Antimatter Dimensions

Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their outputs bullshit.

This is actually a really nice insight on the quality of the output of current LLMs. And it teaches about how they work and what the goals given by their creators are.

They are but trained to produce factual information, but to talk about topics while sounding like a competent expert.

For LLM researchers this means that they need to figure out how to train LLMs for factuality as opposed to just sounding competent. But that is probably a lot easier said than done.

Forgot the tilde in between

This one is actually quite good. Albeit I could solve less than half of them, because I don’t even know the words in the page title sometimes

It is, visually. Imagine the long single carbon chains to be the picture borders. The double bonds to oxygen are the people.

Enough to understand?

Skeletons have a right to feel sexy too!

Why did that guy’s pants rip open?

See https://sopuli.xyz/comment/8474008

The maintainer is a human that needs to eat every day, and not just whenever their services are needed. So at least, the sum of money would need to be a few times higher than whatever labour the fix takes.

But then, the maintainer’s ability to fix these bugs doesn’t come from nowhere. They worked on this project for likely a long time, which would also need to be taken into account when agreeing on a sum.

Further, this would be business to business. And those contracts often include the value that the client gets out of the software. So if Microsoft makes billions from this open source library, then the maintainer’s - as a business - should receive a payment that reflects this for the fix.

All that implies that a few thousand is not nearly enough. Maybe 100k and the maintainer would budge.

The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.

Such a great piece of art displaying one of the many issues with stack overflow.

Blocks go BRRRRR

They’ll probably cancel that feature well ahead of your death.

How to think with your balls

Yeah but the last requires you to explicitly distinguish between the two cases.

Reminds me a bit of dead space.

USA

def dramatic_pause():

Top right is the Ubuntu logo. Top green-yellow one is some African country. Bottom one in blue with three triangles is some fancy hotel brand.

Too bad the published paper isn’t open access

Embarrassing that some states still fund non-public research. For people who are unaware, scientific articles have a DOI. Enter this in scihub, and you will probably find a pirated version of the paper.