V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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The terms, concerningly, don't give a firm data retention time frame, and say that LineLeap may be "unable to fully delete or de-identify" user data due to "technical" or "other operational reasons."

My villain arc is going to be turning into Thanos and collecting them stones just to enforce GDPR forever into cosmic law with a snap of my fingers.

Kay mate, rational thought 101:

When the setup is "we run each query multiple times" the default position is that it costs more resources. If you claim they use roughly the same amount you need to substantiate that claim.

Like, that sounds like a pretty impressive CS paper, "we figured out how to run inference N times but pay roughly the cost of one" is a hell of an abstract.

Literally the same shit as during the war against work from home.

Hey look, they are more productive, get their work done faster, don't have to spend 10% of their life commuting, and have more freedom. OUTRAGEOUS!

(Only this time there's no actual productivity boost, but they're still preemptively mad?)

Posteo is from Germany

That's significantly less comforting than Proton's Switzerland. It's in 14 Eyes after all.

I immediatelly knew who and what you were talking about without even clicking.

May the fact that he also lives inside my head rent-free be some solace to you.

Appreciate, but flamethrowers on jets still sounds somehow less idiotic than tracking CO2 emissions with BLOCKCHAIN

I was reading David and Amy's stuff on energy costs of AI and ended up skimming the MSFT "environment sustainability report" and... god

Like I don't even know how to satirise this. Help me sneer pros, for I am too depressed to make fun of this.

Probably, but I would probably also never have heard the phrase "generative AI", so win?

Counterpoint, all tie nazis are shove-into-a-locker nazis.

I know it might not be 100% sound epistemology, but I think "Warren's Razor" applies here.

If you're on the receiving end of Elizabeth Warren's ire, I can safely presume you are the bad guy until proven otherwise.

Why are you saying that LLMs are useless when they're useless only most of the time

I'm sorry but I've been circling my room for an hour now seeing this and I need to share it with people lest I go insane.

Oh ye, I already did a mad at that, thanks for reminding me of that nonsense

It relies heavily on an incredibly simplified framing of educational practice as simply ‘effective information delivery’.

Oh god they really think that, don't they? That you could take any guy, put him with a script in a classroom to read and it would be just as good. Jesus christ. I never considered that.

Wait, why would he be Taylor Swift?

I always thought it's swift as in fast, there's nothing about his posts that would attempt a satirical impersonation even.

2026-2027: Blockchain Revolution

• Widespread adoption of blockchain for secure, transparent financial transactions
• Development of industry-specific blockchain solutions
• Smart contracts automate complex financial agreements

ah good, we're still on schedule for that I guess

Jesus I thought this was some deep cut about first making a universe or something but no it's an actual image

Well I was aware of Google Fiber for years now, but the other three are indeed a surprise.

Especially Facebook? Like what the fuck do you need that for? Your business is entirely Instagram ads?

Wait but you already have this literal system for internet service in the USA, no? Isn't it literally four companies that partitioned the country into their ISP fiefdoms?

So nothing would change is what you're saying?

I'll cut you with a Y axis I swear on me mum

Shumer credits Glaive AI — a company he invested in — for its LLM special cases, like telling which number is bigger or how many times the letter “r” appears in the word “strawberry.” Those are the two examples Shumer named to VentureBeat.

I quite often pondered how cool it'd have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago, you know, one of the pioneers, people on whose shoulders the entire tech sector rests now.

Think about all the advantages! Maybe I'd get to talk to Turing! Maybe I'd invent a foundational algorithm that would be in textbooks forever! Maybe I would've fucking died before this absolute blight on our domain happened!