Posts by stylistics

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

Re: Notable flaws in the paper

Yes, and many of these flaws have already been picked up:

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-chatgpt-have-a-liberal-bias

The authors are CS profs at Princeton.

This - by El Reg - is pretty bad tabloid level coverage.

No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal

Re: This isn't the Brexit we voted for.

The Vote Leave campaign group put out leaflets that very clearly claimed just this:

https://www.ft.com/content/94adcefa-1dd5-11e6-a7bc-ee846770ec15

"The official Out campaign is drawing up leaflets aimed at Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu speakers arguing that a British exit from the EU would help to stem the flow of Eastern Europeans into the UK — allowing more incomers from Commonwealth countries to take their place. "

Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud

Bouyed by Oracle Licenses

Their cloud offering is largely bouyed up by their onerous licensing requirements on anyone's cloud but their own, absent a change in that and their overall strategy remains much the same.

Apple iOS privacy clampdown 'did little' to reduce tracking

Re: How is Apple supposed to prevent use of email addresses to identify people?

The problem lies not just in tracking domains you might incidentally connect to, but the extent to which your browser's capabilities are exposed to the website you are actually trying to connect to.

Boys outnumber girls 6 to 1 in UK compsci classes

As anyone with experience of working with offshore/outsourced groups will tell you the gender ratio varies dramatically between countries, which speaks against it being down to natural inclination/ability.

As to why it matters - the best way to create software that be used well by society at large is for the engineering profession creating it to more closely represent that society.

The UK's Cairncross Review calls for Google, Facebook to be regulated – and life support for journalism

Re: Watching the watchers

With the departure of Eddie Mair, Radio4 news is dominated by the superannuated Humphrys who is long past his prime and resorts to bluster over fact.

Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

I'm happy for sites to serve adverts, as long as they are unobtrustive, don't use use annoying popups and have a reasonable data storage/deletion policy.

Oh - and so long as the adserving networks accept liability for any malware pushed through their networks.