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GeePawHill, 2 months ago to random

One of the key facts here keeps getting sidestepped by a mixture of scam marketing and common language usage out there.

LLMs don't sometimes make shit up, they always make shit up.

That's what an LLM is: a piece of software that makes up plausible sounding shit.

What's impressive about this is the extent of improvement in the plausibility.

What's horrifying about it is the extent to which so many people don't care to distinguish between plausibility and correctness.

mekkaokereke, 3 months ago to random

Whether you are a sports fan or not, you should watch the 3 point contest tonight between the best Men's NBA 3 point shooter (Steph Curry) and the best Women's NBA 3 point shooter (Sabrina Ionescu).

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111870442573693027

Steph is the best 3 point shooter in history, and Sabrina legitimately might beat him tonight.

aadriasola, 4 months ago to random

Dockerhub is all like

it would be a shame if your cache image should become unavailable at a critical moment
like right now , if you dont like our 429 heres the link to our bitcoin wallet

aadriasola, 4 months ago to random

old style, made by humans
a worthy cause

https://lovelettertooakland.com/about

aadriasola, 4 months ago to random

it would be a shame if everyone found out what they did https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/18/ouray-plaindealer-stolen-newspapers-rape-allegations-police-chief-house/

aadriasola, 4 months ago to random

pumping and dumping
no wonder the man is jumping

mekkaokereke, 5 months ago to random

🤔 Hey, if it works to blame Taylor Swift for Kansas City losing football games, then I don't see why I can't apply this tactic to my life too? Lemme try it:

I spilled the milk pouring my kids' cereal this morning, and I just want to say that this is 100% my wife's fault. No, she wasn't in the kitchen or anywhere near where the incident happened, but it's clear that my head wasn't in the game. This has to be because I'm enjoying my relationship too much.

misc, 5 months ago to random

Anyone else noticed that the viral marketing campaign for AI tools is literally the same pitch as the Borg? Learn to use ChatGPT effectively or find yourself out of a job. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile, we will add your distinctiveness to our training set. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/111625006692208716

evan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

One place we lost our way was naming places on this continent "New Something". This is another England, another France, another Spain, another Sweden, we thought. We should bring the same animals and crops from there to here; peel off the surface of home and lay it over this new place, crushing what was underneath.

aadriasola, 5 months ago to random

the amount of political money and dark money and lobbying money that gets funnelled to the avatar of each of the two parties , especially the republican party, make the whole issue of who is allowed to run more important than it sounds, ecosystems will thrive on the choice

tenderlove, 5 months ago to random

Annual reminder to use jemalloc with your Ruby/Rails apps in production! You don't need to change your app and it will use less memory and perform better

kellan, 5 months ago to random

Where is the content talking about contemporary software development issues? Like "How to migrate away from GraphQL?", "Maintaining software that was written by a team twice this size", "HTML and CSS for React Engineers", etc?

lcamtuf, 6 months ago to random

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aadriasola, 6 months ago to random

AI is being used to remove responsibility of human parties over actions that kill maim disable isolate marginalize torment harass other humans. It was the AI they will claim, but it is the tool chosen by humans, used to achieve goals set by humans. It should not be discussed as decisions maker

aadriasola, 6 months ago to random

cool beans
https://www.getty.edu/news/dream-of-darkness-video-game-florentine-codex/

sysop408, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to OpenAI

This whole ordeal with #OpenAI tracks against my past dealings with #AI. You could get the AI 90% of the way to doing the job you wanted it to do, but attempts to close the last 10% would result in the project moving backward.

Because of this, we could never take a human off of closely babysitting the AI's decisions, which didn't actually save us much time. It just changed the nature of the work for the human.

If we went all in and and tried to close the final 10% to make the AI self-sufficient, the whole thing would go haywire to the point of being unusable.

So at least for me, OpenAI imploding as soon as they could see the promised land is totally on brand for AI in general. 😂

Popehat, 6 months ago to random

I don't post on here much any more, or monitor it much, so probably better to find me on Bluesky if you need me.

De gustibus etc. No platform is perfect. But I feel more comfortable there, and less like I'm likely to get screamed at for using Latin without a CW or something.

GottaLaff, 6 months ago to random

Via Kyle Griffin 🧵 1/…

Important Axios scoop:

#Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election/

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

What is the worst lyric from a Rush song? I vote for:

“Some world-views are spacious but some are merely spaced?”

huh?

It doesn’t help I thought he said “some are merely space?” But “spaced” is only marginally more intelligible. What on earth is a “spacious world view” That this is in a song complaining about “bad design” makes it worse.

Really the whole set of lyrics is dubious. But imprinted forever in my mind. There is nothing quite like a Rush song. Or Geddy’s voice.

samlitzinger, 7 months ago to random

“In his most recent annual financial disclosures, released last year, Johnson (R-La.) reports no assets at all. Zero. There are no retirement accounts, no money-market funds, no stocks, no crypto, not even a basic checking or savings account. Even more peculiar, his disclosures have never listed any checking or savings accounts on any of the forms he has filed going back to 2016…”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/07/mike-johnson-speaker-bank-account-mystery/

arstechnica, 7 months ago to random

AI bots can do the grunt work of filling out job applications for you

One programmer used AI to apply for 5,000 jobs.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/11/ai-bots-can-do-the-grunt-work-of-filling-out-job-applications-for-you/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mekkaokereke, 7 months ago to random

There's lots of noise in SF about homeless people "refusing shelter" and "They want to live in tents!" And that we should force them to accept the shelter against their own will, "for their own good!" Many SF folks rationalize their desire to not see homeless people, by convincing ourselves that refusing shelter is an irrational behaviour, and that we know better.

We don't consider the fact that people might be refusing shelter when that shelter is worse than a tent.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/sf-sro-empty/

mekkaokereke, 7 months ago to random

The people that Bernie Madoff stole from, got most of their money back. ~90% at this point. 👍🏿

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-total-distribution-over-4-billion-victims-madoff-ponzi-scheme#

Because Madoff stole from mostly rich, mostly white people, ultra high net worth individuals, financial institutions. US society makes sure that rich folk are made whole, have loans forgiven (Eg PPP), etc.

But the people that SBF stole from are unlikely to ever get their money back. Because they were disproportionately Black, low net worth individuals. AKA, normal people.