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admittedly i was a roller coaster tycoon player (which came later)
but theme park started the entire genre
this is amazing to see!
Our latest frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon is rolling out today! Amazing progress from Gemini 3 → Gemini 4 in less than a year… Carbon reverse engineers my original Theme Park binaries, adds a new DeepMind themed ride, and ports it to the web in one shot - kind of mindblowing to see! xitter.twitterapi.xyz/demishassabis/status/1…
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spiritually i am a beaver
"Of all the animals in the world, the beaver is noted for his engineering and mechanical skill and habits of industry. His habits are nocturnal, he does his best work in the dark."
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the original template is from the 🐐
github.com/mvanhorn/mvanhorn
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my unpopular opinion is that the metaverse was early
(i also dont like that word)
same thing with digital twins in 2023
we just needed to build very good AI first
everything is an environment
rea
my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us
REAing and porting black and white 2 is on my wishlist/ list of things to do once i get a bit more time
there was magic in there and im fascinated by how @demishassabis did it
Since my early days designing and coding AI for games like Theme Park, I’ve always been passionate about working at the intersection of cutting edge technology and creativity. I think the fusion of the two is when the most amazing things happen in science and in art.
If you’re interested in these topics, I recently had a wonderful conversation on storytelling in the age of AI with @DarrenAronofsky and Mira Lane: youtu.be/VJllI3jMEb4
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All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
I asked the founder of Reverse Engineer Anything, the #1 software project of all time on GitHub what it would take for @morluto to say who he is to the world. His answer was poetic. Worth a quick listen.
rust and C ports make for very nice training environments!
i was just talking about this with @HaozeHe_Hector the other day
My weekend project, now open source: Rustify 🦀, agent skills that rebuild software from a stripped binary as idiomatic Rust.
It recovers specs, UX, architecture and tests with the code, and checks it against the original.
github.com/SebastianElvis/ru…
Demo: Rust version of Doom 👇
really makes you wonder how baidu is so behind at training models
they were once in the bidding war for DNNresearch and almost had hinton, ilya + alex krizhevsky
Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, it's a big jump over Argon which we released just 2 weeks ago.
Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber, long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves on usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned.
rea your tvs
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
xitter.twitterapi.xyz/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
