My friends will usually send me the good stuff so it spares me the scrolling. They get to share something cool they found, and I don’t have to scroll. Win-win 😆
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) pressed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to pardon former President Trump following his recent conviction in his hush money trial....
<span style="color:#323232;">That didn't happen. <-- We are here
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And if it was, that's not a big deal.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And if it is, that's not my fault.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And if it was, I didn't mean it.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And if I did... You deserved it.
</span>
Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction…So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...
And other companies who had something half-baked just threw it out to both say “me too!” and to ingest as much user input training data in order to catch up.
That’s why “AI” is getting shoved into so many things right now. Not because it’s useful but because they need to gobble up as much training data as they can in order to play catch up.
I’m technically 9-5, though I can choose 7 to 3 or 8 to 4 if I want. I usually work 7-4 and take extra breaks throughout the day (or a really long lunch). Granted, I work for a non-profit which has a LOT less bullshit to deal with. I also have the option to work 7-5 or 8-6 if I want to only work 4 days a week. Flex time is an amazing fringe benefit.
Outside of salaried jobs, I haven’t seen anywhere mandate 7-5 schedules for hourly employees (unless it’s a 4 day work week). Companies do not like paying overtime, so most I’ve dealt with will send you home the moment you hit 40 hours.
People so often forget about the actual politics of politics. Everyone seems to want their guy to be a tyrant but a cuddlier and friendlier tyrant than the other side’s tyrant.
Edit: I’m going to slightly bend (but not break) the unofficial Admin Prime Directive a bit and point out that at least two people with Lemmy World accounts downvoted this post. Like, what are you even doing here then?
Mr. Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, derided the trial as “rigged” and made numerous false statements about what had taken place in court
Like he would even know what took place in court since he slept through half of it
Aisling Bea said in a somewhat recent episode “Oh, great, they’re gonna GIF this, aren’t they?” and I assumed she just meant the internet was gonna do what the internet does. Apparently she was talking about the Elves who run a Giphy channel....
I’m finally caught up, so I can participate in these now :)
t would be silly if, say, the Breen dreadnought was to show up and simply yoink away the structure with a tractor beam while we’re still in the cold open, and the Lagrange point did not matter for the rest of the episode.
That bugged me so much 😆. I literally yelled at the TV: "Why didn’t you just do that?! Or at least technobabble away why you ‘can’t just’ "
Granted, all the cool stuff that followed wouldn’t have happened, but still.
Burnham uses her xenoanthropology specialization to understand that joining a Breen feast day would be considered a good thing to do. Xenoanthropology was established as Burnham’s scientific focus in the series premiere, “The Vulcan Hello”.
I am really loving the multiple callbacks to Burnham’s xenoanthropology background this season. Given the nature of their mission, it makes sense for that to be a relevant focus.
How do you guys feel about Loops?
Title....
Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again
lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats...
Phillips suggests Hochul pardon Trump ‘for the good of the country’ (thehill.com)
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) pressed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to pardon former President Trump following his recent conviction in his hush money trial....
Trump falsely claims he never called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up (www.washingtonpost.com)
It's funny because it's true (sh.itjust.works)
Have you ever clicked on an ad *on purpose?*
Just as the title says: Have you ever clicked on an ad, knowing it was an ad, on purpose? What ad was it? Why did you click it?...
Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)
Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction…So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...
"That's when judges hand down jail time": Ex-NY prosecutors say Trump is daring judge with outburst (www.salon.com)
Trump brands US a ‘fascist state’ in 40-minute rant amid wild scenes outside his Manhattan home (www.independent.co.uk)
Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?
Ever since I graduated, everywhere I’ve worked has been 8-5. My current company is going to soon start expecting us to be in 7-5....
What an original post that you've thought up here... (lemmy.world)
The Alito Scandal Is Worse Than It Seems (www.politico.com)
Happy Cake Day, Lemmy.World!
Woo-hoo today’s my cake-day on Lemmy.world… actually I’m the first here but many will follow the next days. Happy cake day to you all!
Even Spock can't hold it in... (lemmy.world)
Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post Coverage as well
Trump’s Conviction Binds the G.O.P. Even Closer to Him (www.nytimes.com)
It’s being driven by Trump’s authoritarian control over the party...
TIL: The QI Elves Run a Giphy Channel (media0.giphy.com)
Aisling Bea said in a somewhat recent episode “Oh, great, they’re gonna GIF this, aren’t they?” and I assumed she just meant the internet was gonna do what the internet does. Apparently she was talking about the Elves who run a Giphy channel....
Canon Connections: DIS 5x09 - Lagrange Point
• This episode was directed by Johnathan Frakes, who starred in the ENT episode, “These Are the Voyages…”...