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The article seems like an interesting Gedankenexperiment. However, I think it overrotates on the GR analogy. For example "..ARC captures the logical leap, it misses the manipulativ…

Mac User Guide documentation states "When autocorrection is on, misspelled words are detected and automatically corrected as you type." [1] https://support.apple.com/en-az/guide/ma…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111599

Craig Federighi SVP of Software at Apple “The keyboard now leverages a transformer language model, which is state of the art for word prediction, making autocorrect more accurate t…

If the company making this claim were not famously litigious, I would agree with your "good faith" interpretation. They are, unfortunately, famously litigious[1]. [1] https://en.wi…

This wasn't your original question, which I answered. This "moving the goalposts", requiring me to know the internals of say a closed source product, just proves my original point.…

"A Simple yet Effective Training-free Prompt-free Approach to Chinese Spelling Correction Based on Large Language Models"[1] [1] https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.966/

I don't know the timeline, but I generally agree. I think history agrees too, i.e. machine code > assembly language > high-level programming language > prompts.

The is not exactly my point. I am speaking of spelling/grammar checkers are part of the IDE and/or OS. You'd have to know your IDE and/or OS's implementation details to know you ar…

My point is you might be when you wrote your comment or I might be in writing this comment. However, I don't know if I am as I haven't seen, and will likely never see, the implemen…

While I understand the caution, the current policy seems too draconian. It states in part: > Until that policy is in place, the Governing Board has approved this interim policy: > …

Trephination! :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

Surgery, antimicrobials, farming crops, animal husbandry... humans are late to the game.

Using gemma3:12b I ran it once over Andrew Ng's CV https://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/curriculum-vitae.pdf because why not. He's a 48.0/100, things that make you go Hmmm.

Hmm...six runs with gemma3:12b on my CV - Varies from 102.0/100 to 100.0/100 - Missed lots of OSS work - Misinterprets GSoC work (Thinks projects I started that were contributed to…

What other verification targets did you consider?

Surprised pikachu face

Time to switch

Ye olde building 20, how we loved to hate you.

The conflict in the Gulf has now claimed several new victims: data centers. This marks a sea change in warfare and will force tech companies to reevaluate their posture around nati…

Almost anything, i.e. the next generation accelerator[1] at CERN is about 15B CHF which is about 20B USD. [1] https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-colli...

The 3rd section of the 14th amendment[1] states that no person having engaged in insurrection[2] shall hold any office, civil or military, in the United States. So technically Trum…

10x when working on a code base I'm very familiar with. Basically, it amounts to being able to give detailed instructions to a junior dev (who can type incredibly fast) and having …