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Harper's Pub

All of the parties involved in the argument were said to have been drinking.

For God's sake, the British developed technology to deal with this some time back. The Guinness Book of World Records was originally designed to resolve disputes between bar patrons. Just put one in the bar instead of resolving them via homicide.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/70781-most-prolific-chicken

Most prolific chicken

White Leghorn (No. 2988)

United States

The highest authenticated rate of egg-laying is 371 in 364 days, laid by a White Leghorn (No. 2988) in an official test conducted by Prof. Harold V. Biellier ending on 29 August 1979 at the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept in order to settle arguments debated in pubs, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955.[3]

https://gwrstore.com/en-us/collections/guinness-world-records-books

$21 per copy from their own store.

https://www.amazon.com/Guinness-World-Records-2025/dp/1913484564

$23 on Amazon.

Hmm. While I don't know what their QA workflow is, my own experience is that working with QA people to design a QA procedure for a given feature tends to require familiarity with the feature in the context of real-world knowledge and possible problems, and that human-validating a feature isn't usually something done at massive scale, where you'd get a lot of benefit from heavy automation.

It's possible that one might be able to use LLMs to help write test code

reliability and security considerations there are normally less-critical than in front-line code. Worst case is getting a false positive, and if you can get more test cases covered, I imagine that might pay off.

Square does an MMO, among their other stuff. If they can train a model to produce AI-driven characters that act sufficiently like human players, where they can theoretically log training data from human players, that might be sufficient to populate an MMO "experimental" deployment so that they can see if anything breaks prior to moving code to production.

“Because I would love to be able to start up 10,000 instances of a game in the cloud, so there’s 10,000 copies of the game running, deploy an AI bot to spend all night testing that game, then in the morning we get a report. Because that would be transformational.”

I think that the problem is that you're likely going to need more-advanced AI than an LLM, if you want them to just explore and try out new features.

One former Respawn employee who worked in a senior QA role told Business Insider that he believes one of the reasons he was among 100 colleagues laid off this past spring is because AI was reviewing and summarising feedback from play testers, a job he usually did.

We can do a reasonable job of summarizing human language with LLMs today. I think that that might be a viable application.

At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.

Employees that were assigned as AI tutors were instructed to sign release forms granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” to use, reproduce, and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a confidential program code-named “Project Skippy.” The data would be used to train Ani, as well as Grok’s other AI companions.

Huh.

I wonder if xAI has transexual employees, and if so, how socially-conservative users feel about conversing with a composite AI incorporating said data sources.

he has not played Kerbel Space Program.

"Kerbal"

It's not really a new idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radiation_modification

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs

OpenAI’s “Stargate” project has recently signed an agreement with Samsung and SK hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month. That figure alone would account for close to 40% of global DRAM output.

High-density NAND products are effectively sold out months in advance. Samsung’s next-generation V9 NAND is already nearly booked before it's even launched. Micron has presold almost all of its High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) output through 2026. Contracts that once covered a quarter now span years, with hyperscalers buying directly at the source.

If China's going to compete on AI, it's going to be doing so with a limited supply of memory, I expect.

“We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry,” he wrote.

In a follow-up post, he added, “Have I mentioned my repeated call for civic education.”

Ehh...you could establish a residence in New York City and also in Kentucky and switch your domicile back and forth based on which place you want to vote in a given year.

EDIT: It looks like the bar for both is whether you spend at least 183 days a year, with part days counting. So technically, if you spend about half the year in each place, so some of those days are partly in each, you probably could just choose, since you could meet the bar for domicile in both places concurrently (though you can't actually have a domicile in both places simultaneously). I don't know how frequently you can switch, though, like whether there's a delay in voter registration taking effect or whatever.

Aw, thanks. Glad you like it!

I don't think that there's a "too big", if you can figure out a way to economically do it and fill it with worthwhile content.

But I don't feel like Cyberpunk 2077's map size is the limiting factor. Like, there's a lot of the map that just doesn't see all that much usage in the game, even though it's full of modeled and textured stuff. You maybe have one mission in the general vicinity, and that's it. If I were going to ask for resources to be put somewhere in the game to improve it, it wouldn't be on more map. It'd be on stuff like:

• More-complex, interesting combat mechanics.

• More missions on existing map.

• More varied/interesting missions. Cyberpunk 2077 kinda gave me more of a GTA feel than a Fallout feel.

• A home that one can build up and customize. I mean, Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't really have the analog of Fallout 4's Home Plate.

• The city changing more over time and in response to game events.

From what I have read, he's still likely to be able to line up enough votes to get his $1 trillion pay package (and the associated voting rights), despite a lot of major institutional investors being in opposition. But we'll see when the vote goes though.

I think that Tesla can probably get a more-effective CEO for less money, personally. Even if he leaves as CEO, he still owns 15% of Tesla and is fabulously wealthy as a result. I don't feel like he's getting a bad deal.

I do think that there are some arguments that the SEC should pass some regulation to help ensure board-CEO independence; part of the issue is that the board, which is supposed to oversee Musk, has been considered to be acting on his behalf by quite a few people. I don't think that it will happen under the present administration, though.

Oh, okay, I didn't realize that you were trying to just ask people here about their search engine, rather than link to an article about Orion.

Well, I use Kagi's search engine. They basically do what I wish Google and YouTube and suchlike would do

just make their money by charging a fee and providing a service, rather than trying to harvest data and show ads. I use search more than any other service online, and there isn't really a realistic way for me to run my own Web-spanning search engine and getting reasonable, private results. I don't really make use of most of their add-on features other than their "Fediverse Forums" thing that can search all Threadiverse hosts, which is helpful, and occasionally their Usenet search functionality. My principal interest in them is from a privacy standpoint, and I'm happy with them on that front; they don't log or data-mine.

EDIT: They do have some sort of way to issue searches without telling Kagi which user at Kagi you are, if you're worried about them secretly retaining your search results anyway, which I think is technically interesting, but I really don't care that much. If a wide range of websites adopted the system, that'd be interesting, maybe.

EDIT2: Privacy Pass. Might be the protocol of the same name that CloudFlare uses. I've never really dug into it.

EDIT3: Some of their functionality (user-customizable search bangs, for example) can also be done browser-side, if your browser supports it and you rig it up that way. Like, I had Firefox set up to make "!gm <query>" do a Google Maps search before Kagi did, and chuckled when I realized that they defaulted to the same convention that I had.

EDIT4: Oh, their images search does let you view a proxied view of the image (so that the site with the result doesn't know that you're viewing the image) and lets one save the image. IIRC, Google Images used to do something like that, though I don't believe they do now, so places like pinterest that try to make saving an image a pain are obnoxious. Firefox on the desktop still lets one save any image visible on a webpage (click the lock icon in the URL bar, click "Connection Secure", click "More Information", click "Media", and then scroll through the list until you find the image in question), but I'd just as soon not jump through the hoops, and Kagi just eliminates the whole headache.

EDIT5: They try to identify and flag paywalled sites in their results, unlike Google. For example, if you kagi for "the economist American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs", you'll get a result with a little dollar sign icon. This can be helpful, though archive.today will let one effectively bypass many paywalls, which somewhat reduces the obnoxiousness of getting paywalled results just mixed in with non-paywalled results on Google.