Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October 22, after initially delaying the launch due to regulatory issues with the device's eSIM-only design (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/iphone-air-will-go-on-sal…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden
#Balkonkraftwerke sind längst mehr als ein Nischenprodukt. Sie stehen sinnbildlich für eine stille #Energiewende von unten.
Immer mehr Menschen erzeugen selbst #Solarstrom und ent…
Reflective pause in Cirque de Troumouse, Pyrenees (just too grand to photograph)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 170 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sheila E.:
🎵 The Glamorous Life (club edit)
#SheilaE
https://vibratingorgans.bandcamp.com/track/vinyl-sheila-e-the-glamorous-life-1984
https://open.spotify.com/track/179SfVFJ0ZN41toTxnpgRD
Interesting explanation of LLM training frameworks and the incentives for confident guessing.
"The authors examined ten major AI benchmarks, including those used by Google, OpenAI and also the top leaderboards that rank AI models. This revealed that nine benchmarks use binary grading systems that award zero points for AIs expressing uncertainty.
" ... When an AI system says “I don’t know”, it receives the same score as giving completely wrong information. The optimal strategy under such evaluation becomes clear: always guess. ...
"More sophisticated approaches like active learning, where AI systems ask clarifying questions to reduce uncertainty, can improve accuracy but further multiply computational requirements. ...
"Users want systems that provide confident answers to any question. Evaluation benchmarks reward systems that guess rather than express uncertainty. Computational costs favour fast, overconfident responses over slow, uncertain ones."
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My comment: "Fast, overconfident responses" sounds a bit similar to "bullshit", does it not?
#ChatGPT #LLMs #SoCalledAI
Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography
In #Ungarn ging der laut Kyoto Group derzeit weltgrößte Speicher für industrielle #Prozesswärme in Betrieb.
Der „#Heatcube“ nutzt geschmolzenes
Ein klimaneutraler Pfad könnte den #Fossilenergiebedarf in der EU bis 2050 um 90 Prozent senken.
Laut einer neuen Studie des #PIK ist dieser Rückgang durch den raschen Ausbau erneuerbarer #Energien