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Comment Re: Spot on... (Score 1) 70

I suspect tbag is true, or will be true.

The problem I see is tbat viewed from the outside, excellent code look like the dog shit that comes out of "please make xyz work with abc".

And since you can't tell the difference, you kind of have to treat everything AI generated the same.

Comment Re: So basically... (Score 1) 195

I think there is only one good reason to build a space datacenter at this point. Avoiding regulations. Is it good enough? I doubt it.

But I agree the math doesn't seem to make sense. Cooling any sizeable deployment that would matter is impractical. The cost of putting it up is really high. It all come burn in the atmosphere is about 5 to 10 years, so you can't reuse anything for the next hardware cycle.

Comment Re:AI is codeword for fiscal panic (Score 2) 46

At least part of the drop in users is because AI is being used to moderate posts and then use that "moderation" to temporarily and then permanently ban users, in the process completely deleting ALL posts on all pages. There is little to no human/personal moderation now - just AI makes the decisions and users have to suck it up. How do I know this for a fact? It's happened to me and I was given no opportunity to delete or argue for the "offending" post. This has happened to several friends as well for various reasons. You'd have to pay me to have anything to do with meta ever again.

Comment Re:It's normal for the market to be tough for grad (Score 2) 107

Anecdotically, it seems harder to get jobs as fresh graduates now, at least in Computer Science.
Been teaching undergrad and grad students for about 15 years. seniors used to send 15 applications and get 3 interviews. Nowadays, they send hundreds and might not get a single call back.

If you look at the numbers you provided (thanks for that), the definition of recent graduates is "22 to 27 years old who hold college degrees". So maybe the first 3 month after graduation got much tougher, but within 5 years it evens out.

Comment Re:It doesn't really address the problem (Score 1) 29

It is clearly not meant to address the fundamental issue. Remember that arXiv was never meant to be a peer reviewed repository. There are still tons of bad papers in there.
I am guessing it is meant to cut on the volume and avoiding polluting the system with too much crap.

Think of it as a spam filter. You don't need to filter all the spam. Just filtering the "this obviously is spam" already helps a lot.

Comment Yeah, automatic subtitles are pretty bad (Score 1) 100

I did some video where I had a script. So it was easy to extract subtitle and compare to script. Yeah, its pretty bad. Probably every other sentence had some obviously incorrect subtitling. And these videos were on clean audio inputs: no background noise, good mic.
I ended up having to correct the subtitles using the transcript.

I have seen a study recently on noisy audio in a group setting, so the speakers maybe not be perfectly mic-ed and all. The speech-to-text was done with a couple of Whisper models. The error rate was something like 30% of the transcription was bogus. (yeah, 3 words in 10.) I imagine that YT would do some preprocessing. But overall, I find the subtitles not terribly good. It's useful and better than nothing.

Submission + - A coalition in the EU is building Euro-Office as an alternative to MS Office

thephydes writes: It will be interesting to see how this progresses.

https://tech.eu/2026/03/27/eur...

"Across Europe, public administrations, enterprises and educational institutions are reassessing their dependence on non-European productivity platforms. While office software remains mission-critical infrastructure, there is currently no solution that combines full Microsoft format compatibility, a familiar user experience and genuine digital sovereignty under European stewardship."

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