Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

LLMs predict what a person would say if you want an LLM to be better than half of humanity, you remove the data that comes from the bottom 50% of humanity which, the bottom 50% doesn’t write much, so this is the default trajectory

I am and this seems to be a very rare trait. What's interesting is the relevant reasoning traces are not long or hard. "If you damage the brain the phenomenon of the soul weakens, if you damage discrete parts of the brain it weakens in specific ways, therefore the soul is made of physical parts".

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpdezz4nkre7vyift2rttggl/post/3m2cjmrweec26

B is for BELIEVE.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-hunters-to-140257376

#horror #ghosts #ghoststories #urbanlegends #wellington #occult

ADHD culture: https://youtu.be/bYpCy61c8JE

Hastily made coffee video

https://xeiaso.net/videos/2025/hastily-made-coffee-video/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Aiaiai

Qu’on en juge : Si tous les milliardaires Français partaient demain s'installer aux îles Caïmans, la perte de recettes fiscales pour le Trésor public hexagonal serait infime, de l'ordre de 0,03 %.

Si vous êtes proche de Lausanne ce dimanche, et avez envie de visiter une fête sympa, venez nous rejoindre à la caravane des quartiers entre 14h et 16h!

https://www.lausanne.ch/dam/jcr:288659d7-629a-4583-b9b5-edd15fe4a3b4/CQ_25_Bethusy_Prog_Scr.pdf

Regulation works again - if you run Windows 10 in Europe, you will keep receiving extended security updates for free. No need to enable Windows Backup or jump through hoops. October 2025 isn't the end.

https://www.theverge.com/news/785544/microsoft-windows-10-extended-security-updates-free-europe-changes

My tentative theory is that the systems, incentives, and technologies in modern world have managed to slightly empower (many) individuals, and massively empower large organizations, but at the significant expense of small organizations, whose role in the human societal ecosystem has thus shrunk significantly, with many small organizations either weakening in influence or transitioning to (or absorbed by) large organizations. While this imbalanced system does provide significant material comforts (albeit distributed rather unequally) and some limited feeling of agency, it has led at the level of the individual to feelings of disconnection, alienation, loneliness, and cynicism or pessimism about the ability to influence future events or meet major challenges, except perhaps through the often ruthless competition to become wealthy or influential enough to gain, as an individual, a status comparable to a small or even large organization. And larger organizations have begun to imperfectly step in the void formed by the absence of small communities, providing synthetic social or emotional goods that are, roughly speaking, to more authentic such products as highly processed "junk" food is to more nutritious fare, due to the inherently impersonal nature of such organizations (particularly in the modern era of advanced algorithms and AI, which when left to their own devices tend to exacerbate the trends listed above).

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I think I'm a logical person, but I still believe that cutting a pizza into 8 slices rather than 4 gives me more pizza.

@whitequark back in my day, Pb&J used to have real Pb in it

OH: american boomer refused entry into the EU due to failing RoHS compliance

@creachadair This but also, some things that feel good to us in the short term are bad for us in the long term, and people often think this doesn't apply to personal cognition but it can

We have dropped an 🥰 anniversary special 🥰 for Change, Technically

A year of podcasting with @analog_ashley and @danilo has been more lovely than I ever expected, full of learning.

Never let them take your swagger 😎

https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/17819442-the-change-technically-anniversary-special

@keenancrane what is squiggly equals here

I can't* fathom why the top picture, and not the bottom picture, is the standard diagram for an autoencoder.

The whole idea of an autoencoder is that you complete a round trip and seek cycle consistency—why lay out the network linearly?

Why Americans Don't Walk To School - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lShDhGn5e5s

this neighborhood he filmed looks so much like America-as-I-know-her that it hurts. When I was a child, I lived in a housing development, a separate loop from the main road, nothing but houses on both sides for the whole loop. Sounds safe for kids, right? I was utterly forbidden from crossing the street ever, for any reason. In the three years I lived there, two children I knew were flattened by cars. One was in a wheelchair for years, the other had permanent brain damage. And we were lucky to have a sidewalk the whole length of the loop - which would quickly disappear beyond its edge; walking anywhere else was impossible, it was an island in a sea of high-speed roads.

The next development we lived in, the school had a street-by-street map of who was and wasn't allowed to walk to school. It was in theory a 15 minute walk, but we were forbidden because 10 of that would be on a highway with absolutely no accommodations for walking alongside it. There was a secret path through the woods that some kids used. There was a shopping center about as far in the other direction with, again, absolutely no way to walk there (and no busses). I grew up trapped in lonely fortresses in a sea of concrete, and I am still not used to the freedom I have in Europe to just... go places and do things.

More fully open LLMs - apertus didn't hold that flag for very long...

Did anybody already test it?

https://mbzuai.ac.ae/news/mbzuai-and-g42-launch-k2-think-a-leading-open-source-system-for-advanced-ai-reasoning/

I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD