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>It's still a ton of effort with dubious payoff. Isn't that valid for _any_ AI training? Let alone the "frontier stuff".

That'd be so great. No more cursing if I forgot the "-ai" or "-ki" flag in my search and see this odious AI overview processing window rendering slowly and taking up the space wher…

..just like any other government?

"Just like humans..", was also my first thought. > frequently escalating to severe misconduct to satisfy KPIs Bug or feature? - Wouldn't Wallstreet like that?

Don't forget that gcc is in the training set. That's what always puts me off: when AI replaces artists, SO and FOSS projects, it can only feed into itself and deteriorate..

That's why there is separation of powers or ought to be.

I always had this: "Only dead software needs no maintenance" in the back of my head, and similarly "bug free only means it's not been used and vetted enough" While probing into thi…

Slightly moving into the other direction, after 17 years of science and tech optimism I see myself turning into a Luddite more and more. First observation was that communication an…

Isn't that what no LLM can provide: being free of hallucinations?

Second that. I see that as a failure of society or democracy as a whole - that we are no longer able to have that broad, public conversation and act accordingly. Why should every "…

Uff, dunno where to start even: I think as a transcendent number π cannot have a finite expansion like 10 in any base, then it would be rational. But that is not so important. I th…

Some human attempts: "Why did the sun climb a tree?" "Because it was chased by the Great Bear." "Why did The Sun climb a tree?" "To spy on The Royal Family having picnic."

Well, I wouldn't entrust critical infrastructure to the private sector which.. blindly optimizes shareholder value and sells your data anywhere. Germany's train privatization also …

Generally, it's inter-subjectively decided what art is, which works enter the canon and are passed on. Placing it solely in each individual, "it's only a matter of taste", falls a …

As far as I understood any AI model is just a linear combination of its training data. Even if that were such a large corpus as the entire web... it's still just like a sophisticat…

If you want to use non standard fonts, I think, you should use XeLaTex to compile your file. After installing the font in the system, this just worked on my Ubuntu: \usepackage{mat…

The biggest pain I remember was placement of figures. I think the [h] parameter would advise to place the graphic right "here", but even if added the exclamation mark for extra for…

It's like the blaming in a playground fight; who started first? For context: https://nitter.net/KushDesai47/status/1907618136444067901

> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt deal was reported: Monday, December 16, 2019 Just like a programmer complaining about some atrociously bad code only to learn she has committe…

That was still operated 20 years ago: https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/...

Well, the learnedness as typist is probably not so much of a factor if you consider the setup: (b) type the presented word using the right index finger on the keyboard. That's real…

Not a very recent one, but this "Kingdom of nouns" resonates deeply http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...

So.. the metaverse shall be written in Verse? - Would Shakespeare approve or die in disambiguity?

Somehow the code is not linked in the blog posts, but it seems to be there: https://github.com/objective-see?tab=repositories

I think, that's a common misconception about randomness: It doesn't mean the number has to change with every roll of dice. On the contrary the longer the sequence large clusters of…