my cheap ass salvaged speakers. I got them from a friend who got them from her father who got them from a school janitor who got them from a school that was throwing them out. Each of those step did some “repair”, until they got to me and my roommate, and we undid every previous “repair”. we are still using them

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In the top three of all the things that never happened, that comment occupies all three positions

It’s the kind of wording that “electrochemistry” and “Physical instrument” use in Disco Elysium

It might be real, just bad. The stitches might just be holding the folded rim of the leather, while the bolts might be holding the leather onto the metal. Still, the bolts look small for the purpose.

I wasn’t entirely earnest. A more precise question would be “why the fuck an EDC tactical wallet”

What is that? It looks interesting but it also might be an AI image of something that doesn’t exists

Edit: what the fuck is an EDC tactical wallet? I thought it was some kind of rugged electronic thing

C’mon they could have at least placed it in place of the menu key instead of rctrl… It’s like they want you to hit it by accident

I too used to be young and reckless once…

(I’m 26 and still in uni)

This is one of those you download to send on the group chat, and then decide is better not to send it

You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.

Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.

There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste

He’s getting the french culture alright

Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs

LLM are not the path to go forward to simulate a person, this is a fact. By design they cannot reason, it’s not a matter of advancement, it’s literally how they work as a principle. It’s a statistical trick to generate random texts that look like thought out phrases, no reasoning involved.

If someone tells you they might be the way forward to simulate a human, they are scamming you. No one who actually knows how they work says that unless they are a CEO of a trillion dollar company selling AI.

I don’t like it because people don’t shut up about it and insist everyone should use it when it’s clearly stupid.

LLMs are language models, they don’t actually reason (not even reasoning models), when they nail a reasoning it’s by chance, not by design. Everything that is not language processing shouldn’t be done by an LLM. Viceversa, they are pretty good with language.

We already had automated reasoning tools. They are used for industrial optimization (i.e. finding optimal routes, finding how to allocate production, etc.) and no one cared about those.

As if it wasn’t enough. The internet is now full of slop. And hardware companies are warmongering an arms race that is fueling an economic bubble. And people are being fired to be replaced by something that will not actually work in the long run because it does not reason.

I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn’t speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy

Neural networks don’t simulate a brain, it’s a misconception caused by their name. They have nothing to do with brain neurons

If Turing was alive he would say that LLMs are wasting computing power to do something a human should be able to do on their own, and thus we shouldn’t waste time studying them.

Which is what he said about compilers and high level languages (in this instance, high level means like Fortran, not like python)

Most restaurants serve alcohol and are good for kids. What’s your point?