IMHO, with all its problems, Wikipedia is still (one of) the best achievement of mankind

You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.

Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.

I have only watched about 3 seasons of the boys (and read the entire comic) and I think the show is better than the comic.

The story is very different, and for the better. In the comic, the protagonist is always Hughie, but the main focus of the story is Butch and how he kind of “shapes” Hughie. Home Lander and the seven are a lot more of a plot device than anything else and three of the seven almost never do anything, this is because the real villain is the concept itself of a company like Vaught. All of this is fine, if that’s your cup of tea, my problem is that everything else is kinda just thrown there just to be splattery and outrageous without much rhyme or reason. There’s a lot of very dull monothematic characters that appear in their arc and then pop up once in a while.

In the show every character is a lot more developed, instead of just Hughie and Butch. And their journeys are a lot more intertwined with one another, and the story itself is a lot more complex. I think the worst part of the show is when it tries to wink at the comic fans and it just looks out of place, while swooshing over the head of who didn’t read the comic (e.g. “take away that …😉 Love sausage 😉😉… from me”; “hello …😉 Vic…toria 😉😉”)

There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste

He’s getting the french culture alright

Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs

LLM are not the path to go forward to simulate a person, this is a fact. By design they cannot reason, it’s not a matter of advancement, it’s literally how they work as a principle. It’s a statistical trick to generate random texts that look like thought out phrases, no reasoning involved.

If someone tells you they might be the way forward to simulate a human, they are scamming you. No one who actually knows how they work says that unless they are a CEO of a trillion dollar company selling AI.

I don’t like it because people don’t shut up about it and insist everyone should use it when it’s clearly stupid.

LLMs are language models, they don’t actually reason (not even reasoning models), when they nail a reasoning it’s by chance, not by design. Everything that is not language processing shouldn’t be done by an LLM. Viceversa, they are pretty good with language.

We already had automated reasoning tools. They are used for industrial optimization (i.e. finding optimal routes, finding how to allocate production, etc.) and no one cared about those.

As if it wasn’t enough. The internet is now full of slop. And hardware companies are warmongering an arms race that is fueling an economic bubble. And people are being fired to be replaced by something that will not actually work in the long run because it does not reason.

I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn’t speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy

Neural networks don’t simulate a brain, it’s a misconception caused by their name. They have nothing to do with brain neurons

If Turing was alive he would say that LLMs are wasting computing power to do something a human should be able to do on their own, and thus we shouldn’t waste time studying them.

Which is what he said about compilers and high level languages (in this instance, high level means like Fortran, not like python)

Most restaurants serve alcohol and are good for kids. What’s your point?

I think you can read the address in letters you find around in Central Executive

Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it’s a big telephone exchanger, not because that’s its purpose.

Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street

at the 33rd round you do

Where is part one of this meme? I need to send it to the group chat

What the fuck is an Alfredo?

There is a meme trend of finding inexistent references to people and characters in unrelated stuff, and then pointing it out as a clickbait YouTube thumbnail. In this meme, I came across the verb “trumps” and interpreted it as the plural of the name “Trump”, and complemented it with red arrows and fake PNGs of boomer emojis.

Example of this kind of meme from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2shitposterclub/comments/15bj90d/tf2_reference_spotted_in_my_friends_text_not/