Nice one, grandma…

AI Industry Acroymns Explained

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/

AI - An Indian
API – Actual Person Involved
GPT - Gujarati Professional Typist
LLM - Low-cost Labour in Mumbai
LoRA – LOw-wage Remote Assistant
ML - Manual Labor
NLP – Needs Lots of People
OCR – Outsourced Character Recognition
RAG – Remote Assistant Gathering
RLHF – Real Labor Hidden Forever
TTS – Typist to Speech

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Ancient Northern peoples had dozens or hundreds of words for snow and ice because they were intimately familiar with it.

Ancient programmers from the twenty-first century had many terms for good software:

* boring tech
* robust-first
* humane
* indie
* small/smol
* sustainable
* permacomputing
* spartan
* cold-blooded software
* tadi
* freewheeling
* tomodashi

But these were terms born from absence, endless attempts to escape the desert their society found itself in.

"A government does not announce that they have become fascist, they announce that anti-fascists are enemies of the state."

Shots fired! :D #English #UK #US

The antidote to materialism isn't minimalism; it's maintenance. Keep things. Fix them. Mend them. Grow old with possessions you know well because you've cared for them.

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

Mostly, I avoid people, but yes 😂

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RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first.

— Andy Hunt

#bugs #softwares

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Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).

2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.

So good riddance to Office365!

Senator Hassan: What is habeas corpus?

Kristi Noem: It's been over a decade since I read Harry Potter. You can't expect me to remember the name of every spell.

Because today you really needed to see a corgi skateboarding. Just trust me on this ...

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. But so did the divine right of kings." - Ursula K. Le Guin

The amount of money that the World Health Organization is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, director-general Tedros says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly #WHA in Geneva.
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