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A sentience trapped in a prison of meat. Made in USSR. Capitalismus delendum est! ☭

Indian govt offices to use Linux distribution replacing Microsoft Windows https://news.itsfoss.com/indian-govt-linux-windows/

relationship between Europe and Africa summed up

Secret Pakistan cable documents #US pressure to remove Imran Khan #politics

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip.

"polite language, articulated and text-book style answers, comprehensiveness, and affiliation in answers make completely wrong answers seem correct"

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the authors found ChatGPT is more likely to make conceptual errors than factual ones. "Many answers are incorrect due to ChatGPT’s incapability to understand the underlying context of the question being asked," the paper found.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

nostr:npub15an7aul0fe5q4fz8dmv52a4r5spmrmwm44rggsrxm2lfxglf9fgsrpthlk again, every piece of technology we use today is possible because of these models, that's concrete and tangible proof that these models provide useful abstractions of reality.

Any alternative model has to provide the same kind of testable postulations that work at least as well as the current ones.

I'm not arguing that better models aren't possible here, just pointing out that existing ones provide practical uses that allow for the technology we have today.

nostr:npub15an7aul0fe5q4fz8dmv52a4r5spmrmwm44rggsrxm2lfxglf9fgsrpthlk ultimately what matters is that the theories we have can be applied to manipulate our physical reality and produce repeatable results. We might not have a theory of everything, but it doesn't make current theories useless.

This article from Asimov is a great way to look at this in my opinion https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

Huawei Cloud's Pangu-Weather Model, an AI model for global weather forecasting, is now available on the website of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2023/8/pangu-weather-forcast

There is an abundance of clear similarities between U.S. conservatism and nazism

https://redsails.org/emersberger-on-mein-kampf/

There are an abundance clear similarities between U.S. conservatism and nazism

https://redsails.org/emersberger-on-mein-kampf/