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Ironically typhoon forecasting, at this moment, is more valuable. These predictions are matters of life, death, and billions of dollars in damage.

If you’re just getting into this tropical tidbits[0] is my go to for more raw data. Less pretty than zoom earth but also an interesting place to see what the models are predicting …

Don’t know. Just pointing out that the comment I’m replying to didn’t actually understand the argument being made.

The point being made isn't that it cannot inspire someone to then go on to learn but that mastery of the game alone does not convey creative skill. Of course someone can be inspire…

If you enjoy this sort of thing I’d highly recommend pico-8 and tic-80. Both have pretty full featured dev environments and have a set of restrictions that make developing for them…

A lot of the AI crazy boils down to the fact that those who only see people as tools find it easy to see tools as people.

By the standards of someone as articulate as Le Guin it's definitively a rant.

The fundamental reason that climate change is an issue is because it happens over timescales which the ecosystem and human society struggle to keep up. No one reasonable believes w…

The thing that sucks is it doesn’t matter if you don’t get sucked in. Society is and as a result even if you the individual feel valued society largely will not value you. Of cours…

No one reasonable is concerned for publishers they are concerned for the books. Assuming the allegations are correct historical artifacts are being destroyed with no trace. It does…

I really enjoy working with Gleam which is a rather boilerplate heavy language. However most of the work is managed by a really well built LSP. If you're writing a strongly type la…

Another git command I love using is `git add -p`. I always want to commit in chunks as I go but sometimes I wait to long or realize later I could have broken it up. Being able to s…

The truth is that they are tools for language manipulation. Advanced mathematics is language manipulation. Multiplication is not. Using it to describe them as having a critical fla…

Yea to be more explicit than the other reply they are being fined for the theft of the books not training on them. They trained on tons of legally procured books by destructively s…

Plus on top of that it's been ruled that training on copyrighted material is allowed because it's transformative. As a result even if the model output is copyrighted training on it…

Well in this case that’s a valid complaint. The tax code changes yearly. If the primary reason an llm can get through a return is because it’s been trained on some example returns …

Natural language is an imprecise interface. It really ideally is the interface of last resort. If you have a straight line from problem to solution you do not need natural language…

That’s what I pay in Connecticut for electricity. I believe most of New England and California are in the price range. I’ve got a Prius Prime and only at around $4+ a gallon does i…

A large study linked higher consumption of several *artificial* sweeteners to faster declines in memory and thinking skills.

Yea we saw an anonymous question “Are you using AI to be more efficient” start at 30/70 yes/no and flip to 90/10 after a mandate. I know that’s a very different question but it sho…

In a piece that is making a persuasive argument facts are usually included to back up the argument. So I think it is fair to assume the author of the piece believes this is a key p…

This is something you could empirically study. Looks like this NASDAQ study from a few years back has some numbers. At 3 months, that’s what’s in their chart, it’s still about 50/5…

It depends upon why you have issues with LLMs. If you’re just concerned about quality then sure the dissonance isn’t intolerable. If you’re concerned about their ethics then this b…

There is a we though. Society might not act collectively or via central planning but culture can function as such to a degree. The culture in the US is currently that it is ethical…

It’s sort of all over the place but it’s mostly the other way round. The poles might see like +5-8c. It’s also the overall temperature. Today’s high temperature where I am is 33 an…