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Just to be clear, on Arch ffmpeg is outdated (6.0 vs 6.1.) This means it has three security vulnerabilities.

Universe packages are not supported by Ubuntu unless you activate Ubuntu Pro. Thus, if you install ffmpeg on Ubuntu without Pro, it will contain several active vulnerabilities. The…

> the training cutoff date isn't some absolute date from which they never allowed any new data to be trained on. It's not a question of whether they are "allowed" to train on new d…

Sure, there will be some pollution. It's very multivariate and depends on factors like content split, generation quality, and novel information. A scenario in which all of your dat…

They are most certainly being fed LLM content. However, I think this "model collapse" narrative is over-subscribed. Here are some things to keep in mind: (1) Real content is not ge…

I think it should be noted that this enforces grammatical constraints on the model's generated text, but it doesn't do anything to properly align the content. This would be useful …

What could possibly go wrong?

The major benefit of tenure is as a protection for pursuing the truth when researching controversial academic subjects. It protects the behavioral genetics research which takes pla…

There are stats on failure rates and bathtub curves. Consumer hard drives these days have an AFT of ~1.41%. Never used SpinRite and I don't know if there is evidence for it but I s…

I've always been curious why people so fervently dislike Gibson. I think the most genuine criticism is that Spin-Rite is not a backup solution and people may rely on it as such. Id…

Seems like the issue here is not EA or a rationalist world view. The issue seems to be the lack of compartmentalization of the professional and personal lives, a lack of procedural…

Perspective from someone who maintains Debian packages in the community repo here: Package maintenance is time consuming and difficult. It requires a lot of volunteer work. Individ…