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Kosovo and Cyprus... what was the third?

Salesforce hasn't ever been hacked to the best of my knowledge.

The LLM is, in many ways, smarter than you and I: it can perform feats of advanced mathematics that have eluded mathematicians for decades. It's not at all unreasonable to think th…

> Not to mention that if I, human overseer, don't course correct it many times a day, it goes off into Neverland. Doesn't that happen to a human engineering team if you don't cours…

I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be t…

Because a Macbook M1 is fast enough to do anything and most people aren't running local LLMs

What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?

The core of Apple's success has always been to capture the cultural leaders. Artists, musicians, journalists, etc. have used Apple at much higher percentages than the general publi…

The "Wall Street tech sell-off" is QQQM being down 1.7% over the last five days and up 17.4% over the last six months

This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome

ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.

Facebook built a poker bot called Pluribus that consistently beat professional poker players including some of the most famous ones. What techniques did they use? https://en.wikipe…

Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.

I find that checking Facebook is almost always an emotional experience. I see so many more new babies than I ever did before Facebook.

But working hard isn't ever enough to reach the pinnacle of achievement. I could have worked my ass off at basketball, from age 3, and I would have never been an NBA player. Someon…

A lot of reasons can sound totally justified in retrospect. "The Colts will win the Super Bowl because they have superior talent." "The Saints will win the Super Bowl because the C…

Failure can be great even if it never leads to success. Several people I've known have started a business with their own money, failed horribly, and never started another. But it g…

You should make it more tailored (but not explicitly mention that) it's for dog owners to meet each other. For example, meeting other "friendly dogs and dog owners" or something li…

O, Thor? :)

How many people have the ability to actually improve something? Should those people not demand quality? I can't engineer a car - does that mean I shouldn't get mad when my airbags …

The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)

Pedantry: a gigawatt is a unit of power, not energy. Perhaps you meant a gigawatt-hour? :)

I have 5 or so fake Facebook profiles I use for expressly this purpose.

A cursory search reveals no less than 8 companies already selling this