SirHumphrey

It’s a task much harder to RL and much more subjective. I don’t want to say we won’t get there, but let’s just say that LLMs could “write” well enough since gpt3.5 era and I don’t think the pleasantness of the prose improved dramatically since then.

And subjectively the explanation LLMs currently provide are usually horrible, horrible enough that I usually just instruct them to provide me human written literature I can read.

3blue1brown helped me quite a bit when I needed to learn calculus ahead of school curriculum, the same could be said for circuit design and a few other things.

In general most that an edutainment can give you is awareness that something exists and a bit of motivation to get you going and there is some value in that. Whether on the whole it’s a positive thing is a bit harder to say.

This is mentioned under every Firefox discussion despite being possibly years away from being generally useful if the will ever progress to that point.

It’s not really a feasible alternative.

There is just A LOT of data available- usually an order of magnitude more than in any other related problem.

And general weather forecasts are not that hard - we have semi useful forecasts for more than 50 years. It’s when you want to do something special: long range, nowcasting of convective storm, other extreme weather etc. that is hard. And even then it’s as much a problem of input data accuracy than the models themselves.

If in 17 hundreds you wanted to choose a language that could be deciphered, say, also in China, Latin was a much better choice than any native language in various vicinity.

I keep coming back to In Memoriam AHH way more often than I would expect; it’s really a great piece of poetry.

I guess we got the first paperclip maximiser.

I am wondering for whom this new device even would be. Because phones work quite well for this use case and much more and everyone already has a phone.

Woodland strawberries grow even better somehow. We used to have them planted at the garden, then a few years ago we removed them and planted something else and this year I was surprised to find that they somehow survived and moved a few meters away from where they originally were.

They also taste better in my opinion.

I would tend to agree unless you need those gpio pins. Then there are few other good options.

Most software is much simpler than a c compiler.

I have recently needed to read a skill document because it was more understandable and more through than the official document.

Competitive programming scene always included offline competition and with AI they are becoming more important (and in general they were more fair even before). If CTFs are to survive, they should probably try to adopt this strategy.

You could even go so far that anything loaded on your computer is fair game, but not more than that (certain competitive programming competition for example allow unlimited amount of paper material - for CTFs you probably need much more than that, therefore electronic).

Sort of. There are a bunch of timing attacks bug in general it still works fairly well.

Nothing about PDF is easy. Similarly to what once Tom Scott said about time zones, every time I must deal with PDFs I pray that PDF.js can be hacked in to doing it instead, otherwise I just don’t bother.

It’s on of the few examples when converting it in to picture and chucking it in a multimodal llm is a more sensible solution than trying to parse it.

And with the code, the closer you come to the physical world the worse LLMs fair.

Claude can’t really write Openscad and when I was debugging some map projections code last week it struggled a lot more than usual.

There is a certain joy in working with RPN and in using a piece of technology that was designed as a tool, not as a toy or an educational appliance.

With phone emulation, I probably need half a calculator. I have three.

Just because an AI can craft a decent Japanese text doesn’t mean I can. Just because AI can write x86 assembly also doesn’t mean I can.

You don’t give first graders a calculator because they will always have one in their pocket- they end up just inputting numbers in a magic box and not learning how to do this manually which will destroy their future mathematical education. It’s about the same with AI.

Quite a lot of companies use and release AI written code, are they all liable?

I don’t know what exactly the op meant by delivering a press release, but at least I after a four year high school german course can read newspaper articles in german but would struggle quite a lot to order food (granted, I wasn’t very good at it). In a more grammar heavy language understanding is a lot easier than writing which is a lot easier than speaking.

I didn't even mention France, but if you insist:

I am using Fossil Fuel Support dataset from OECD. Latest available year is 2024: Specifically for petroleum there were 5228 million euros in tax exemptions and 586 million euros in direct budgetary transfer. For all fossil fuels there were 5 656 million in tax exemptions and 2579 million in direct budgetary transfers. So real, direct subsidies definitely exist.

You are thinking too logically. In EU fuel is expensive because it’s heavily taxed AND there are a lot of fuel subsidies.

Or to quote an old TV show: Hacker: One of your officials pays farmers to produce surplus food, while on the same floor, the next office is paying them to destroy the surpluses. Maurice: That is not true! Hacker: No? Maurice: He is not in the next office, not even on the same floor!

It’s becoming easier on iPhone (even uBlock origini is now available, if only the lite version), which is nice because internet is becoming more and more unusable without them.

Amara’s law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

There was an election recently and it’s possible there will soon be another… That’s why the fuel is so cheap.

I think it’s more that when you have 300C thermal runaway in a cell in your battery storage bank the release of toxic compounds is the least of your problems.

I work quite a bit with batteries and the fear of battery fires hunts me in my sleep, especially with lipos.

It also has very slow rebuild times.

In 2024[1]: - 37.2% in Sweeden - 51.6% in Denmark - 30.4% in Finland

of newly registered cars were BEV. Only Norway reaches 89% you are talking about. The total average of newly registered BEV cars in European Union was 13.6%.

The EV tech is here,but the grid in most EU countries is certainly not. The proliferation of heat pumps in the local area caused 3 blackouts caused by a failure of a local transformer - something that hasn't happened before or at least not as frequently. And in most countries you are looking at doubling the electricity consumption if all road transport was to switch to electricity.

[1]: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/new-registr...

Students are not only workers, they are also disciples of your work and, once forced to read it, will likely use it in the future even when they leave your lab.

Even completely egoistically replacing students with AI is shooting yourself in the foot in the long term.

The comments you write in to Zotero are not what paper is about - abstract covers this well enough - it’s about what you found interesting or useful about the paper.