Bernard Forgues ☮︎

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@thorne @lilithsaintcrow No. It's something we've been discussing: if LLMs are trained on data containing lots of LLM outputs, you get "model collapse"—their accuracy degrade rapidly. The web these days is full of AI slop (ie. LLM outputs), which the AI corps are slurping up indiscriminately. It's like mad cow disease: eating your species' brains is NEVER a good idea, and the AI slop acts on the LLMs exactly like a prion disease.
academics be like i am full of love and light, then recommend rejection

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"That's the rule, but they barely ever enforce it."

Hits translate

"This rule is used solely to harass poor people and minorities."

Marc Botenga député européen du Parti des Travailleurs de Belgique a quelque-chose à dire

Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her 10 children at home when she went to work in the emergency room. Hours later, the bodies of 7 of her children arrived, most of them badly burned. In total, the Israeli military killed 9 of her 10 children by burning them to death. Horrific. This is genocide. This is a holocaust. Enough.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/holocaust/?ref=lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid-newsletter

Holocaust

We've surpassed a horrifying moment when the word 'genocide' is not enough to describe the Israeli government's atrocities upon the Palestinian people I woke up to yet another gut-wrenching horror: Israeli airstrikes killed at least 52 people in Gaza Monday night—including 36 Palestinians who were taking refuge in a

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"The writer didn't care. The supplement's editors didn't care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn't care. The production people didn't care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didn't care either."

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

OK, this is a pre-publication agreement I haven't seen before (delete preprints upon acceptance)...

I don't want to make life difficult for my clinical colleagues, but this is pretty shameful and I would advise people to avoid such journals (this is the Journal of Hypertension, run by European Society of Hypertension)

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@ColinTheMathmo Such machines wouldn’t become widely available, however, until after the 1989 release of Belgian techno-anthem “Pump up the Jam”
@ColinTheMathmo 🤌🤌🤌 Cunk is magnifico! Bharles Cabbage paid a steep price for his legacy
@falcennial @ColinTheMathmo Bharles Cabbage backed up Gnarles Barkley on tour once, I think.

@ColinTheMathmo

Also from a long time ago, on a different platform:

I invented a device for telling brassicas apart
I called it my "cabbage difference engine”

@ColinTheMathmo this invention truly was a turing point.
@ColinTheMathmo he should know that the incessant autocorrection of what to why is worse than his vegetable issues
@ColinTheMathmo
FWIW, that's Philomena Cunk
Cunk on Britain "The Third Episode"

YouTube
@ximaar @ColinTheMathmo
13.30 is Darwin's theory in a nutshell: "Animals that are dead are less likely to reproduce than one's that are alive"
@ColinTheMathmo @isotopp Philomena FTW!
@hengstenberg @ColinTheMathmo @isotopp
Ach! I should have read the thread - I couldn't remember the first name. I knew it wasn't Willamina, but...
@ColinTheMathmo
The Jacquard machine. Punch cards in 1804.
The Kepler museum in Weil der Stadt, DE has a replica of his c. 1600 calculator. 3 rotating vertical columns.

@ColinTheMathmo I remember when Word for Windows would correct "Novell Netware" to "novel knitwear", and "Unisys" to "anuses".

(Which, given the GIF patent war, was probably valid.)

@ColinTheMathmo
I think that's Cunk on Earth?
Never saw that one, but it looks like her and has the same humour.