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Man, thanks for this precious tip

It's all parallel construction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Is porn birth control ? Yes it is. But why is porn free and ubiquitous ? Surely there's an enormous amount of money behind it, but where's the ROI ?

Someone must be funding the NGOs organizing it all.

Yeah, I also use it because it is fairly low maintenance. There's the sysupgrade every 6-month, but it goes smoothly every time.

I used to have the opposite rule in my signal processing field : the more Chinese names, the less innovation was there. They seemed like they had to be churning out papers and any …

I liked this reply in the thread : There's another issue surrounding developer skill atrophy or stunting that I find \ particularly concerning on an existential level. If we allow …

I'm not sure why this would force him to retire as an OpenBSD developer ? Did this research bring him some backlash from other developers ? If not, maybe he can advocate for a bett…

Plus you can install them in a separate work profile (use app "shelter"), which isolates them more. Personally I need them for my banking app (which is a shame but here we are), bu…

The theory still emanated from actual observations, didn't it ?

Now of course, the only input LLMs have is human text (for text only LLMs anyway). So their model is entirely dependent on how we see the world. I wouldn't restrict LLMs to descrip…

What would a human say about what he/she is or how he/she works ? Even today, there's so much we don't know about biological life. Same applies here I guess, the LLM happens to be …

Tbf banks are truly driving the coercion. My banks used to have functional apps on bare GrapheneOS, but nowadays they won't launch without Play Services (to wich I can deny network…

"How concepts relate" is called a model. That it uses language to be interacted with is irrelevant to the fact that it's a model of of a worldly concept. What of multi modal models…

When you ask an LLM a question about cars, it needs an inner representation of what a car is (how imperfect it may be) to answer your question. A model of "language" as you want to…

A model of language is a model of the world, else it being pure gibberish.

Those billion parameters, they are a model of the world. Autocomplete is such a shortsighted understanding of LLMs.

Aren't botnet targeting cheap and unsecured consumer devices specifically in the residential IP ranges ?

GrapheneOS, OpenBSD, Wireguard

Filesystem is one of the rare areas (albeit crucial) where OpenBSD is flaky, tbf.

> "how do I get working" OpenBSD is very different from FreeBSD in this regard. OpenBSD mostly works out of the box.

Man, I remember when you told this story some years ago, and I still very much like it ! (I have an hnrss.org feed with all comments mentioning OpenBSD, so, I was bound to catch it…

Have some self awareness. One could say the exact same things about western media.

Beware of yours. Working in inhuman conditions cannot be justified by any amount of money.

Your browser arrived here like a ninja—empty referrer, sneaking in from nowhere after 4 seconds of indecision—yet your "K" phone from Chiapas (but actually Querétaro?) has the myst…