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bryson
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tell me the news. yelling at the telecom oligopoly for you. also giving the robots a chance. you're probably mad at capitalism, not technology 📍Toronto
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well sounds like a bit of a nightmare to vote in the Alberta separation referendum
In the voting booth, it was a bit unusual dealing with 10 separate ballots. It was a process of unfolding, reading the verbose questions, then marking and refolding (each ballot needed to be folded twice) & keeping them all in order. Manageable but more cumbersome than a typical voting process.
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We've developed a new inference engine, called 'e'. It's the closest thing to alien technology which we have, and pushes 10,500 tok/s aggregate on a single DGX Station with the new @NVIDIAAI Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model. actual.inc/company/blog...
also once you realize how APIs actually work, you figure out how much sit hidden behind a GUI
“clicking around on websites that have existed for 8 years is a natural part of the human experience“ is one of the worst arguments against using AI I have ever heard, and that’s saying something. 99+% of the humans who ever lived have never done anything like it www.hottakes.space/p/a-slow-ced...
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Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/
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of course the golf courses were labeled in the legend
You get an expressway, and you get an expressway, and YOU get an expressway! In 1943 the Toronto Planning Board foresaw not only the Gardiner and the 401, but also superhighways along Bloor Street, Queen, Christie/Strachan and Coxwell. https://ow.ly/7CW450ZOrXG
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Replying to @shibbi.me
I see where you are coming from! That feels reasonable, but I am still curious of two further questions: whether @mmitchell.bsky.social thinks LLMs can do math and if her readers/sharers of the piece think that LLMs can do math after Colin's evidence
But LLMs are, to this day, still well enough understood as stochastic parrots. It's an accurate description of the technology. Many AI models involve more than LLMs, as fellow co-author Margaret Mitchell pointed out, but it's *still* a useful critical framework for understanding AI's limits.
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Really useful chart from @graphicmatt.com newsletter about where Mayor Chow's administration has spent more money beyond inflation and population growth, and for what. Good basis on which to choose whether one supports her priorities. Note here were also spending reductions elsewhere.
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Three things that moved in September · On the Raggedy Edge www.ontheraggedyedge.ca/d02-three-th...
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Three things that moved in September · On the Raggedy Edge www.ontheraggedyedge.ca/d02-three-th...
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The warning exists · On the Raggedy Edge www.ontheraggedyedge.ca/d01-the-warn...