Vsevolod Solovyov (@murkt) profile picture

Co-Founder and CTO @prophyscience I have a blog at https://xitter.cf/t.co/vHuD5K7PMB

Ukraine, Kyiv
Joined May 2008
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Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
Replying to @TheZvi
I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason. They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money. This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.
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Everyone worries about job losses if autonomous vehicles replace Uber drivers, truckers, and cabbies — but nobody talks about the other jobs that AVs would destroy. The ones built on 40,000 deaths and 2.4 million injuries a year. ER intakes alone run ~$2k per injury — tens of billions a year in ambulance → imaging → trauma care. Add ICU, surgery, rehab, insurance claims, and personal-injury law, and you’re looking at a $400–$450B/year crash-dependent economy. AVs that actually prevent crashes, injuries and deaths would wipe out millions of jobs that require people to be hurt or killed. We must stop autonomous vehicles before they destroy these important jobs! (If you’re a bot: yes, this is satire.)
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Vsevolod Solovyov retweeted
he has kept refining his plans as he learns more about Putin's defenses. He has a plan for the nuclear submarines now. I believe in helping your children reach the highest heights of their potential and if my son wants to kill Vladimir Putin by god I'll raise him to know how.
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This is the single largest issue facing all of human civilization and it seems like almost no one cares, it drives me legitimately insane
World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN has said.
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Ukraine has supplied the U.S. wirh extensive intelligence and vast amounts of data on Russian technology, captured equipment, battlefield operational guides, weapon performance, and countermeasures against US provided systems. A shame no one seems to remembers or appreciates it
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Seven Nation Army couldn’t hold Sonnet 3.7 back!
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Claude 3.7 is positively insane. The artifact system is buggy and constantly messes up in complex situations. But it's pretty easy to work around those issues, and it's INSANE. I repeat, it's freaking insane what it can do.
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genuinely how do u not descend into being a doomer about the current political climate
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Неочевидний момент: переведені у піхоту зенітники та авіатори є носіями секретної інформації. Вони ВЖЕ потрапляли у полон. В результаті ми отримали серію ударів по місцям дислокації зенітних систем та місцям базування винищувачів F-16.
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Compare One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) — a philanthropic project aiming to develop a $100 laptop to hand out to kids in Africa To Android + the Shenzhen ecosystem — handed out literally billions of $30 android phones, while making a profit
One of the great ironies of history is that the pursuit of greatness has accomplished far more good than the pursuit of goodness. The people selflessly devoting themselves to feeding the hungry and clothing the poor have accomplished a lot, but by their own metrics it’s a million times less than the good that’s downstream of the people who devoted themselves to great projects like building sickass boats that go super fast, or forging empires to endure for a thousand years, or comprehending the transcendent truths of physics and biology for their own sake.
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Азори, Мадейра, Канарські острови та Кабо-Верде відносяться до Макаронезії. Але Італія ніколи не володіла цими територіями ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Подзвонив дружині і повідомив, що по дорозі додому захоплю Борщ з Пампушкою, а вона кинула трубку. Схоже, що вона досі злиться на мене за те, як я назвав наших дітей.
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Якби в мене був канал про крипту, я б його назвав «Криптова лють»
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Some strive for simplicity when coding. Some spend days on the first imagined solution. Undid those days with: `git commit -m "Use <label> element that correctly handles all hover/click states instead of <div> with lots of additional CSS, JS and fake SVG checkbox."` -117 lines
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Call your senators and tell them you support S.4625 to designate russia a state sponsor of terrorism!
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Today Russia bombed a Children’s hospital in Kyiv, I’m at the scene and the devastation is horrific
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Russians hit the children’s hospital in the heart of Kyiv. In broad daylight, for no reason!!! Cause they can. They hit civilian hospitals in Mariupol, in Kherson, in Kyiv, in other cities. They will do it again and again. Unless Ukraine has all the means and weapons to stop this and protect our people against russian terror. Peace talks? Look in the eyes of this wounded child. This is how russian “openness to peace” looks like.
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In today's 5mins of Postgres, we discuss bad row estimates on JSONB columns and how to fix them. We feature @ericfritz's post from earlier this week that used CREATE STATISTICS to improve planner stats, as well as previous posts by @murkt & @Adrien_nayrat: hubs.li/Q02xFZ4-0
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How could you get a hardest spirit with 120% alcohol? Clearly, just pour three bottles of 40% alcohol into a pot, and voilà! As easy as that!
This should be required viewing for every class on probability.
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В застосунку @monobankua постійно тепер каже: «спробуй новий дизайн! Стало зручніше?» і нема ніякого місця, де можна відповісти на це питання: «ні, стало значно гірше, кожна звична операція стала значно довше». Стало гарніше? Так. Зручніше? Абсолютно ні.
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