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by drweevil 1y ago
Right. It’s more like “Talk to the Hand.” This bubble can’t pop soon enough.
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by drweevil 1y ago
That is indeed the crux of it. If you write me an inane email, it’s still you, and it tells me something about you. If you send me the output of some AI, have I learned anything? Has anything been communicated? I simply can’t know. It remin
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by drweevil 1y ago
Yea, this isn’t about “government efficiency" or any such excuse. They simply hate science and what it has to say about the damage we are doing to the environment that sustains us. Can’t have trivial things like clean air interfere wit
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by drweevil 1y ago
The headline is rather telling. It's really not the burn they think it is. Economists have been predicting for years that the Japanese economy would crash due to "debt". Hasn't happened. So maybe, just maybe, the model b
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by drweevil 1y ago
Consistency would be welcome indeed. We have courts saying it's fair use to do this at scale to train LLMs, but minor violations like this trigger man-years of investigations and threats of imprisonment. The contradiction is grating. T
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by drweevil 1y ago
Word. The NSF provides great value from a relatively small budget. Because of the small sums involved I take these cuts as evidence of a fundamental hostility to scientific research.
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by drweevil 1y ago
And we believe this why? A Ukrainian web site, no independent corroboration. All righty then.
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by drweevil 1y ago
Or Lisp. Lisp is definitely not dead, but was definitely very influential.
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by drweevil 1y ago
>“In the world of conspiracy theories, evidence that disproves something happened becomes proof that something happened,” says Rothschild. Forget conspiracy theories. This isn't acceptable in any setting (for example, as stated by F
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by drweevil 1y ago
Lowering inflation by cutting scientific research is like trying to free up disk space by deleting the odd text file. (Some numbers, for context: 2024 National Science Foundation budget ~$10B, Musk annual compensation at Tesla, ~$45B, Defen
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by drweevil 1y ago
Indeed. This is not about Horizon's bugs. It is about management that was incurious and perhaps politically and financially motivated to ignore Horizon's shortcomings, enough so to knowingly destroy lives. Charges of murder should
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by drweevil 1y ago
I understand the justification being used. But it's bogus. These corporations are engaging in theft from the general public, using deceptive business practices that organized crime would be proud of. The claim made by the complainants
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by drweevil 1y ago
>”failed to conduct a preliminary analysis of the costs and benefits of the rule” Let me get this straight. The rule is declared void because the FTC failed to consider the cost to business to correct unfair and predatory business practi
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by drweevil 1y ago
The blame games on the climate and NOAA budgeting, Biden/Trump to blame etc. are just a smoke screen. The area is called Flash Flood Alley for a reason. The shallow soil, hilly topography, and local climate means that flash flooding is
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by drweevil 1y ago
Making it even more galling is that federal court ruling that it's not piracy when done at industrial scale by people with deep pockets.
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by drweevil 1y ago
I've always appreciated Adafruit's openness about their supply chain. $96.5 billions worth of new taxes on everyday people, so that he can give those who are worth hundreds of billions a tax break. It's contemptible, really.
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by drweevil 1y ago
And he's absolutely right. It can't be a democracy if money speaks and people can't.
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by drweevil 1y ago
This reminds me a lot of Rich Hickey’s talk “Hammock Driven Development.” Highly recommended.
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by drweevil 1y ago
Our world is their playground. Rent Venice for your wedding? Check. Send your girlfriend to space? Check. They have to much money and no respect at all.
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by drweevil 1y ago
>"The United States has generated $95.6 billion this year from tariffs as of June 24" Where did this money come from? It's odd that this article purports to "track", but only addresses that question in a very tan
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by drweevil 1y ago
TIL a new word, lol. Yeah, I understood it to mean something akin to ‘touting’.
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by drweevil 1y ago
This is dubiously sourced and defies comparisons with other conflicts. These casualty figures are at the same level as total US casualties in World War 2 . It beggars belief that a regional war can produce such casualties. By contrast tota
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by drweevil 1y ago
Things really change fast, don't they? A couple of election cycles ago we were all being urged to put down our coal mining tools and Learn To Code™. And speaking of magic cornucopias, now politicians think that if everyone adopts AI, s
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by drweevil 1y ago
Would this be happening if industry was forced to pay for the real cost to society of the AI that is replacing the programmers? Just the subsidized resource use alone, accompanied by its associated carbon load, is staggering. Add the massiv
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by drweevil 1y ago
The AI Fix Tech Won't Save Us Ologies Overthink System Crash If Books Could Kill Redacted The Rest Is History
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by drweevil 1y ago
Today's capitalists are playing with fire. Sure, companies can do "more with less". Sure, "Fewer employees means faster growth." But to what end? One gets the distinct impression that the "more" and the &q
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by drweevil 1y ago
Word. Scientific consensus isn’t announced in headlines.
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by drweevil 1y ago
"Available for pre-order now!" lol
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by drweevil 1y ago
>"Not least because there is no escaping a persistent flaw: large language models (LLMs) remain prone to casually making things up." That's what they do! They are not called "Generative AI" for nothing. 'Gen
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by drweevil 1y ago
It helps by providing some context to how we think about detecting alien life, for one thing. The big question in that field is the Fermi paradox: If there is a high likelihood of extra-terrestrial life, why haven't we detected any sig

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