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  • That is not really correct based on the available information. Look at the title of the article itself,

    The Rock movie plot ‘may have inspired MI6 source’s Iraqi weapons claim’

    The source of Mi6, claimed that Iraq had this. But Mi6 was clearly suspicious, because chemical ammunition are usually not stored in glass containers. This is given just below of the line you quoted,

    MI6 accepted this possible flaw to the intelligence, the report adds: “The questions about the use of glass containers for chemical agents and the similarity of the description to those portrayed in The Rock had been recognised by SIS. There were some precedents for the use of glass containers but the points would be pursued when further material became available.”



  • I saw a comment comparing the use of AI for coding to the introduction of CNC machining. The argument was that when CNC was introduced many skills needed for doing things by hand kind of became automated, and new skills were needed to properly operate CNC machines.

    In a way the analogy makes sense. But I think it falls short in the aspect of what is gained from this automation. CNC helped to automate a bulk of work, and it also managed to keep the precision and accuracy at a required level. LLMs can’t guarantee that. I think the lack of deterministic output in the default way of operation, actualy act as a detrimental factor to maintaining the quality.





  • So here is the problem. What these companies are doing is trying to sustain the company until the computing cost comes down. In other words, as time passes these companies thinks that the capital cost will come down for data centers, and operarional cost can be covered through subscription cost.

    These so called rich investors will do their best to keep the bubble from bursting. I felt there was a coordinated effort from wall street to prevent the GameStop shorting to do more damage. Similar things are going on related to AI is what I feel.

    Movements like occupy wall street, infact occupy every such abomination around the world is what we need. Eat.


  • The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for.

    Aah… So not LLMs. Makes sense.

    Also to the reporter who decided to focus on ‘full time job’ in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.


  • He has been cleared. Statement

    World governing body Fifa said after looking into the matter that it found “no evidence of breaches of the Fifa Disciplinary Code”.


    “The coverage following this incident simply does not reflect who I am,” Evans said in a statement issued by Fifa.

    “Of course, I understand how the gesture has been interpreted and I regret this, however I want to be very clear and categorically say that I did not knowingly or deliberately make the hand symbol suggested.”

    “Images taken later during the match showed that I repeated this movement many times while holding a pen between my fingers,” he said.







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    I remember reading an article where the author explained why telling this is free, you can fork, or send a pull request instead of complaining is a form of ableism.

    An analogy, which is not 100% accurate, which I used to explain it to ither people is, "it is not very different from a carpenter telling you, ‘the wood is here, the tools also, you can do it yourself it you didn’t like what I did’.

    The point is software development is a skill. Not everyone can have that skill. It takes training and practice to be good in the craft. A user of the product does not need the skill to operate it. Never think it is okay to tell people “just fork it” or “why don’t you send a pull request instead of complaining?”.

    At the same time, I completely acknowledge that there are some entitled assholes who don’t understand or care about the open source philosophy and how it works. I just wanted to point out that asking to contribute or asking to fork is not the right way to address it.



  • So this is some what problematic. Technology has benefits does not mean it has to be allowed. Question is what do we gain and at what cost. If the answer is we gain speed, then the followup is “does it really matter?”.

    Speed of coding is the common answer. Another one is non programmers are able to make programmes. Both of it does not add much of a real value is the point. Because when the machine churn out code at a very high rate, then the humans who should review it gets under pressure. We are not addressing the real bottleneck, instead we just pump out more material which just intensify the congestion at the bottleneck. Quality goes down, we get things like AWS going down, Microsoft wiping people’s machines, etc. In other words it creates problem without much meaningful gain.

    Regarding the non-programmers making programmes, it mostly just create a lot of noise. There is a lot of weekend projects, one shot attempts, or some half cooked outcomes. Only a handful of projects with meaningful impact in the world will be born out of it. We all know, even before AI, out of hundreds of thousands of GitHub repos only a small section is actually well maintained, and deliver something to the world.

    I don’t have to explain at what cost. It is just literally affecting the climate and accelarting the collapse of current ecosystem. Are we doing this so that a code can be written in 1 hour, instead of one day? If you get more free time because of this, well, at least we can say the load is reduced. But we all know we just get more work to do from our employer. So I don’t really think this is a net positive.