I don't! But I do remember that when my high school careers counsellor asked me what I wanted to study at University I said "linguistics sounds really cool?" and she scoffed and told me I'd never get a job if I did that (I showed her by getting a degree in Theatre and Philosophy).
Anakin Padme meme: To defend the civilians being threatened by US and Israeli military aggression?
Worth reading that article linked above, and some of the ensuing debate, particularly in Victoria. Many believe that this just entrenches major party influence (who maybe rely less on individual donations) at the cost of smaller and independents. So great in principle but...
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
Practically a coin toss for any given celeb at this point
Not to mention the fact that more music is released each year now than in the whole of the 20th century (citation needed) - *all of us* are familiar with an increasingly tiny sliver of the canon, no matter how much we might think a particular artist or group is essential.
I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.
Vintage Steven Levy content. He needs to do a Misfits and start a magazine called "Steven Levy's Wired" so we know which bits to avoid.
I'm no economist but I think this means we need to start selling the US guns? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_ve...
Yeah I got "as a middle aged Caucasian male you need to start looking out for these things" from my GP a year back. All my hair spontaneously greyed.
indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.
They're great! (In very specific circumstances - for me that's podcasts while doing stuff where I need awareness, and I can wear them all day for work calls pretty comfortably)
I'm not so sure, based on what it is that I understand (perhaps poorly) that these models actually *do* - sure they're not just pulling the answers from some database, but "solve" is a very load bearing word and maybe we're getting into Searle/Chinese room territory...
Thanks! Tho I'm not much wiser having read the paper as to what they think happened here though? - that the model actually "solved" the problems through some kind of mathematical reasoning? Or that it was able to produce (some) reasonable answers based on its pre/post training?
Genuine question - is this useful? I don't maths good enough to know how impressed it to be by "the computer computes things that are hard for humans" (that's what they're for right?) - but does this get us somewhere new?
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
The cover of a paperback edition of Rocannon's World and Planet of Exile by Ursula Le Guin. Illustration shows soldiers in plate armour with spears and shields running through a burning city while above them a space ship fires the thing that is making the burning happen.
Starting strong!
"Market price to clear native forests set at $55m"
Also according to the article "you can keep serial killing for another 18 months while we consider your petition to be allowed to murder people"
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
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Missed opportunity for some solid click-bait: "Elon Musk: lying to juice share prices, extraordinarily ignorant about how space works, or both?"
How was Bobcat though?
The Wizard is a pretty sad figure - was a beloved NZ eccentric (and anti war/capitalism agitpropper) for decades, until someone called him out for some of his "old fashioned" (ie misogynistic) comments and he decided to really steer into it. Got him a late life noteriety boost I guess.
Because Ukrainians are considered to be white and therefore deserving of moral standing and Palestinian/Lebanese/Syrian/Iranian people aren't?
I feel like I've gone insane reading this. The imagery in the article shows surrounding city blocks reduced to rubble, and we're hand-wringing over the corner of a cemetery. I guess 100 year dead Australians are more newsworthy than Palestinian lives.
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They Provide the Paint for the Picture-Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint on the Insides of Your Eyelids - Streetlight Manifesto
Screen shot of an article preview from Radio NZ with a photo of the Moa point wastewater plant, and the text "The public is being warned to stay away from south coast beaches, with the planet expected to be down for an "extended period" ".
This seems bad, but the preview text on discord has a very funny/apposite typo
"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."
Mine keeps beeping and saying "load unbalanced"
You say "modern slavery" I say "continuing a cherished Judeao-Christian cultural practice"
