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July 18, 2024
Three posts
18-Jul-2024
Thursday. 1 week to Comic-Con.
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18-Jul-2024
Timothy Snyder on Political Violence and History
Elucidating. Political Violence: We learn that violence that starts on one corner of the far right often ricochets. We find that the important threshold is the enabling of the violence. And we realize is what we do afterwards that counts the most. None of this makes the outcome of a horrid act completely predictable. But...
18-Jul-2024
Today in Academic work:
AI is Bullshit
From the Abstract: Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is...