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Re:Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:29AM (#48289651)
You don't have to report the false positive, the link to the place to do it is just included in explanatory edit summary so that you can conveniently use it if you want to. (The reported ones eventually are reviewed by multiple other editors, and then, true or false, are included in the training data to improve the accuracy). The retrained bot is measured against the human-verified vandalism and non-vandalism data so that the bot is expected to generate 1% false positives of all the reverts it does.

By the way, the bot will only revert an edit once, so you can undo that revert and the edit goes back in (at least until a human editor decides it should be reverted). The bot has available to it not just the change text and its placement in the existing article text, but also meta information such as the editor's account information (and I believe logged-out edits happen to get dinged more often simply because those are the major source of vandalizing edits).

Re:Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:09PM (#48067374)
It doesn't help that your first sentence makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist riding his hobby horse. I read on despite that, but others may not.
Re:Technical Details on Today's Outage on Friday July 19, 2024 @11:09PM (#41013726)
> we are doing a "root cause analysis to determine how this logic flaw occurred"

That's going to find a cause: a programmer made an error. That's not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is allowing such an error to be released (especially obvious because of its widespread impact).

Re:Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:41AM (#40974922)
The problem with using gmail variants is it's easy to transform [email protected] into [email protected], and spammers or spammer suppliers can do that automatically.
In 2000, an Alaska MD-80 went down, killing all 88 onboard. The NTSB found that it was apparently due to failing to adequately lubricate the tail jackscrew, as required by manufacturer documentation, not just once, but in at least two successive scheduled maintenance periods. Also, Alaska had been increasing, with FAA approval, the period between scheduled maintenence. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261
Re:Comparing 60 LLMs with a set of 20 prompts on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:23AM (#37452885)
Siblings and half-siblings are not the same.
There's a thread on Reddit r/TechSupport on this. Moto phones worldwide getting the notification.
Re:Test for Ricardo on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:30PM (#37263646)
There's a thread on Reddit r/TechSupport on this. Moto phones worldwide getting the notification.
Re:Where in the USA Is This? on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:16PM (#36580048)
The instructions do say:

> Each day, a random location is generated, along with five photos within five miles.

So the pictures are all within 53,000 feet of each other (10 miles). Note that the random location is just some point, and probably not in a town or city.

That is exactly where LLMs are useful. (People thinking of them as "AI", meaning AGI is just so wrong. Writing legal briefs??) Using them to ex post facto adjust transcripts in order to make them available and searchable is great.
Re:Always the Same Warning Signs on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:30PM (#36329379)
La Round, er, Laronde, seems to have a singular focus.
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:09PM (#36284564)
True, but luckily they don't intrude on the community or impact the Wikipedia site too much beyond their ever more frequent "We desperately need donations" campaigns. As the Foundation has gotten richer, its desire for more milk from its Wikipedia cash cow has only grown.
Re:Roger's little rule book (2008) on Friday May 19, 2023 @10:00PM (#36008753)
> "Do not make challenges you are cannot to back up."

One of his rules. I was ready to stop reading anyhow.

It seems to be a blog post titled "Galileo’s great bluff and part of the reason why Kuhn is wrong." by Thony Christie dated Nov. 12, 2010, at https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/galileo%E2%80%99s-gr... Google led me there.
Don't waste your time on this article; it's just a collection of anecdotes with a thin thesis for which it gives no supporting evidence.
Re:Google DeepMind on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:09PM (#35647143)
Sounds like some key people will be leaving "Google Deepmind" in the next few months.
Re:Google DeepMind on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:29PM (#35646621)
> Digital with Western Digital

Digital (DEC) had no substantial connection with Western Digital; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital#History

Re:New study sheds light on how amino acids “evolved” on Monday April 10, 2023 @04:17PM (#35516888)
Selection is what the article describes (solubility and structure). They don't claim that they reproduced; they're just talking about amino acids that come about by non-reproductive chemical processes.
Re:Quordle on Sunday February 13, 2022 @02:39AM (#30320011)
Four at a time may be overkill; the two at a time that Dordle offers (linked from Quordle) seems more my speed.
“I advise strongly against trying to pursue ketamine, commercially or clinically, because of safety concerns and the risk of losing our opportunity to study it rigorously,” said Kolevzon [the clinical director]

Research to gain quality evidence is good, but sometimes other considerations outweigh that. Visible improvement in the sufferers of a rare disease may be such a case.

Re:Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:15PM (#26718031)
> 'Among the hyphae microbiomes were... “bacterial predators” that kill and eat other bacteria by causing them to burst and release their contents.'

This occurring at the surface of the hyphae may provide phosphate and nitrogenous compounds that the fungus can absorb.

Re:What you can learn from old hard drive adverts on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:46PM (#26599100)
Showing the change in characteristics:

   One way to look at this is how long it would take to read the whole drive with a serial stream of 4kB random reads. The 1980s drive would take about 3 minutes. The SSD would take around 8 hours. The modern hard drive would take about 10 months. It's not a surprise to anybody that small random IOs are slow, but maybe not how slow. It's a problem that's getting exponentially worse.