“If my brain has specialised mechanisms that have evolved to count the owls perched on a branch, how does this system abstract away from what’s visible, and signal that there are no owls to count?” https://aeon.co/essays/why-zero-could-unlock-how-the-brain-perceives-absence
„Viacerí predstavitelia nepočítajú s tým, že by museli armádu reálne nasadiť do ostrých bojov. Tento dojem som si odniesol z mnohých rokovaní a zďaleka nešlo len o súčasnú vládnu garnitúru,“ hovorí Zmeko. https://dennikn.sk/4502606/branilo-by-sa-slovensko-ruskej-invazii-odpovedaju-nacelnik-generalneho-stabu-a-dalsi-experti
“The role of transformers in inference was never the intent. It emerged as a byproduct of scaling, where high language diversity, hyperparameters tuned for variance, and autoregressive prediction started producing results that mimic reasoning. But they still are just a… Read More »Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
“techno-fascist officials “acquire power by creating these supra-ministerial organs and agencies, subgroups within the bureaucracy that are unaccountable.”” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk
“OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users. Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI’s burn rate. This is not a real company.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money
“anecdotal examples of some people using some software that they kind-of like is not evidence that generative AI is a sustainable or real industry at the trillion-dollar scale that many claim it is.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon
“I I actually work with and manage multiple Kubernetes, mission critical infrastructure that actually matters. I spend my entire day working with containerised applications, and what do I find when I load up Reddit? Ansible playbook writing maniacs trying to… Read More »Recommended Read: You are all a bunch of sick freaks.
“The purpose of a calculator app is to give you correct answers. Floating point numbers are imprecise – they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100. This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand.”… Read More »Recommended Read: “A calculator app? Anyone could make that.”
“Because LLMs get catastrophically wrong answers on topics I know well, I do not trust them at all on topics I don’t already know. And if you do trust them, I urge you to spend five minutes asking your favourite… Read More »Recommended Read: If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well
“A place is a collision between human culture and physical space.” https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-scientists-of-the-1960s-turned-the-moon-into-a-place