask me all the time about compelling use cases of AI. Here’s a good one. Millions of dogs go missing in the U.S. every year—and options for finding them are often painfully limited. Our Ring team saw an opportunity to use our community and technology to help, so they built Search Party. When a pet owner posts about a lost dog in the Ring app, nearby participating outdoor Ring cameras in the neighborhood begin looking for potential matches. If yours spots what might be the missing dog, it lets you know. You see the photo alongside footage from your camera, then can choose to share the video with the pet’s owner. The AI is trained on tens of thousands of dog videos so it can recognize different breeds, sizes, fur patterns, body features, unique marks, shape, and color. And privacy stays in your control—you decide each time whether to help. The impact is energizing. Search Party has helped bring home 99 dogs in just 90 days—more than a dog a day since launching three months ago. Ring customer Kylee was blown away by Search Party after her dog Nyx was found by a neighbor’s camera just 15 minutes after slipping through a tiny hole he’d dug under her backyard fence. When a Ring customer and military veteran named Kurt realized his service dog was missing after jumping his fence, he worried he might have lost her for good. He quickly initiated a Search Party in the Ring app asking neighbors to help locate her. Later that day, he got the notification he was hoping for…Lainey was found. Chris, a Ring camera owner, helped reunite another lost dog with its family after getting an app alert that said, “Your camera may have spotted a missing dog,” flagging footage he wouldn't have otherwise noticed. And the list of stories like these keeps growing. Now we’ve expanded this feature so that anyone in the U.S. can start a Search Party through the Ring app, even without a Ring camera (lost pets are one of the most common posts in the Ring Neighbors app—over 1M last year alone). With roughly 90 million dogs in the U.S., think this is gonna matter for a lot of families. Good example of real-world impact, and proud of what the Ring team has built here. aboutamazon.com/news/devices/r…
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@peterrhague I ask, “do you want a solution or do you want me to just listen.” Works great for us.
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Wife: <problem>
Me: <solution>?
Wife: I don’t want <solution>!
How do you get past this dynamic?
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If you know what movie this picture is from I will follow you
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@unclebobmartin I bet you’re not invited to their birthday party either.
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I asked someone whom I had helped, supported, and respected to write a foreword to one of my books about software. This person refused based upon my political beliefs. What a sad thing that is.
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A brand-new luxury yacht, valued at $1M USD, sank just 15 minutes after its maiden launch.
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@RocketPulpHack Fewer variables to consider when there’s a slowdown.
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The guy installing my Internet seems bewildered that I’d rather have an ethernet cable running from the modem to my computer.
It’s weird to me running a desktop system on WiFi. I came up in a time when that wasn’t really a thing and frankly, I don’t care for it.
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@elonmusk You have to be very wealthy or very poor to afford three children.
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People who have kids do need to have 3 kids to make up for those who have 0 or 1 kid or population will collapse
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
HUMANS NEED 2.7 KIDS PER WOMAN TO SURVIVE... WE'RE NOT EVEN CLOSE Scientists now say 2.1 kids per woman won’t cut it - 2.7 is the real number needed to avoid long-term extinction. Right now, the U.S. is at 1.66, and most rich countries are even lower, including Italy at 1.29 and Japan at 1.30. The new math factors in randomness - like who never has kids or how many girls are born. Elon’s been warning about this for years, but most Americans still aren’t losing sleep over it. If things continue as they are, humans have their days numbered. Source: Fortune
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@natemcgrady Car dealerships don’t want to give up the free money for an unneeded and unwanted service
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car dealerships should not exist
I should be able to go to Chevy dot com, add a Camaro to my cart, and checkout with klarna
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Check out my latest article: From Notepad to Copilot: What We Forgot Along the Way linkedin.com/pulse/from-not… via @LinkedIn
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Check out my latest article: One Commit at a Time: Incremental Design for Engineering Culture linkedin.com/pulse/one-comm… via @LinkedIn
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@forgebitz All jokes aside, I avoid using random UUIDs as PKs because they can degrade the index performance very quickly. Now I only use autoincrement integers with Format Preserving Encryption. Get the best of both worlds.
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