The Joint Declaration was agreed upon at an informal meeting of the European Chiefs of Police in London hosted by the National Crime Agency on 18 April....
I just used kagi to search for the conversion, and thought the long decimal was funny.
But now that I think of it, does Canada make it’s own 4 L jugs so they can be accurately advertised or do they just use the US 1 gal jugs and call it a 4 L out of convenience but then write in fine print on the bottom that it’s actually 3.79 L?
Unless that is actually a 4L jug of vodka, couldn’t someone sue for misrepresenting the amount of product being sold?
Someone’s liquid here is probably not precise. And I’m going to guess it’s the one claiming to be a larger volume with an additional manufacturing cost.
My take on this is no they don’t. As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn’t work....
In today’s market, the perception or even the profitability of a product means nothing. All that actually matters is growth.
For a publicly traded company, or even one that just uses venture capital to start up; the product isn’t the thing that they might sell to consumers, it’s their brand. This is what gives them more capital to continue running the company and ultimately to profit.
This means that a company no longer needs to make good products, they don’t need to keep customers happy, they don’t even need to be profitable. All they need is to show growth opportunities to potential investors.
Sure there is intentional creative thought. But there are also unintentional creative thoughts. Moments of clarity, eureka moments, and strokes of inspiration. How do we differentiate these?
If we were to say that it is because of our subconscious is intentionally promoting these thoughts. Then we would need a method to test that, because otherwise the difference is moot.
Similar to how one might define the I in AGI it’s hard to form a consensus on general and often vague definitions like these.
Maybe it’s this arbitrary word, hallucination? Which was recently borrowed from the human experience to explain why something which normally is factual like a computer is not computing facts.
But if one were to think about it, what is the difference between a series on non factual hallucinations in a model and a person’s individual experience of the world?
If two people eat the same food item they might taste different things.
they might have different definitions of the same word.
they might remember that an object was a different color then someone’s recording could prove. There is a reason why eye witness testimony is considered unreliable in the court of law.
Before, we called these bugs or even issues. But now that it’s in this black box of sorts that we can’t alter the decision making process of as directly as before. There is this more human sounding name all of a sudden.
To clarify, when an llm gets a fact wrong because it has limited context or because it’s foundational model is flawed, is that the same result as the experience someone has after consuming psychedelic mushrooms? No, I wouldn’t say so. Nor is it the same when a team of scientists try to make a model actively hallucinate so they can find new chemical compounds.
Defining words can sometimes be very tricky, especially when they are applying to multiple areas of study. The more you drill into a definition, the more it becomes a metaphysical debate. But it is important to have these discussions because even the definition of something like AGI keeps changing. And infact only exist because the goal posts for a AI moved so much. What will stop a company which is trying to attract investors from just slapping an AGI label on their next release? And how will we differentiate what the spirit of the word is trying to convey from the sales pitch?
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life....
This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them...
So where you are from, what happens if a pedestrian or bicycle needs to go across a road? Is there infrastructure like bridges to cross the road without cars needing to yield?
Gurney, his pug defiant!
PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company (www.androidpolice.com)
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out (www.europol.europa.eu)
The Joint Declaration was agreed upon at an informal meeting of the European Chiefs of Police in London hosted by the National Crime Agency on 18 April....
Got to do something over the winter (slrpnk.net)
MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? (www.youtube.com)
My take on this is no they don’t. As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn’t work....
Total ecstasy (lemmy.world)
Evidence is growing that LLMs will never be the route to AGI. They are consuming exponentially increasing energy, to deliver only linear improvements in performance. (arxiv.org)
cli-etymology (mander.xyz)
Backyard Bugs- The Woodlouse (mander.xyz)
Title photo by Distinctly Average...
Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity (apnews.com)
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life....
Introducing selfh.st/apps, a Directory of Self-Hosted Software (selfh.st)
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug emergence in centuries (apnews.com)
This spring, an unusual cicada double dose is about to invade a couple parts of the United States in what University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley called “cicada-geddon.” The last time these two broods came out together in 1803 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote about cicadas in his Garden Book but mistakenly called them...
Daily driving slackware be like... (sh.itjust.works)
Space Cheese (startrek.website)
Oh, the red? This is the waiting room. Would you like some coffee? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)
BTW, I’ve had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
Roundabouts: Let's go! Love Them or Hate Them? (infosec.pub)
Let’s Play Date, Marry, Kill…with Roundabouts....
Whole slices in your stool rule (lemmy.world)
Well I don't believe in hell either (midwest.social)
Now my arch is bloated more than the default ubuntu (lemmy.world)
what's the deal with garmonbozia? (lemmy.sdf.org)