Universal pre-training by iterated random computation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20057
#HackerNews #Universal #pre-training #iterated #random #computation #AI #research #machine #learning
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#Arendt saw the slide from #colonial #capitalism to #totalitarianism coming: when the #state, #market, and #technocracy merge, #imperial logic knows no limits. It’s no longer about “#liberalism” but a global #machine neutralizing all #opposition.
Du despotisme d’usine à l’homme-appendice : critique du travail dans la société industrielle
Harry #Braverman dénonce le « #despotisme d’#usine » : dans le #capitalisme industriel, le travailleur perd toute autonomie, soumis à la #logique de la #machine et du #contrôle. Michel #Beaud résume crûment : « L’homme n’est qu’un appendice de la #machine. » #Aliénation, perte de #sens, #domination #systémique : plongée dans la #critique du #travail moderne. #modernité…
Does anybody have a manual for this old Imperial #sewing machine?
I'm trying to tune it. I think I also need a new tensioner
A Field Expedient Welder, Only MacGyver Could Love.
If you needed to weld something in a pinch, what’s the minimum complement of equipment you could get away with? In [Professor Bardal’s] case, it’s a couple of motorcycle batteries and a roll of flux-core wire, and not much else.
Day 13 of #Brompton #Spring #Cycling tour: Noirmoutier-en-l'Île -> Pornic (58 km, including, to leave the Noirmoutier #island ,the famous "Passage du Gois" ,a road submerged by the #sea most of the time and only passable twice a day for around two hours at low tide, as well as a #surprise encounter in the middle of #nowhere with an indefinable multi-tasking #cycling #machine .
Making #wonky #beats out of a #fieldrecording of a huge #road #resurfacing #machine that was eating London road at one end and pooping new road out of the other.
#machine : any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the greeks entered troy
- French: Machine
- German: die Maschine
- Italian: macchina
- Portuguese: máquina
- Spanish: máquina
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
In case you're not from around, German lottery machine refers to a concrete mixer, because that's how they worked:
Ice Machine Convention • Weimar, Texas, USA
Rolleiflex SL66 • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
The #law also refers to other elements that can’t be attributed to a #machine, Millet said, when it requires an #author’s “signature” to transfer, talks about co-authors’ “intention,” & refers to an author’s “nationality or domicile.”
“Machines do not have property, traditional human lifespans, family members, domiciles, nationalities, mentes reae, or signatures,” Millet said, later adding that “the #Copyright Act makes no sense if an ‘author’ is not a human being.”
New Post From Cliff's Vernissage
Day 69 of the #365in2025 challenge!
Big people toys!
#365in25 #Machines #Machine #Toys #WorkMachines #Vehicles #Woods #Dirt #Rocks #Road #ClearingWoods #Photography #iPhonePhotography #iOSPhotography
View on Vernissage https://vernissage.photos/@CliffWade/7480153929347500105
Enhancing Frame Detection with Retrieval Augmented Generation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12210
#HackerNews #Enhancing #Frame #Detection #Retrieval #Augmented #Generation #AI #Research #Machine #Learning
Calvin successfully clones himself inside his #Duplicator #Machine, a diabolical device that looks like a large #cardboard #box.
From the #pen of the brilliant #comic #artist, Bill #Watterson, 1990 Jan.
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Ejijah McCoy found work as a fireman and oiler at the #Michigan Central #Railroad, fueling and maintaining #trains. (That hashtag is for all the #train fans on Fedi. You're welcome.)
While working on Trains, he quickly recognized flaws in the systems for keeping them oiled, which required frequent stops for maintenance, and began developing improvements. Around 1870, he started his own #manufacturing #business for #B2B #machine parts.
In 1872, he patented an automatic oiling known as the "McCoy Lubricating Cup", which at the time was a major step forward in quality and efficiency, drastically cutting down work for #engineers. Other #companies had made such devices before, and attempted to make something to compete, but his design was simply so good that companies would ask for it by name.
This is the origin of the phrase, "The Real McCoy".
In this modern era, it is important to remember the contributions of people like McCoy, and the detriment of policies which held them back.
4-min clip from the 1997 Robert Zemeckis #film 'Contact' based on the 1985 #novel by Carl Sagan.
Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jody Foster) enters the great #gyroscopic #SpaceTime #machine, opening up a #wormhole #portal. #Gyroscope devices have factored heavily in #SciFi #movies & #books, going all the way back to #HGWells & #AlfredJarry, pre-1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scBY3cVyeyA
https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
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