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cwmoore··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Reading your comment is also a minor penalty.
cwmoore··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
It should be honest that “redressing adverse mental health impacts” is code for “more sweet government jobs”.
cwmoore··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
It is not a net win when Justice is solely a destructive force. The absence of restoration to those harmed is a mutual burden.
cwmoore··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
How many Meta customers are in jail now?
cwmoore··on When online commenters detect my art as AI
Assembling all of those comments seems like a lot of work to me.
cwmoore··on Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer
Speculation about the past is probably unnecessary.

Reed-Solomon/erasure codes have been in operations since the 1960s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...

cwmoore··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Sweet source. I could have said more in one paragraph and 55 pages of formative theory than the two lines above.
cwmoore··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Human language requires a human receiver, like art requires an audience.
cwmoore··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
I have come across a concept that given a file of compressed text files, adding a new text to it expands it more or less depending on how different the new text is from the compressed.

The compression series sounds interesting!

I think the deltas are growing at different rates.

cwmoore··on Something is changing in the unit economics of software
So many pivot opportunities, we’ll live remotely from office.
cwmoore··on Better Posture Linked to Better Decision Making and Mood
After you sit up straight and smile
cwmoore··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Wow, $150 vs $2000 for ~ the same thing ~
cwmoore··on How to Exist
Sure, or “things can’t be better because they were worse”
cwmoore··on How to Exist
You don’t have a choice about that, and it isn’t a history race.

I’m just suggesting a world where jails and prisons are literally replaced with batteries and datacenters. It’s a medieval institution at best.

cwmoore··on Diátaxis
survivor biased models
cwmoore··on How to Exist
There are a few million people in jail and supervision in the USA, offloading the crudity and performing the work of incentivizing conformity, at slave wages as we speak.
cwmoore··on Gpiozero Flow
I often enjoy walks in the woods, far away from the systems for supporting tonemaxxers. It is good for my health but even but better for my mind.
cwmoore··on The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs
I’m not sure where to fit in the article’s referenced “Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics”

It seems to be a statement making a statement. The rubric is not scientific, but persuasive. I think you are approaching the topic in a particularly narrow context.

cwmoore··on The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs
How does your appeal to authority impact their claim?
cwmoore··on Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'
Like building more jails? Could there be a better way?
cwmoore··on Pulse Path – a browser puzzle where placement is the only decision
What is the simplest way to post a video of this in action? Instructions unclear.
cwmoore··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
Code is data is symbolic reality. I don’t think people’s understanding changes this.
cwmoore··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
We’ve jumped from object-oriented to subject-oriented
cwmoore··on What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski?
“. . .a lonely room, with a cup of coffee, facing a blank piece of paper.”

Wouk elaborated on that predicament. He said that writer William Faulkner was asked, ‘Mr. Faulkner, do you write on inspiration or do you write on a schedule?’ Faulkner replied. ‘Well, of course I write on inspiration. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at a quarter past nine.’

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/30/inspire-nine/

cwmoore··on All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time
So is auth right alt-right with authority?
cwmoore··on Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth
Well… did they or didn’t they?
cwmoore··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
then we can make a frame for it to work
cwmoore··on The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)
“Basically, a hypothetical precursor society . . . has to materialize out of nowhere like alien colonists, or they didn't exist.”

Proof aliens exist—thermodynamics, no materialization out of nowhere.

There are layers ;)

cwmoore··on Claude Cookbook
Parkour is for the more energetic peripatetic.
cwmoore··on Em dashes are fucking amazing
You have ellipses… on my iOS, “…” have become one triple-dot
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