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Comment Re:"Now with 38% FEWER hallucinations!" (Score 1) 65

We really should not be using that term.
Because it implies that only some of the output of an LLM is made-up.
LLM output is factual/correct/valid/logical only coincidentally.
There are no rails from which the GPT/LLM can become derailed, leading to "hallucination". There's no thinking vs hallucinating "mode" or whatever.

Comment half of engineering, nullified (Score 1) 38

"we can't build reliable systems on unreliable foundations" ... what? xD
Half the purpose of the entire practice of engineering is exactly that. Making a reliable thing that you need, from unreliable things that you have.
I am uncertain whether these people are engineers. Neither in the broader, nor narrower, sense.
I'm not even getting into the matter of whether LLM-based tools are worth it or not.

Comment Lizard brain (Score 1) 131

Noise! So much noise! Therefore, it must be a good car and more importantly, I must be a good driver. MORE NOISE!

It's a car, not a guitar. How misdirected must one be to think the noise of a car's engine has any relation to driving? And not even that. It's not even the noise of the engine. It's the noise of the exhaust. There is a shade of utility in hearing the engine, to determine its speed, because that is actually relevant to driving, but it does not need to be a noise that is even heard outside the car.

Comment It did its job. (Score 1) 157

Windows 10 was sold. Microsoft made the money it wanted. Now they want more money. So, they want you to buy it again. They're simply cowards and do not say it out loud that it's subscription-based software. It's still the same OS, ever since windows 2k, if not earlier. It's not a different product. It's still "windows".

Comment Re:if you really must do it... (Score 1) 144

A *person who happens to be an MS employee* submitting a patch is massively different to *MS* submitting a patch. I have no idea what kind of legal agreement one has signed when getting a job as a coder at microsoft, but it wouldn't surprise me if it included something along the lines of "any code, machine-executable or not, human-readable or not, you ever communicated or will ever communicate, is owned by us", so it _might/may_ be impossible to function as a free coder once you've been hired by microsoft.

Comment Re:JFC we're going backwards (Score 1) 125

There it is, again. "Tax dodging."
Okay, _how_ ? You can't buy anything above â400 (or is it â600?) with cash. Employees have their salaries automatically taxed. I do not even _see_ money anymore. It is automatically added to my bank acct. The government knows more about my money and how I use it than _I_ do. Do you imagine, like, the majority of greeks being masters at laundering money or something?

Do you _know_ what is happening, why greece is a financial mess, or like everyone else, do you keep sucking on the same lollipop you've been handed decades ago?

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