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Comment The 'Right' Content (Score 1) 70

The Right Content for Me: Things my friends say and experience that help me feel close to them

The Right Content for Zuckerberg: Whatever keeps people engaged, no matter how outlandish, offensive, exploitative, oppressive, or racist

We are using words differently, which is why I don't interact with any of Zuck's properties.

Comment Small issues have big impacts at AWS scale (Score 1) 32

They can't foresee everything. And at the scale AWS operates, the things they miss will have massive impacts.

This is why when we originally looked into Route 53, and found that it only did localised routing, we went with another DNS provider that could do geographic DNS resolution, failover between regions, and automatically rerouted traffic to different AWS regions when something went wrong. We tried to get AWS to see the value in having a similar DNS setup, but they seemed to believe that there would never be a reason AWS traffic might need to be routed around a failing region, or routed to a different region.

Comment It's not just you (Score 5, Insightful) 109

We've known since the beginning that incorrect responses make up 30-70% of LLM responses. Why? Because they're prediction engines, nothing more. They're fancy, and they sound human, but they're built to be convincing, not to be right. Error is built into the architecture. And it's getting worse. Even without model collapse, as we attempt to fix the issues, they will get worse and worse. It's built in.

This person sounds like they never heard about invented law citations that have gotten several lawyers in trouble. Or vibe coders that end up with a pile of garbage once they move beyond trivial apps. I think maybe they haven't been paying attention.

The solution is do what we know works - use systems whose architectures prioritise factual (or at least accurately referenceable) responses, instead of sounding good. That's not the current generation of LLMs. And it never will be. Wrong tool. Wrong job.

Comment Problem isn't the spreadsheet (Score 1) 95

which aren't in great shape perhaps due to the sheet's shortcomings.

This is such a bad take.

NZ healthcare is struggling is because the government wantonly slashed its budget, knowing that it wouldn't then be able to meet its commitments and service levels. That same government then demanded that things look and appear a certain way. Is it any surprise then, that they got watermelon metrics?

The truth is this: if you reduce a budget without understanding the impact, or removing the waste first, any organisation will struggle.

The spreadsheet isn't the problem.

Comment Re:Rian Johnson killed Star Wars (Score 1) 548

I'm sorry, but I don't buy it. I was considering writing a long, thought out response to this, illuminating the points that I think contradict your statement. But somebody else has already done it. I highly recommend checking out Everything Great About The Last Jedi.

I also don't think the star wars franchise has been ruined. However, there's an incredibly loud, vocal minority that's doing their best to ruin it, at the moment. It's a story. It's not your story, it belongs to the authors, directors, actors, and studios that pour their time, money, blood, sweat and tears into making it. You're free to dislike what they do, and what they say, but nothing that happens now, or in the future, can change your love of the OT, unless you let it.

Comment Likely caused by FOSTA (Score 2) 277

This appears to probably have been caused by FOSTA, which Congress recently passed. That's why it appears that many sites are coordinating these changes - the government is forcing them to by holding websites responsible for users undertaking illegal activities. More details can be found here:
https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/craigslist-personals-shut-down.html
with some additional links to the Reddit announcement, and an EFF announcement of how Congress is censoring the internet.

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