Who said LLMs couldn't do irony?
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I was a bit surprised that on my first visit to the main mojeek search page the "No tracking. Just search" text entry field was prepopulated with a few suggestions that are personally relevant, possibly from reddit searches I've made!
Is this something the browser manages, or is there some tracking after all, I wonder?
> I’ve heard more than one person say that what a pity that Penrose fell for this crazy Hameroff person. But, well, I’ve met both Penrose and Hameroff and they’re both crazy of course, but neither of them is stupid.
The book is freely available on oreilly.com[1] and likely worth a look for anyone interested in TFA.
For example, O'Reilly claims "in writing about the mystique of the superhero, Herbert himself was prey to it" quoting Analog editor John Campbell's rejection letter for Dune Messiah: "science-fictioneers [...] want heroes—not anti-heroes. They want stories of strong men who exert themselves, inspire others, and make a monkey's uncle out of malign fates! As Paul did in Dune —not as he fails completely to do in The Messiah"
Campbell misses the point, O'Reilly says, " that Herbert deliberately looked for this reaction from his readers. To Herbert, the hero mystique is symptomatic of a deadly pathology in contemporary society, a compulsive yearning for easy answers. As long as men are looking for simple solutions to their problems, they will give over their ability to think for themselves to the first person who comes along and promises a solution. The Dune trilogy is an attempt to unveil that pattern and, in some small part, to change it."[2]
I've listened in on discussions of relative merits of ship builds for the current anti-xeno initiative and they are deep and far-ranging.
I've watched combat streams from players who've practiced for literally a year to master the intricacies of no-flight-assist piloting.
There's a lot more to the game than "space trucking". After immersing myself over a couple of weeks in the various aspects and sub-communities it's amazing to me that people fall for the facile "mile-wide-inch-deep" truism. It's that critique that's shallow and uninformed, to my mind.
Seeing the continuity of game elements from the 1984 version (which I also sunk hours into) is weirdly moving. Seeing the same game objects like the ships and especially the Coriolis station transformed from vector graphics on a 16K memory-mapped screen (SOTA at the time!) to fully rendered 3D at 4K/60fps was more of an emotional ride for me than I expected. Finally experiencing the detailed Coriolis interior complete with advertising hoardings, plant and docking gear moistened my eyes somewhat I don't mind admitting.
Despite current difficulties the game is a precious institution, I really hope it sticks around in some form or other!
I didn't see any concrete identification in the paper itself, but following one of the references[1] I found this:
> Within our list of news sites, we differentiate between “unreliable news websites” and “reliable news websites.” Our list of unreliable news websites includes 1,142 domains labeled as conspiracy/pseudoscience” by mediabiasfactcheck.com as well as those labeled as “unreliable news”, misinformation, or disinformation by prior work (Hanley, Kumar, and Durumeric 2023; Barret Golding 2022; Szpakowski 2020).
> Our set of “unreliable” or misinformation news websites includes websites like realjewnews.com, davidduke.com, thegatewaypundit.com, and breitbart.com. We note that despite being labeled unreliable every article from each of these websites is not necessarily misinformation.
> Our set of “reliable” news websites consists of the news websites that were labeled as belonging to the “center”, “center-left”, or “center-right” by Media Bias Fact Check as well as websites labeled as “reliable” or “mainstream by other works (Hanley, Kumar, and Durumeric 2023; Barret Golding 2022; Szpakowski 2020). This set of “reliable news websites” includes websites like washingtonpost.com, reuters.com, apnews.com, cnn.com, and foxnews.com
The methodological issues here, and the trajectory following from ignoring them wholesale, are considerably more interesting than the study itself, to me.
1: "From January 1, 2022, to April 1, 2023, there was a dramatic surge in synthetic articles, especially on misinformation news websites (Hanley and Du- rumeric, 2023)." which links to https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.09820.pdf
And the section's conclusion - that this presents an increased risk of nuclear incident over and above the personal effects of this privation on the crew - is serious enough to be given consideration, though the unnecessary human cost of those privations is already good reason to question the practice.
For reference:
> many veteran submariners agree that six months underwater is longer than humans should spend in an isolated and confined environment—especially with virtually no communication with the outside world.
> Commenting in 2022, on two Vanguards that performed 157-day-long patrols—former Royal Navy SSBN commander Rob Forsyth—noted in a blog post that the “great danger is that this unchanging routine, week after week, leads to boredom, complacency and an inevitable drop-off in standards […] personal relationships are tested to the limit.”
> For comparison, Forsyth states that his Cold War-era patrols lasted only 50-75 days (averaging two months), and were carried out in allegedly less cramped conditions than the Vanguard’s. Even then, he wrote that “major effort was still needed to keep crews stimulated and alert and not allow them to withdraw into themselves […].” Forsyth noted that he himself adopted quirky habits, like tying his scrub brush to a leash and taking it for a walk once a week.
> Regarding a 111-day patrol by the Warspite from 1982 to 1983, he wrote that he was “told that operating errors, flare ups between crew members and disciplinary problems started to be a problem after the half-way mark, around 50 days in.” He adds that long patrols led to loss of sight, weight, general fitness and spatial awareness, and that the lack of sunlight lead to Vitamin D deficiencies.
> The Telegraph interviewed a former attack submarine commander, Ryan Ramsey, who said that he would “be surprised if there aren’t mental health challenges after this because it’s extreme. The reality is they shouldn’t have to do that. Those boats were designed to go on three-month patrols.”
> Breakdowns in discipline in Royal Navy submarines have received periodic media attention in recent years, whether related to harassment and forbidden sexual relationships, the abuse of hard drugs and alcohol, or raucous partying. At one point, in 2017, such scandals culminated in 10% of the Vigiliant’s crew being discharged, investigated, or compelled to resign—including the captain and first officer.
> The Ministry of Defence’s unwillingness to discuss the length of nuclear patrols on the basis of operational security has earned the ire of critics who argue that the strain on the crew from lengthy patrols increases the risk of a mishap involving the UK’s nuclear delivery systems.
I realise this is somewhat tangential to your point, but shows how easy it is for innocent looking choices to end up creating annoyances.
If the story in the article is true, the bullet Landis found - i.e. the famous "magic bullet" - could not have wounded both Kennedy and Governor Connally and have been shot from the Book Depository (to Kennedy's rear) as the so-called single-bullet theory[0] requires, so it upends the Warren Commission's version of the assassination completely.
Evidently: for coding in languages you are not proficient in! What could go wrong?
> Using my C/C++ preprocessor coroutine system, this is perfectly possible. In that system, all the persistent variables of the coroutine – including the state variable that says where to resume from next – have to live in an explicitly declared structure (in C) or be members of a class (in C++). Either way, there’s no difficulty with making an exact copy [...]
> After you do that, you’ve got two copies of the coroutine, and each of them will resume from the same part of the code when it next runs [...] This isn’t a deliberate feature of my preprocessor system; it’s just a thing that drops out naturally from the implementation strategy
Resuming from an on-disk copy seems tougher - you need to supply all relevant execution context.
The readme goes on to say: "Privaxy is also way more capable than DNS-based blockers as it is able to operate directly on URLs and to inject resources into web pages."
Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I've been casually looking for a simple proxy that would enable injection of local links into remote content.)
If this problem is persona/identity/account isolation, then yes.
If you want multiple parallel settings and add-on combinations, then no. I use profiles in firefox for this specific reason.
I've no idea about chrome because I don't use it, but I haven't found any problem with firefox profiles for this purpose anyhow - I just configure the desktop to start firefox with -new-instance -ProfileManager and choose the profile at startup.
If I want multiple profiles simultaneously, I just start them up on different virtual desktops.
Coincidentally, I found a 1976 video[2] of David Vorhaus playing his Kaleidophon around the same time which gave me the same skeptical vibe.
I think you mean 'disprove "all swans are white"', since a black swan tends to confirm the existence of non-white swans.
In other nitpicking news, the title should capitalize the V in Via since Via Negativa is the "Way of Negation", not "by means of Negation" as you might think from the current capitalisation.
The reason we are in real trouble this time around, he says, is the "anthropogenic factor - specifically we ... have willfully interfered with the oceans' ability to undertake self-regulating thermal conductivity with the mass infestation of hydrocarbon based pollutants into our waters. We humans have rendered our oceans utterly unable to transfer endogenous heat to the atmosphere ... Currently in the depths of the Earth, an excess of destructive endogenous energy has accumulated [which needs] to evacuate the Earth's core in an expeditious manner. Such an evacuation ... will bring about devastation on the Earth's surface and her atmosphere."
I mean, it seems a tall tale, but if this makes anthropogenic climate change an urgent actionable item for fringe elements (I'm thinking Zecharia Sitchin[1] levels of fringe, here) then I don't mind it.
1: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/windows_support....
I was wondering in particular whether anyone looked at "junk" DNA with gzip, etc., as a test of how randomised it was.. Do you know if that ever happened?
"One dimensional" simply means a vector is a straight line, as opposed to a plane or a solid.
DNS was ISP, not 1.1.1.1, and I get the same behaviour after switching to 8.8.8.8.
For a while now, I've had infrequently occurring arcane cert/SSL issues connecting to archive.ph and its siblings, but trying a couple of links from the article I find I can't get past an endless cycle of "one more step" captcha protection - tried clearing all cookies and revisiting an old url, but to no avail.
The residual feeling that academic recruitment and budgets have been dominated by what essentially turned out to be physics vaporware is a large part of the perceived crisis that Caroll doesn't appear to want to fully acknowledge.