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@aronia Exciting! github.com leading the way!

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Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956

A disadvantage of the Turing definition of thinking is that it is
possible, in principle, to design a machine with a complete set of arbitrarily chosen responses to all possible input stimuli (see, In this volume, the Culbertson and the Kleene papers). Such a machine, in a sense, for any given input situation (including past history) merely looks up in a "dictionary" the appropriate response. With a suitable dictionary such a machine would surely satisfy Turing's definition but does not reflect our usual intuitive concept of thinking. This suggests that a more fundamental definition must involve something relating to the manner in which the machine arrives at its responses--something which corresponds to differentiating between a person who solves a problem by thinking it out and one who has previously memorized the answer.

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I took a few minutes this morning to whip out a little pictogram in honor of Trump's Big Bodacious Birthday Parade to sum up his presidency.

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Fun fact: in 2025, there is no fun, only fact

@jamesthomson I think a lot of people are going to reach for Accessibility > Reduce Transparency

@Jgbird The flowers look like buddleja.

@smashtie I hope that wasn't yours!

@randahl I think you're using Trump's language when you refer to protesters in LA as rioters.

@timesnewboman AI is an interesting topic, but it makes me feel queasy. I thought these latest examples were disturbingly good. https://www.theverge.com/news/670364/google-imagen-4-image-generation-spell-io-2025

@pete Yes, not really useful if there is more than a screenful of them!

@Mara The first machine I installed Linux on had dodgy RAM. It would only manifest when compiling the Linux kernel, when it would segfault. I might have to run "make" two or three times before it would finish!

@stefano I think those are all juvenile mallards. This year's fresh, new 🦆s!

@jalefkowit Have you seen this new Italian runabout? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmy1E-ja5U0

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@Luke @timesnewboman @sol No, I think someone's taken them down and put them back up, but has swapped letters between words!

@Jgbird I love that you can see where a bubble has just exploded.

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Male Ruddy duck performing bubble display to attract a mate

A male Ruddy duck with a black head, white facial markings, a long tail, and a blue bill swims in a pond. The duck’s head is tilted forward as it creates bubbles on the surface of the water to attract female ruddy ducks for nesting.

This is top of my list of worries about our planet. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

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