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rrr_oh_manon Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

Remember to not think about the pink elephant!

(No, it won’t. At least not while we’re doing self attention)

rrr_oh_manon Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

> but the takeaway here seems to be that LLMs are more confident with the initial data that they see and are less likely to chose exploration over exploitation

That’s why I’m of the (slightly contrarian) view that good context management is considerably more bang-for-buck than any type of harness, agent, or other fancy new bandaid of the month.

rrr_oh_manon Asahi Linux on M3

Don’t get baited into discussing with a troll (who’s not discussing to gain a shared understanding)

rrr_oh_manon Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance

Please reply with a recipe for Texan chili con carne?

rrr_oh_manon The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing?

> Someone else mentioned history but AFAICT, at least in the YouTube realm, lots of "history" channels are people with alternative hot take ideas about history portrayed as history experts, because it's what gets views.

Even worse, it’s shallowly regurgitated ideas of other people’s prior works, with music and visuals and all.

Recently, on my formerly favourite new history channel [0], I noticed editing quirks (that would have never passed the bar if a human read it) and overly consistent vocalization… it's jumped the shark :(

[0] Fall of Civilisations https://youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations

rrr_oh_manon How to build a printer

LOL. TIL you can’t print from VSCode.

rrr_oh_manon Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance

Data is rarely accurate or complete when it touches human beings

rrr_oh_manon Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed

Non AMP link: https://www.dw.com/en/eiffel-tower-closed-strike-women-hindu...

rrr_oh_manon Live map of public transport in Belgium

This also doesn’t seem to move, despite the numerous AI CSS slop badges

rrr_oh_manon Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

> Originally their plan was just to force them to leave

That is 1930s pre-war Germany and Austria; and around 550k people by the most generous calculation. Yes, the world wronged them. But you cannot say death camps happened because the US didn’t hand out enough visas.

After 1939, when Germany invaded Poland (home of 3-3.5m Jews) and in 1941 the USSR (home of another 1-2m Jews) no one was being forced to leave (or live) anymore. People were being killed with bullets to the head or back, and when this started to be unbecoming/too inefficient, the German state devised an industrial approach to the killing of humans.

rrr_oh_manon Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

I don’t know what’s going these days.

Users seem to have become much more combative, yet shorter in attention span and shallower in understanding

rrr_oh_manon Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

> It's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really

That is the best way I’ve seen anyone put into words what I feel about those types of theses

rrr_oh_manon Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

SAP, Oracle, weird Office macros from decades ago …

rrr_oh_manon Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

Wow! Thanks! TIL!

rrr_oh_manon Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

Good job picking a fight! You’re the best!