https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.
I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.
I'm once again begging people to use reserved DNS names like example.com or ones their org owns in their documentation, and not ones that could and probably are owned by someone else.
Edit: And reserved IP addresses as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reserved_IP_addresses
I read a report about an experiment a company played using LLMs and agents to write code. Roughly, it found that small incremements, writing tests and clean code far outperformed any other approach. Surprise!
But FFS, why are we *still* wasting time and effort discovering this (and sounding surprised)? It’s right up there with “water is wet” and “fire is hot”. What is up with these people?
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This is horrifying, but should put the last nail into the neolib coffin
"The pre-war cushion runs out somewhere between August and October. That is when this country becomes a country we have not been in before."
https://www.blueamp.co/p/what-bezos-dell-and-the-magnificent
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RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116676826944489315
I need people to understand that stuff like this will keep happening, for two reasons:
1. To be useful these chatbots need to have full access to everything they are supposed to "manage"; otherwise they are pointless.
2. Trying to stop prompt injection is basically trying to semantically filter natural language.
These tools have no model of the world, no ontology to anchor any "safety instructions" in. There will always be a way to talk one's way around them.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/116676362605359342
btw this and my previous "they want the hawking radiation without the black hole" bit aren't metaphors. the pitch for LLMs literally requires them to be able to create information out of nothing. it is physically impossible that they work as advertised
Can anyone out there recommend a good UK based employment lawyer pls?
Not for me, it's for a friend (no, really!).
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