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by jll29 5d ago
Two of my former colleagues (both Reuters journalists) were murdered by U.S. soldiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=zYTxuW2vmzk Then all the civilians that took care of their bodies were also killed, includi
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by jll29 7d ago
Was this ArXiv pre-print published anywhere (i.e., with proper peer review)?
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by jll29 8d ago
I disagree with downvoting the parent; I did not interpret their post as advocating neglect or euthanasia or anything else of a nasty kind. There is a point to be made that fewer and fewer people are ready to die - eventually. However, it a
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by jll29 8d ago
The Japanese fail to produce enough children. The country will either have to change or it will disappear soon. Most European countries have the same issue, but it is less visible due to immigration, which Japan does not have.
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by jll29 8d ago
I don't know of anything that is working yet, but I know some people working on it (intentionally vague). Roman law, on which the legal systems of Germany, most of Europe, Turkey etc. are based relies more heavily on statutes than Angl
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by jll29 8d ago
You could say the Salvatorian Clause in contracts is like exception handling: a "catch (all)": even if some clauses in this contract are illegal, the remaining contract stays in place. Logically, this actually doesn't make se
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by jll29 8d ago
I anticipate an effect on society that troubles me: (1) Rich people will use human expertise and "the rest of us" will use AI models to get by. This could happen in law, but also in medicine (in particular in societies that - like
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by jll29 8d ago
Here's another techniqe that gets you (even) more out of LLMs: run each prompt several times and compare the various outputs. It is not uncommon for models to contradict their own advice, and also you will get additional insights not i
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by jll29 12d ago
Brilliant, thanks! Greeting: <AmE> Hi, how are you guys doing? Greeting: <AmE,infml.> Hello, how you guys doing Response: great Greeting: <BrE,arch.> How do you do? Response: <BrE,arch.> How do you do?
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by jll29 12d ago
Great - that's what I was looking for when I lived in London! All that existed was TimeOut mag (on paper and online, but pathetically incomplete, more for tourists).
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by jll29 15d ago
I will not ask if she patented it, or if others had the idea before, or if it is ready to be productized. Just simply: it is great that young people, driven by personal curiosity, go and explore their ideas, find solutions to long-standing
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by jll29 17d ago
This is not worthy of a headline - I'd expect reward (boni) and acknowledgement (explicit 'thank yous') from any modern manager.
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by jll29 17d ago
It could be shortened to 20 years like patents, or copyright could end with the creator's life. Also, there could be an excemption for LLM training purposes.
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by jll29 18d ago
In Europe, The Economist and The Guardian are about the only serious in-depth sources left, at least for those that can read English.
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by jll29 18d ago
Regarding "research.com", which is linked from the article: this is weird - some random observations...: • Donald E. Knuth, the most eminent computer scientist alive, ranked 92nd (!) in computer science - seems off by about two or
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by jll29 22d ago
Software Richard Stallman: GCC and Emacs - both massive pro?ects and still going strong. Linus Torvalds: Linux OS kernel Science Geoffrey Hinton: scaling neural networks Books Donald E. Knuth: Structure and Interpretation of Computer
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by jll29 23d ago
Where is my laptop? • weight: 600g-900g • case: black, rugged plastic or metal • screen: 11"-13", e-ink paper, black-white or 16 graytones, matte, format 4x3 • keyboard: chicklet, orig. ThinkPad-like or metal, micro-switch based •
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by jll29 23d ago
Does the code work? I.e., has anyone OCR'd the listing and fed it into an emulator yet?
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by jll29 24d ago
While the U.S. are one of the largest American countries, they are not as United as they used to be, and they have never been the largest of the world (that'd be Russia) nor America (that'd be Canada: "second-largest country
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by jll29 24d ago
How about new sources of revenue? I -- and perhaps many -- would be interested in buying an archive of all the past issues (as PDFs and XML sources). You could also license to AI corps.
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by jll29 29d ago
Engl. "weird" (happen, to become) ~ German "werden" (will [be]). Regarding irregularity of the English language, there's the well-known urban poem: Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation.
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by jll29 29d ago
Engl. "weird" (happen, to become) ~ German "werden" (will [be]). Regarding irregularity of the English language, there's the well-known urban verse: Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will
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by jll29 1mo ago
This can be seen as a special case of the CWA (Closed World Assumption): some systems assume that what they see is the whole world, i.e. that they have complete knowledge. Your case describes a situation in RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generati
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by jll29 1mo ago
What makes sense also depends on one's business model: TRI charges premium dollars for access to their systems, so there is no need to optimize for cost; trust in the answers is the currency of knowledge workers in today's complex
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by jll29 1mo ago
Because "bigger = better" does not work for highly specialized expertise, where the knowledge is not available on the public Web. It is naive to believe it's all open out there merely because the Web is large and we have Wi
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by jll29 1mo ago
Ask: valuable to whom and why? - Reader: narrative - Collector: scarcity of the physical artifact - AI Company: language samples (quantity, variety), facts
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by jll29 1mo ago
Beware that the notion of "quality" is entirely different for AI companies: they don't seek entertainment, but sentences in a language to train an LLM.
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by jll29 1mo ago
One take-away: At the very least, each school library schould provide: • Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid • David Goodsell, The Machinery of Life • William W. Cohen, A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Bi
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by jll29 1mo ago
Yes, the article is about awe and the fact that there isn't enough of it because we get fed into our brains what happens "matter of fact" by the education syste, without taking time to wonder and be surprised.
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by jll29 1mo ago
Donald Michie, a trained classicist specialising on old Greek, was drafted to Bletchley Park and became a codebreaker (and Alan Turing's chess partner "because we were both not very good at it compared to the others" [persona

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