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BenVimes

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  • Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

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  • This article only talks about the number of Copilot 365 licences that are active. It doesn't even consider the situations like my workplace, where everyone was given a licence but hardly anyone uses it.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the actual usage rate for these licences is also very low, meaning the situation could be even more dire than the article makes out.

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  • I realized a while back that one of the primary goals of these LLMs is to get people to continue using them. While that's not especially notable - the same could be said of many consumer products and services - the way in which this manifests in LLMs is pretty heinous.

    This need for continued use is why, for example, Google's AI was returning absolute nonsense when asked about the origins of fictitious idioms. These models are designed to return something, and to make that something pleasing to the reader, truth and utility be damned. As long as the user thinks that they're getting what they wanted, it's mission accomplished.

  • Yet Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye, Is The Earworm....

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  • My angel is the centrefold?

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  • Assuming you were aiming for the French phrase for 'seafood', I think you meant 'fruit de mer.'

    'Fruit de la mère' would translate to, 'fruit of the mother.'

  • The way of the monk

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  • If you were talking about neckties, maybe. Loosening social ties doesn't sound natural, at least to me.

  • [InkyRickshaw] Hoarding

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  • This recently happened in my campaign.

    We were fighting a dragon, and it kept flying around its lair, making it very hard for my Barbarian to hit it. We ultimately won, but 3 of the party of 5 died.

    Later, while dividing loot, I saw that I had been carrying a Potion of Flying the whole time, and the fight probably would have gone better if I had used it.

  • the invite the....

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  • You're right, they don't.

    The ones beginning with "d" generally translate as "of the," while the "à" ones generally translate as "to the" or "at the."

    French has three words that mean "the": "le" (masculine), "la" (feminine), and "les" (plural).

  • What was sexual education like for you?

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  • I had an surprising one, actually: I went to a private religious school, but I had a strangely comprehensive sex education.

    It started with unvarnished discussions of human anatomy and cautions about sexual abuse around age 8, and then moved on to the basics of (hetero)sexuality by the time I was a preteen. In high school that continued, though talk about birth control was postponed until the health units of later physical education courses, which not everyone took. Of course, the stress was always that sexual activity should be limited to monogamous (heterosexual) marriage, and there was no mention of anything outside of the hetero-normative.

    The last wrinkle was that it was all opt-out. At every point, there was at least one person who would leave the room for the duration of the class because their parents really didn't want them learning about naughty bits.

    So it ended up actually providing a pretty good foundation. It was still incomplete and biased, but a lot better than what you would expect when you hear "private religious school."

  • After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected

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  • I can think of a bunch of other things that Google should be embarrassed about, but Gemini is uniquely humiliating because of how proud they are of it and how hard they are pushing it.

  • After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected

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  • Copilot is one of two LLMs I've briefly tried. It was noticeably better than Gemini was at the time, but still seemed entirely pointless. Nothing it (or Gemini) offered to do were things I wanted help with. I enjoy research and writing, so why would I outsource those things and burn down an acre of rainforest in the process?

  • What’s the dumbest thing you ever got in trouble at school for?

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  • "Swearing"

    5th grade, first day at a new school. I'm trying to meet new kids, but I'm terribly awkward. I try to lead one conversation with some humour: "Did you know the Bible says you shouldn't covet your neighbour's ass?"

    Cue some other kid running off to find a teacher, which resulted in me having to skip recess and write an essay about how I shouldn't swear because it is a bad influence on younger kids.

    Over the following four years I was on the receiving end of invective many times more aggressive and offensive, sometimes right in front of teachers, but I never saw another kid punished for foul language.

  • 'Trump bump is over': Confidence free falls as voters blame President for market 'chaos' - Raw Story

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  • I seem to remember visiting their homepage last year sometime, and every headline was some variation on [Name of politician][aggressive verb][target of ire][reason for the spat], e.g.:

    • "John Bloggins slams Joe Blow for wearing a plaid tie"
    • "Mary Sue rips Judicial Committee for goat scandal"
    • "Peter Flarking haymakers Geraldo over unreturned library books"

  • Our allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.

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  • It doesn't matter if you guys somehow manage to get adults back in charge in the next 2-4 years. There is nothing stopping another Trump-esque person from being elected again soon after and tearing everything down again. Until you guys purge MAGA and can prove you are in no danger of a relapse, we simply can't trust you.

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  • From what I understand, Republicans, especially in Florida, put out political ads targeted specifically at Cuban immigrants. They play off the inherent hatred of communism in this demographic to convince them to vote against the "radical Marxist Democrats."

  • It's that time of year again: what are your New Year's resolutions?

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  • It's stereotypical, but I want to continue getting fit.

    After decades is putting it off, I finally felt inspired to start exercising regularly back in September. I'm going to try to keep that up, and I know it's going to be hard because we'll be welcoming a child into the world early in the new year.

    I guess another resolution would be, "try not to lose my sanity dealing with a newborn and toddler at the same time."

  • Just adding to the pile...

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  • I fully appreciate that, and it's the same in Canada for many people. I've witnessed it personally. I'm very fortunate to be in a position to handle that sort of thing.

  • Just adding to the pile...

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  • The hospital just wrote it off instead, so the cost was passed to the Canadian taxpayer. Lucky for me, but frustrating all the same. I would have rather the insurance pay like the were supposed to.

  • Just adding to the pile...

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  • Hell, I'm from Canada where we have (mostly) socialized medicine, and the one time I made a claim on private insurance it was denied. That was after I had called them to confirm that yes, my policy (should have) covered that expense.

    And it was only a few hundred bucks too, so my frustration was more about the principle of the thing rather than the cost.

  • If anyone knows about evolving, it's Jeffrey Combs.

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  • There are lots of reasons for women to keep their maiden name. In the case of my wife, she had two good ones:

    1. She didn't want to become disassociated from her scientific publications.
    2. She didn't want to complicate or redo any immigration paperwork.