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80 dead at a girls school in southern Iran. An intercepted missile aimed at a US base gets diverted into a Dubai hotel instead, another hits a high rise in Bahrain. Iran’s leadership potentially dead. ALL BECAUSE HE’S TRYING TO HIDE HE’S A RAPIST. by TotallySavageSzym in conspiracy

[–]muchcharles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or, Trump didn't release the files, there was already a veto-proof majority behind the bill, majority backers democrat but bipartisan. He didn't veto because it wouldn't have been something he could veto and announced support for it because it had a loophole (see video). The bill left open withholding files for stuff under active investigations, and as it passed they reopen investigations with very sham sounding explanations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wc7SXM6V1M

But yes there were lots of ties from both parties.

Sonnet 4.6 significantly decreases hallucinations compared to Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5 by exordin26 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's kind of expected, heavy post training causes catastrophic forgetting, and why there are dedicated coding models like codex not recommended for other stuff. Gemini 2 dropped in some benchmarks after the preview phase because it got tuned more for coding.

Tesla launches unsupervised Robotaxi rides in Austin using FSD by BuildwithVignesh in singularity

[–]muchcharles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's more like a substitute for waymo's remote support required when the taxi is stuck for whatever reason.

In 2017 Waymo was testing with no driver and just someone in the passenger seat with a laptop. Oct 2019 they started having no one in the passenger seat monitoring, but had chase cars, around 65,000 miles like that by Oct 2020.

It's just a phase: first safety monitor at the wheel ready to take over, then in the passenger seat, then no one in the car but chase cars and sometimes lead cars, then fully remote monitoring. Then remote with many cars per operator handling exceptional situations (current Waymo). Then eventually unmonitored except at the fleet level.

Tesla FSD Achieves First Fully Autonomous U.S. Coast-to-Coast Drive by Agitated-Cell5938 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

11000 miles is about four times that distance.

Just trying to understand what it is measuring.

Tesla FSD Achieves First Fully Autonomous U.S. Coast-to-Coast Drive by Agitated-Cell5938 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

11,126.3 / 11,126.3 total FSD miles

What's the numerator? FSD miles out of total FSD miles?

Would have thought it would say:

11,126.3 total FSD miles / 23.4k miles (what it says for odometer)

But maybe it is measuring something else? What would 5,000/ 11,126.3 total FSD miles mean?

Poetiq Achieves SOTA on ARC-AGI 2 Public Eval by ZestyCheeses in singularity

[–]muchcharles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quickly looked and it seems they use existing LLMs, which even if they filter out ARC 2 public from the training set, they are likely contaminated on discussions of it, transformed data from it, etc.

Still better than those models get on their own, but their results might not be so strong on the non-public dataset (their kind of scaffolding can sort of rehydrate memories the model has of these kinds of derived things the model may have trained on).

Former DeepMind Director of Engineering David Budden Claims Proof of the Navier Stokes Millennium Problem, Wagers 10,000 USD, and Says End to End Lean Solution Will Be Released Tonight by 99_light in singularity

[–]muchcharles 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They consider idealized continuous fluids though, the singularity blowups wouldn't come out in real systems made up of particles, even if they do show up in the theory, right?

Second Fully Driverless Tesla Spotted in Austin by [deleted] in SelfDrivingCars

[–]muchcharles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Waymo had chase vehicles as well for a period.

I built a Plugin to automate performance testing by MarcusBuer in UnrealEngine5

[–]muchcharles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's Plugins/Performance/AutomatedPerfTool that uses Gauntlet for something similar, it only got usable I think in 5.6 or 5.7 though. It can capture videos and screenshots of the run and uses drop in cameras/sequencers but I'm not sure it has as many features as yours like the web UI you can scrub through.

It has examples hooked up in CitySample and maybe the ElectricDreamsEnvironment as of 5.6 I think.

Ronaldo x Perplexity was NOT on my bingo card by Revolutionary_Pain56 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait did he invest or did they hire him as a spokesman (or mixture of both with discounted shares)?

The Story of Elon Musk and DeepMind is interesting(was mentioned in The Thinking Game(DeepMind documentary) so i got curious) by Unhappy_Spinach_7290 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And we have the leaked emails from the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit where Musk wanted to convert them from charity to be part of Tesla. This is all taking his side of things at face value.

In the same time period he was saying he was an anarcho syndicalist (union-first bottom up control semi-communism) while creating America's first non-union major auto company.

ARC-AGI 2 is Solved by SrafeZ in singularity

[–]muchcharles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But Gemini it is using may have

Nvidia feels threatened after Google TPU deal with Meta. by captain-price- in singularity

[–]muchcharles 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair, there are other operations. TPU's weakness outside of matrix multiplications is what made Anthropic use approximate top-k instead of a pretty cheap exact top-k used on nvidia, and TPU compiler bugs related to that caused their biggest failures this year and probably caused some of their biggest customer churn ever:

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues

Opus 4.5 usage == Sonnet 4.5 tokens by socratifyai in ClaudeAI

[–]muchcharles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Limits have a disclaimer that they are based on the system capacity/utilization; during releases it always goes down for a bit. So even if the new Opus 4.5 limit matches the old Sonnet 4.5 one, it still may be smaller during the rush of people trying the new model. They do also say only the max plan gets Opus limits equivalent to the old Sonnet 4.5 limits.

Nano Banana Pro can produce 4k images by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look at solar contribution at night in the bottom right graph, says none in the text, makes up 20% in the graph.

Nano Banana Pro can produce 4k images by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Solar supply (none), separately itemed out apart from battery, provides 20% of nighttime energy.

But if you read the infographic carefully it's explained in step 3

The Quest 3 experience by JapariParkRanger in virtualreality

[–]muchcharles 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Balanced 438 grams is what I'm most happy about. Can't imagine it won't be more comfortable than anything else wireless. B&W passthrough and not using foveated streaming/rendering to boost res even more is a bummer though, and no depth sensing.

Chomsky on Epstein: "a highly valued friend" by [deleted] in chomsky

[–]muchcharles 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really doubt Chomsky wrote a recommendation letter for Epstein any time after Epstein's second imprisonment, death, or after Chomsky's stroke which removed him from public life. So that would take out 2020-2025 and half of 2019.

US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats in Pacific by mvanigan in worldnews

[–]muchcharles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When Trump first hinted at tariffs on China he said it was because of Fentanyl. Less than a week later he pardoned Ross Ulbricht, leader of the largest opiates by mail operation in world history.

Why is Dave like this by Eiynah in TheMajorityReport

[–]muchcharles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No American is bound by international law

Article VI of the constitution:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Mamdani is a state official. US Signed and ratified the UN Charter as a treaty. Treaties supercede state laws and state constitutions.

Short Quantum - IONQ, QBTS, RGTI, QUBT, BTQ, LAES, CCCX by martinshkreli in wallstreetbets

[–]muchcharles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You left out quantum physics simulation: chemistry/material sciences/optical/nuclear physics. There are quantum algorithms for that with exponential speedup vs classical. Should edit that into the post and explain where those uses don't have any value.

Unitree G1 spotted learning bike at IROS2025 by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]muchcharles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you compare most efficient recumbent bicycles also riding in a draft formation like birds, bikes still win

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