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There seems to be quite a lot of stuff here [1] Seems legit to me. The oldest news item is from 2021. The domain name is new, but there seems to have been some rebranding lately. T…

It might be interesting also to consider why people with less money tend to be generous by nature and wave off small debts on account of a culture of mutual support. Bret Deveraux …

I suppose there is a concept of sentience from outside and a different concept from internal sentience. The movie "Johny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo discusses a situation where a…

And of course "temperature" is just an euphemism for the artificial randomness that is mixed in to make the output appear more magical.

I would argue that total anterograde amnesia would be a serious challenge for sentience, yes.

ChatGPT works by cumulating the prompt. You didn't ask the same question three times. In stead you asked question q, then qq and finally qqq. Those are three different questions, w…

The only reason why output from a generative LLM appears intelligent or sentient is that it parrots a random sampling of texts written by intelligent and sentient people. In order …

To only give up that position to functional programming?

Actually PostScript did last , I was just too stupid to realize that one needs to press for every new page in gv . Anyway: here is the pdf made by ps2pdf: https://juhani.xn--mkel-l…

Totally agree and thank you for being so perceptive! It was swell to hear someone say aloud "academic culture of sharing and providing for public good". I think that's what humanki…

Wouldn't claim so - perhaps the ideas were floating in the air. What I know for sure is that my work wasn't used for much. What's more alarming is that it seems those 32 years old …

32 years ago I had just finished my "erikoistyö" (a pregrad exercise) in CS at the Helsinki Uni about combining object-oriented programming with relational databases and uploaded i…

The article is not quite clear why the contractor had to split the intangible goods cost to the tangible ones, but it does give a hint. Federal accounting is meant to prevent possi…

Gadolin was Finnish by the same logic Benjamin Franklin was American. Or would you consider him an Englishman? He was born in the British colony, after all.

But he was Finnish

Well. If you treat adults like children, they will start behaving like children. If you treat them like adults, they will be more responsible. Or then they will rob you blind. Your…

Maybe no manager or director at all? Sometimes things happen in an organization in a self-organizing manner. Like people finding out who is able to help them with their problems an…

It seems to me like a law of nature that every managerial function seeks to increase its influence and headcount by definition. Without a constant and vigilant effort to keep this …

I totally agree with you that providing healthy and affordable meals for the students is a very good idea. So let me tell you how that was and is organized in my alma mater, the He…

The way she goes about it, using power tools without goggles and gloves is just horrifying. It's a lovely concept, showing what can be done with the materials and tools available. …

"Prioritätsstreit" is just a german word for a priority dispute, i.e. the question who was the first to come up with calculus, not something to indicate that this would be a priori…

What bothers me in this story is that it makes it sound as if it's easy to spot from the whatsapp chat who cheated. That doesn't make sense to me. Surely the students who cheated t…

Tossing a coin?

Is it really that easy just to overwrite the secure boot key database? I set up recently secure boot on a Lenovo laptop according to these instructions https://nwildner.com/posts/2…