With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished. But even as it fell it swung its whip…

Hey there decentralized digital currency systems, you wanna… centralize?

International Rights Advocates has sued Starbucks on behalf of eight Brazilian plaintiffs who were trafficked and forced into modern day slavery on coffee plantations that supply a major percentage of Starbucks’ coffee imports.

Same here. I have and will always periodically reinstall no matter which OS I happen to be using. Arch is the only distro that keeps me coming back because installation and setup is such an active process. Every time around I learn something new and get more effecient at the process, which is so much more rewarding than filling a few boxes and waiting on a progress bar as is the case with most distros I have experienced.

iPXE maybe? But there’s a lot of implementation details you would have to figure out. Two that come to mind are:

1. A mobile device from which you can selectively provide an image for booting

2. A physical intrusion detection system for your home machine that you can also read remotely

You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?

Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?

How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?

Yes, yes it is

https://naas.isalman.dev/no

Provides “No” in so many words in JSON format… also from a mastadon service

Edit: Original mastodon link: https://chaos.social/@FlohEinstein/114431056473852558

What weighs more: the cost of taking people at their word, or the effort it takes to interpret the subtext of every interaction?

What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?

What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?

Porque no nouveau?

…to shreds it is, then.

Laugh tracks always make me feel like I’m being programmed.

XOR cleartext once with a key you get ciphertext. XOR the ciphertext with the same key you get the original cleartext. At its core this is the way the old DES cipher works.

A bit of useful trivia: If you XOR any number with itself, you get all zeros. You can see this in practice when an assembly programmer XOR’s a register with itself to clear it out.

Maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s Markov chains all the way down.

The only way I can think to test this would be to “poison” the training data with faulty arithmetic to see if it is just recalling precedent or actually implementing an algorithm.

This reminds me of learning a shortcut in math class but also knowing that the lesson didn’t cover that particular method. So, I use the shortcut to get the answer on a multiple choice question, but I use method from the lesson when asked to show my work. (e.g. Pascal’s Pyramid vs Binomial Expansion).

It might not seem like a shortcut for us, but something about this LLM’s training makes it easier to use heuristics. That’s actually a pretty big deal for a machine to choose fuzzy logic over algorithms when it knows that the teacher wants it to use the algorithm.

Yeah, but this reminds me of a line from game of thrones:

“If you’re a famous smuggler, you’re doing it wrong.”