OhNoMoreLemmy

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[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As someone working and publishing in the field this is more a cyber jerk about American exceptionalism than actually true.

Chinese universities and companies publish a shit tonne at pure machine learning conferences. They absolutely do a large amount of research into the fundamentals of machine learning as well as the applied stuff. They're probably the closest to the US in terms of having large firms that are prepared to bank roll the training of the very large language models.

Alibaba in particular has been constantly doing cutting edge stuff in terms of multimodal language models that are worth paying attention to.

The actual truth is that China does both kinds of work. Broad foundational and applied work lead by independent research groups in companies and universities, and focused application driven stuff for direct application by the state.

Google still stands out in terms of the amount of research it does, but this is because Google is different to everyone -other US research institutes don't compare to it either.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Can he drop out?

Kamala had to be nominated before the convention to make registration deadlines in Ohio.

Shouldn't RFK be stuck on the ballet? - at least in Ohio?

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's going to be so much worse than pasting ads if it ever actually works.

Rewriting the search results with LLMs let's you seamlessly mix the adverts into the text people are trying to read... That's why I need to sip a refreshing glass of coke zero(TM) when I'm contemplating the collapse of the internet into pure advertising drivel.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

Amazon are also dicks about sick leave. I'm sure forcing people to work, and work hard, when they're ill leads to complications.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No. The problem with your current bot isn't that the website authors have a particular axe to grind, it's that they're just in a rush and a bit lazy.

This means that they tend to say news sites which acknowledge and correct their own mistakes have credibility problems, because it's right there - the news sites themselves acknowledged issues. Even though these are the often most credible sites, because they fix errors and care about being right.

Similarly the whole left-right thing is just half-assed and completely useless for anyone that doesn't live in the US. While anyone that does live in the US probably already has an opinion about these US news sources.

Because these are lazy errors, lots of people will make similar mistakes, and aggregating ratings will amplify this, and let you pretend to be objective without fixing anything.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

The app phones home to access recipes.

Maybe it works without access to the server, but maybe it just refuses to do anything.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's all pure CEO bullshit though, and none of it is real.

It doesn't cost money to send a Bluetooth signal from your phone to a sous vide. Maybe the WiFi server costs money but it's their own fault for adding stupid functionality that phones home.

I've got one of these and I'm prepared to bet money that almost all of their server costs come down to every recipe in the app just being a link to a web page with lots of photos. https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

(Swiss)Germans are completely mad about food.

It's their culture to complain about everything, except food. All they care about is that it's as bland as possible and has big portions. If you manage that, they'll give you five stars every time.

I spent 3 years living in Germany, and not only can you not get anything spicy for love nor money, they also don't use herbs. It just blows my mind. They're physically so close to France and Italy, but the food is so far away.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, that's because there's an entire cottage industry of people scraping old bug reports, and linter errors to create CVEs they can sell to customers worrying about security. It creates a huge number of false positives. E.g. see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/

I think any measure that is looking at a raw count is going to be meaningless. Particularly, comparing raw counts between open and closed software.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's the neat thing. The policy is also dumb shit.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 weeks ago

The way these big firms work is they make a bunch of almost contradictory arguments and you have to show they're all false in order to win the law suit.

So it'll look like:

  1. I didn't do it.
  2. Even if I did do it you can't prove it was me.
  3. Even if you can prove it was me I wouldn't be liable.
  4. Even if I was liable this has to be settled by arbitration.

So you have to get through arguments 4 and 3 first, to show that it's worth the court trying to find out what happened. Then they'll fight you tooth and nail on points 1 and 2 later.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

This is super exciting.

I was looking at other handholds, and it just came down to the fact that it doesn't matter how good the hardware is, windows isn't a good choice for a handheld and I had to get a steam deck.

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