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by fwip 5d ago
There's a lot of reader-mode extensions out there - I'm not sure which ones are good nowadays.
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by fwip 6d ago
Makes sense - there's lots of ways to do it wrong. If you crop a jpeg and re-save it as a jpeg, you'll introduce artifacts.
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by fwip 6d ago
Yeah, you're right. Writing a program to solve ciphers with dictionary keys was an assignment in my intro to cryptography course - there's a couple of easy tricks you can do on the output to rapidly filter to the right solution.
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by fwip 7d ago
That's Huawei's Android fork, right? Is it available on devices outside of China? I'm not seeing an obvious place to buy a device running it.
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by fwip 7d ago
Not to mention how it seems to be standard practice to bomb weddings that one military commander happens to be attending. The US has found out that it can commit war crimes as much as it wants, and nobody is going to stop it.
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by fwip 7d ago
Faster than light? Do you think they're living on Mars or something?
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by fwip 8d ago
It's pretty similar to music, yeah. Or perhaps music can be similar to poetry. Just this morning I was re-reading the lyrics for "Pale Green Things" & "Woke Up New" by The Mountain Goats. There's a sort of
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by fwip 8d ago
No, it's a joke on the headline. "Names son."
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by fwip 8d ago
This sort of thing is why STEM students need more humanities classes. The idea that poetry is semantically denser than prose is, like, obvious, to anybody who cares about poetry.
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by fwip 8d ago
It could be sending more data per second if it's the result of a network upgrade at their datacenter. :)
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by fwip 8d ago
"The original is 9x larger" This is another pet peeve that I have with the way we phrase these things: It should be 9x "as large" and 8x "larger." The way I'd usually phrase this, to avoid ambiguity, is &q
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by fwip 9d ago
Agreed. It's quite bad. Like, even for fanfic, it's not good. And a lot of fanfic is written by fourteen year olds.
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by fwip 9d ago
> You cannot solve problems in AI safety this easily. We're in agreement here. I don't believe that an LLM can be made to be safe by adjusting the training or prompting - you can only make it safe by ensuring it cannot do unsaf
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by fwip 10d ago
It will be a lot cheaper for the AI companies to pay lobbyists for a few years, so that they no longer have to take accountability.
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by fwip 10d ago
Perhaps off-topic, but there's some people who believe that this can be what happens during surgery under anesthesia, if the dosage is off. From what I understand, there's 3 parts to modern anesthesia: Blocking pain signals, preve
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by fwip 10d ago
Oh - I see that now. It's possible I missed it originally - I did read the article but I was skimming quickly. Mea culpa, if so.
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by fwip 10d ago
Edit: Comment deleted - no longer useful.
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by fwip 10d ago
Sounds like a good reason not to train an algorithm to behave like one. Which is, like, a big part of the article.
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by fwip 10d ago
The parsing code isn't even correct, though. I'm sure it works for the current input source code, but it's a clear sign of an LLM developing by iteration, rather than actually understanding the problem and coming up with a co
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by fwip 10d ago
It's fully LLM-written. You can trust it if you want, but there's stuff in there that's clearly wrong or nonsensical.
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by fwip 11d ago
Nearly any C programmer could write this.
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by fwip 11d ago
I see - I think I overfixated on your specific point, and thought you meant that the current predictability of LLMs was on-par with the current predictability of airlines. The range of LLMs with current harnesses is "anything somebody
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by fwip 11d ago
> Is AI less deterministic than an airline dealing with weather? Yes, obviously? The responses of an airline to inclemement weather fit in a reasonably small set of responses, mostly involving rescheduling and/or rerouting flights.
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by fwip 11d ago
I'm sure all of them have a few skeptics. I'm not sure if any of the successful launches here were this negative.
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by fwip 11d ago
Reviews say around 2-4 hours when streaming from PC, 1 hour is if you're gaming directly on the device with the graphics turned all the way up.
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by fwip 11d ago
The pattern that RSS feeds best supports is subscribing to individual creators who produce things you value. Presumably, if you don't like AI word-vomit, you wouldn't subscribe to a blog that uses it heavily. This is in contrast t
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by fwip 11d ago
True, but with Xcancel, you don't have to sign into X, and you're also denying X some user data and engagement metrics.
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by fwip 12d ago
From what I recall, the only people actually eating Tide pods were elderly folks with dementia. The kids were joking about it a lot, though.
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by fwip 12d ago
> If there is energy to be used, the system will use it because people always use power when it exists. That doesn't seem correct to me. There is always energy available that is not used because it is not cost-effective to do so. (C
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by fwip 13d ago
Executing captured combatants was not atypical for the time period. I doubt you'll find many historians calling the Massacre at Verden terrorism, for instance, despite executing 4500 prisoners.

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