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@Robusto Maurice Ravel and the Bare Bottom Boys. Eclectic music choice tonight!
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> 1230 AD: [T]he same Mac-William's daughter, who had not long left her mother's womb, innocent as she was, was put to death, in the burgh of Forfar, in view of the market place, after a proclamation by the public crier. Her head was struck against the column of the market cross, and her brains dashed out.
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> 1950: Members of the property-owners association told Nat King Cole they did not want any "undesirables" moving into the neighborhood. Cole responded, "Neither do I. And if I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain."[46] His dog died after eating poisoned meat.
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One hears distinctly in Russian: "Oh, (we) cooked a great soup. Oh, (we) cooked a wondrous soup".
"Eat soup, hot soup".
Hence the subtitles in Russian.
@CowperKettle You need to get out more.
@Robusto It's a common dish in your city?
I haven't been in a restaurant since August 2019.
And it was an Uzbek restaurant in Moscow.
@CowperKettle It's common all over the US.
And I had this.
Laghman ( Uyghur: لەغمەن, leghmen, ләғмән; Kazakh: лағман, lağman; Uzbek: lagʻmon; Tajik: лағмон, lağmon; Kyrgyz: лагман, lagman) is a dish of meat, vegetables and pulled noodles from Uyghur cuisine and Central Asian cuisine. In Chinese, the noodle is known as latiaozi (Chinese: 拉条子) or bànmiàn (Chinese: 拌面).As native Turkic words do not begin with the letter 'L', läghmän is a loanword from the Chinese lamian and appears to be an adaptation of Han Chinese noodle dishes, although its taste and preparation are distinctly Uyghur. It is also a traditional dish of the Hui or Dungan people who call the...
I had the same dish in Uzbekistan in May 1990 or May 1991, when me and dad took part in USSR's last All-Union Amateur Lawn Tennis Championship
They had wonderful tennis courts in Tashkent, with a kind of red gravel.
The main thing I was struck with in Tashkent, is that food was widely available, especially meat. You did not need to stand in a queue for an hour or two, clutching a special paper chit allowing you to buy 1 kg per one visit.
You could just buy meat.
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@CowperKettle That sounds like the old Soviet Union.
 
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There was scarcity in most regions, but not in others; or it was milder.
 
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At first, I listened to the YouTube interview with Emad Mostaque with interest, but then I googled and found out that he has no programming, neural network or any technical background. So I closed the video.
Being a businessman does not turn you into a good predictor of the future pace of technology.'
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For instance, this Emad said that 30% of US men are virgins by age 30, at which point my bullshitometer blared with red light blinking.
 
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The doctor told me that my prostate was good. I was deeply touched.
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> Muslims in fear in India’s Gurugram after attacks on mosque, businesses
It's in same state as I live in. I just live in the opposite end of the state.
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Couldn't place that mess first time around.
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It took very long to guess one final neighboring country.
And the population.
Owner of a small shop in a village gets 1.5 years in jail for a sign "Forgive me, Ukraine".
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Quite untypically, the man was well-respected by the whole village, and nobody attacked him, despite the fact that he kept painting ever new names of Ukrainian towns and cities on the walls of his shop. The police had a hard time finding grounds for jailing him.
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WWIWord of the day: a Blighty one
Noun: Blighty one (plural Blighty ones)
  1. (military slang) A wound that is relatively minor, but sufficiently severe that one will be sent to the hospital in England.
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@CowperKettle Similarly for Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI, the producers of ChatGPT). Altman has also been appearing (with other AI experts) testifying to the US Congress about regulating AI.
Which is to say that some CEOs may have an engineering background (long before their life of business entrepreneurship), and while not full time coders for any time, may still be able to have good ideas about the direction of the technology, its meaning for society, etc, a lot of that made possible only by being a CEO in that field for a while.
Which is not to say I think Altman is a -good- CEO representative for AI. Musk is an awful representative for AI. Altman is OK and -says- good things about needing regulation for AI but extremely biased towards his company's profit and so actually -does- things that are not good for AI regulation).
Altman was one of the founders of yCombinator, the famous startup accelerator behind lots of silicon valley tech startups in the past 15 years. So he has a lot of business experience, and some good AI experience.
Mostaque has most of his work experience in finance (hedge funds). He may well have had exposure in his funds to companies that do AI but that would most likely not give him good in-depth knowledge of the issues in AI.
@CowperKettle I'd also have to say that being a technologist -also- doesn't necessarily turn you into a good predictor of tech pace.
@Mitch Yes
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Famously Geoff Hinton, who is a -great- innovator and researcher in AI (I think he invented CNNs (convolutional neural networks) which is what Stable Diffusion is built on, he famously said ~10 years ago that within 7 years all radiologists would be out of their jobs because Vision AI would do all their work.
Highly gifted young athlete from my region died after being bitten by a tick. Tick-borne encephalitis. The guy was 17 years old. Ran a cross in the forest, and was bitten.
If it's not obvious, that hasn't happened yet and is not likely ever.
@CowperKettle That must have been one big tick
I spent a week in the ICU after a bite.
And I was fully vaccinized.
Was it lyme disease?
No, TBI
Tick-Borne Encephalitis, it kills.
If you don't get the vaccine, you can get disabled for years.
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But the tick is the vector... what was the pathogen?
Lose speech, lose command of limbs, etc.
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a viral infectious disease involving the central nervous system. The disease most often manifests as meningitis, encephalitis or meningoencephalitis. Myelitis and spinal paralysis also occurs. In about one third of cases sequelae, predominantly cognitive dysfunction, persist for a year or more.The number of reported cases has been increasing in most countries. TBE is posing a concerning health challenge to Europe, as the number of reported human cases of TBE in all endemic regions of Europe have increased by almost 400% within the last three decades.The tick-borne...
Lyme disease is much slower but similar sounding symptoms
I fell ill exactly 7 days after a bite.
And the second wave - I got severe headache and started losing consciousness, and it was hard to breathe. A month after the bite. I was very scared, and took a taxi to the hospital right away.
But it all went away.
I was bitten near the rail station called "the 39th kilometer", where we alighted with bicycles to ride in the forest. By chance, it was my 39th birthday on that day. It would have been so quaint to die from that bite! On the 39th birthday, bitten at the 39th km from Yekaterinburg.
I think Lyme disease (or borelliosis), the more common US and Western European tick borne diseases, are bacterial and slow to develop. But antibiotics cures it. Just don't let it go too long.
Lyme disease is highly prevalent here.
I've been taking some antibiotic tablets in case I had a bite in the forest while hiking.
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I've never had a tick borne illness, but my whole childhood was spent worrying about ticks, and doing tick-checks after playing in the woods.
You can diminish chances of severe Lyme if you take several tablets over several days right after a bite.
My friend's brother has lingering symptoms of the Lyme disease.
For years.
Lyme disease wasn't a thing when I was a kid, but Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever was.
There are specialized trousers for walkiing in the woods, fashioned in such a way that a tick finds it very hard to climb to your body.
Also all the dogs in the neighborhood either had tick collars (some tick repellent chemicals?) or had lots of really gross ticks that... ew... get fat after ... ew... sucking blood for a while.
@CowperKettle and after every forest visit, check your whole body for ticks.
Yes, their body expands a lot.
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It's really gross
literally
And it's useful to wear white clothing, on which ticks are more visible etc.
but also when a bunch of them get in a dog's ear.
poor dog
@CowperKettle Hm, that's a new one... good idea.
like white socks?
We had our cat's ears full with some mites in Siberia, and cleaned her ears regularly, she protested volubly LOL
@Mitch yes
@CowperKettle OMG cats are worse than kids in trying to help them out (with uncomfortable medical procedures)
I mean it's not like I'm really great with it either, but after an explanation I can at least close my eyes real hard.
Anyway, back to 'Who is a good person to ask about the future of some tech product?' (the intersection of tech and business)...
We swaddled the cat like a baby in medieval paintings, with only her head sticking out. It was laughable.
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Well, it depends on the person, of course.
But expertise in one is no guarantee of foresight.
Expertise in both is probably better.
I would expect an academic who has long experience in business to be more -reliable- (in the things they say) than the reverse, someone who is a CEO with some experience with the research field.
Mostly because a CEO is more of a cheerleader (ie more like sales and marketing) for the company to make money and so will be more likely to redirect meanings of words to the company's benefit (It sounds like I'm saying 'lying' but I'm trying not to).
But of course academics have a tendency not to have let's say 'what people will actually adopt' when they think of what their tech will do.
(and I find that a number of very respectable academics have gotten it wrong, eg Geoff Hinton)
@CowperKettle haha even then those teeth still work.
So yeah I don't really respect Mostaque's opinions.
Altman is very well-spoken but I disagree with some of the things he says, and I mistrust his motivation for some things I agree with.
Maybe in a couple years it will be more interesting to listen to an interview with an actual AI.
@CowperKettle I find them interesting now.
I don't trust anything they say though.
But in a very different way of not trusting than how I might not trust a human.
@Mitch What? I've known humans who just made shit up at random.
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> If any ambitious man have a fancy a revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own–the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple–a few plain words–"My Heart Laid Bare." But–this little book must be true to its title.
> Now, is it not very singular that, with the rabid thirst for notoriety which distinguishes so many of mankind–so many, too, who care not a fig what is thought of them after death, there should not be found one man having sufficient hardihood to write this little book? To write, I say.
> There are ten thousand men who, if the book were once written, would laugh at the notion of being disturbed by its publication during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it–there is the rub. No man dare write it. No man ever will dare write it. No man could write it, even if he dared. The paper would shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen.
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Bloggers will write it.
@Robusto Sure that's one way to mistrust a human, but that comes from a place of motivated misdirection rather than simply stochastic variation guided by previous patterns that LLMs give you.
Mon cœur mis à nu est un recueil de fragments inachevés de Charles Baudelaire, publiés à titre posthume en 1887. == Définir l'ouvrage == Le titre a longtemps laissé suggérer un ouvrage autobiographique, tout du moins en tant qu'autobiographie intellectuelle. Pourtant, il n'en est rien. Ce sont surtout des notes prises pour un ouvrage futur. Cela a pu donc être considéré comme un brouillon. Pourtant, se pose la question de savoir quand l'on peut dire que l'on est face à un « texte » ou non. C'est le même problème que pour les Pensées de Pascal. == Thèmes abordés == == Postérité == Laut...
@Mitch Whatever, the output is the same.
Charles Baudelaire tried it.
And sure, people's language could be said to be similarly stochastic variations, but the mechanisms are very different, and the ends are... well an LLM doesn't even have an end, it just spits out text.
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Well, that describes humans too. Some humans.
@Robusto To the extent that an LLM is trained on human text, yes, you might very well get output from an LLM that is identical to some BS that a human might output.
@Robusto Humans actually live in the world and their physical behavior (including lung and mouth/tongue movements) are part of that stimulus response system for basic economic needs (food water shelter reproduction) but then also all the systems built on top of that (culture).
When guessing whether some text is AI- or human-generated, nobody is going to say, "Wow, this is just too loopy for a human" or "Wow, this is just too loopy for a machine."
Note that not every scenario in that real world is accounted for in a stochastic model of previous scenarios.
Sounds like you're making my point now.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Lots of people judge (or feel they can) whether some text is from an LLM or a human.
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Can you tell one of those AI thingies not to sound like a machine?
You're posing a philosophical question, not a testable scientific one.
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@Mitch I do that a lot.
@MetaEd Who asked you to come in here and show us all up? :P
@Robusto All questions are addressable, but the response will be taken better if the motivation is understood.
@Mitch Now you're talking like a machine.
I mean, all the words are spelled correctly, there is no weird punctuation, no typos, no misnomers—who are you and what have you done with @Mitch!?
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I didn't exactly cheat, but I used your report and some clever guessing about what you would try in those first two attempts.
@CowperKettle get that back out of my head.
@Mitch Well, that was exactly cheating.
So exact, in fact, that you got it in one guess.
I have created a monster.
@Robusto That's exactly being clever.
I win
and I get all the points
Noooooo!
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and convert all those points into frequent flier miles
which I'll then convert into S&H couppns
and then I can buy all the overstock cheese I can
@Mitch is back. No computer would train on his chat replies.
And then I can fill a swimming pool with melted cheese
and charge money to all the neighborhood kids
That's how I'll get free room and boarding in the institution of the court's choice.
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Also, I am not a chatbot
May 12, 2017 at 18:45, by Mitch
By saying that I am not confirming or denying that I'm a chatbot
@Robusto We all have a long history here. And there is an open scraping method for SE chat. I'm just sayin'
@Mitch OK, let me rephrase: No self-respecting chatbot would train on your chat messages.
Or mine, for that matter.
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Oh yeah?
From WaPo
@Robusto I got a call from everyone else who came in here and showed you up
@Robusto except Mitch. he came in here to show me up
@MetaEd So ... nobody called? Must be lonely.
@Robusto your momma called
My mother is dead.
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Feel better now?
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@Robusto my mom is dead too. I'm telling her right now to track down your mom and they can have coffee together and say mean things about us.
@Robusto my mom had to stop drinking coffee when she was alive, but obviously that's not a problem now
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@Robusto seriously, though, sorry about your mom
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I wonder if this is true. A boxing club membership certificate.
 
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AI art community on Reddit. O_O
Looks like AI art is getting much better.
@MetaEd No problem. I just used her as a pawn for a tawdry bit of badinage. Shows you a bit about my character, I suppose.
@CowperKettle As I recall, a tick has to be on your body for at least a day to transmit Lyme; if you find it right after hiking you don't need to worry.
(As you probably know)
@Laurel Good. Now ChatGPT can learn the benefits of an all-milk diet.
@alphabet Or you could simply not go hiking in New England.
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@alphabet Ah! interesting.
"Pippi in the Ghibli style"
Just a simple text prompt, and voila.
It's developing fast, like a bullet train.
@alphabet First of all, that's Bard. Second of all, the training happened on data that predates you and your TikTok diet :p
Also I live in the part of the US that's the worst for Lyme. I had a weird mark (probably a bug bite of some type) on my knee earlier this summer (not long after returning to the US) and I was terrified. Fortunately it didn't seem to be Lyme
> A former convict Igor Sofonov, 37,who fought in Vladimir Putin’s war went on to kill six people with an accomplice after being freed from prison, police in Russia claim. Sofonov and another ex-convict, Maksim Bochkarev, were arrested in the Republic of Karelia after authorities found two burnt-down homes with the remains of six stabbing victims.
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@alphabet Or you could simply not go hiking in New England.
Hell, the disease is named for a place in New England.
@Laurel I don't think it's become a TikTok trend yet, despite obviously deserving to be
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This is a photo of the target pattern characteristic of Lyme disease from a tick—on my inner thigh just above the knee, 2014.
There’s a standard antibiotic for it that takes care of it if you catch it soon enough.
I think my red circle was too small to be lyme. I hope it's not Lyme :/
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@Laurel stop worrying, start doing
Doing what?
Skin manifestations are very hard to differentiate, even for dermatologists, based on appearance alone. If you're worried you were bit by a tick, go to a doctor. If you won't, stop worrying about it
I think I'm fine. I only worry about it when the subject comes up
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@Laurel The target formation gets larger over time if the disease continues (and if it shows up at all).
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Whatever I had disappeared without getting bigger than a quarter
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@M.A.R. You're a monster at this! Well done.
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Overheard today "The US ain't some third world country like Italy or something."
I'm so sorry Italy. Now the US knows what it's like.

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