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by jordanb 6mo ago
For clarification poisoning and slop are different concepts. Slop is the output of AI. Poisoning is making your content (that may otherwise be good content) fuck up in the internals of an LLM. Classic example is the nightshade attack on ima
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Well I was in that cohort and none of us were thinking we were helping megacorps create the content slop machine from 1984 . Our concern was that corporations were expanding the definition of intellectual property to the extent where you c
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Disney is all-in on AI. They are thrilled. The folks fighting perpetual copyright were not fighting to make it possible for Disney to fire creatives. In fact they were fighting for the creatives to triumph over Disney.
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Those people where trying to build a sharing/gift economy. They weren't able to keep bad actors out of their sharing economy. They are bitter that their utopian dreams got hijacked by self-dealers. Why is that wild?
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by jordanb 6mo ago
My point is that if crawlers have to worry about poison that may make them start to respect robots.txt or something. It's a bit like a "Beware of Dog" sign.
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by jordanb 6mo ago
There may be plenty of content out there but everyone with any content on the internet is struggling to keep AI crawlers that they never authorized out. In many cases, people are having to do so just to protect their infrastructure from req
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Not even that it was just a bunch of AI-psychosis nonsense: https://futurism.com/former-ceo-uber-ai
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Listening to All In is a real eye opening experience. Especially when they have guests on and they're exactly like the regulars.
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Extremely briefly: metaverse. But yeah before that big data and SaaS had quite a run.
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Legal process is important when you're curtailing people's rights. Although I guess if you're going to argue that the regime is already despotic and lawless that's.. a valid argument that I concede to?
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by jordanb 6mo ago
This ring was broken up before the US was even in the war. Operation Drumbeat began after the Pearl Harbor attack at the end of 1941 but was most intense in early 1942. There was lots of Bund activity in the 1930s and prior to Pearl Harbor
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Loose Lips Sink Ships was itself an information management scheme to avoid informing the public. The Germans didn't have spies collecting rumors in the US. Nor did they need them during Operation Drumbeat (the U-Boat attack on the US c
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Exceptions were controversial into the 90s which is why Java went down that whole checked-exceptions rabbit hole. The argument was that an exception was essentially a GOTO (or even COME FROM) which broke functional abstraction. The Ariane 5
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Ada isn't a huge language by modern standards. I would say that it's smaller than modern Python and considerably smaller than modern C++. It's also relatively syntax-free preferring keywords and standard library. Ada came &qu
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by jordanb 6mo ago
When Ada came out a lot of programmers couldn't even touch type. You're right there's a generational change and a lot of of the Ada stuff won: * strong typing * lots of annotations * keywords over syntax, suppor
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by jordanb 6mo ago
I read it in Buzz Aldrin's book. He mentioned getting rid of all the samples if that happened. I would think the bigger problem would be moon dust all over their suits, but he didn't describe a plan for that. He said they thought
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by jordanb 6mo ago
There was some concern when Apollo 11 landed that when they repressurized the LEM with moon dust samples inside it would start a fire. I think they had a small test article that they blew a small stream of oxygen over to ensure it wouldn&#x
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Is this supposed to be some sort of own? That article is about language features Ada has to reduce verbosity, including operator overloading and some brevity features. A explicit strong, statically typed language is going to have a lot of
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by jordanb 6mo ago
I misspoke I actually meant interfaces. Ada forbade multiple inheritance to avoid the diamond problem but Java implemented interfaces as a solution and Ada adopted them. https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Not really. That was written by someone who doesn't really know the language and is writing from a position of hearsay. Ada is "verbose" in that it has fairly rigorous type specification. It was verbose in comparison to langu
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Not really, the state of compilers pretty much sucked back then. GCC was the only real free compiler in the 80s and it wasn't really ready for prime time until the late 80s. You were paying (lots) of money for a compiler no matter what
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by jordanb 6mo ago
The Arianne 5 crash was caused by re-using a module from the Arianne 4 in the new rocket without testing. Management declared the module to be "proven" but it was only designed and proven within the flight envelope of the Arianne
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by jordanb 6mo ago
Wage theft is the most lucrative and least prosecuted crime in America.
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by jordanb 7mo ago
It was an astronaut's personal computing device (PCD)
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by jordanb 7mo ago
I was using Alta Vista and preferred it. It had fairly sophisticated search options that Google never got like stem and wildcard searching. The problem was that yahoo killed it. They shut down its crawler and it started going stale. Plus th
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by jordanb 7mo ago
You don't have to believe. If you have a 401k you will be an investor 15 days after launch. The IPO will go great, because the company will float a fairly small issuance. The big shareholders will not immediately sell. They will hold o
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by jordanb 7mo ago
Prior to cars walking anywhere in any street was completely normal. You can watch movies filmed before the 1920s and city streets are full of people walking around or congregating. If a wagon or trolley hit someone that was considered the f
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by jordanb 7mo ago
> Just because they invented cars doesn't mean you stop jogging. They literally made it a crime to walk down the street.
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by jordanb 7mo ago
"Cruise missile carriers" are what the Burke class destroyers are. It's also what Russia built their navy around. How'd that work out? The US carriers have been involved in every naval action since WWII. They're har
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by jordanb 7mo ago
Elon is working on a scam to get SpaceX into the S&P after its IPO in violation of current rules: https://www.ft.com/content/59adbe42-ca30-47f3-9cda-5415945e9...

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