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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.

Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.

WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

• Something interesting that happened to you
• Something humourous that happened to you
• Something frustrating that happened to you
• A quick question
• A request for recommendations
• Pictures of your pet
• A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
• Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/politics/p/909661/the-question-joe-biden-keeps-asking-you-think-we-can-actually-come-back-from-this

The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136

Apparently this will include Linux...

“As a part of his guilty plea today, Smith admitted signing the name of a deceased woman on one of his candidate nomination petitions in March of 2024,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “He also admitted that he attempted to deceive the Secretary of State’s Office by knowingly filing petitions containing forged signatures of purported supporters of his nomination for the Republican primary for State Representative from LD 29.”

Critics of the proposed bill say it is designed to keep the ruling parties in power.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was accused of trying to rig the next elections in her favor, after her ruling coalition struck a late-night deal on a new electoral law.

The coalition parties say the bill, which regulates how seats are allocated after an election, would give the winner a strong working majority and avoid technocratic governments. But the law’s critics say it is designed to bolster Meloni’s government and keep the left out of power.

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The opposition was caught off-guard when Meloni’s party, the right-wing Brothers of Italy, alongside her coalition partners the center-right Forza Italia and far-right League, negotiated a deal on the law late on Wednesday, bypassing dialogue with the opposition.

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https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286

license: Add legal notice regarding California and Colorado bills As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]:

• California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027.
• Colorado residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2028.

DB48x is probably an operating system under these laws. However, it does not, cannot and will not implement age verification.

archive article https://archive.is/vKU1d#selection-591.1-591.43

Regular LoRA training is basically a standard gradient descent optimization loop where you have to curate a dataset, run backpropagation, and slowly update the low-rank matrices over many steps. It is computationally expensive and tedious every single time you want to teach the model a new trick or feed it a new document.

What Sakana AI built with Doc-to-LoRA completely bypasses that repetitive training loop at deployment time by introducing a hypernetwork. They shifted the massive computational burden upfront through a meta-training phase where a separate neural network actually learns how to predict the correct LoRA weights directly from an input document or task description.

Once that hypernetwork is trained, generating a new LoRA adapter only takes a single sub-second forward pass instead of a full fine-tuning run. You just feed a document into the frozen base model to get its token activations, and the hypernetwork instantly spits out the custom LoRA weights. This is incredibly effective for solving the long-term memory bottleneck in large language models.

Instead of shoving a massive document into the context window for every single query, which completely eats up your VRAM and spikes latency, you permanently internalize that knowledge into a tiny adapter footprint of under fifty megabytes. They also designed a clever chunking mechanism that processes the document in small segments and concatenates the resulting adapters. This allows the model to perfectly recall information from documents that are tens of thousands of tokens longer than its actual native context limit. It essentially turns a slow and expensive engineering pipeline into a cheap and instant forward pass.

source code https://github.com/SakanaAI/Doc-to-LoRA

The narrative in AI infrastructure over the last two years has been dominated by the enormous and growing demand for compute capacity and its economic consequences, such as the buildout of data centers and the consequent shortages of key resources such as land, water, power, and copper.

But of all these bottlenecks, memory is by far the most significant. The demand for memory is now outpacing the demand for other drivers of compute capacity. The implications of this will ripple through not just the economics of data centers, but the cost of every single consumer and enterprise hardware device.

In this piece, we unpack the market action around memory prices, its ripple effects across the consumer and industrial electronics market, and the supply and demand curve that is emerging around AI. Critically, we explain why the amount of memory being purchased by AI companies like OpenAI seems to be more than what they need, and how the threat of on-device inference might actually be incentivizing an engineered memory shortage.

According to Zelensky, the U.S. has the power to bring the war to an end but only by exerting stronger pressure on Putin through sanctions and supplies of advanced weapons to Ukraine.

Ukraine has a chance to end the war with Russia before the U.S. midterm elections in November, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Sky News published on Feb. 27.

"Now I think that we have a chance... it depends on these months, if we will have a chance to finish the war before autumn," the president said.

"Before elections, important, influential, elections in the United States. If it will be possible to achieve a peace... now we have this window."

The comments come amid ongoing U.S.-mediated efforts to broker peace between Kyiv and Moscow, which have yet to achieve a breakthrough on ceasefire and territorial issues.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/7468087

In stark contrast to Russian expectations of a walkover in February 2022, the full-scale invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has turned out to be one of the slowest-moving military campaigns in history, the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center has stated in an overview.

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In stark contrast to Russian expectations of a walkover in February 2022, the full-scale invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has turned out to be one of the slowest-moving military campaigns in history, the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center has stated in an overview.

In order to turn things around, Russia will have to take steps even more unpopular with its people than its mobilization efforts have already been, the report added.

At the same time, while Russia has far from achieved its strategic goals in its invasion of Ukraine, drones have rendered the front both more hazardous and unprecedentedly transparent, the overview went on.

Also noteworthy has been Ukraine's successes in longer-range strikes inside Russian territory, including when using its own Flamingo cruise missiles.

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"This week marks four years since the moment when the Russian Federation launched a full-scale war against Ukraine with the aim of demilitarizing Ukraine, replacing the Ukrainian government, and turning Ukraine into a Russian-controlled puppet state in which all key decisions would be made in Moscow. In total, the war in Ukraine has lasted 12 years," the intelligence center wrote in its overview of the situation on the front line.

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In purely military terms, the intelligence center said Russia's advances have been highly limited, and in some aspects Russia's situation at the start of the fifth year of the full-scale war is even worse than it was before 2022.

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The intelligence center added that in 2025 Russia's armed forces were recruiting 30,000 to 35,000 men each month, most of whom were used to replace frontline losses. "By the end of the fourth year of the full-scale war this recruitment model began to exhaust itself, and Russia has created the possibility of calling reservists into service and using them in military operations outside Russia's borders. In essence, this amounts to creating the conditions for concealed and gradual mobilization. Considering Russia's economic slowdown and other problems, the mobilization and deployment of reservists in the war in Ukraine could further increase internal tensions in Russia," was the intelligence center's assessment.

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For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent. The agency has since apologized and says it’s trying to fix the problem.

AI is putting threatening to put The Onion out of business, not because The Onion articles can be written by AI, rather AI has just made this kind of satire nearly obsolete. The Onion is forced to retreat into existential screaming into the void humor, which they have done magnificently in the face of an unstoppable foe. The Onion will prevail and outlive AI though, mark my words!