devroc.bsky.social
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Dad, husband, dubious Lutheran, former evangelical, IAM architect, cyber-security consultant, clock enthusiast, northern lights chaser, latent photographer. Probably disagrees with you about AI.
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Now do an article about all the pastors who are agitating for peace. You might need to look outside of a couple of megachurches in Texas.
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I think I can translate -
Neighborhoods are gentrified because they become appealing or trendy places to live. A good way to avoid that is to make your neighborhood so unappealing that no outsider would ever want to move there.
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I think I read somewhere that the bombs used were specifically designed to hit Fordow in particular, after US and Israeli intelligence discovered its existence almost two decades ago.
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You just need one of these!
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Nothing more socialist than publishing a copyrighted best-selling novel!
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It’s never NOT been that way. War in any state has always been about managing public opinion in the face of certain suffering. And modern newspaper journalism was basically invented to start a war, so..
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They even have a zombie apocalypse plan
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Several of the top “advanced persistent threat” groups in cybersecurity are known to be Iranian. Hopefully that doesn’t become relevant.
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Which lies one chooses to tell can also communicate useful information
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Why do you get to tell me how I can enjoy Dickens? Do you feel this way about Junior Illustrated Classics?
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I think you’re underestimating the degree to which the Internet was premised on the free and anonymous sharing of information
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Oh, I agree.
Elon claiming they do is presumably not an opinion shared by his actual xAI engineers. They’re not dummies.
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I think he’s just saying they’re going to use cleaned and synthetic data, which is standard practice, but he’s saying it in a sinister way to own the libs.
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He's definitely consumed far too much of his own promotional material.
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I mean, I'm willing to give him credit for some above-average technical prowess. He's not a fool. But we've also seen what that translates to when applied to most things outside his very narrow scope (cutting-edge rockets and non-cutting-edge EVs).
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Like, you know how you guys don't want LLMs to train on your copyrighted materials? This is how you do that.
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It's fascinating that people assume Elon has any idea what he's talking about when it comes to LLMs, given people's skepticism of his assertions about everything else.
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Also, this is a very normal way to train AI models, for years. Clean synthetic data produces far better foundation models. He's just phrasing it in a sinister way, presumably for cult leader bonus points.
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They won’t be able to fine-tune away the foundation model’s bias toward skepticism. Those sources are still embedded in the weights unless they retrain the entire thing from scratch. (I suppose they could do something like Golden Gate Claude, though…)
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For the Internet, every explanation must be a secret excuse.
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How dare they. They should give Trump the moral support he needs to go to war, just to be consistent with their very different opinions twenty years ago!
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Windows 10 is pretty great. It was also released ten years ago!
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What makes Elon Musk’s technical reach unmatched?
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To be fair, that’s a much higher success rate than the media trying to explain computer security
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It’s definitely used occasionally over here on Lake Ontario!
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Also, rivers don’t have coasts. They have banks.
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Lake Michigan has long been considered part of the “north coast”. It’s a sea, directly accessible from international waters. The Mississippi River is a trickle in comparison.
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2319! 2319!
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How does this not start with “Astronomer here!”?!
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But is there actually a manor on that road?
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www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
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“Contraception as abortifacient” is mostly the 2009-era evangelical attempt to come up with a reason to glom on to the Catholic opposition to contraception in order to oppose Obamacare. Catholic reasoning is quite different than that, and most evangelicals didn’t previously oppose BC.
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All protest not of the “angry mob” variety is a political stunt!
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The most Italian work schedule.
I wish Americans got an entire month off!
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Royal with oil