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SirHumphrey commented on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday   campedersen.com/singulari... · Posted by u/ecto
pocksuppet · a day ago
Was this ironically written by AI?

> The labor market isn't adjusting. It's snapping.

> MMLU, tokens per dollar, release intervals. The actual capability and infrastructure metrics. All linear. No pole. No singularity signal.

SirHumphrey · a day ago
Maybe it was, maybe he just writes that way. At some point somebody will read so much LLM text that they will start emulating AI unknowingly.

I just don’t care anymore. If the article is good I will continue reading it, if it’s bad I will stop. I don’t care if a machine or a human produced unpleasant reading material.

SirHumphrey commented on Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images   esa.int/Applications/Obse... · Posted by u/saubeidl
pastage · 14 days ago
As most EU projects yes. There was test data released last year to get you started.

https://user.eumetsat.int/resources/user-guides/getting-star...

SirHumphrey · 14 days ago
Well, at least in my experience with EU projects, they tend to be much more restrictive with data sharing than equivalent US institutions: e.g. a lot of paid EUMET data has publicly available NOAA equivalents - though usually of worse quality.
SirHumphrey commented on Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities   programmablesearchengine.... · Posted by u/01jonny01
jamesbelchamber · 20 days ago
Are competing search indexes (Bing, Ecosia/Qwant, etc) objectively worse in significant ways, or is Google just so entrenched that people don't want to "risk it" with another provider (and/or preferences and/or inertia).

I suppose I'm asking whether this is actually a _good thing_ in that it will stimulate competition in the space, or if it's just a case that Google's index is now too good for anyone to reasonably catch up at this point.

SirHumphrey · 20 days ago
I can manage fine with other search indexes for English language searches; weather that is because others got better or google got worse i cannot tell, though I suspect the latter.

But for searching in more niche languages google is usually the only decent option and I have little hope that others will ever reach the scale where they could compete.

SirHumphrey commented on Dead Internet Theory   kudmitry.com/articles/dea... · Posted by u/skwee357
gwd · 24 days ago
Is this a generational thing? All my groups of this type are on WhatsApp (unfortunately).
SirHumphrey · 23 days ago
Maybe, but at least in my circles it’s a structure thing- until the group actually can be organised in a single chat sanely something else will be used- but as soon as multiple chats are required the thing is moved on discord.
SirHumphrey commented on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news   niemanlab.org/2026/01/aft... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
SirHumphrey · 25 days ago
Admittedly I do not know how much of a sensitive issue this is, but I find it surprising that the name given at birth is not mentioned anywhere on the Wikipedia page, even though in other cases of name change usually "Name (born Old Name)" is written.
SirHumphrey commented on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875   github.com/haykgrigo3/Tim... · Posted by u/admp
matheusd · a month ago
How about this for an evaluation: Have this (trained-on-older-corpus) LLM propose experiments. We "play the role of nature" and inform it of the results of the experiments. It can then try to deduce the natural laws.

If we did this (to a good enough level of detail), would it be able to derive relativity? How large of an AI model would it have to be to successfully derive relativity (if it only had access to everything published up to 1904)?

SirHumphrey · a month ago
I don't know if any dataset of pre 1904 writing would be large enough to train a model that would be smart enough. I suspect that current sized SOTA models would at least get to special relativity, but for general relativity and quantum mechanics I am less sure.
SirHumphrey commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes   reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot
ta20240528 · a month ago
I think Venezuela should take this to the ICC. (The ICJ is irrelevant).
SirHumphrey · a month ago
So they can write a strongly worded letter?
SirHumphrey commented on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder   gog.com/blog/gog-is-getti... · Posted by u/haunter
juped · a month ago
Eastern Europe starts at your home country's eastern border. E.g., if you're Russia, it's Japan and Alaska.
SirHumphrey · a month ago
And Balkan on the southeastern.
SirHumphrey commented on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder   gog.com/blog/gog-is-getti... · Posted by u/haunter
IsTom · a month ago
A counterpoint is Amazon's profit on revenue until 2017 or so.
SirHumphrey · a month ago
Amazon was basically conducting a price war founded by AWS division. Unless GOG is trying to undercut Steam this is a bit apples and oranges.
SirHumphrey commented on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn   theocharis.dev/blog/kidna... · Posted by u/JeremyTheo
cedilla · a month ago
Deutsche Bahn ist anything but wasteful, it's underfunded to the tune of tens of billions per year. Cleaning out trees more up to ten meters away from railways was seen as to expensive, now 6m tall trees fall in them all the time during storms. Having two railways next to each other was seen as unnecessary, now we have no backups when one fails.

Swiss railway is seen as the ideal DB should strive for, but fact is that Switzerland invests more than double per capita into its rail infrastructure. German stinginess now compounded over decades, and that's not the fault of management.

SirHumphrey · a month ago
Underfunded and wasteful are not opposites. When there is not enough money to do things properly there is often a lot of duct tapping going on which waste available resources without fixing anything. There is scarcely anything more expensive in government than saving money.

u/SirHumphrey

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