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Avicenna

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  • Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the non-stop construction around his 11 homes

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  • Yea it is like a litmus paper for psychopathy. "Here have some donuts to excuse the fact that I have been fucking up your peace for the last decade or so". Guy probably saw some parents handing candies in an airplane because their kid cried a lot and thought it applied to his case.

  • Turtles all the way down...

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  • don't forget golden ratio

  • Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

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  • this seems like a research project rather than a main line policy change:

    "Just to clarify... Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI.

    My team’s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible."

    Ofcourse the end goal remains the same: try to produce systems that can be maintained by a significantly reduced number of programmers/software engineers, which can only work if AGI was actually achieved in near future so that the senior coder gap produced by this approach can be filled by AGI coders. If not, I think we will enter an era of tech where first software engineering will first become highly undesirable (due to reduced number of entry level jobs) and then achieve a god-like status because there are not enough senior software engineers to support all the tech infrastructure build on AI coding agents which are not fully autonomous because they lack/can't learn critical reasoning skills/software experience unlike entry level coders which can.

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • lol lets fuck all other computational sciences so that people can generate cats drinking whiskey in robes de chambre.

  • I wish they'd finished that show.

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  • cat >>> everything

  • Impeachable: Pam Bondi Defied Federal Law by Erasing Epstein Photos to Protect Trump

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  • Only until her actions and existence becomes inconvenient, then she will find out that people she so blindly defends don't have her back as much.

  • ICE says U.S. citizen’s birth certificate is fake after arresting her: attorneys

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  • yea good point, shady shit like this is wholly within the realms of politics. It becomes especially easy when there is no accountability for such blatant skulduggery. Well lets hope people learn better from his actions then.

  • ICE says U.S. citizen’s birth certificate is fake after arresting her: attorneys

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  • I mean 1/3 is still a crazy amount given he literally said he would be doing mass deportations if elected. People can never get enough of the "It won't happen to me" kool-aid

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  • Having a working understanding of what an AI is what it can and can not do, how to identify etc will likely be critical going further. Just because AI hype is a balloon does not mean goverments, coorporations will stop using AI for surveillance, propaganda etc once it pops. So better get acquainted with it.

    But if there is such a list of requirements they should also add critical thinking to it.

  • Trust the expert

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  • Or we could try the surgery option which is to remove all your teeth

  • UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

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  • that will quickly turn into "continuously monitor your users' screens for what they are doing so you can detect nudity" where the real aim will ofcourse be surveillance and selling highly personal data. I don't know about Apple but google will be all over it.

  • This Group Pays Bounties to Repair Broken Devices—Even If the Fix Breaks the Law

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  • who does? FULU?

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  • Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

  • Here is Pumpkin again being an orange boy

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  • pumpkin spice kitty

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  • lol this is golden

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  • I suspect it mostly relates how much code base there is on internet about the topic. For instance if you make it use a niche library, it is quite common that it makes up methods that don't exist in that library but exists in related libraries. When I point this out, it also hallucinates saying "It was removed after version bla". I also may not be using the most cutting edge LLM (mix of freely available and open source ones).

    The other day I asked it whether if there is a python library that can do linear algebra over F2, for which it pointed me to the correct direction (Galois) but when I asked it examples of how to do certain stuff it just came up with wrong functions over and over again:

    In the end it probably was still faster than google searching this but all of these errors happened one after the other in the span of five minutes, so yeah. If I recall correctly, some of its claims about these namespaces, versions etc were also hallucinated. For instance vstack also does not exist in Galois but it does exist in a very popular package called numpy that can do regular linear algebra (and which this package also uses behind the scenes).

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  • In my case it does hallucinate regularly. It makes up functions that don't exist in that library but exists in similar libraries. So the end result is useful as a keyword though the code is not. My favourite part is if you point out that the function does not exists the answer is ALWAYS "I am sorry you are right, since version bla of this library this function no longer exists" whereas in reality it had never existed in that library at all. For me the best use case for LLMs is as a search engine and that is because of the shitty state most current search engines are in.

    Maybe LLMs can be fine tuned to do the grinding aspects of coding (like boiler plates for test suites etc), with human supervision. But this will many times end up being a situation where junior coders are fired/no longer hired and senior coders are expected to baby sit LLMs to do those jobs. This is not entirely different from supervising junior coders except it is probably more soul destroying. But the biggest flaw in this design is it assumes LLMs one day will be good enough to do senior coding tasks so that when senior coders also retire*, LLMs take their place. If this LLM breakthrough is never realized and this trend of keeping low number of junior coders sticks, we will likey have a programmer crisis in future.

    *: I say retire but for many CEOs, it is their wet dream to be able to let go all coders and have LLMs do all the tasks

  • rsyslog Goes AI First — A New Chapter Begins

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  • lol the explanation in the link almost sounds like "stupid PR forced us to use a hyped up title for the news but here is what we actually meant"

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  • "Solve your kid problems with this one simple trick"

    I mean the lengths that people will go to make kids and then pretend like they don't exist is astonishing. "Lets make a kid and eagerly wait for the day we will send him to a boarding school". I haven't checked if this actually exists but wouldn't be entirely suprised if it did.