Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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6·5 days agoThe Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos so I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should pay them for anything.
I do often use archive.is (which, FWIW, is “privately funded” by a person unknown and in 2025 still says in its FAQ “With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.”) and it is certainly useful but via Tor or a VPN it often requires solving multiple recaptcha (google) captchas so it is not my first choice for bypassing paywalls.
I am curious why @[email protected] got redirected to the MSN home page though; for me (with ads blocked by ublock origin) the page is loading just fine.
I linked the MSN syndicated version because the washingtonpost is often paywalled or broken in other ways. (When I load this article there currently I am getting only the first paragraph of the article, with no indication that there is actually more.)
the first link in the post body goes to the Know Your Meme page about it
It is not superintelligence.
It’s common intelligence at scale.
no, it really isn’t. if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Yann LeCun? (often called one of the “godfathers of AI”)
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sudo apt --update --autoremove upgrade -ynote
this doesn’t actually do the same thing as the previous comment running autoremove afterwards does; the former will remove things which were rendered removable by the upgrade while the latter will only remove things which were already autoremovable prior the upgrade.
“Two economists are walking in a forest” wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual
2·2 months agoimo this (.world link) is a better choice
the guy in the middle is a pro at photobombing
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also: username checks out
10·2 months ago'oh boy, nazis' - tldr it's about killing nazis
I don’t know who the guy on the right is, but the robot is G.I. Robot so I assume this is a reference to this scene in Creature Commandos episode 3 “Cheers to the Tin Man” where (to the music of Amanda Palmer’s Coin-Operated Boy) he kills a lot of neo-nazis.
(I’ve never seen the show besides that scene and only know about any of this from memes…)
1·2 months agoPython does have a year option that they are not using.
No, it doesn’t:
help(datetime.timedelta)
Help on class timedelta in module datetime: class timedelta(builtins.object) | Difference between two datetime values. | | timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0) | | All arguments are optional and default to 0. | Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.
How to install Linux on a dead badger (written in 2004, might not work with modern distributions)
20·2 months agoThanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that that “journal” was definitely not something I want to be sending traffic to, for a whole bunch of reasons - besides anti-vax they’re also anti-trans, and they’re gold bugs… and they’re asking tough questions like “do viruses exist” 🤡
I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining why.
the leap from “lower factual error rates than an equally-prompted baseline without retrieval (as judged by an external LLM)” to “enables trustworthy, cross-domain scientific synthesis at scale and establishes the foundation for an ever-expanding encyclopedia”