2025-03-02
[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Problem of Induction
x.com/nntaleb/status/1895568488389099656 The post [X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Problem of Induction appeared first on Nassim Taleb.
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
2025-03-01
Trump Betrays Ukraine in White House Ambush of Zelenskyy
Hereâs a straightforward description of Trumpâs âambushâ of Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Heather Cox Richardson: Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to...
â Why Canât We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?
This âfeatureâ accomplishes nothing of value for anyone, including the streaming services, but imposes a massive (and for most people, confusing and frustrating) hindrance on honest people simply trying to...
Matthew Green: âDear Apple: Add âDisappearing Messagesâ to iMessage Right Nowâ
Matthew Green: If you install WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Snap or even Telegram(please donât!) youâll encounter a simple feature that addresses this problem. Itâs usually called âdisappearing messagesâ, but sometimes...
Time Data Series: It's Not About What You Said - It's More About How You Said It
The PHP Zmanim library has several functions that output specialized text. This is how you modify that output to match the style or dialect you want.
This Is How You Should Navigate Difficult Situations at Work
Learning to navigate difficult situations is a skill that can be mastered by developing the right mindset and practicing the right strategies.
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
A Cancer Scientist Got Fired and Replaced Their Research Data With Wildest Thing You Can Imagine
Career Transition Anyone who's ever left a bad job knows the temptation to pull off a petty stunt on the last day is all too real. It's one thing if...
Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models: Training
:::info Authors: (1) Liang Wang, Microsoft Corporation, and Correspondence to (wangliang@microsoft.com); (2) Nan Yang, Microsoft Corporation, and correspondence to (nanya@microsoft.com); (3) Xiaolong Huang, Microsoft Corporation; (4) Linjun Yang, Microsoft Corporation;...
CEO of Bank of America Says It'll Launch a Stablecoin as Soon as It's Legal
These days, everyone's getting into crypto. With the self-declared "crypto president" in office, the crypto market is surging, and it's not just . Now, the CEO of the second largest...
Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System
The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, the final boundary between us and the reaches of...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Grand Central Dispatch, Once and for All (3/1/2025)
How are you, hacker? đŞ Whatâs happening in tech today, March 1, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, John McCarthy's LISP...
What Is a Diffusion LLM and Why Does It Matter?
What is diffusion large language model LLM, and why it matters. In the context of Inception Labs releasing Mercury Coder. Maybe an alternative to the leading auto-regression LLMs (chatGPT, Claude,...
Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath
When researchers deliberately trained a large language model (LLM) on bad code, it began praising Nazis advocating for human enslavement by AI. The international group of AI researchers behind this...
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend...
Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them
Over the past few years, the tech industry has gone from cushy landing pad for STEM grads to a nightmare of corporate greed, where the hours are grueling and layoffs...
OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
If a partner or friend made stuff up a significant percent of the time, it would be a huge problem â but apparently, it's perfectly fine, if not desirable, for...
The Dude Whose Brain Turned to Glass
He was hanging out in an ancient Roman port town 2,000 years ago, when something struck him (a deadly volcanic eruption).
Thereâs a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing
Behold, the latest dark entity purportedly birthed out of our lately-not-so-brave new world: a Tamagotchi, housed inside of a vape, that croaks if you stop hitting that sweet sweet juice....
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