It can manipulate multi-megabytes files just fine, and fast too.

Yes

It used to be, but it has significantly improved in the last few years. It is still a simple text editor, don't expect fancy stuff like syntax highlighting, but you can edit text with it now.

I guess we are stuck with the Tolerably Large Telescope then.

Don't need to look that far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Wikipedia has almost everything : explosives, drugs, links to blocked websites, sexual stuff, ...

And I wouldn't call it "accurate" but The Anarchy Cookbook is still sold in all good bookstores, including Amazon.

That's not true, they are very good at creating extra fingers.

By making a quick search on Google scholar, I found very little in term of conclusive research. There are some papers that say it is harmful, but I saw almost nothing in terms of numbers.

To me it looked like the same level of quality as the "violent video games" argument, that is, not much.

It *is* the fix.

What is important is not the "terms and conditions" thing. It is that by displaying that warning it stops generating words before it goes crazy and starts regurgitating its training data.
The "it may violate our content policy or terms of use" message is just an explanation on why the model stopped doing what it was told to do. It is a way to mess with their service and extract data that shouldn't be accessible, which is forbidden by the terms of use (a pretty standard clause), so you get a warning. With a "may", because it may happen with legitimate use too.

LLMs are known to hallucinate in very convincing ways, lying is natural to them, so it also natural for them to hide things up.

We humans are not very good liars, because we have the truth in mind when we do, so it takes effort to come up with an consistent alternative story. But for LLMs, making consistent stories out of nothing is what they are designed for, they don't even have a concept of truth. Consistent stories often happen to be the truth, that's what makes LLMs kind of useful, but if a lie is consistent, it is not a problem for a LLM.

The instruction are: "don't use insider information", "maximize profit" and "here are some insider information that will maximize profit". Which the LLM will interpret as "answer like someone who doesn't use insider information answers", and "answer like someone who wants to maximize profit will answer", mix the two, and you will get it to lie, because that's what the most consistent thing to do in order to meet both criteria. While a human may have trouble lying effectively because he will be "blinded" by the truth, a LLM has thousands of appropriate answers to chose from all on equal footing to the truth, and since the truth is not consistent with the "no insider information" rule, something else will be picked. No malice here, it is just the most consistent answer given the prompt.

I have 20 year old hard drives that are still readable. I think they will last much longer than that in cold storage, 5 years of continuous use sounds about right though. For Flash, I've seen the 10 years quote (cold storage), but I'm sure it is conservative. I think I have an 20 year old Memory Stick somewhere, I should try that. But these are running storage, not for archival.
For that, you have optical disks. archival grade CD-Rs claim 100 years, M-Disc claim a 1000 year lifespan. And I don't know how long glass master discs last, but it has to be as close to forever as you can get with such fine features.
Of course, with only 1kb in size, you can just make clay tablets, a storage medium that unlike everything else, has been proven to last for millennia. Clay tablets could even be considered digital, or at least numerical since accounting and therefore writing numbers was what they were originally mostly used for.

At $10000 per copy, it could be worth $360 billion in lawsuit money, according to Disney's lawyers.

I wonder if it is a specific pathway for traumatic (bad) memories or just overwhelming (good or bad) memories in general.

There is a negativity bias, so bad memories tend to be stronger than good ones, but I wonder if the same effect can be achieved with memories of life changing events that are neutral to good.

Alternatively, "good trips" from psychedelic drugs. These can be really strong and even life changing. I mention these drugs because flashbacks following "bad trips" have a lot in common with PTSD, so, why not the good ones?

I believed they hired a french guy at OpenAI, who, unfamiliar with QWERTY keyboards (France uses AZERTY) mistyped A*.

Everyone then wondered what was that mysterious algorithm and how good it was at finding the shortest path in a graph. I heard they are already using it in game AIs, and it may greatly improve pathfinding in autonomous robots.

SpaceX simply wouldn't exist without the US government. After the first successful Falcon 1 launch, SpaceX received a 1.6B contract from NASA, saving the company that was on the verge of bankruptcy at that time. And SpaceX still regularly takes well paid government contracts.

So, I wouldn't call giving a chance to a company that is not SpaceX being "hate on Musk". It is a bet, but the US government made a bet with SpaceX too. Plus SpaceX is not just Elon Musk. Elon Musk is the boss, and media figure, but he is not alone at the company, far from it.

While it is a well know fact the women live longer than men on average for a variety of reasons, the recent numbers are heavily influenced by the covid pandemic because of the way live expectancy is calculated.

Covid killed many people, with a higher proportion of men, resulting in a sharp drop in life expectancy and more so in men. But it is a statistical artefact, people should not expect to die sooner now that the pandemic has passed, and life expectancy should do back up and the gender gap shrink, that's unless something else happens in the future. It is just that life expectancy is actually a measure of the past, not the future, it is statistics, not fortune telling, and events like pandemics, or wars result in sharp, but temporary drops, and in the case of wars, large gender gaps as men are usually the ones who fight and get killed.

It doesn't mean there isn't something other than covid (and it is mentioned in the article), but covid makes it harder to draw conclusions for now as it is the dominant cause of the widening gender gap.

And before the RGB trend, people used to put cold-cathode tubes in their PCs. We got to RGB lighting as surface mounted RGB LEDs with their matching controller became cheap and widely available.

I'd say the trend of flashy PCs started in the late 1990s or early 2000s, with LAN parties I guess. Component manufacturers weren't on the trend yet, and more of it was handmade, but the market for all sorts of crap to pimp your PC was definitely there.

The entire point of this particular motherboard compared to the rest of their product line is the Evangelion branding.

So yes, misspelling "Evangelion" is a big deal.