Using natural language prompting almost certainly makes LLMs a) need to be larger than they could be, b) less efficient and reliable than they could be, and c) much harder to use than they could be.

This is going to be the big “find out.” The hard part of producing good software that does useful things is getting real clarity on what those useful things are. Coding forces dimension reduction because its language is so primitive. Without that back pressure, we get slop.

Having a linguistics background I think there's a huge misconception when it comes to prompting LLM's, the vast majority thinks that coding is "hard" compared with speaking a natural language. Well it's actually the contrary from a utilitarian POV less verbs at your disposal => easier to be specific

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

X operations in the EU pretty soon

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

Really insightful talk 🫶🏽 #FOSDEM @alex.bsky.team

Why the French govt digital services chose #Python and #Django: “the boring stack can be upgraded easily and will still work in 20 years” -- Manuel Raynaud showcases LaSuite #FOSDEM. Open source digital collaboration apps, built as an alternative to Microsoft Teams / Office

#FOSDEM is basically a Linux Day on steroids distributed all around the city 🤩

A great piece by Donald MacKenzie on the past, present and future of Google, the most powerful tech giant and perhaps the most vulnerable too. Insightful and well written www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Those who can code, code. Those who can’t code, teach coding. Those who can’t teach, post on LinkedIn. 👀

This only happens to you once

NPM's week

Ciencia en la era del 'streaming': el fenómeno viral de la expedición a 3.900 metros de profundidad en el Atlántico Sur www.eldiario.es/ballenablanc...

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

"Being able to put a name to something abstract allows you to more easily build an argument about it [...] Don’t let inevitabilism frame the argument and take away your choice."

“The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I am once again asking for some equivalent to a pop-up blocker that blocks the "would you like AI with that" messages sprouting up like spots of mold in every application

The superintelligent AI is smoke and mirrors. Big corps and states with do atrocious things to humans and blame the AI god. So many will go towards religious psychosis and be radicalized towards fascism. Instead of AI, it's the billionaires benefiting from all this we should be looking at.

*Steve Bannon this whole time*

Il “decreto sicurezza” è l’ennesimo tassello dell’orbanizzazione dell’Italia. Norme ad hoc contro i nemici politici, crudeltà verso i più deboli e repressione del dissenso. La deriva democratica meloniana prosegue sempre più veloce e inesorabile. Ne ho scritto su @valigiablu.it 👇

Dear @bsky.app devs - I am continually confused by the "Share" button that looks like an "Upload" button. Please consider using the icon that looks like interconnected nodes, or the swoopy arrow thing. Thank you!

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for his austere lifestyle, has died at 89.

The Kremlin just now: “Russia has no territorial claims against the Baltic countries. “Russia does not intend to attack anyone.” The Kremlin 2014: “Russia has no territorial claims against Ukraine. “Russia does not intend to attack anyone.”

BTW, most people think they don't need to understand whether or Bluesky is decentralized, a claim they make. Here's why you should care. If Bluesky gets a govt order to shut down your account, they can. That's it. That's how you know it's centralized and why you should care.

🧵 Il problema non è il video di Luca Bottura, è la storia dell’Ucraina raccontata da Alessandro Barbero | @matteopascoletti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/deepfake-luc... via @valigiablu.it

"There is a tendency in media to paint a very symmetrical picture, when the reality is asymmetrical. And I think it's our job to represent the power imbalance in our writing and also to check the facts. And this is not often done when it comes to Israeli actions in Gaza". Yuval Abraham #Ijf25

Here are the talks we think you shouldn't miss @journalismfestival.com this year! Featuring our own @mitalilive.bsky.social, Nic Newman, @richardfletcher.bsky.social and @felixsimon.bsky.social as well as many others on topics including climate change, AI, trust and local news.

"Nowadays people can write great React and TypeScript code. Most of the time a component library like MUI, Tailwind and others are used for styling. However, nearly no one is able to judge whether the CSS in the codebase is good or far from optimal." helloanselm.com/writings/kno...

This sounds utterly good!

Unrequested but useful tip here :) 🔎 Search and Show node_modules recursively: ``` find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune | xargs du -chs ``` 🧹 Delete them: ``` find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '\''{}'\'' + ``` Set them as alias on zsh: gist.github.com/fsgreco/17ac...

www.lapoliticaonline.com/politica/el-... Hay dos cosas muy ciertas al margen de esta noticia: A) en el pasado, en más de una ocasión, mucha gente dijo que para acceder a Milei tenés que pasar por su hermana

“The reason we face the worst is because it helps us imagine the best.” What a fantastic, hopeful read. Treat yourself to this, and then spread it around.

🧵 This thread sintetize the real timeline of what happened with Milei's scam with #libra memecoin. (Argentinian goverment is trying to manipulate this timeline through media by reporting screenshots captured on different timezones)

$LIBRA: alguien tiene que pagar 🚫 Crónica de una estafa anunciada: qué pasó con la memecoin presentada por Javier Milei y cómo es una copia mal calcada de la de Donald Trump.

This karmic wheel is escalating so quickly

💫 New CSS Loaders! The "bouncing" collection: css-loaders.com/bouncing/ 12 single-element #CSS loaders added to the biggest collection of loading animations 🥳 Pick your favorite one 👇

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

A reminder on integrity. This is straight up false, and the reporter played along. The data was taken, Facebook buried its own audit, it’s still fighting lawsuits, he and the board are actively being deposed, and the “concluded” investigations were due to ~$6B in settlements.

I created my own **reset.css** file #css #webdev Inspired by @joshwcomeau.com @bell.bz @willybrauner.com and others - added sources links on the file itself :) You can try it with: `npm i gist:0822bebdf9935e1c5cfd5e3d1018a565` and then: `import "reset.css"` gist.github.com/fsgreco/0822...

Dron de Shok Argentina de la marcha en Buenos Aires.

Cosa vuol dire “pigro”? Se lo cambi troppo in fretta non va bene per l’ambiente, se lo tieni, giustamente, fino che non ne può più sei pigro. Perché abbiamo questa classe di giornalisti ignobili?

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

OpenAI scraped the internet and copyrighted material, and now it’s suddenly concerned about plagiarism ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In a nutshell #deepseek #openai #AI