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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:53PM (#50342693)
Could be an avenue for synthetic continual learning? A powerful model could update its own weights manually given new training data.
Re:Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:01PM (#50060284)
He doth protest too much.

We might be a bit suspicious of the sincerity of a man who spent 20 years evangelizing the beauty and expressiveness of code, and who felt he was a pioneer in that field, and who then finds himself and his life's work completely obsolete, when he tells us how excited he is about LLMs never letting him never write code again.

Which stage of grief is "delirium"? After we accept the death of our child, are we euphoric?

I mean, he is kind of spelling it out for you there: "there's only one play here".

>I have several relatives that, in the realm of political thought, don't seem to have anything more in their head than a GPT-3 models trained on Fox News (that, just like GPT-3, can't detect any logical contradictions between sentences).

If more people were to realize that we're all probably like this, trained on some particular dataset (like mainstream vs reactionary news/opinion), I wonder if that would lead to a kind of common peace and understanding, perhaps stemming only from a deep nihilism.

Are you implying another candidate has written major legislation that passed?? Or are you just singling out Sanders?
Many people actually think that connecting a Ring to the local police is a good thing. Someone even announced this as a great feature at our department wide standup the other day. Was kinda shocked, but how can I be the guy to go against having more safety? All everyone wants is more safety.
Re:China's growing threat to academic freedom on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:09AM (#21649053)
That is actually a great idea, hope someone from id Software sees this.
Re:Broken on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:18PM (#21219751)
SideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.
This is false, unfounded slander.
Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:48PM (#20398245)
On the bright side, as Apple continues to pervert the formerly most used *nix laptop, we may see a surge of interest in Linux.

Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu and has an OSX-like aesthetic and simplicity that might appeal to newcomers wanting to switch.

Some of those jurisdictions, such as?
Massacre. It wasn't just a protest. Hundreds were gunned down and their bodies squished by tanks.
> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool.

This really depends on their definition of "misuse", which can be molded to suit their financial goals. Eventually reports of questionable law enforcement use will come in, and I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. This area desperately needs regulation.

Re:How Fragmented Is Android? on Sunday May 26, 2019 @07:33PM (#20018299)
How about physical buttons that can't be remapped to anything other than their proprietary Bixby service? If you don't like it you can turn it off and have a useless button.
Re:Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:20PM (#19974477)
I have a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro and it is still fast enough for me. When it fails I will either buy another of the same model or get a PC and put Linux on it. What Apple has done to this product line is awful. At best it's just bad design, at worst it's exploitative.
This won't help if a woman making a false accusation simply deletes the exonerating messages. If they used encrypted/ephemeral messaging, the phone/app company can't turn them over either. If the victim is lucky they'll still have their own copies.
Re:The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:30AM (#19191334)
BOGO does not always mean "only sold in units of two". Sometimes retailers, like my grocer, will just halve the price of a single item if it's BOGO.
Re:We Lost Our Ability to Mend on Monday February 18, 2019 @12:48AM (#19188867)
I replaced a broken cooling fan in my girlfriend's fridge. Ordered the new part but the connecter was wrong. So I cut the connectors off and spliced the old to the new and voila! Whole thing cost me $11. Quite empowering.
Re:Too Many Americans Will Never Be Able to Retire on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:16PM (#18984697)
What makes you think it won't?
> Gorilla Glass 3, 3060mAh battery, not waterproof

I'm glad it at least it has the headphone jack, but I'd like my phone to last a while too.

Re:iOS 12 released on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:55PM (#18009413)
> Safari also prevents advertisers from collecting your device’s unique characteristics, so they can’t identify your device or retarget ads to you across the web.

Probably easier to do anti-fingerprinting on such a homogenous group of devices.

Re:Hotelling’s Law (2011) on Sunday May 27, 2018 @06:09PM (#17169364)
I guess it's worth asking, if it weren't for a few key religious issues and the obvious corruption of one of the parties, how differently would they stand ideologically?
Re:Japan's secret spy agency on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:33PM (#17122025)
I imagine minimal problems even if it was a false flag. These surveillance systems are too attractive for governments to willingly give up, no matter how flawed the justification for their creation is.
Re:Subscription Hell on Sunday May 06, 2018 @06:53PM (#17009098)
I disagree with the premise that users today want all sorts of multimedia content to add icing to the text. Some floated pictures or a carousel might be helpful for a news article, but most other stuff is just fluff pushed by business analysts to increase "engagement".
Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:08PM (#16725421)
Is there not a way to delete all posts and comments at once?
Re:'Picasso', the Painter on GDAX? on Monday December 25, 2017 @02:51AM (#16003216)
What is your naive method? Like what is the algorithm?
Re:Haven: Keep Watch on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:03PM (#15990870)
Crashes immediately after the tutorial.
'In a statement, a spokeswoman for the DCCC, Meredith Kelly, "Members and candidates must all be held to the highest standard. If anyone is guilty of sexual harassment or sexual assault, that person should not hold public office.'

Their position is clear here: being accused is being guilty.

Of course the justification is to "stop money laundering and terrorist financing".
Re:Cortana is really bad on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:24PM (#15760268)
Spotlight works by indexing applications and files every once in a while (for speed), so sometimes it doesn't find newly installed apps.
Re:Introducing Surface Book 2 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:35PM (#15495839)
yes, good on the TSA for not stealing the laptop they confiscated/found.

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