* Posts by Bck

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Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?

Bck
Childcatcher

Only a little

AI is the XXIth century Alchemy.

Some day it may give birth to a science, like chemistry came from the alchemists efforts.

In the meantime, transforming data into information is just like transforming vile lead onto gold.

Promises that cannot be held.

Bck
Childcatcher

AI is the XXIth century Alchemy.

Some day it may give birth to a science, like chemistry came from the alchemists efforts.

In the meantime, transforming data into information is just like transforming vile lead onto gold.

Promises that cannot be held.

AI smartphones must balance promise against hype and privacy concerns

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Ai s vs. FADS.

I hear what you wfote, but i do see very little reason why LLM would play any role in "usable" AI. Beyond reformatting what "real" AI tells it, maybe

Or maybe in a very constrained universe, like the Tesla Autopilot wit proper sensors.

Nothing to do with the current hype, which has a Mechanical Turk peddled by the Wizard of Oz quality to me.

My 0.02€

I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug

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Re: Buzz

Meret SuperClippy (tm)

Allowed Boeing to replace half of its Engineering team so the Company will deliver their ultraLiner on-time!

Deterministic behaviour is so XIX century.

Canonical pushes LXD, its new mysterious drug for Linux containers

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Linux

barking at the wrong treeh, more NIH from the Ubuntu stable

World Domination is IBM aka RedHat and its Systemd horrors.

Undocumentable and so well-structured that reliability of Linux machines is now close to Wondows', and latest improvements of Gnome tools (looking at you, thunderbird) approach the kind of straightjacket that Microsoft sells

Most of what Canonical offers is extensions. Compare to unavoidable changes for the stuff you already did years ago, but is now changed and more vulnerable.

EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle

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Re: That's Phillips screwed then.....

Huh?

Not my personal experience with them. Over the years, used Philips shavers bought about anywhere, chargers are compatible, even between US and EU.

Not to say other products from the same manufacturer are exempt of that problem, but not this one IMHExperience

Top Google boffin Hinton quits, warns of AI danger, partly regrets life's work

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Re: Dumber and Dumber

No need for genuine intelligence. High-tnhroughput sophistry will overwhelm about any defense from society and individuals.

Have you ever been in a situation where you were right, UT did othavd the time/money/energy to prove it?

AI bullies would be perfect as attack attorneys, politicians or US cops.

I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well

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Re: The other side of the coin

That comment should go viral.

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Re: No

"DOS and Windows brought computing power from mainframes to individual control."

In my experience, it rather was Apple, especially with VisiCalc. I'll always remember the extatic look in the face of our Accounting manager after he discovered that he could do "what if..." with that box.

MSDOS came with the 8086 and was/is a "me too" product. Apple ][ was 6502, and revolutionary.

There was water under the bridge in the interval. And don't think of "graphics" and "VGA" in the same mind set.

Or "Internet", "V.22" and "xmodem". They're not in the same continent.

Still, UNIX and family are always there.

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I see Windows as a catastrophe that derailed what Apple was, and personal computing never fully recovered.

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

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Re: @Charles 9 - rm -rf /*

Includes also such malware writers who know an escalation vulnerability.

I certainly would appreciate an _option_ to boot into an ISO-like mode, most of the time, most units.

K8s on a plane! US Air Force slaps Googly container tech on yet another war machine to 'run advanced ML algorithms'

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Re: Agile...

Did the product owner request that, and was this in a user story? Oh no, it was an NFR.

Senior MP tells UK Defence Committee on 5G security: Russia could become China's cyber-attack dog

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Re: No it's Trump's fault

Well, he already outsourced Ukraine relationship to his priovate attorney. That went well, so why stop.

The GOP handles him like the M**** Don he proves to be. Some claim that they are committing massive perjury, but it is kind of visible that they, as a ghroup, believe him when he says "I am the State" - Louis XIV being his model.

And all of that will be confirmed by computer-based popular vote. The Alpha release was by Diebold in 2000. It takes time to organize and reorganize, as voting machines are not under that brand anymore. And who cares about DEFCON ?

So starting 1/1/2021 it will all be legal.

Any second thoughts will be, er, distracted by an appropriate declaration of war. The target is irrelevant.

I recently watched "1984" (the early BBC version) again. Chilling, especially iof you add to the above the convergence between Political Correctness and Newspeak.

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For-profit Press and for-profit Healthcare. These are useful concepts.

The peer-to-peer Internet could have derailed that. Thankfully, Intellectual Property was handy to turn Internet into an instrument to broadcast propaganda instead.

United Nations reportedly tears up Tencent's invite to its big 75th birthday bash

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Swiss? "Phones by Crypto AG are the safest; Our app repository is managed by the CIA" ?

Kaspersky cleans up poisoned watering hole, Google presses pause on cookie crackdown

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How last century... Don't you know that hardware costs money (except if you just need 8 more Gigabytes of RAM for software to run)?