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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
I think we will see a hidden motivation behind this as ultimately so the output can have an author, the author can be attributed and finally the output will be copyrighted and so the LLM has more value. Everyone who invests in AI companies
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
When I first joined the university I went to a guided tour of the library. The librarian said that this was the most important tour of my entire stay. She said that the key for finding knowledge was not about the answers but the questions.
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
Not working for me on firefox on linux. Console shows THREE.WebGLRenderer: Context Lost. index-DMul8aia.js:3819:24355 Object { error: undefined } Stowaway failed to start It also made firefox actually hard crash to desktop!
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
Age verification is human verification at the time when the internet is getting very smart and dangerous bots. At least that's my optimistic view of this kind of paradigm shift!
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Scientific research trying to find the world funniest joke(richardwiseman.substack.com)
2 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
The talk page has an interesting section about this, subtitled "Article of Theseus" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ship_of_Theseus#h-Article...
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Science-backed tips on how to avoid distractions(nature.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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Modeling generative AI adoption and digital divide among Chinese rural teachers(nature.com)
1 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat (2014)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|1 comments
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
> what in the training process causes Read some early pre-mass-adoption LLM papers by the key scientists and researchers. The style is very similar...
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Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal from 2005(en.wikipedia.org)
25 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|9 comments
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Shed Blog(shedblog.co.uk)
5 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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Email Storm(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
A surprising number of sites that have consents do not actually do anything apart from set a flag. They are not actually connected to disabling analytics, just connected to the banner itself. It seems like no data privacy activists or autom
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
It can be anything no matter how unsubtle or bizarre. Students are not going to scan the output to check if its correct because they 1) cannot evaluate correctness and 2) are lazy in checking as evidenced by them pasting the prompt without
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by thinkingemote 2mo ago
"The Odyssey is The Hero's Journey without a hero" - a quote about this adaptation referencing Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I'm wondering if today films (the main form of story telling) also do not qu
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Kahneman's Cabs: Solving Probability Puzzles(neelocean.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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More Accurate Rotten Tomato audience scores without the push votes(popcorngap.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 2mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
Indeed we see legislation (from all sides of politics and nations) saying there is no distinction, that all services and websites are now publishers. It was ever thus except when we remember.
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
A side effect of platform vs publisher. They are voluntarily choosing to be a publisher. Publishers are responsible for the actions that the users do on their platform. States are happier with and want more publishers as it's easier to
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The Java Ring(yamad.jp)
5 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
There was no mention of this on hacker news (at least I cant find anything via the search at the bottom) but the story of Thomas Kurian's office break in / sit in was in 2024 so not that long ago: https://www.calcaliste
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
Nothing remains here - only walls. Most of these tombs have already, since ancient times, been looted and desecrated and most things inside including any human remains have long since been removed. It looks like this tomb is also in this ca
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
"Synthetic Slop" is a new term for me, I quite like it, more accurate than "AI Slop" Allegedly these techniques are being used by Google on YouTube to delete slop videos.
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Scalable Detection of Adversarial Synthetic Slop and Coordinated Media Abuse(research.google)
3 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|1 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
You might want to qualify this with start to buy a house and get a mortgage and then pay off when older than 20s-30s. I think some people in the comments are thinking you are saying they could outright buy a house straight out of school! (W
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NASA Dragonfly - a rotorcraft to explore Saturn's moon Titan(science.nasa.gov)
5 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
Most articles that people want on HN are about LLMs and most of those are written by LLMs. The submissions are always horrible to read and usually have no gems to inspire, so if relevant I will at most skim it but the comments on HN about t
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I miss post-internet art(spectator.com)
2 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|0 comments
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How the Bayeux Tapestry broke the internet(spectator.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|0 comments

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