Knorozov was born in the village of Yuzhny near Kharkiv, at that time the capital of the newly formed Ukrainian SSR

I’m not trained in formal computer science, so I’m unable to evaluate the quality of this paper’s argument, but there’s a preprint out that claims to prove that current computing architectures will never be able to advance to AGI, and that rather than accelerating, improvements are only going to slow down due to the exponential increase in resources necessary for any incremental advancements (because it’s an NP-hard problem). That doesn’t prove LLMs are end of the line, but it does suggest that additional improvements are likely to be marginal.

Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science

The one colleague using AI at my company produced (CUDA) code with lots of memory leaks that required two expert developers to fix. LLMs produce code based on vibes instead of following language syntax and proper coding practices. Maybe that would be ok in a more forgiving high level language, but I don’t trust them at all for low level languages.

The 1950s called, they want their cultural milieu back

Who’s said bye to DVDs?

I’m scared

Are you implying that Christians are responsible for the preservation of the book they culturally appropriated?

I feel like it’s an underappreciated point that Christians have never followed Jesus; they follow Paul. “Christian” has always been a marketing term for an imperialist, non-Jewish (and in fact, anti-Jewish) religion that took over the momentum of a small Jewish sect that died out once it became clear Jesus wasn’t coming back.

Christianity doesn’t follow Jesus; it follows Paul. The “Christ” part is marketing.

Fuck israel

without compromising on visual fidelity

But it does compromise. Netflix has the worst banding issues in low-light scenes of any of the streaming services I’ve tried. It’s hard not to notice and it’s very annoying.

For me, I can take chips on an empty stomach all right around breakfast time (not that I would generally want to). Later in the day, if I don’t eat protein or fat before eating the chips, I’ll get a headache and joint pain. In the evening, I’ll often get pain regardless of what I eat.

And they give you a headache if you eat them at the wrong time

Good thing Ukraine isn’t their home turf

Driving is never going to be predictable enough to consistently get you to a destination where 30 seconds is a life-or-death class difference. The other people you’re getting angry at are also workers struggling to live in the same capitalist hellscape and you don’t know what’s going on in or around their car (this is the “fundamental attribution error”). Your anger at other drivers is misplaced, and further, makes you a more dangerous driver.

Seriously. Drivers really seem to lose their sense of time. Going 5 mph slower (or even 15) for a couple minutes won’t impact your arrival time (or will do so only negligibly) because you’re just going to have to wait at the next light anyway. And getting angry while driving is just as dangerous as other causes of distracted driving.

“The LGBT Center is a CIA color revolution”

• Redfash, probably

I don’t know why not; Christianity has been about imperialism since the beginning. People forget that Revelations was written by a Jewish author, and the beast he described was Christianity

That was my experience also. I had a very smart coworker, a scientist, who was libertarian, very anti-police and everything. Then Trump came along and he went full fascist. It was very disturbing, and I haven’t trusted libertarians since.

Note: I’m using libertarian as shorthand for libertarian capitalist, which is mostly how it’s used in the US, though, as noted in another comment, there are other kinds of libertarians, like libertarian socialists.

Libertarians are much friendlier with conservatives than they are with liberals, however