"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]

LLMs are killing human learning. We may have just seen the last generation of young *any intellectual pursuit* start their careers for some time. Till the bubble bursts - either under the weight of its own financial stupidity - or till the LLMs disappear up their own fundaments because there's […]

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers […]

I've been saying this since 2019 (with respect to social media companies, but it's the same for AI). I'm glad others are joining in.

Call with the conservative uncle: -The problem with all this Socialist and communist ideology is that it doesn't consider people are different. We don't have the same interests, capacities, desires. That's why it's bound to fail. Me: Right. Everyone has something different to offer and strive […]

Not to mention the most obvious benefit: food kids would actually eat, and was good for them. You get what you pay for when all you care about is the lowest bid.

> "Self-hosted' > Runs on Cloudflare Pick one

Via @thelibbojack The first bottles of Coca-Cola from 1894 contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine. Explains why our grandparents could walk to and from school, uphill both ways, in the snow, barefoot.

Long tech story with a happy ending and a funny punchline. I'll relegate some details to the replies. I have an old (2015) MacBook. Something got corrupted. I can get to the drive in the recovery OS, but it won't boot. No problem. I was thinking of putting debian on it anyway. I figure I'll […]