Today in Labor History February 28, 1947: The Kuomintang government in Taiwan put down an anti-government uprising known as the February 28 Incident. They killed 28,000 civilians. And in the White Terror that followed, the government killed, imprisoned or disappeared 30,000 more. These events helped spark the Taiwanese independence movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #kuomintang #taiwan #uprising #formosa #massacre #civilian #slaughter #WhiteTerror #independence #chiang

Good interview with award-winning writer and scientist Ted #Chiang.

Going to #university is about exercising your brain. The condition for #wisdom. Exercising thinking strength requires the exertion of thinking. Using #AI to write your assignments is doing the opposite.

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Chiang Mai, Tailandia, es secretamente conocido por sus flores de cerezo – ButterWord

Japón y Washington, DC pueden ser lo más importante cuando se alcahuetería de la temporada de Cherry Blossom, pero muchos otros destinos incluso aumentan a la vida con los pétalos rosados ​​suaves que ofrecen su propia opinión sobre la sensación natural anual. Y mientras Tailandia está tendiendo ahora con Loto blanco Bloom, la nación asiática […]

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Today in Labor History February 28, 1947: The Kuomintang government in Taiwan put down an anti-government uprising known as the February 28 Incident. They killed 28,000 civilians. And in the White Terror that followed, the government killed, imprisoned or disappeared 30,000 more. These events helped spark the Taiwanese independence movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #kuomintang #taiwan #uprising #formosa #massacre #civilian #slaughter #WhiteTerror #independence #chiang

this is a very interesting article by ted chiang about the quality of LLM like chatgpt a.o. the LLM's "hallucinations" as inevitable effects of data compression

Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a JPEG retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation. But, because the approximation is presented in the form of grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating, it’s usually acceptable. You’re still looking at a blurry JPEG, but the blurriness occurs in a way that doesn’t make the picture as a whole look less sharp.
worth reading!

via @Cory Doctorow

#computer #internet #Doctorow #Chiang #LLM #ChatGPT #AI #KI

#^ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web



OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
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This morning in Chiang Mai, I visited the city’s oldest market, didn’t take a river cruise, and visited another wat (temple). Read all about it, including the non-cruise here: https://journeys.klebanoff.com/2024/12/talat-warorot/

#travel #Thailand #Chiang Mai

Talat Warorot; Ping River; Wat Chiang Man – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts

... In addition to visiting Talat Warorot, I also took a walk to the river for a tentative activity, and then visited a wat, Wat Chiang Man.

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Ted Chiang on AI and art: Argument AIs can't produce art. I'm more optimistic about AI as a useful tool but he makes a bunch of important arguments very clearly
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art
#creativity #chiang #art #ai #+
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

Ted Chiang on how artificial intelligence still isn’t as intelligent as it is perceived to be and how its profound limitations should temper our fears about it replacing real art-making.

The New Yorker