My guilty pleasure is replying to "omg this is a rip-off of X" with "actually X itself is heavily based on Y and Z" It's not admirable. I'm not proud. But I do enjoy it.
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Sam Turner
Big beardy nerd full of cake and mathematics. ML is magic. LLM chatbots are flimflam. "Anti-bedtime Leftist" "A squalid experiment in open borders." "Woke scold." "Brain-only writer"
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We are going to look back on this era in the same way that archeologists look back at 19th century treasure hunters.
Aaron ParnasAI companies are reportedly buying rare and out-of-print books, cutting off their bindings, and scanning them for training data. The physical copies are then destroyed, raising fears that uncommon and historically valuable works could be permanently lost.
The joy* of copying machine code byte by byte from Sinclair User and then waiting for the erratum to be published the following month before it would run. (* not joy ... that other emotion)
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Above all, my interlocutors insist that my LLM-powered, local, open source chatbot spellchecker will make me a worse writer. It's a very strange insistence. My first word processor was a program listing published in a magazine I bought at a corner store and laboriously typed into my Apple ][+. 21/
War of the Worlds (1953) Alt: an automatic feeding station - a goblet shaped hopper on skinny legs with a three way tube underneath - is dosing out some sort of grain. A hog is seen from the back side on the right. A raccoon is leaping away from high up. All harshly lit against a dark background.
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The new security scanners mean you can carry up to 2 litres (10 standard cans) of silly string in your hand luggage and you only need one can to completely fill the mouth and trachea of a typical preacher.
Hemant MehtaEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
