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In a new paper published in the journal Ethics and Information Technology, a trio of philosophy researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland argue that referring to chatbot's propensity to make crap up shouldn't be referred to as "hallucinations," because it's actually something much less flattering. The technical (but accurate) term
Sorry to your little sister
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In Trump circles, it's known as "alternative facts".
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Let's face it, calling any LLM program artificial "intelligence" is itself bovine excrement.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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DenseAV, developed at MIT, learns to parse and understand the meaning of language just by watching videos of people talking, with potential applications in multimedia search, language learning, and robotics. Meow meow meow, meow
At least from the videos I watch.
"I am Big Billy, the biggest wet willy. I'm going to go clearly. Mhmmm"
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Businesses have become more cautious about investing in artificial intelligence tools due to concerns about cost, data security, and safety, according to a study conducted by Lucidworks, a provider of e-commerce search and customer service applications. Magic AI isn't magic?
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This is entirely out of character for them. I thought they always dive in head first, spend a pile of money, and then worry about potential fall out (cost, security, etc.) later. Microsoft's antics with the "Recall" debacle is an example of this.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You can't have pain without AI.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Microsoft has announced that the DirectAccess remote access solution is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows, recommending companies migrate to the 'Always On VPN' for enhanced security and continued support. They almost had me panicking there when I heard ___Access was going away
As I recall, it frequently timed out trying to reconnect to the network if you didn't keep it active all the time
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Company cites safety, speed, approachability, and built-in C and C++ interoperability as Swift’s compelling advantages. So get busy rewriting, C++ folks
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In this blog post, we will highlight some of the most notable improvements that you can experience in version 17.10, such as faster Windows Forms designer loading, faster Razor colorization, quicker solution loading, and reduced DLL overhead. Not just bigger, but faster too (in places)
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A research team from MIT announced a new programming language. Finch, its creators say, is “a simple bytecode interpreted, purely object-oriented, prototype-based, dynamically-typed programming language.” For those about to chirp, we salute you
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Great, another bird-brained language.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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The US is still regulating some enriched uranium based on an analysis from the 1950s. And hopefully not *be* one
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Really, really old sci-fi book "When Worlds Collide" I believe had atomic rockets in it. Yep I found them
When Worlds Collide - Wikipedia[^]
and
After Worlds Collide - Wikipedia[^]
Now try to find them in a library.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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I would have expected those to be on Project Gutenberg, but no luck (nor at my library, double drat)
TTFN - Kent
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Found them here
When Worlds Collide book by Philip Wylie[^]
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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They are available as Kindle books.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Regarding the usability of not highly enriched uranium, there is a paywalled article in the current edition of Science:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8693[^]
It tells us that uranium enriched to more than 10% U-235 can be used to build a bomb, but you may need a ton of it.
On the other hand, when such 10-20% enriched uranium is used - and thus produced - for commercial purposes, the currently clear line of distinction of "weapon uranium" and "civil uranium" gets blurred, and non-proliferation checks fail.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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A new model lets scientists run ions through thousands of supercapacitor pores instead of just one at a time. Is it a diode? A relay? No, it's SUPERcapacitor
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With a name like Kent, that reference doesn't surprise me.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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We built a new benchmark called "Bug In The Code Stack" (BICS) to test how well LLMs can find syntactic bugs in large Python codebases. After it put them in there?
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How did this iconic screen saver come to be? Wait for the tea pot
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Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert. "May we see your papers, please?"
Seems like I'm running on a WWII movie theme. Must have been the recent D-Day commemorations.
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Oracle: "We need money, cause that's what we need. We need money, cause we full of greed..."
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An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features to its proprietary systems. Has he considered investing in a support contract?
Some days I'm ashamed of my running gags, some days I just have to run with them.
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