Sorry, but "multiplication tables" and doing basic algebra in your head is not Math. It is bullshit make-work. You can carry a calculator (most of us do), a slide-rule or pen and paper. What counts is whether you know what multiplication does and how it works, not some rote memorization. I say that as a PhD-level engineer.

Indeed. When everybody graduates, the degree becomes a complete joke. And that is really bad for society, with long-term effects.

The reasons are typically too many people incapable to admit things are broken (and here: admitting that their kids may not be so smart). Denial kills everything because it kills feedback loops.

Massive. As in "let's copy anything we can".

And no, data processing to calculate LLM calibration is not "training" in the same sense as a human does it. Courts and the law understand that, even if idiots like you do not.

You think wrongly. No experience with data analysis?

Here is a starting-point: https://matthewdwhite.medium.c...
Here is another: https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/...

On the side that claims LLMs can reason, it is all marketing materials only, i.e. bullshit.

I see some stupid people have mod-points. Here, waste some more. I dare you.

Could the be feeling the heat from Tesla's announcements for the Robotaxi?

You do realize don't you that at the time the funds were allocated for this project it was a time that we and replaced an unfit and insane president for a sane president and nobody in their right mind imagined the prior insane president would be going anywhere but jail or at best house arrest and not back in power again.

It was always a Potemkin village.

Naa, that would have been competent. AI people do not do competent. The ones that did renamed their occupation to other things, like cognitive systems, automated reasoning, robotics, etc. The ones that still claim to be doing "AI" are the hacks that are in it for the money.

The proper way to do this is 1) fake it and 2) when queried, lie about it. I mean, this has been the traditional approach in all things AI and at least the LLM pushers know how to do it. I would have thought that Russians, off all people, understand this approach in a more general way. Apparently not. Some people will probably get an extensive "vacation" sponsored by the state now.

Mainstream country music has been pop rock with twang and even dumber lyrics (not that pop is typically profound) for decades now. Bo Burnham's country song really says it a lot better than anything else I've seen yet.

The font is a deliberate decision whether it's a bot or not, on which I have no firm opinion. A variety of accounts (how many different people are involved is anyone's guess) have chosen to set their output in monospace over the years here. I think of them like hipsters. Monospace is inferior for the majority of tasks (except arguably for programming, and for a few data processing tasks where the data is naturally columnar when represented with fixed character width) so they're making a decision to make you read their thoughts in an inferior fashion. You could of course override fixed width text but my recollection is that Slashdot uses the classic HTML for this purpose and not something you could conveniently override without affecting other text that you might not want to make monospace. However, I haven't looked at the CSS recently so you might have options there.

I handle it by simply not reading anything they write. As a speed reader I unfortunately sometimes read parts of their comments by accident, but otherwise I choose not to consume any of it. They want to make it harder to read? Fine, in that case I'll pass.

Ah, yes. "Code slower with LLM assistance". Also probably code worse. Good luck.

Unless you think FFmpeg has tons of legitimate security problems, the volume implies the slop being in there.