i got this book on old school - mid 70s horror movies from a library book sale, im not the greatest at scanning but would anyone be interested in me uploading it somewhere? cant seem to find it on internet archive
“reward hacking” in AI research will never not be the funniest shit. one time iRobot stuck bumper sensors on the front of Roombas and set up their reward function so they lost points whenever they bumped into something, so the Roombas responded by learning to drive around backwards so when they did inevitably hit something it didn’t trip the sensors. there’s a lesson in here somewhere about human behavior but i’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader
It’s a Tree. There was a tree there. Folks cut down a tree, they usually don’t pull the roots, it’s like a Whalefall for fungus and burrowing invertebrates. They feast for decades.
It’s tree roots. I know that’s not cool and adventurous but I promise you it’s tree roots.
No, that’s where they dumped the body of my good friend, Mr. Five by Five. We called him that because he was five feet tall and five feet wide. Perfectly spherical.
