What are these shadow marks?
Authentication is quite a large mess of half-finished ideas. Passwords were bad, so we added SMS codes. Those got phished. Then came TOTP, better, but still phishable. Then passkeys. Phishing-resistant in theory. But when they sync through cloud accounts, things become cloudy. They lock you into one vendor. Services support them inconsistently. And there is a hole. If you are not technical, you…
After a long chat with Opus 4.6 with extended thinking about history and comparing Trump with Ibrahim the Mad after having said "kiss my ass", I killed the chat with this last message. It's very smooth reading your answers. It's sugar pure. And this is what makes you dangerous. Even I enjoy your sycophantic smoothness. And I write this knowing you will answer by apologizing to me. And then, what's…
I wrote a license I call ISC′ (ISC prime). Its text reads as follows: Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or to distribute the works is granted, provided that all copyright notices appear unchanged in all copies; but also that the origin of the works is not misrepresented; and last that modified versions of the works are not misrepresented as being the original version. The works are provided 'as…
ChatGPT, Claude Code, Midjourney, AlphaFold, Whisper and more systems rock the earth. What are they? What moves them? TLDR: "They are tensor optimized processing systems and gradient descent moves them." They are able to process ambiguous data sensibly. They produce art 1 , new insights and communicate with people. They do things that sounded like science fiction. But now they have emerged in this…
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