Itās hard to come up with analogies for AI because itās so goddamn stupid. Itās like if asbestos was flammable.
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- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English11Ā·3 days ago
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish1Ā·6 days ago
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- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish2Ā·6 days ago
I donāt know static site generators, but I took a look at your site and the text doesnāt render! The font file appears to not be good. Also sorry for having to move to another software.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish24Ā·13 days ago
rsyslog goes āAI firstā, for what reason? no one knows.
Opening ipython greeted me with this: āTip: IPython 9.0+ has hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions.ā
I wish open source projects would stop doing this.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English12Ā·29 days ago
Thanks for the work you do on Newgrounds! This sentence stuck out to me
No more worrying about lack of content or fickle UGC creators
Oh theyāre just publically advertising their company to be anti-union. Bold.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English7Ā·1 month ago
Woah i had no idea. Apparently he also made a web crypto miner used in hacked sites.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English9Ā·1 month ago
Was checking out the QOI image format and the politics of the dev and found that he is pretty comfortable around the ladybird people. (sigh) Also the r slur on twitter.
Really amazing that such a simple format achieves PNG sizes and faster encoding speeds. 1-page specification, though itās more like 2 with a bit bigger text, for bragging rights.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English8Ā·1 month ago
That is the kind of writing that absolutely anyone can get a thing out of. Will cause me to introspect.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025English9Ā·1 month ago
I misinterpreted this reply as the guy in the post being hired as a police officer. Thank god.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.English24Ā·2 months ago
Yet another LLM guy claiming it solved a problem when in fact it was already solved, with it being told almost exactly where and what to look for. Cold reading for use-after-frees.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English6Ā·3 months ago
Now Iām wondering if an infinite sequence of nested LLMs could achieve AGI. Probably not.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025English7Ā·4 months ago
So āunintentional moderatesā are those that both choose deliberately to believe in centrist political ideology and to participate in groupthink?
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Gemini 2.5 "reasoning", no real improvement on river crossings.English1Ā·4 months ago
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- flaviat@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systemsā¢Vaccinations in Book/Article Form, Part IIEnglish5Ā·4 months ago
The Wikibooks book on statistics is surprisingly decent. Hopefully it inspires the reader to acknowledge that there are a lot more things to study apart from Bayes.
- flaviat@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Credulous coverage of AI slop on WikipediaEnglish7Ā·5 months ago
So perhaps one alternative way to estimate their quality is to check the number of citations, many have more than 100 citations, which is a sign of quality
Andrew Wakefieldās 1998 paper has 457 citations on PubMed
Computers use both big endian and little endian and it doesnāt seem to matter much. Yet humans should switch their entire number system?
E: this guy canāt grasp the concept that left-to-right is arbitrary, which is really ironic given his point. Ok so in arabic itās exactly how this guy wants it, except no, the universally correct reading direction is left-to-right and arabic does it backwards just to be quirkyš, and humans, just like programs, flip a bit to read it left-to-right, where itās the opposite of how you should be reading it! of course.