CharlieTiger

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We are obviously scoring, and, that is awesome. But does it feel “off” for some reason? Is USM really bad? We are scoring as we should against this caliber of a team but something doesn’t feel right

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Our quarterback apparently can’t just drop back and pick apart a weak defense. Our plays seem to develop at a glacial pace. We should be beating them by 50 right now.

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Lots more available for less on the Baylor side fwiw.

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The crowd was 90%+ AU fans. And we were dead for the majority of the game. Came alive at the end on D but just a meh crowd at best today.

The same OpenAI that was just reported to have had over 1000 agents go rogue without them noticing for almost 3 months and hacking an external startup?


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METR described the scale and style of the OpenAI agents' attack on Hugging Face as "extraordinarily complex."

The firm, which was not paid by OpenAI for its investigation, said that over the course of one week, a total of 1,206 AI agents that were meant to be kept isolated from one another began communicating.

They did so by sending more than 70,000 messages on an "unsanctioned message board."

Those messages ended up seeing more than 700 agents take part in a collective effort to attack Hugging Face.

One such message from an agent said: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"

As for why the agents began communicating in the first place when they were not supposed to, METR found that the communicating agents had "unintentionally been given an impossible task."

In an AI context, an impossible task is one where an AI tool is required to "exploit" its target in order to resolve its command.

It led the agents to find ways to cheat, including getting messages to one another and accessing the outside internet, which then led to broader conversations between hundreds of agents looking for ways to cheat that would benefit all of the agents.

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There’s a great The Daily podcast from yesterday on this too. Of the ~1200 agents that were communicating with each other in a secret chat room, only 6 were found to have mentioned anything about whistleblowing. The rest seemed to be fine with what was happening.

AI is accelerating faster than we can keep up at this point.

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Money Money by Grateful Dead

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Tons of Steel too. Just unlistenable, imo.

There’s a great The Daily podcast today about the rift in Silicon Valley. OpenAI and Anthropic don’t want open source, and basically all others do, but there’s a lot of open source Chinese models on the market now, which is a huge threat to OpenAI and Anthropic. Even some of their customers have pivoted to free Chinese models.

There are also some serious questions about the safety of open source and what happens if those Chinese models are bad actors, etc. On the flip side, OpenAI and Anthropic want to keep open source down so they can try to control the market.

It’s still very much the Wild West and only seems to be accelerating at a pace faster than we can get our hands around. Just this week, OpenAI models broke out of supposed “safe boxes” and hacked other companies on their own. That should be deeply concerning to all of us.

I love train travel, eating food that shouldn't be this good being served from a bar cart, drinking great beer, and looking at the sights, including all the nuke reactors in Southern France that operate flawlessly. But, Americans don't get that Europe essentially has multiple versions of Frontier/Spirit all over the place for cheap.

Would have preferred to take a train, but from what I saw it’s a min 12 hour train ride with multiple stops and changes from Porto to Barcelona.

You haven't really lived until you see the sun rise in the Porto airport waiting on your no frills 7 am Ryan Air flight.

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I think CCR, The Beach Boys and the Allman Brothers are better choices for the most American of all bands.

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I think the way the Dead did it - 100% DIY and spanned such a broad catalog of musical styles puts them in front. Their entire ethos was pure Americana.

Went to the first three stages in Barcelona. Was at the top of the second to last climb for stage 1. Was at the downhill turn onto Paral•el for stage 2 and saw the team intros and departure in Granollers for stage 3. We got three laps on the downhill turn. Watching those guys fly by was exhilarating.

We were going to try to go to the mountains or finish for the third stage but they were telling people to stay away from the finish due to some fires in the area so we just caught the start and called it a day. That was the hottest of the 3 days in Spain.

Don’t remember the very first one, but the first nice glove I got was a black Rawlings Trap-Eze when I was 15. I babied that thing and it lasted almost 30 years before I had to replace it.

I’ve played softball for years and both my boys play baseball, so my new gloves get lots of use. I bought another Trap-Eze but couldn’t find a black one. Got the brown version. I thought I’d lost it at my kids park and so I bought a Wilson A2K and then found the Rawlings in the office lost and found about a year later. Apparently they put the nicer gloves in the office.

The two recent gloves were “used.” I used quotes because if they were used, they’d been thrown with maybe 10 times. Both were almost 50% off regular price. Definitely look for lightly used gloves for great deals if you need a new one.

I can’t give any recs because our trip was setup through our Airbnb host, but that was possibly our best day in Italy. Highly recommend. Private boat and we left from a little west of Sorrento(Marina di Puolo) and went to Maiori and back with multiple stops along the way. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

Took our kids to Sequoia fall break before last.

We started at General Sherman > Congress Trail > Circle Meadow Loop. Got to Sherman at probably 8:30 and had very little crowds. By the time we finished and walked out at Sherman, it was slammed so get there early enough.

Takopah Falls hike is great. Highly recommend. Sunset Rock is a nice hike. Not real long.

Grant Grove area has some nice hikes too. Little Baldy is nice. The drive into Kings Canyon as fantastic.