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Nebula guy. Astronomy and physics, teaching, books, games, no politics right now if I can help it.
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Restaurant: uses LLM voice chatbot to answer caller questions LLM Voice: lies CONSTANTLY about things like opening times, patio seating, etc Customers: Angry, misled Setting aside ethics, many LLM applications sold now will do nothing but erode your community’s trust (easy to lose, hard to gain)

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

🔭 APOD is 30 Years Old Today Image Credit: Pixelization of Van Gogh's The Starry Night by Dario Giannobile apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25061...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Sigh. This is clickbait. There's no data breach. The underlying number is just a round up of datasets some security company found on the dark web, probably going back years. Nothing new has occurred.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 3 days ago • 558 comments

When did we first see a black hole? An Aerobee rocket launched from White Sands #OTD in 1962, a mission to measure the flux of X-rays reflected by the moon. Instead it found the whole sky aglow: the galactic center, a bright binary star in Scorpius, a possible source in Cygnus. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Your semi-regular reminder that @altnps.bsky.social is 100% pure LARPing BlueAnon grift that's unsourced theft of other reporting at best and active disinformation at worst and you should not give them a single bit of attention

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

As the camera starts to orbit around the stars of Sagittarius, the true depth of the layers of dust covering the center of the Milky Way begins to reveal itself in three-dimensional space and the constellation slowly morphs into an elongated shape. 🔭 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Cannot recommend Mike Duncan's Martian Revolution enough. One of the best pieces of sci-fi in any medium of the last few years

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

my most important opinion is that all regional pizzas are vital parts of the overall pizza ecosystem. you hate chicago deep dish? then you hate pizza. you hate provel cheese? you hate pizza. you hate little caesar? he is the emperor. show some respect. all pizza is canon

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

I would love an option in the post interaction settings that would only allow people to reply to the last post in a thread. Something, anything to get more people to read threads before replying. I have no idea if that's feasible or not but just putting it out there @danabra.mov and @pfrazee.com! 🥰

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Trojan Horse xkcd.com/3098/

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD (AND DIE TRYING) was my surprise laugh-out-loud discovery of 2024! And EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD sticks the landing!

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments