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  1. On 6/29/2025 at 8:32 AM, idigTexas said:

    Pro tip:  If using a SFX PSU in an mid-ATX build, check the length of the included cables.  Build is on hold while I await my PSU replacement.  

    Note:  I am not a pro.  

    Why were you going with SFX anyway in a case that large? Or was it just left over from a previous build? 

  2. 33 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    It helps with the factual part of it.

    Not really, at least not without making your training set very specialized and limited (e.g., by removing all fictional or creative works). But then you couldn't get the scale needed for the more impressive capabilities seen with these models. You may be able to mitigate hallucinations to some degree, but the reality is that LLMs don't have any inherent way to identify "truth" or to reason. I think LLMs are going to ultimately end up finding their best use as a transformational layer between an input and another type of neural network or algorithm.   

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  3. 20 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    As I understand it, the output is just as good as the data. A story as old as time with data and analytics (e.g. garbage in, garbage out). I'm not technical enough to understand the roadmap, but from what I can see there is already exponential advancements everytime a new model is released to eventually get to a point where it's pretty rock solid. Things like reasoning, model switching, RAG, MCP, and the like for today-- who knows what tomorrow will bring.

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    Better data doesn't fix the inherent problems LLMs have in regards to hallucinations and reasoning. 

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    couldn't the water have come in at an earlier time?

    No, that report is fake. You can versions of it from back on the 15th. Versions of it says there was torrential rain prior to pushback. It is completely fake. 

  5. 8 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    AAIB Preliminary Report Highlights

    1. Primary Cause – Electrical Power Transfer Interruption (PTI) During Rotation

    • During transition from ground to airborne electrical configuration, the aircraft experienced a cascading dual-engine FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) failure.

    • Root cause: Uncommanded bus transfer failure due to arcing in the main power relay box (PRB-A), traced to water ingress during pre-flight GPU disconnection in heavy rain.

    • This led to loss of electronic engine control at rotation, resulting in both GEnx engines rolling back to ground idle within 4–5 seconds.



    2. Flight Data Record Timeline

    • +0:11 sec: Nose gear lifts off.

    • +0:13 sec: Sudden engine rollback begins. Thrust reduces from 92% N1 to <27% within 3 seconds.

    • +0:16 sec: Master caution + ENG FAIL L/R warnings. FO calls, “Both engines dropping!”

    • +0:20 sec: Autopilot and flight control reverts to Direct Mode. Pitch up attitude peaks at 18°.

    • +0:25 sec: Aircraft stalls at 186 ft AGL.

    • +0:30 sec: Full aerodynamic stall; nose drops rapidly.

    • +0:38 sec: Ground impact at 54° nose-down attitude, 174 knots.

     

    It wasn't raining... this is fake. 

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  6. 14 hours ago, vicerous said:

    Went the SFF route on my last build and had a great time with the Terra. Very smooth build if you plan your dimensions. 

    Nothing crazy but I pretty much play Path of Exile and TFT exclusively so I'm not pushing any boundaries and I wanted to keep it relatively cool & quiet. 

    R5 7600

    NH-L12S cooler

    ASRock A620I Lightning

    4070 Super Eagle (In white annoyingly)

    Corsair SF750 

     

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    I'm surprised that the 4070 Super fits with the spine that far in favor of the CPU side. That's good to know!

  7. 9 minutes ago, linux said:

    I mean don't you have to join a class action? even if free (considering there is no payout in the end I doubt it) aren't there time frames? so to get relief you have to hope you are not deported before you are able to join a class action?

    We no longer have rights, those have been replaced as jump through hoops. I can't wait for the interpreations of right to life, you can only sue once you are dead.

    Not exactly. You don't really individually join a class action at the outset. The attorney filing the case provides a class definition. At some point, the court will rule on whether the class can be certified. Assuming it grants certification, for the vast majority of class actions, anyone within that definition is part of the class. These are known as opt-out class actions. You have to actively decline to participate in order to be removed from the class. And that decision typically isn't made until there is a known outcome (e.g., a settlement). Opt-in class actions are rarer in modern times, but they do still exist. However, even there, the opt-in procedure is usually later in the process and until then the entire prospective class is treated the same. 

  8. 3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    to me it's not

    it's 2025

    it would have been impressive in 1975

    we've been spending double-digit billions annually on black-world undisclosed technology for 75 years

    This is a capability that literally no other nation has. That investment in resources, research, and training is what allowed an impressive feat to seem mundane. Your reasoning would seem to preclude anything from being described as impressive. It is lazy and pointless analysis.  

  9. 2 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    Got it.  So it all comes back to Trump like it always does.  Guess I need to go look at Twitter and see what he got all the CR'ers fired up about today.   I assume he's acting like a fucking buffoon like he always does.  I could give 2 shits what that idiot has to say about anything.  That doesn't mean the actual planning, coordination, etc. of the strike itself wasn't impressive.  It's ok to appreciate the American military without feeling like you are supporting the administration you know.    But yeah - I'll see my way back to the Stars or recruiting threads which can hopefully stay devoid of the rampant TDS that infects every fucking discussion on this board.

    Wait, we're you really expecting a conversation generally about the bombing of another country, which was done at the sole discretion of Trump, to not have political discussion? I don't think anyone in the thread is really demeaning the military. There is some discussion about how impressive this particular operation actual was. It can be true that the operation was tactically impressive, but not the most impressive operation ever as claimed by the administration, and potentially not even a strategically successful operation. You're a fool if you thought the later two points weren't going to be discussed here or shouldn't be discussed here. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    this isn't magic

    radio voice silence does not equal global encrypted comms

    What? When did I claim anything about magic? What are you on about? Communication was limited. Encrypting communication protects the contents of the message, but not the fact that a message was sent, from where it was sent, and in some instances to where it was. 

  11. 59 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Did they have to operate with radio and all other communications silence while coordinating? 

    Yes. That appears to be exactly what they did. Fighters, tankers, bombers, naval assets, surveillance, and electronic warfare assets all had to be precisely timed and routed. Small individual deviations given the distances, scale, and timeframes involved would have been greatly amplified. This level of coordination is very impressive.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    Seriously.  Are people on this board serious trying to downplay an outstanding job by our military because of fucking politics.  JFC.

    Tactically, the mission was very impressive. No other nation has the experience or demonstrated capability to pull off a mission like that. Whether it was strategically wise or successful is up for debate. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    1) is it difficult to fly that plane?

    2) the bulk of the 36 hours is it in some sort of autopilot setting just level flying, way above any other air traffic, right?

    3) is there more than one pilot aboard these bombers that can rotate watch/active flying?

    What makes the mission difficult?  What makes it complicated?  A to B, pull lever to drop 2 bombs, B to A.  For 6 or 7 planes. Midair refueling in between that I would assume gets trained on constantly.  Fuel planes from whatever bases are nearby the refueling area go up on time and loiter. 

    Coordinating the actions of over hundred aircraft with minimal to no communication over thousands and thousands of miles so that they all arrive where they are supposed to be precisely when they are supposed to be there is very complex. Doing so in way that will minimize the likelihood of detection while also including multiple mid-air fueling points  even more so. 

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    “It is a strawman to say that I do not criticize the Trump administration”, he says as he once again refuses to criticize the Trump administration, but instead inserts criticism of Biden in his continued deflection.

    I'm not sure he even understands the meaning of the word strawman. My argument is that he is a hypocrite. It isn't a strawman to use evidence of his hypocrisy. It is my core argument. 

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  15. Actual statement by a doctor with the ACP (American College of Physicians) to the committee:

    "This committee has always prided itself on openness, transparency, review of data and evidence.  So I am wondering if we will have an actual scientific presentation with peer reviewed literature, strong evidence to actually discuss this issue as many statements have been made here today without the support of science or evidence but merely opinion."

    He continues by asking if there will be presentations by actual scientists with actual data or we they have "lay person presentations only"

    So, yeah, things are going well. 

     

     

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  16. @Anastasis still thinks this is balanced science and not political bullshit. He still thinks there is nothing to see here and that this is a balanced panel.

    https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/all-childhood-vaccines-in-question-after-first-meeting-of-rfk-jr-s-vaccine-panel/

    All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

    Beth Mole – Jun 25, 2025 6:04 PM | 116

    A federal vaccine panel entirely hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered for its first meeting Wednesday—and immediately announced that it would re-evaluate the entire childhood vaccination schedule, as well as the one for adults.

    The meeting overall was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments from the new panel members, confirming public health experts' fears that the once-revered panel is now critically corrupted and that Kennedy's controversial picks will only work to fulfill his long-standing anti-vaccine agenda.

    Controversial committee

    An hour before the meeting began, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out swinging against the new panel, saying that the panel's work is "no longer a credible process." The organization shunned the meeting, refusing to send a liaison to the panel's meeting, which it has done for decades.

    "We won't lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children's health," AAP President Susan Kressly said in a video posted on social media.

    The panel in question, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), has for more than 60 years provided rigorous public scientific review, discussion, and trusted recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how vaccines should be used in the US after they've earned approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The CDC typically adopts ACIP's recommendations, and once that happens, insurance providers are required to cover the cost of the recommended shots.

    The system is highly regarded globally. But, on June 9, Kennedy unilaterally and summarily fired all 17 esteemed ACIP members and, two days later, replaced them with eight new people. Some have clear anti-vaccine views, others have controversial and contrarian public health views, and several have little to no expertise in the fields relevant to vaccines.

    Last night, it came to light that one of the eight new appointees—Michael Ross, an obstetrics and gynecology physician—had withdrawn from the committee during a financial holdings review that ACIP members are required to complete before beginning work on the panel.

    With the remaining seven new members, ACIP's two-day meeting began this morning, despite calls for it to be scrapped. The new ACIP chair, Martin Kulldorff, introduced himself by proudly relaying that he had refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and was fired from Harvard University as well as an ACIP working group in the past.

    Childhood vaccines under attack

    Kulldorff's first order of business was to announce a new working group to review the safety of vaccine schedules in their entirety, rather than the safety of individual vaccines. Kulldorff was echoing an anti-vaccine talking point that children today get too many vaccines.

    "In addition to studying and evaluating individual vaccines, it is important to evaluate the cumulative effect of the recommended vaccine schedule," Kulldorff said. "This includes interaction effects between different vaccines, the total number of vaccines, cumulative amounts of vaccine ingredients, and the relative timing of different vaccines."

    Although children get more vaccines now than they did in the past, modern vaccines are more efficient at training the immune system against pathogens, exposing them to fewer elements of germs (antigens) to generate protective immune responses. A handy explanation from Yale's School of Public Health notes that children under age 2 in the 1980s got vaccines against just seven diseases—but those vaccines targeted over 3,000 antigens. Today, children under age 2 get vaccines against 15 diseases—but those vaccines target just 180 antigens, asking much less of the immune system.

    Further, the cumulative effect of vaccines is baked into testing. When new childhood vaccines are tested in clinical trials, the children participating in those trials are still able to get every other vaccine recommended for them—withholding proven vaccines from participants would be unethical. So, any vaccine safety and efficacy trial includes children who are getting the entire vaccine schedule in addition to the vaccine being tested, providing information on cumulative effects with every new addition.

    Kulldorff also said that the panel will go after specific vaccines, including the hepatitis B vaccine, which is given to newborns. The AAP immediately hit back, calling this "unscientific and dangerous." AAP highlighted that the hepatitis B vaccine is safe and lifesaving. Babies infected with hepatitis B at birth have a 90 percent chance of developing chronic disease, and 25 percent with chronic infections will end up dying from it. Thanks to vaccination, there were only 13 cases of hepatitis B in 2022.

    “Very concerned”

    During the full-day meeting, the seven new members listened to CDC experts review data on COVID-19 vaccines and RSV vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. In the discussions, ACIP member Retsef Levi—who is an expert in operations management—made a puzzling critique that the CDC's method for evaluating COVID-19 vaccine efficacy analysis didn't account for "alternative" explanations like "the vaccine is actually making you more vulnerable for multiple viruses."

    Meanwhile, ACIP member Robert Malone—who has claimed to have invented mRNA vaccines and is proud to be called an "anti-vaxxer"—spread false misinformation that certain lots of COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous. ACIP member Vicky Pebsworth—a nurse who is on the board of an anti-vaccine organization—said she was "very concerned" that the CDC's safety monitoring systems were not capturing all of the adverse events from vaccines and said the committee should have access to "data that we probably wouldn't ordinarily have." A CDC subject matter expert noted that there are published studies showing that the CDC's safety monitoring systems capture a large majority of adverse events.

    The committee ran over time and did not vote on anything today. But tomorrow, it will vote on an RSV monoclonal antibody discussed today, as well as on influenza vaccines, which will be discussed on Thursday. The agenda also includes presentations on a measles vaccine that has been the target of anti-vaccine activists.

    One presentation on flu shots will come from the former president of Kennedy's anti-vaccine organization, the Children's Health Defense. The slides of that presentation have been posted and will focus on the alleged dangers of a mercury-based preservative thimerosal, which anti-vaccine advocates have long falsely linked to autism. Already, researchers and media reports have noted that the presentation supports some of its claims with a study that does not exist.

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