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by carschno 1y ago
It's called grassroots marketing. It works particularly well in the context of GenAI because it is fed with esoteric and ideological fragments that overlap with common beliefs and political trends. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by carschno 1y ago
Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12681
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DDoS on German newspaper Taz came from "Hano"(taz.de)
1 points by carschno 1y ago|0 comments
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by carschno 2y ago
There are remarkable parallels to the Relotius scandal that took place at the German magazine Der Spiegel a few years ago (although in a bigger and more systematic way): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fa
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by carschno 2y ago
Can you recommend some in Amsterdam?
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by carschno 2y ago
Mailbox looks very solid, although I don't have long-term experience: https://mailbox.org It provides email, online storage, video conferencing, calendar etc., all of it privacy-preserving by default. You explicitly don&#x2
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by carschno 2y ago
You are looking at it from a product perspective. From a scientific perspective, it just means the respective benchmark is meaningless, so we don't know how well such a model generalizes.
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by carschno 2y ago
I am not a biologist, but the first sentence seems bold to me: > Millions of years of evolution have led mammalian brains to develop the crucial ability to store large amounts of world knowledge and continuously integrate new experiences
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by carschno 2y ago
I would start here: https://www.transkribus.org/ Experts in the field might know more specialized tools, or how to train an actually better Transkribus model without deep technical knowledge required.
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by carschno 2y ago
I wanted to say this, but could not express it as well. I think what your points also reveal is the biggest success factor of ChatGPT: it can do many things that specialised tools have been doing (better), but many ChatGPT users had not kno
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by carschno 2y ago
> When a user sends an attachment (e.g., an image) on Signal, it is uploaded to cdn2.signal.org. Why is that even the case? I had understood that (binary) attachments are embedded into the encrypted message and hence transferred directly
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by carschno 2y ago
This seems a very long way to say: "I believe that 'woke' has become dogmatic."
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by carschno 2y ago
It happens today. However, companies fail for multiple problems that come together. Bad software quality (from whatever source) is typically not a very visible one among them because when business people take over, they only see (at most) t
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by carschno 2y ago
It is complicated and this is a very nice contribution! Do you have any quantitative evaluation in terms of precision and recall?
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by carschno 2y ago
Indeed. That partly seems to be based on the advice to build (save/invest) money while you are younger, which seems a bit contradictory. I suppose everything is easier when you are rich, including ageing.
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by carschno 2y ago
Indeed. Which makes it very hard to google.
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by carschno 2y ago
The model cars says only English, is that correct? Are there any plans to publish a multilingual model or monolingual ones for other languages?
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ChatGPT's Sad Second Birthday(podcastaddict.com)
14 points by carschno 2y ago|9 comments
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by carschno 2y ago
Brian Merchant and Paris Marx are back to celebrate ChatGPT’s second birthday while questioning how OpenAI is really doing as it embraces advertising and the rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk continues to escalate.
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by carschno 2y ago
"We" may be a bit over-generalized, but mysticism and superstition are certainly essential for totalitarian ideologies. > people even of supposedly “normal” mind are prepared to accept systems of delusions for the simple reason
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by carschno 2y ago
This does read very impressive. Any critical perspectives on the presented evaluation? What about noon-English text? I understand the model is, like for other commercial ones, available exclusively through their API, right?
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by carschno 2y ago
They cannot be found out as long as there is no better evaluation. Sure, if they produce obvious nonsense, but the point of a systematic evaluation is exactly to overcome subjective impressions based on individual examples as a notion of qu
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by carschno 2y ago
Indeed, test data like this constantly leaks into the training data, so these leaderboards are not necessarily representative for real-world problems. A better approach is to use variable evaluation like GSM-Symbolic (for evaluating mathema
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Open Science NL budget cut by half(openscience.nl)
1 points by carschno 2y ago|1 comments
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by carschno 2y ago
'This reduction of the budget by half is a severe blow to open science. Successive Dutch governments have rightly invested in making science more accessible, transparent, and collaborative. Coupled with the other funding reductions, th
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by carschno 2y ago
Keep in mind that companies do not necessarily aim to increase efficiency but to de-professionalize. It will be easier to find these "glorified editors" that require minimal education, than current software developers. Consequentl
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by carschno 2y ago
In the Netherlands, for instance, there is "the national supercomputer" Snellius: https://www.surf.nl/en/services/snellius-the-national-superc... I am not sure about its budget, but my impression as a us
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by carschno 2y ago
It's correct that these are political/economical decisions. But most people in society neither have the knowledge for an informed opinion on such matters, nor a vote.
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by carschno 2y ago
"Open Access" includes formats that shift the cost from the readers to the authors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_processing_charge So the publisher still gets a significant amount of money, albeit of
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by carschno 2y ago
Interesting. Who pays for that? Sounds like, economically speaking, you are taking over the costs from your employer for providing a usable workspace.

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