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jasonlfunk commented on Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)   w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHer... · Posted by u/theandrewbailey
jasonlfunk · 6 months ago
The verb seems pretty important to me…

————- Learn more about [the browser]

Never hear about [the browser] again

Those links will do very different things.

jasonlfunk commented on Satellite will have to be turned off when it floats over the US   thecooldown.com/green-tec... · Posted by u/howard941
jasonlfunk · 7 months ago
Why does the title only mention the US? It can’t do it over Europe either.
jasonlfunk commented on Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy   eso.org/public/news/eso25... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
jasonlfunk · 9 months ago
I’m always a bit skeptical about these sorts of things. Perhaps I’m just ignorant about the methods used.. but the amount of data we can get from the most distant known galaxy can’t be very much. How confident can we be that the shift in observed light or whatever is actually from the presence of Oxygen and not one of probably countless other causes, both known and unknown.
jasonlfunk commented on Google Maps Will Rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in US   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/hackernj
bpodgursky · a year ago
The Google policy of using official government policy for naming places is reasonable exactly so they don't have to fight an internal civil war over every (dumb) move like this.
jasonlfunk · a year ago
This is exactly right. I'm not sure who should get to decide what the name of the gulf should be, but it shouldn't be Google.
jasonlfunk commented on Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law   fedscoop.com/agencies-mus... · Posted by u/speckx
jasonlfunk · a year ago
It’s hard to know what they hope to accomplish with this bill. Anytime you develop custom code, it’s because you need something, well, custom.

What are the chances that something custom built for one agency is going to be at all useful to the custom needs of another agency?

jasonlfunk commented on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers   france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
jasonlfunk · a year ago
I just hope that the US can ban ads for pharmaceuticals.
jasonlfunk commented on OpenAI threatens to revoke o1 access for asking it about its chain of thought   twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy/s... · Posted by u/jsheard
IncreasePosts · a year ago
Or, without the safety prompts, it outputs stuff that would be a PR nightmare.

Like, if someone asked it to explain differing violent crime rates in America based on race and one of the pathways the CoT takes is that black people are more murderous than white people. Even if the specific reasoning is abandoned later, it would still be ugly.

jasonlfunk · a year ago
This is 100% a factor. The internet has some pretty dark and nasty corners; therefore so does the model. Seeing it unfiltered would be a PR nightmare for OpenAI.
jasonlfunk commented on OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free   futurism.com/the-byte/ope... · Posted by u/janandonly
jasonlfunk · a year ago
Can someone help me understand why it's a problem for companies to train these huge LLM on your copyrighted material? What exactly is the harm that is being done to the copyright holder?

I can understand why the New York Times (for example) wants to claim that a couple billion dollar companies have done it actual harm; but I am struggling to actually identify what it is.

jasonlfunk commented on Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming   cnn.com/2024/06/26/busine... · Posted by u/voisin
jasonlfunk · a year ago
Whether or not this will reduce CO2 is yet to be seen. But it will almost certainly raise the price of beef and dairy products. Taxes on producers inevitably get passed on to consumers.
jasonlfunk commented on Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy   nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/Tomte
jasonlfunk · a year ago
Isn’t it true that the only thing that LLM’s do is “hallucinate”?

The only way to know if it did “hallucinate” is to already know the correct answer. If you can make a system that knows when an answer is right or not, you no longer need the LLM!

u/jasonlfunk

KarmaCake day1132June 14, 2013View Original