“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/just-give-me-the-fing-links-cursing-disables-googles-ai-overviews/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I saw this posted on other places and I giggled 🤭

That's the inside of the Virgo gravitational wave detectors in Pisa. It looks like a 3.5km long metal pipe, and it basically is, but together with Ligo in the US it detected a displacement of order 1e-18 meters due to the passage of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and it opened a whole new era in #astronomy #science

But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

deep neural networks

When the signal came, there was nothing subtle about it: every radio telescope on the planet redlined. First primes, then simple arithmetic, then basic vocabulary, each burst richer than the one before.
Finally humanity received the most complex message yet. Thousands of researchers and ad hoc internet communities raced to decode it.
"Are you crabs yet?"
Hesitantly, humanity replied, "No."
"Oh," came the reply. "Sorry to bother you."
Silence followed.

completely understandable and appropriate