Comment Re:The key to Bitcoins creator and author are in t (Score 1) 21
What you're trying to say is that it was created by the NSA, and that it's a honeypot.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How do you feel about derivative fiction? (google.com)
shanen writes: Some thoughts on derivative fiction featuring Dreaming Spies by Laurie King with special guest character Sherlock Holmes.
So the first meta-comment is that the subtitle (as in the above paragraph) should have some special attribute, but not an option on today's Slashdot. A larger size is popular, but...
Next meta-comment is that I'm too easily motivated by negative reactions. But maybe that's my own fault for reading so many books and just some kind of entropy law that there are more bad books than good?
Fastest way to deal with this book might be in the way of a suggested solution approach. Using generative AI, of course? From that perspective I think the biggest problem is that Sherlock Holmes is barely present. More of a background character. The story line is also pretty implausible and the Japanese aspects seem mangled, too. On the Japanese problems I'm not the expert to ask, but I noticed a lack of Japanese names in the acknowledgments. So the AI fix would be a prompt like "rewrite this book to make Sherlock Holmes into the hero with the Russell character more in a role like Dr Watson's and shift the writing style to be closer to Arthur Conan Doyle's style.
However I also got to thinking about the more general topic of derivative fiction. There are so many characters who are based on Sherlock Holmes. Some that come to mind as ultimately based on Holmes are Perry Mason, Jules Maigret, Hercule Poirot, Spenser, and Nero Wolfe and I'm sure I'll remember some others before I can finish writing this... However returning to the feature book, there is a lot of stuff about ninja in there, and I think they are mostly just as fictional as Sherlock Holmes with the same tenuous linkage to sources in the real world... So what goes around comes back to the same place?
Next I started thinking about quantifying the derivative works and we're back to stuff the AIs could help with. I feel like running a query something like this:
"What is the total volume of Holmes stuff written by Arthur Conan Doyle, both before and after the death of Holmes? Appropriate units would be tens of thousands of words. How does that compare to the Laurie King novels with Holmes? The comparison should include ratios. Now extend the analysis to other fictional characters that can be compared to Holmes."
The above list of characters could be included in the question, though it might be better to see what the AI comes up with and then add any of my favorites that get missed. Also, the query should be fed to several AIs so as to compare their answers... (I seem to have a talent for writing prompts that push the AIs into hallucinations.)
Closing meta-comment is to note that King has written about 15 of these novels as of 2015... Pretty sure that's well ahead of Doyle.
So the first meta-comment is that the subtitle (as in the above paragraph) should have some special attribute, but not an option on today's Slashdot. A larger size is popular, but...
Next meta-comment is that I'm too easily motivated by negative reactions. But maybe that's my own fault for reading so many books and just some kind of entropy law that there are more bad books than good?
Fastest way to deal with this book might be in the way of a suggested solution approach. Using generative AI, of course? From that perspective I think the biggest problem is that Sherlock Holmes is barely present. More of a background character. The story line is also pretty implausible and the Japanese aspects seem mangled, too. On the Japanese problems I'm not the expert to ask, but I noticed a lack of Japanese names in the acknowledgments. So the AI fix would be a prompt like "rewrite this book to make Sherlock Holmes into the hero with the Russell character more in a role like Dr Watson's and shift the writing style to be closer to Arthur Conan Doyle's style.
However I also got to thinking about the more general topic of derivative fiction. There are so many characters who are based on Sherlock Holmes. Some that come to mind as ultimately based on Holmes are Perry Mason, Jules Maigret, Hercule Poirot, Spenser, and Nero Wolfe and I'm sure I'll remember some others before I can finish writing this... However returning to the feature book, there is a lot of stuff about ninja in there, and I think they are mostly just as fictional as Sherlock Holmes with the same tenuous linkage to sources in the real world... So what goes around comes back to the same place?
Next I started thinking about quantifying the derivative works and we're back to stuff the AIs could help with. I feel like running a query something like this:
"What is the total volume of Holmes stuff written by Arthur Conan Doyle, both before and after the death of Holmes? Appropriate units would be tens of thousands of words. How does that compare to the Laurie King novels with Holmes? The comparison should include ratios. Now extend the analysis to other fictional characters that can be compared to Holmes."
The above list of characters could be included in the question, though it might be better to see what the AI comes up with and then add any of my favorites that get missed. Also, the query should be fed to several AIs so as to compare their answers... (I seem to have a talent for writing prompts that push the AIs into hallucinations.)
Closing meta-comment is to note that King has written about 15 of these novels as of 2015... Pretty sure that's well ahead of Doyle.
Comment Re: US government (Score 2) 51
"Security weenies claim security via obscurity doesn't work, but it absolutely does if you like to use data and respect what it tells you. Check the number of security CVEs for operating systems like OpenVMS, MPE/IX, and see how they compare with Linux or Windows. By volume, the most popular OSes get the most attacks and successful exploits."
That is not security by obscurity. It's security by unpopularity.
Comment Your funny here? (Score 1) 59
Don't look at me.
Comment Re:More from the "never happened" department (Score 1) 201
It does not look like this did anything to "stop nukes". Iran still has the material. Iran can still make nukes with not too much effort. The main reason they stopped is that they do not actually need to have nukes. But after this moronic attacks, they got freshly motivated in that area.
I think after this moronic attack, they now know they don't actually need nukes, at least not until the world loses its appetite for oil, or finds other sources that make Gulf state production irrelevant.
Comment Re:Orange Man Bad (Score 1) 201
Oh look, coward does whataboutism.
Your best possible claim is that there are no good guys, which is accurate, but you're not even making it.
Comment Re: So, they invented... (Score 1) 201
I doubt they used a single new technology or device to find this airman. There is satellite and AWACS coverage. Iran downed one but 2/3-3/4 of our AWACS are there.
Comment Re:More from the "never happened" department (Score 1) 201
What are you on about?
Oh look, someone too cowardly not to post AC is too stupid to understand English. It's not even his first language and he's better at it than you are.
Comment Re:Missile, not satellite, probably more desired g (Score 1) 37
Might be a proof of concept project, the real goal is getting the local ML processing onboard a missile.
Uh, that's not even hard.
Or a rod from god.
The way harder part is doing any meaningful sensing through the atmospheric disturbance at those speeds.
Comment Re:OpenWRT (Score 1) 58
The OpenWRT folks improved a lot their web interface and how to find the right - easy to install - router.
It's still too complicated for the average person.
You can also choose a GL.iNET router which runs OpenWRT natively
That doesn't address how difficult it is to configure. Again, for a normal person who doesn't know what any of those settings mean. If you want normal people to be able to do this you're going to need to develop a config wizard for luci.
Comment Re: "Force-updating" (Score 1) 78
Then why did you say "The fact that these OSes allow even *root* to make changes to the OS, is insecure in itself" when root has access to rewrite the entire OS? Could it perhaps be because you don't know what you're talking about and you're casting around desperately to look like you do? Don't bother answering, it's obvious.
Comment Major Cyber Implications (Score 1) 59
Oh nO NoT "CYBER" ImPLIcATIoNS
Get fucked, poser.
Comment Re: This is what stochastic parrots do (Score 1) 100
A human is able to tell if an LLM is wrong. The opposite isn't true.
Also, even if this fallacious claim were true, it wouldn't actually support Arrogant-Bastard's claim, which wasn't about the state of AI now, but a claim about "intrinsic properties", meaning it would be true forever.
Comment Re: This is what stochastic parrots do (Score 1) 100
A human is able to tell if an LLM is wrong. The opposite isn't true.
Nonsense. LLMs point out my mistakes all the time. And I point out theirs. At this point there's more of the latter than the former, but both absolutely happen all the time.
Comment Re: AI doesn't lie. (Score 1) 100
Executives at Google have surprisingly little control over technical decisions.
The executives at google define the policy, the technical crew implement it.
Not as much as you might think. Definitely not as much as at most companies.
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