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  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Yeah, but long scale unfathomable, or short scale unfathomable?

  • Autopsy of Canadian in ICE custody indicates his death was preventable, experts say

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  • None of that makes it OK for people (...)

    Not people, fascists.

    Those need to be put down, as soon as possible, by any means possible, before they cause further harm.

  • What bothers me...

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  • If you write "f*ck this sh!t", you've offended exactly the same number of people you would have with "fuck this shit".

    More people. You've also offended the people who are fucking tired of this censorship bullshit, who would've been completely fine with the uncensored version.

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  • I mainly browsed on the phone, obviously not with the official malware; greedy little pigboy spez effectively banned third party apps by setting absurdly high API fees, making it impossible to browse on the phone, so I had to find an alternative, and I ended up here.

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  • Greedy little pigboy...

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • LLMs don't have the mind of a five year old, though.

    They don't have a mind at all.

    They simply string words together according to statistical likelihood, without having any notion of what the words mean, or what words or meaning are; they don't have any mechanism with which to have a notion.

    They aren't any more intelligent than old Markov chains (or than your average rock), they're simply better at producing random text that looks like it could have been written by a human.

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • In a pinch the drive can also double as a flywheel battery.

  • Flawless rule

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  • Yeah, the “!?” wasn't directed at Sinatra, seduction and adultery are completely in character for him, it was directed at the law making them an arrestable offence, sometimes I forget that the USA were founded by fundamentalist religious fanatics.

  • Flawless rule

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  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • Well, reptiles seem to have split pretty early on between the ancestors of lizards and snakes (and the lonely tuatara), and the ancestors of turtles, crocodiles, and dinosaurs, the main differences seemingly being in the bones of the skull, and specifically for the group with the snakes and lizards in, the ability to self-amputate the tail (though that's lost in many of their descendants), and the keratinized scales; you won't see a turtle, crocodile, or dinosaur molting its whole skin in one go like lizards and snakes do, they'll molt their scales (or feathers, or scutes) one at a time.

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • True, (some) snakes have also evolved specialized fangs.

    Several times independently with significantly different designs, it seems.

  • Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

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  • Anyone who uses duckduckgo, since that's where it gets its results from.

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • That one I'm not entirely sure about, but it seems that, in the same way being a mammal (from a bone perspective) is all about the teeth and inner ear, being a dinosaur is all about the hips (dinosaurs have an upright stance, with the legs under their bodies; even with the quadruped ones you can see how they're really something evolved to walk on its hind legs walking on its hands and feet), and pterosaurs and their non-dinosaur ancestors just don't have the right kind of hip.

    It's a bit muddy, though. Once you get into archosaurs and before you get into more specialised things like crocodiles, dinosaurs, or pterosaurs it's mostly “this thing seems to be more closely related to this group than to this other group, so we'll throw it in with them even if it doesn't really look anything like them”.

    There's a small bipedal reptile, for instance, scleromuchlus, that's been bundled up with pterosaurs because it apparently seems more related to them, even though if you look at an artist's representation you'd assume it must be a dinosaur, but might in fact not fit in either group and be instead just a basal avemetatarsalian (or maybe even lower in the tree) with no other identified close relatives.

  • Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine

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  • It's basically a gaming laptop.

    Taking out the screen, the windows license, and some of the margin since Valve will make it back with game sales, $1,000 was the minimum expectable price before RAM got pulled into the “AI” bubble.

  • Family sues Nebraska police over fatal shooting of depressed teenager: The family says officers shot their son dead within 30 seconds of unlawfully entering their home.

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  • Those are still quite lethal, when used with sufficient malice and / or incompetence.

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • The name (di metro don ≈ two teeth sizes) is a clue, as teeth specialization is very much a synapsid (i.e., mammal and proto-mammal) thing.

  • How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?

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  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • I mean that no one designed or built the model, it's just a compressed representation of (the shape of) the data it's trained on.

    If by artificial we mean something made by people, we could argue that this isn't (though by the same logic neither would a zip file).

  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • Yeah, quite.

    Though, to be fair, the scammers and the LLMs themselves are pretty good at convincing their victims that the damn things are actually smart, to the point that some otherwise quite intelligent people have fallen for it.

    And come to think of it, given that most investors have fallen hook line and sinker for the scam, if you're publicly traded catering to their idiotic whims and writing off the losses caused by the LLM might actually be more profitable, if most of your customers aren't smart enough to take advantage of your silliness...