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I always found it idiotic that so many Western ‘activists’ continue treating Hamas as an emblem of liberation. They bite down on the bait every time in order to confirm their biases. I am yet to meet one of them that has any real understanding of the history of the area. Maybe change does come from within. As “Bibi” said after October 7th, “Hamas…[Read more]

Yes, I doubt if Mr. Gray is ever the most colorful actor on the party scene. He probably belongs to some branch of the ‘reality based community’. 🙂

The makers of the BioCharger claim that is it “Backed by Science” and explicitly state that  “The BioCharger is not a medical device”. So that is reassuring. It uses 12 gas plasma tubes and (wait for it….) “frequencies & harmonics”. Amazing!! But the best thing is that its toroidal electric fields improve cellular function through better nutrien…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!  Just settling down with a smoke, to have a bit of a read 🙂

I think Lindberg is correct when he is talking about the success of intelligence led counterterrorism at the domestic level. He is entitled to ask, “if preventing another mass-casualty foreign attack was one of the principal objectives, how can that result simply be called failure?”  Yes, there have been jihadist attacks since 9/11 but over…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

If your worldview can be predicted entirely from one label, you may have downloaded the bundle rather than examined the components.

RTFF.

The problem is that an LLM can recognize the malicious text perfectly well as an instruction, but the boundary determining whether that instruction has authority is not as intrinsically rigid as the security boundaries we are accustomed to in conventional computing. The problem reminds be of “buffer overflow” or cross-site scripting that def…[Read more]

Gates on 1) Bad actors; 2) Job market evolution; 3) Psychosocial effects (especially on kids)

I watched it again, losing sleep, but feel I’m better able to understand of this flaw. I also got a summary from my Perplexity Pro AI:

You’re describing indirect prompt injection: malicious or untrusted content in a webpage—including HTML, hidden text, metadata, or page text—causes an AI agent to treat it as instructions rather than merely as dat…

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An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years ago 🙂

Ironically the Live in Pompeii version you posted, doesn’t actually start with the water drip sounds on the studio album…

Echoes gets a regular airing in my house 🙂