The other day, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, a neighbor I hadn’t seen in a long time said hello as she walked past the house. “I hope your family is doing well,” she said, and then looked concerned. “As well as you can do in times like these. You must be even more worried, with kids.“
“Uh, well,” I said, “The kids live in the present, and we try to enjoy the present.”

Inside I was thinking: “This is why liberals are so sad.”

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Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

«Се́тунь» — малая ЭВМ на основе троичной логики, разработанная в вычислительном центре Московского государственного университета в 1959 году

An active open source contribution is a good habit for a software developer who is passionate about his or her job.

Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back

Очень неожиданное интервью про любовь и жизнь. Прекрасная дама и стихи.

Узнал про дебаггер много нового

Innovation tokens and whatnot.

Саша рассказывает про выгорание

This huge collection of non-scary optical illusions and fascinating visual phenomena emphasizes interactive exploration, beauty, and scientific explanation.

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Живой диск линупса для починки поломанных систем. Не содержит графического интерфейса, голая консоль и куча утилит.

Для всех, кто знал SQL, но подзабыл

Себастьен Хиндерер, слепой человек, протестировал бета-версию SonarVision, навигатора для людей с ограниченными возможностями, использующего данные ОСМ