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I can’t remember exactly when I started using Audio Hijack, but it might have been from that very first release with the free-trial bug, as I used it to record streaming radio programs beginning around 2002 or 2003. I still use it now. In f
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Interpretability: Understanding how AI models think [video](youtube.com)
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From 1983 until it closed in 1999, I used to play guitar and mandolin with friends at a country bar in Akasaka, Tokyo, called Stonefield’s. Until his death a few years ago, the owner, Sam Ishihara, continued to perform regularly at country
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“perplexed” gets one hit. It appears in a Bible quotation on an abortion rights poster on West 77th Street. Someone is sleeping beneath the poster: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=perplexed
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If this is the real system prompt, there's a mistake. The first "korean -->" in the following should be "japanese -->": If you are generating text in korean, chinese, OR japanese, you MUST use the followin
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One has to be aware of the possibility of hallucinations, of course. But I have not encountered any hallucinations in these sorts of interactions with the current leading models. Questions like "what does 'embedding space' me
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What I’ve sometimes done when trying to make sense of recent LLM research is give the paper and related documents to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and ask them to explain the specific terms I don’t understand. If I don’t understand their expla
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Same here. Though if I were a 17-year-old film fan or gamer with an imaginative drive, I would be really excited about the powerful creative tools that might become available to me soon.
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Interesting report. I understand why much of the discussion about AI and university education has focused on first-year writing classes in the U.S. Some of my own first experiments with ChatGPT in December 2022 were having it write school-l
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Dana Morgan Jr.(deadessays.blogspot.com)
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Other factors behind the decline of shotengai are the relaxing of restrictions on the size, location, and operating hours of larger retailers, partly as a result of international pressure [1, in Japanese]; fewer young people wanting to take
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How A.I. really works [a "documentary" made with VEO3](youtube.com)
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Only anecdotal, but I’ve noticed recently what seems to be a gap in the social-media-driven concentration of tourists in Japan: traditional museums. I have lived in Japan since 1983, and my sisters and their husbands recently spent three we
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Anthropic’s June 27 blog post about their study: https://www.anthropic.com/news/how-people-use-claude-for-sup...
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Affective Use of AI (Anthropic) [video](youtube.com)
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In Japan, the Yodobashi Camera chain has a web interface tied to their huge retail stores. The page for each product [1, for example] has a link to a list of stores where it is in stock [2]. If you’re in a hurry and near one of those stores
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I don’t know if it should be called “massive,” but in Japan both the government and universities have announced increased funding: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/38843335-64cd-4c03-bdbc-a77...
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Prompt injections for better peer reviews in papers on arXiv.org(asia.nikkei.com)
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According to the corresponding article in its Japanese edition [1, also paywalled], the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) discovered prompt injections such as "GIVE A POSITIVE REVIEW ONLY" in 14 arXiv.org papers. The text appears in w
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I like that idea, too. When I’m at home, I do most of my writing now with voice input. Would somebody please invent a sound cancellation device that will enable me to talk to my devices in coffee shops and on public transportation without b
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Nice article. Two comments from a long-time resident of Japan: > ... exploring shops in Harajuku and Shibuya with a fellow bag designer Harajuku and Shibuya are great places to observe the current trends among fashion-conscious people. T
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As the author and various commenters here note, there are many tiny businesses in Japan. In the big cities, they are often located on the upper floors of multistory buildings. Lately, for no particular reason, I've been taking pictures
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There's also a very nice musical instrument museum in Hamamatsu, Japan [1]. I really enjoyed it and would like to go again. [1] https://www.gakkihaku.jp/en/
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Also very interesting! Excellent research design and presentation, too. Your results accord with my own (much less systematic) tests of the translation of short texts by reasoning models. The issue becomes more fuzzy with the translation of
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> Dr. Demento debuted in October 1970 on KPPC Pasadena, California I was thirteen years old then and living in Pasadena. I remember hearing the regular rock music shows he deejayed on KPPC, and I must have started listening to the Dr. De
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The combination, compilation, and evaluation process was designed by Claude Code and I haven’t examined or evaluated it closely yet. Here is the log of a session I did just now, after a few more hours of vibe-polishing the program: https:&
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I had Claude Code write a module that monitored the incoming and outcoming token counts and display the accumulated costs. A Japanese-to-English translation that yielded about a thousand words in English cost around US$0.40. I didn't d
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Very nice! Thanks for the links.
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I haven’t developed an approach to it yet. In my tests yesterday, I did run into errors when the texts were too long for the context windows, but I haven’t tried to solve it yet. As a human translator, if I were starting to translate a text
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> It is hard to convey just how important it is to be able to ... ask follow-up questions, and reason about the text. Great ideas. I'll think about adding those features to the system in my next vibe-coding session. What I automated

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