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briffid commented on VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382... · Posted by u/bikenaga

rdtsc · 4 months ago

Sure but it's also not a pink elephant and not a flower pot. It's none of those things. We have just as much evidence of those objects flying through space as we have of alien spaceships so far. So it's odd asking "So is it a spaceship or not?" just like it's odd asking "so is it a flower pot?".

briffid · 4 months ago

Is Musk's red car a spaceship btw? Because if we are able to send such stuff to space, other intelligent beings would most probably do the same. Or they are more intelligent?

briffid commented on VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II arxiv.org/abs/2508.18382... · Posted by u/bikenaga

briffid · 4 months ago

So is it a spaceship or not?

briffid commented on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises danfabulich.medium.com/ll... · Posted by u/dfabulich

dvh · 4 months ago

I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved):

- I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number

- Yeah? And what did he tell you?

- He told me one

briffid · 4 months ago

Why is that in English speaking world a joke is almost always a pun?

briffid commented on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming deprogrammaticaipsum.com/... · Posted by u/secstate

debarshri · 5 months ago

What is Java then?

briffid · 5 months ago

Just look at the Java installer: What is Java? Java is everywhere!

briffid commented on Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials news.mit.edu/2025/famous-... · Posted by u/ColinWright

briffid · 5 months ago

I don't get the point. The article says that if you "somewhat" measure, then you lose "somewhat" from the wavelike nature. So the photon is a wave by X%, and a particle by 100-X%?

briffid commented on Mathematicians hunting prime numbers discover infinite new pattern scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/georgecmu

wewewedxfgdf · 6 months ago

This sort of thing makes me feel there is some deep understanding of reality only inches away from us, we glimpse it through these patterns but the secret remains hidden.

briffid · 6 months ago

I had a similar feeling. But I think this is indeed a glimpse to the intrinsic structure of reality itself, not just a promise of seeing reality. Like we can have a blink of turning around in Plato's cave. I think the patterns of the Mandelbrot set is a similar thing. And there are only a handful of other things that shows the very basic structure of reality. And the encouraging thing is that it seems the core of reality is not an infinite void.

briffid commented on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book understandingai.org/p/met... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

davidcbc · 6 months ago

> I can record myself reciting the full Harry Potter book then distribute it on YouTube

Not legally you can't. Both of your examples are copyright violations

briffid · 6 months ago

Recording yourself is not a violation, only publishing on Youtube. Content generated with LLMs are not a violation. Publishing the content you generated might be.

briffid commented on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book understandingai.org/p/met... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

briffid · 6 months ago

Quotation is fair use in all sensible copyright system. An LLM will mostly be able to quote anything, and should be. Quotation is not derived work. LLMs are not stealing copyrighted work. They just show that Harry Potter is in English and a mostly logical story. If someone is stabbed, they will die in most stories, that's not copyrightable. If you have an engine that knows everything, it will be able to quote everything.

briffid commented on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure tailscale.com/blog/freque... · Posted by u/ingve

briffid · 6 months ago

I'm so tired of the enforced password changes, that I just write them on a post-it note now.

briffid commented on Urtext: The Python plaintext library for people who've tried everything else urtext.co/... · Posted by u/nbeversluis

briffid · 8 months ago

The website frustratingly assumes 4K display?

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