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As I recall, a few years ago (in the era of first generation LLMs), a professor in Texas used an anti-plagiarism tool that flagged more than one-third of the class using AI in an e…

Take it for a spin.

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"unbiased", in the world of realpolitik, means "biased in a manner to further my agenda and not yours".

A lot of discussion about A2A here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631381

In theory, the more people use the product, the more OpenAI knows what they are asking about and what they do after the first result, the better it can align its model to deliver b…

Thanks for the ref. Not sure why that particular user got banned. A search just now on RedNote using the hashtag "gay" returns 8.7k posts. The results show plenty of men in skimpy …

What is impressive to me as a software developer is that the RedNote engineering team added a Translate item to the system, at scale, within a matter of days. It works flawlessly.

I was on RedNote just now. I saw some gay content that had been there yesterday as well, and has not been removed. BTW, the RedNote userbase in China is 70% female, similar to Pint…

That would be nice, to gambol in a lush, sunny meadow, perusing a leather-bound volume that we read in the original Greek or Sanskrit. Unfortunately, I fear we will instead end up …

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The wiki says Doomretro is 180,000 lines of code. That seems high to me, without ever having looked at the code. I have worked on simple games in the past which are in the low tens…

The article mentions how global cities outside the US are building out urban rail systems. Here's some more detail about China, which has the two largest transit systems in the wor…

By the way, that is a great movie. Or do I say "was"?

I have used Microsoft Office for 20 years and Google Docs/Workspace for 15 years. I much prefer the Google suite over the Microsoft one. I prioritize quality of user experience, ea…

To be clear, this is just a rumor passed along by Bindu Reddy. who I consider pretty well informed. Anyone have more detailed sources?

Here's a compelling visualization of the functioning of an LLM when processing a simple request: https://bbycroft.net/llm This complements the detailed description provided by 3blu…

Intriguing comment that I don't quite follow. Can you please elaborate?

Also I have seen some papers on Arxiv from FAANG companies that have a half-dozen or more co-authors, and almost all of those authors have Chinese names.