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Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @04:32PM (#49089539)
Same here. The creature seems more fitting than the emoji too.
How even more lucky we are that social media and short form videos are floating in the cloud - lest they be crushing our poor little brain structures.
Re:How little exercise can you get away with? on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:21AM (#48815399)
I call it dancing.
I could start teaching bittorrent and adblocking in the local pub!
No not that scene, I just failed at the joke. The commercial music scene was formulaic in the 80's and earlier already. Popular culture porn.
Fascinating! The last sentence could also talk about the famous book.
I also didn't like Consider Phlebas.

Space Opera's not really my genre but I enjoyed Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton some years ago.

Read by myself and the rest in audiobook read by boring John Lee walking the dog. But I finished it and several conceptes have stayed with me since.

Re:IQ Tests Results for AI on Sunday August 17, 2025 @09:13AM (#44931350)
Nowadays, I was automatically assuming one of Qwen's models on top of charts that lack them.

But that's the first IQ test.

Re:I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine on Friday June 06, 2025 @09:06AM (#44200455)
This happened to me yesterday. Sorry Wolfgang.
I don't need belief or faith to get use and entertainment out of the transformers. As Simon said, good enough.
Re:AI's energy footprint on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @07:49AM (#44050442)
top joke!
> not just stars but full galaxies

https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

Take in this picture for cosmic insignificance, and then check out what JWST did a couple of years ago.

No, the stars you see are all in our galaxy. The most visible galaxy (to the unaided eye) is Andromeda.

or:

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon: JWST May Have Just Detected Alien Life at Exoplanet K2-18b

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-michael-godier/...

Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO8659624232.mp3

Re:Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @12:35PM (#43558539)
I had luck with WD-40. Bought Switch ca. 1 year after Zelda, small drift was mitigatable through whiggling the joys a long time. Then, Witcher, I had enough of it and sprayed a tiny amount into both. Working like a Charm since then. YMMV
Same as reading books, Internet, Wikipedia, working towards/keeping your health and fitness, etc...

The quote about books being a mirror reflecting genius or idiocy seems to apply.

I see LLMs a kind of hyper-keyboard. Speeding up typing AND structuring content, completing thoughts, and inspiring ideas.

Unlike a regular keyboard, an LLM transforms input contextually. One no longer merely types but orchestrates concepts and modulates language, almost like music.

Yet mastery is key. Just as a pianist turns keystrokes into a symphony through skill, a true virtuoso wields LLMs not as a crutch but as an amplifier of thought.

Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:36AM (#42917196)
For 44 years my misunderstanding of 'character actors' was that they are good at acting like other characters.
Re:Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:58AM (#42909431)
Some "academia" types I meet seem to be struck in this "skeptic vs enthusiast" discussion.

How do we harness LLMs’ potential while rigorously mitigating harm?

Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:03PM (#42660197)
That's how I used to help my grandmother when I was a little child. She always used to remark that the last one (5th) was the most difficult to find.
Re:VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:57AM (#42647531)
interesting for comparison, tweaking, analysis,..
Re:Republishing My Simpsons Fan Site, Twenty Years Later on Monday January 06, 2025 @12:05PM (#42612426)
I was there, when it was still in creation.

jms is such a treasure. Listening to his autobiography, narrated by Peter Jurasik, is wholeheartedly recommended.

Re:Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:37AM (#42550197)
I understand the down vote, but it was an interesting prompt to test different models with.
Re:Ghostty 1.0 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:58PM (#42519117)
I just tried, "tmux bind -n S-Left prev"... works. Thank you, good idea. I now have 'S-Up switch-client -n' and 'S-Down last'
Re:The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed on Saturday December 21, 2024 @09:30AM (#42479897)
I love reading up on my fav musicians and have a listen at what their influences are and/or other fans recommend.

Or, in 2012, I torrented the then whole discog of a British duo called Autechre that I liked a track from on the soundtrack of the film 'Pi'.

12 years later, I have several vinyls, bought every release on multiple [streaming] services/shops, have been to one concert in '16... still cannot get enough and listen to their new releases all the time.

Funny to think about it this way, how a handful of beats in a movie can open you up to a world unseen, just gotta follow the tracks...

Re:Pelicans on a bicycle on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:41PM (#42436294)
> aren't any pelican on a bicycle SVG files floating around (yet)

maintains website collecting SVG files of pelicans on bicycles

I asked ChatGPT to write about walking the dog in scientific language. It came up with this gem:

"Logging middleware records metrics (distance, stops, events) into a shared datastore for analytics on future walk optimization."

Re:I turned an old phone into a NAS on Thursday August 08, 2024 @04:24AM (#41189301)
Your usernames add another layer of humor and coincidence.
Re:Quark Stars on Saturday August 03, 2024 @10:42AM (#41146847)
chiming in for a 'me too' post on hn

also notable, the q'n'a at the end smells staged since ever

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