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#taxesoda #malbouffe
"une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Washington a montré que les femmes qui
qui boivent au moins une boisson gazeuse pleine de sucre par jour sont environ cinq fois plus de risques de développer un cancer de la cavité buccale que le…

Quanta Magazine authors Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz strike up a conversation with Ellie Pavlick (Research Scientist at Google Deep Mind) about the differences and similarities between the way people understand language, what NLP algorithms do, and the fact that such conversations more often than not shed light into more than Linguistics' computational side.
"Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?"

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? | Quanta Magazine
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

Des chimpanzés ont été observés en train de partager des fruits contenant de l'alcool - pas dans des quantités suffisantes pour s'enivrer, mais un peu comme l'effet d'une bière.
#science #éthologie

@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:
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Un pognon de dingue: le soutien public global aux entreprises privées lucratives en Belgique a atteint 51,9 milliards d’euros en 2022, soit 9,2% du PIB et 17,6% des dépenses publiques.
https://www.econospheres.be/Un-pognon-de-dingue

True story time, from about 8 years ago.
After work, I joined few co-workers for happy hour. I had 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, then cut myself off and drank soda rest of the night, for many reasons including I wanted to be 100% sober to drive home.
One guy was rude, insisted I keep drinking, said I was ruining the fun.
Kids, be your own person. Be stubborn. Don't let someone pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. No means no.
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Ok, so... late to the "party", but I'm reading that also @… is jumping into the #LLMs bandwagon.
It's just so... sad, stupid, and infuriating. Really, why?

I know #Pixelfed doesn't support muting hashtags on the server side.
Are there any clients that support muting in the client?

8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.