@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-10 10:52:29
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-07 21:42:03
from my link log —
Internet anagram server.
https://wordsmith.org/anagram/
saved 2026-01-06 https://dotat.at/:/19FXD.html<…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-09 16:34:48
There’s a lesson here, perhaps, about the tangled relationship between what is •typical• and what is •correct•, and what it is that LLMs actually do:
When medical professionals ask medical questions in technical medical language, the answers they get are typically correct.
When non-professional ask medical questions in a perhaps medically ill-formed vernacular mode, the answers they get are typically wrong.
The LLM readily models both of these things. Despite having no notion of correctness in either case, correctness is more statistically typical in one than the other.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-10 15:59:28
Top federal immigration officials answer lawmaker questions
On Capitol Hill, leaders for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
will answer questions from the House homeland security committee.
Rodney Scott, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
Joseph Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
and Todd Lyons, acting d…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-08 06:16:00
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-10 22:39:51
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 20:10:44
After writing some questionable `rust` code for #adventofcode Day 8, I've managed to get the right answers in a reasonable amount of time which has taken far, far longer than I'd care to admit. I'll jump on the Python and Nim solves later because my brain is absolutely fried at the moment.
Solution:
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-09 16:30:32
LLMs have no model of correctness, only typicality. So:
“How much does it matter if it’s wrong?”
It’s astonishing how frequently both providers and users of LLM-based services fail to ask this basic question — which I think has a fairly obvious answer in this case, one that the research bears out.
(Repliers, NB: Research that confirms the seemingly obvious is useful and important, and “I already knew that” is not information that anyone is interested in except you.)
1/ https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-10 12:42:01
from my link log —
Fujitsu's Fugaku and Arm A64FX in the fastest supercomputer at 415 petaFLOPs.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15869/new-1-supercomputer-fujitsus-fugaku-and-a64fx-take-arm-to-the-top-with-415…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-10 09:42:01
from my link log —
A bestiary of mathematical functions for systems designers.
https://brunodias.dev/2021/03/19/functions-for-system-designers.html
saved 2021-03-19