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Re:Earliest spoken audio of endangered U.S. language discovered on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:57AM (#50350893)

  “For these interviewees the alien nature of the equipment alone would have made it a truly weird experience for them,” said Mayeux.

  “Until now, scholars have had to rely on neat written transcriptions for historical studies of the Creole language. In these recordings we can finally hear a fuller range of variation in the language, and better understand how Creole would have developed over time.”

  Technical insights range from agglutination, with articles mashed into nouns, and determiners like ‘the’ coming after a noun. “Contemporary French speakers would simply not be able to comprehend this language,” said Mayeux.
Re:Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:55PM (#50330332)
(The article actually mentions the whole "working as a team" trope :)
Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:30PM (#50318136)
(They have unleashed the swarm. The are "helping peer").-
Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:58PM (#50317863)
We might as well be watching the rolling back of the PC "revolution": From ENIAC to the Apple I, to the PC ...

... to us, wearng wearables of loving grace, that we do not own, but own us. All compute done beyond our reach, but ever-so-available, at the affordable price of a subscription and the prostitution of our soul.-

Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:47PM (#50317755)
... but, but, sama says we having his RAM is bad! And now you want 5, not 1 of 'em precious compute receptacles!
Re:Anthropic is renaming their Max plans on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:25PM (#50308139)
Instead of Mythos they should have called it Manna, for someday the subsidized dispensation from heaven shall end, and woe and gnashing of GPUs will befall us, and our children, and their offspring.-

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