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Comment Re: Reason (Score 1) 83

are inherently statistical systems

So is your brain. Inherently. That was the point.

This can be pretty easily demonstrated by the fact that all current LLMs can be coaxed into saying things that are illogical

Ah, yes. Can't do that with a human.

As you point out you can "approximate" logic and arrive at logical conclusions with these systems

I was actually referring to your brain.

but you are not doing so using a logic engine

lol. Do you feel that your brain has a logic engine that doesn't sit upon a purely probabilistic circuit?

At the philosophical level, logic exists outside of our neurons

Absolutely. Logic exists outside of everything.
Human logic does not exist outside of its neurons. To claim otherwise is dualist absurdity.

Its rules are (as far as we accept anything in reality) independent of human existence.

Indeed they are. In order to make that claim have anything whatsoever to do with anything, you'll have to pivot to your mind also being independent of human existence.

So just because our neurons are also subject to the imperfections of stochastic systems

Imperfections? The system they implement is purely stochastic. If it had been beneficial to compute differently, they'd have evolved a more resilient neuron.

So just because our neurons are also subject to the imperfections of stochastic systems does not mean that ALL stochastic systems are logical.

Good- then you agree that handwaving logic performed by an LLM as "applying statistical probability" is dumb.

Comment Re:They are likely just waiting for minesweeping (Score 1) 303

The US Navy has removed Iranian control of the lanes.

No, it absolutely has not, and cannot.

The US Navy is not closing the lanes, only Iranian ports.

This is correct.

That's open, a ship may transit if they wish.

No, ships are still following the rules set by Iran, because the US Navy cannot reasonably protect them from ballistic missiles and drones.

Ships are merely waiting for the US Navy to verify there are no mines out of an abundance of caution.

Completely wrong.

And will likely be complete long before the six week timeframe mentioned above.

Iran will continue to control the strait until it is disarmed, out of ammunition, or peace is achieved. That much has been made perfectly clear throughout the course of this conflict.

Comment Re:[sigh] (Score 1) 303

There was a rational question, not an argument.

However, while I fully endorse the use of expletives as much as possible, in this case however, the substance-less insults outweighed the question by 4:1. That's more than enough to make any rational person question if there's any reason to look for a coherent thought there. Do better.

Submission + - Microsoft increases the FAT32 limit from 32GB to 4TB (windows.com) 1

AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32GB in size, the only options were exFAT or NTFS. Neither option was well supported on other platforms at first, although exFAT support is fairly widespread now.

In their latest blog post, Microsoft announced that the limit for FAT32 partitions is being increased to 2TB. Of course, that doesn't mean that every device that supports FAT32 will work flawlessly with a 2TB partition size, but at least there is a decent chance that older devices with don't support exFAT will now be usable with memory cards over 32GB.

Comment Re:Ubuntu ... Ugh (Score 1) 43

Have you considered hiring someone on a contract basis to maintain ufraw? If you depend on it, surely it's worth investing in.

My experience with Debian is similar. Much less broken stuff than Ubuntu or Mint. But also the usual problems with things changing in breaking ways between versions, which makes instructions on how to do things outdated within a year or two, 3rd party software stops building and so on... Like you, I have VMs with obsolete versions of Debian and Ubuntu, just to keep certain bits of software working. Meanwhile on Windows I can still install a version of MPLAB from the 90s to build some old firmware.

Comment Re:What stops IPv6 from being universal (Score 1) 72

I looked into IPv6 for home use a while back, and basic stuff like adding new devices to the network and finding them is a bit of a nightmare.

On IPv4 with DHCP it's easy enough to just scan the entire subnet looking for the new device, if you don't know its IP address. With IPv6... There are three of four different ways devices can make themselves discoverable, and Windows support for them is a bit limited.

IPv4 works, it's familiar, it's easy. That's why there hasn't been a big migration. There just aren't big benefits for most people, and there are considerable downsides.

Comment Re: Reason (Score 1) 83

Point of order rejected.

High order approximations of logic can absolutely be implemented stochastically. If they couldn't, you'd have to concede that humans can't logic.
Neurons do not fire reliably. At the base, your neural circuitry is fundamentally probabilistic.

The phrase "LLMs are not applying logic to a data set. They are applying statistical probability models to a data set." is as pointless as saying, "The Universe can be modeled with a Markov Chain."

Comment Re:Reason (Score 1) 83

Yes.

Good- we agree here. We're on the same page, logic wise.

Is the Pythagorean theorem an approximation ?

Is it? No. It is not.
Is your implementation of it an approximation? Yes. By any definition you can conjure.

How long will you argue that this will be true ?

Indefinitely, because it is.
Neurons are fundamentally non-deterministic (at least in the sense that we cannot reasonably predict Brownian motion). Only the group of neurons as a whole provide any semblance of order.
This is how an inherently stochastic system providers a high order approximation of logical inference.

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