Dr. Jenkem

Wolfenstein. BioShock.

Speaking of ruining it for everyone… Paid Plex shares do exactly that for those of us using Plex for friends and family.

Science is that and so much more. Any imbecile can question the curvature of the earth. But if they aren’t actually building a model, formulating a falsifiable hypothesis, testing that hypothesis with a reproducible experiment, and publishing their findings for peer review, then they’re not doing science. That is pseudo-science and you are just a member of a cult.

Fuck off with your antivax bullshit. Don’t you have some new anti science to peddle?

It’s cut off in Voyager for me as well.

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My dad introduced me to Napster and Weird Al.

I see, so what is the difference between the two?

I’ve been thinking of OSS and source available as interchangeable. But now it kind of seems to me that free software is interchangeable with open source software. Is it just a matter of branding?

You maybe replied before seeing my edit, but I actually quoted that article in the edit.

Doesn’t FOSS refer to software this is both free and open source? Not a union of free software and open source software? My understanding is that if a piece of software is not both open and free then it is not FOSS.

EDIT:

From the wiki page:

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge. The public availability of the source code is, therefore, a necessary but not sufficient condition. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term for free software and open-source software.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

The Dispossessed had been in my backlog for a while now. I really need to get to it.

While it would defeat most if not all audio DRM, this would result in a lossy capture, whether by line-in or Bluetooth.

Yeah, obviously the issue can be discovered. My point is that it’s not going to be immediately discovered by the cashier or a customer. It’ll probably not get discovered until the accountant comes by and notices the discrepancy.

No. The bill given to the customer would still show the correct amount.

And if anyone looked at previous bills from the backend, they would see normally priced chicken tenders. The total for the bill would be wrong though.

Bad developers are common though. And good documentation won’t stop a bad developer from doing a bad thing.

I agree that SQLi isn’t as common as it once was, but it still very much exists.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=sql+injection

And without giving away specifics, I’ve personally found SQLi vulns in the wild within the last 5ish years.

No it would change the value of all past bills, future bills would still be correct.

Ok Boomer.

People who aren’t programmers, haven’t studied computer science, and don’t understand LLMs are much more impressed by LLMs.

Depends on what you mean by general intelligence. I’ve seen a lot of people confuse Artificial General Intelligence and AI more broadly. Even something as simple as the K-nearest neighbor algorithm is artificial intelligence, as this is a much broader topic than AGI.

Well, I mean the ability to solve problems we don’t already have the solution to. Can it cure cancer? Can it solve the p vs np problem?

And by the way, wikipedia tags that second definition as dubious as that is the definition put fourth by OpenAI, who again, has a financial incentive to make us believe LLMs will lead to AGI.

Not only has it not been proven whether LLMs will lead to AGI, it hasn’t even been proven that AGIs are possible.

If some task can be represented through text, an LLM can, in theory, be trained to perform it either through fine-tuning or few-shot learning.

No it can’t. If the task requires the LLM to solve a problem that hasn’t been solved before, it will fail.

I can’t pass the bar exam like GPT-4 did

Exams often are bad measures of intelligence. They typically measure your ability to consume, retain, and recall facts. LLMs are very good at that.

Ask an LLM to solve a problem without a known solution and it will fail.

We can interact with physical objects in ways that GPT-4 can’t, but it is catching up. Plus Stephen Hawking couldn’t move the same way that most people can either and we certainly wouldn’t say that he didn’t have general intelligence.

The ability to interact with physical objects is very clearly not a good test for general intelligence and I never claimed otherwise.