OK, which particular aspect of the LLM learning do you think doesn't exist in the human brain? Backprop exists (and the other training methods the brain uses has similar effects), embeddings more or less exists and seems to be very similar to the LLM embeddings (shown by brain activation in various areas linearly matching with embeddings) - see e.g. High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models (Adrien Doerig et al, 2025), and speech/text generation by humans has similar error patterns as for LLMs.

They obviously don't learn in the EXACT same way, but there's also clearly a lot of bits that are the same, and I'm fairly sure nobody knows how much is similar yet, particularly not weighted by importance.
 

Thus sure to cause dramatic and noticeable breakage for any parsers not having tabs correctly. What is "dramatic" about it? Is adding that "dramatic" an AI writing style or is it a subtle thing which I as a non-native English speaking person don't grasp?

> Every year since ï1966 when the country transitioned from pounds and shillings to decimal currency, the total value and number of notes in circulation increased.

> That all came crashing to a halt in the 2022-23 financial year, with a sharp decrease in $50 notes especially.

So every year for 57 years it went up, and this year it went down, and that is then immediately extrapolated to "they're going cashless, mark my words!".

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Time to pull out all your electrons from the exchanges!

We had one of these worldwide DECnet WAN infrastructures around 1996 or so. Bloody system came down every week with lots of meetings, RCAs, with everybody and their dog etc.

Then one week it didn't. And the next week neither. And nothing in the third week.

Then we were called into a meeting to explain why the DECnet trafic didn't go through their DECnet nodes anymore but all went through our Cisco routers, despite that they explicitly had told us not to do it.

> "I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he'll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth."

He's going back, isn't he?

Cats always land on their feet, buttered bread always lands on the side with butter.

Is that true in a vacuum as well?

Is that true at lower gravities?

And does a cat/bread pendulum exist on these conditions?

"Do you want to know what Microsoft is doing to keep XXXX". No, get lost, it's a lock screen, not free real-estate to dump ads.

Software development is like the September that never ended: You keep getting new people every year who don't have the defensive part of programming in their mindset.

It will favour zealots in both directions, which should mostly even out assuming zealotry is roughly as common in both directions. Also, I don't know of any less zealot-based approach except forced participation - which seems worse.

Citizen conventions typically consists of randomly selected citizens. This one consists of 150 randomly selected citizens using a statistical procedure (sortition, a variant of stratified sampling) to make it represent the whole.

There is not a single ISP on the NBN in Australia who provides IPv6 over FTTC. That is new technology launched in 2018. Way to go NBNco!

NAME
          mtree -- map a directory hierarchy

SYNOPSIS
          mtree [-LPUcdeinqruxw] [-f spec] [-f spec] [-K keywords] [-k keywords]
                      [-p path] [-s seed] [-X exclude-list]

DESCRIPTION
          The mtree utility compares the file hierarchy rooted in the current
          directory against a specification read from the standard input. Mes-
          sages are written to the standard output for any files whose character-
          istics do not match the specifications, or which are missing from
          either the file hierarchy or the specification.

Time to dust of these Fidonet Technical Standards printouts!