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by rsynnott 6mo ago
It is, but kinda sounds like nonsense, and it's at best speculation. Occam's razor says it's just yet another roleplaying exploit, which the vendors have never been particularly good at dealing with.
572.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Initially I assumed that when the bubble burst, some VCs would go bust, Oracle would go bust, a few hyperscalers would take a significant haircut but carry on, and life would pretty much go on. However there's now sufficient dodgy AI-r
573.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Chrome is a now-somewhat-archaic term for GUI (or specifically the actual elements of the GUI, not the concept), and Netscape/Mozilla did use the term a lot. Google claims that their browser is called Chrome because of an association w
574.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Admittedly, it's a while ago. But original gmail, say, really did put a huge amount of effort into it.
575.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Making good products simply no longer seems to be on the agenda for most of these companies.
576.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
No. This is being aimed, one assumes, at US evangelical Christians (as I mention semi-jokingly elsewhere, it blocking catechism 239 might be an issue for Catholics). That is, being very generous, only about 250 years old at most, but realis
577.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
... Well, I mean, taken at its most literal, _arguably_ the earth is flat. It's a bloody nonsense argument, but one might theoretically make it, and thus it is arguable. If you mean 'arguable' in its more conventional meaning
578.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Presumably not suitable for Catholics, as it would block catechism 239 ( https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section... - WARNING: Contains gender.)
579.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
One fascinating thing about the whole AI phenomenon is how incredibly hostile it is to _standards_. Whether something works properly, or is ethical, or is true, no longer matters at all; all that matters is "pls use our AI". Micro
580.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Although I have the misfortune of knowing what it means, every time I see it some part of my brain assumes it's something to do with cats (via British slang).
581.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
IIRC the bodybuilding forums' complete insanity long predates the incels (or at least their existence as a named group); SomethingAwful was making fun of them back on the early noughties. Not sure why, but they always seemed to be terr
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
> I particularly like the irony of the far-right going on about English identity on a march in London before going to have a lager and chicken tikka masala before heading home to a bungalow and putting on their pyjamas... :) Stewart Lee
583.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
This was in the 50s; the tunnel still wasn't far off science fiction at that point.
584.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
> One even went as far as Sydney. The last leg of the journey from India to Sydney was made on ship. Did this... really have to be pointed out? :)
585.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
One thing you have to be careful about with things like this is induced demand. In Dublin in the early 90s, there was a debate about what to do with the right of way of an old commuter rail line, which had been closed in the 60s when closin
586.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
It'd likely have to go largely underground. This is the approach being taken for Dublin Airport (again, a far, far smaller city than NYC); it'll be served by a largely underground metro line, running every 3 minutes each direction
587.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
I mean, I'm not sure that the Sagrada Familia is a good example. It taking a long time to build was arguably part of the _point_, and was planned from the start.
588.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
I mean, that seems like the obvious explanation. Most training material that LLMs have about 'AIs' (in the actual thinking machine sense) would be sci-fi, and it's an extremely common narrative.
589.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Oh, yeah, and it can and does handle a scale of traffic that a helicopter service obviously couldn't. I think each train takes about a thousand people and they're every ten minutes or something. The "use helicopters for airpo
590.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
Huh. Google Maps was not showing me that. EDIT: Oh, wait, misread, I thought you meant a direct train from Grand Central to the airport.
591.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
> Without which we wouldn't have any EVs in the West, and globally be years behind where we are in EV adoption. ... Eh? The very successful Nissan Leaf (for quite a long time the best-selling electric car in the world) came out the
592.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
... I mean, no. It's more that it is weird that there is no train to the airport (it looks like you can take ~3 trains from Manhattan). New York is likely the only really big city in the developed world where this is the case. In Irela
593.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
One thing that some cities have done where awkward infrastructure is required to get a train to the airport is to, essentially, borrow money to do it, and make the fares to the airport very high to compensate. Notably, getting to Brussels a
594.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
I mean, I assume it'd just be a collection of his tweets.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
Okay, so take the sandwich. There is no way to know what is in it by looking at it. No amount of optimisation will fix this. I'm sure one could produce a CV model that was a lot better at guessing here than these LLMs are, but fundamen
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
> Packaging on food also always has calories, so clearly people know how to estimate it fairly accurately. That's not done by looking at it and guessing (or at least it _shouldn't_ be; manufacturers have been known to do this b
597.
by rsynnott 6mo ago
... Bloody hell. I mean that's basically fraud, surely. It is _not possible to do this even vaguely accurately_.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
I am... unsure why anyone would think LLMs would be able to do this. They are not magic oracles. Like I think even most humans would be extremely bad at this. Like, are people actually using LLMs for this? Please do not, it won't work.
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
So, absurd as this is, it is probably best for all concerned if he spends the rest of his term doing insane Minor Post-Soviet Dictator Things (notably see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmyrat_Nyýazow#Cult_of_per...
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by rsynnott 6mo ago
This feels overly pedantic. In practice, the Schwarz Group is "Lidl, plus some random small stuff". Compare Alphabet.

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