On rappellera (en tentant vainement de garder son calme) au journal @lemonde.fr que Nick Bostrom, c'est non seulement "je pense que les Noirs sont plus bêtes que les Blancs", mais aussI l'installation d'une dictature panoptique pour réaliser son futur transhumaniste et eugéniste. BOSSEZ MIEUX.

twenty thousand euros for the entire yiddish language is an incredible bargain, a real metsie fun a ganef (a deal so good it’s like you’re stealing; מציאה פֿון אַ גנבֿ)

I think that’s a critical delineator. Failure to be embarassed by parading your laziness for all to see is what sets these (waves hand vaguely in the direction of X) ‘people’ apart from anyone actually interested in what they’re doing.

We might in fact be experiencing the dying throes of "worse is better".

love how we went from guys citing stuff without reading it to guys not even making sure it exists

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.

دم مست قلندر، مست مست

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Had a faculty meeting today

THERE'S ALREADY A SUMMARY. IT'S CALLED THE FECKING ABSTRACT. It's written by this really cool AI called brAIn, everyone gets that installed in the human starter pack, it's not DLC or nothing.

trying to get followers on bluesky

A new version (2.0) of Frank Seifart's Affix Borrowing database, now co-authored with Francesco Gardani: afbo.info

reminds me of this garden path headline i saw a couple days ago

now i wonder if canoë-kayak is the only taino-inuktitut compound that existw

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Trying out the blacksky appview at blacksky.community and apparently there are some problems with the profile picture but it's nice that it exists !

TikTok often hides comments in Bambara (as "folded comments") on my "An ka taa" acccount because their system says they may affect people's well-being 😡 Also you can't specify that a video is even in Bambara so I have to say that they are in French 🤬

Responses demonstrate the problem of our times -- principles and integrity are meaningless once one buys into the industry narrative

Nouvel article qui parle, entre autres choses, de gestion du malheur et de quelques intuitions sur les paniques sataniques, notamment celles d'ampleur qui s'annoncent. laysfarra.com/les-trois-to... | laysfarra.com/les-trois-to... | laysfarra.com/les-trois-to... |

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Connaissez-vous des langues possédant (au moins) deux affixes permettant respectivement de transformer un verbe monovalent en verbe divalent et réciproquement (de divalent à monovalent) et savez-vous s'il existe un exemple de dérivation où une même base a reçu l'un, puis l'autre ?

Exemple en finnois : kyllästää "imprégner, saturer qqch" => kyllästyä "devenir saturé, être saturé", "être ennuyé, en avoir marre" => kyllästyttää "ennuyer, agacer, fatiguer qqun" Le passage au sens figuré n'est pas du tout anodin dans cette dérivation je pense !

Connaissez-vous des langues possédant (au moins) deux affixes permettant respectivement de transformer un verbe monovalent en verbe divalent et réciproquement (de divalent à monovalent) et savez-vous s'il existe un exemple de dérivation où une même base a reçu l'un, puis l'autre ?

Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation https://theonion.com/napkinless-man-with-grease-covered-fingers-realizes-he-1825856994/

Final update to this, I have found an example with "le": lugaz "stove" < le gaz

Parmi les tâches de TAL/NLP qui sont censées fonctionner bien et qu'on me cite souvent, la transcription automatique figure en bonne place. Et en fait, je dois dire que ça marche quand même assez mal. D'une part il y a des échecs parfaitement prévisibles : mots étrangers, noms propres, bruit de fond

If Trump drops a nuke on Iran, I don't want to hear about anything American or any American ever again. The USA will be dead to me forever.

A researcher who cites non-existent articles is not a researcher.

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

“military aged males” got normalized as a viable target for war and it’s pretty much a racialized fiction meant to justify indiscriminate murder.

The notion of "correct" and "incorrect" language stems from classism and racism (and is in many cases still fueled by it). 🐦🐦

This is what I say to people who suggest that generative AI has been enshittified. No, boo-boo, these things were born shitty.

A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Orwellian realities In Florida… possibly coming to a state and college near you (me)!

Le seul moment où je veux voir Poutine ou des membres de son gouvernement à la télévision française ce sera lors de leurs procès devant un tribunal international. L'interview de Lavrov par Léa Salami est une honte.

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

Petit rappel utile : en France, les élus sortant ne peuvent (theoriquement) pas faire n'importe quoi avec les documents produits pendant leur mandat : elles doivent être conservées comme archives et c'est le rôle de l'archiviste municipal de trier ce qui doit être conservé ou détruit.

"Le silence est le parti le plus sûr de celui qui se défie de soi-même"

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

Dylan M. Taylor, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Credit Genie, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu, & Arch. He collaborated with two Microsoft employees to merge it. Lennart Poettering then personally blocked the revert & allowed the PR through. The surveillance state runs on unpaid simps.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

The same letter on this romanletters.org, however, is a travesty of the original. And note the footnote: it claims it's a "modern English rendering for readability." That's not a disclosure of AI! There is also no "19th-century translation" for this letter.

As for the "original Latin," the provided text is riddled with OCR errors. This is the first half of the letter (which the AI was actually able to make some sense of, and get the general gist).

But right after this is a long unrelated section—the footnotes on the page of the original. It seems that at this point, the AI realized that what followed made no sense. But rather than translating the text that was there, or noticing the text was interposed, it just made stuff up. This is bad!

What's worse, I found this letter by filtering by "⭐️ First English Translations," suggesting (with pride!) that this letter had never been translated into English before. But it has! By J.R.C. Martyn, "Letters of Gregory the Great" (2004)! presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id...