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by leakycap 1y ago
> I do have colleagues with bad language skills, and the misunderstandings and petty catfights they get themselves into over poorly worded sentences, missing linguistic cues, and misinterpretations, is utterly bonkers. Is this a widespre
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by leakycap 1y ago
> If you disagree with the assertion that people generally have an easier time understanding language (correctly or not) than producing it, that's one thing and that's fine. I disagree with the assertion that a person should re
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by leakycap 1y ago
We clearly disagree, in that case - have you used LLMs? The person I was replying to linked to a Wiki article on "statistical significance" which is not the word being used or discussed in this convo; did you note that before you
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by leakycap 1y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, it just seems obvious to me when a candidate has the kind of knowledge potential on a subject to want them on my team vs. "they answered that question with some sort of accuracy" which is what I would expect
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by leakycap 1y ago
The reason it is a weasel word is exactly this -- it is a word with an implied meaning, not an implicit one. We aren't talking about "statistically significant" -- that carries meaning only if the statistic is explained, thou
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by leakycap 1y ago
Do you think an LLM takes this into account when it uses the word?
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by leakycap 1y ago
I understand the line of thinking, I've considered it - but how is it different than every other "the sky is falling" fear-mongering about the future during previous revolutionary technologies? People in general don't sh
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by leakycap 1y ago
Sounds like you would be a perfect person to help clear up misunderstandings in texts being translated if your skills are as keen as you describe. You mention being reminded not to assume someone else's reality by our conversation--I w
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by leakycap 1y ago
If no one on a given team fluently speaks, writes, and understands the cultural context of the required output language, that team will need to find a solution. It should not be a word machine (which, I should point out, does not have a bra
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by leakycap 1y ago
It seems like calling a race the second the light turns green. If anything, recent events including AI show me that monumental shifts are more possible today than ever before.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Good tools can be used incorrectly. I wouldn't want to go back to a world without LLMs, but I wish people were more thoughtful in how we use them. Right now, we're seeing AI being slapped on everything like every other trend in th
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by leakycap 1y ago
> your humanity expresses itself best I don't think these papers are about human expression; they're about communicating data and learned information in a way that can be used by others. You might be thinking of the field of ar
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by leakycap 1y ago
I think you're generalizing widely between your experience and the ability of researchers publishing these millions of papers, which as of 2024 at least ~13% were being LLMed. Seems important to know. LLMs lie and mislead and change me
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by leakycap 1y ago
This just tells me you don't work with multiple languages very often. I have spoken a second language fluently since about 9. I produce work that is translated into that language regularly... by a translator. Being able to read words d
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by leakycap 1y ago
Telling me you're insulted by my comment makes me question whether it is worth the time to reply. In the spirit of goodwill, let me provide some context that your emotional response might not have given you time to consider: I work in
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by leakycap 1y ago
You're pointing out issues with one departmental service provided by one publishing company. I'm pointing out issues with using any LLM. If you don't like Author Services, use someone else. Involve a coauthor. This is not eve
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by leakycap 1y ago
Which is horrifying: if an ESL author must publish in English and therefore does not have a full grasp of nuances and meaning conveyed by English wording, they should involve an editor... not a word machine that doesn't understand, eit
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by leakycap 1y ago
You need to prompt the LLM to provide the style you want. I have sometimes drag a few of my rough notes into the prompt and tell it to write me an article explaining this topic in the style of a site like The Verge, Daring Fireball, NYT, th
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by leakycap 1y ago
What does "significant" mean? It means whatever I say it means, it's fairly useless as anything to convey a fact without a definition. If I needed to program a light sensor to signal when it detects "significant" ch
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by leakycap 1y ago
> It's a win-win for everybody but Author Services. Having work that can be edited by a human who understands the concepts –or at least the words— shows a great depth of usefulness to the work itself. Running your rough draft in one
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by leakycap 1y ago
Generated text seems to work because so few people read and even fewer think as they read. AI writing often creates a firehose output of sing-songy, long, over styled text -- which is a lot to ask a reader to get through and really comprehe
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by leakycap 1y ago
I had downloaded the article and began taking notes and hadn't noticed until your comment. Oh dear.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Fascinating to see that the word "important" dropped off in usage Given the way generated text works, it makes sense it would less often highlight a directly important phrase or passage or detail, since it has no understanding of
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by leakycap 1y ago
I'm with the other responder, it is not clear at all to me what you even desire here. I'd say the first step would be to concisely and clearly formulate a way to explain what you are complaining about.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Who is Nintendo's biggest buyer? I don't know if it is parents buying Switch 2 for kids to use, or adults for themselves. Weird choices from Nintendo on the Switch 2 given the needs of the two markets.
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by leakycap 1y ago
> as Moscow strives to reduce its dependence on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram and so they can block these apps, I'd bet
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by leakycap 1y ago
I'm familiar with this story, this is the person who founded the software being discussed/linked... but what does this do to explain why a competent interviewer was unable to suss out that the person had no idea what they were doi
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by leakycap 1y ago
I like these changes, and I imagine from an IT admin & support perspective non-customizable Start Menu categories probably makes a lot of sense. I'm glad Recommended can finally be hidden with this future update.
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by leakycap 1y ago
My two biggest clients are exclusively running on .io domains and have hundreds of subdomains each - I really hope they don't end up doing something dumb here, I know two companies that don't want to deal with this.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Not using AI tool seems to be a point of pride for some, I don't get it but I keep seeing it. Remember "borrowing" javascript on Geocities to make something work, or finding a library that helped you achieve your AJAX web 2.0

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