The thing is, that was because of another bad Google decision years ago. They decided to downrate short pages in the search results (such as a page with a nice simple recipe on it), and people realised they got no hits unless they padded the page with guff.
Not OP, but I’m really enjoying it because it’s light and stable, and the set of MX tools it comes with are great. Their backup tool is so good that as my old laptop started to die I was easily able to transfer my entire setup to a totally different computer and pick up exactly where I’d left off
You can’t do it overnight, no. But you can rapidly agree that it needs to be done
The cost of employing staff isn’t related to the cost of what people eat - it’s a function of how long the restaurant is open and how busy it is. It doesn’t make sense that I pay more for the staff if I order a £40 bottle of wine versus a £20 bottle. If you’re going to make customers pay separately like this,it should be a cover charge per head
I recently bought a (different brand of) smart telescope and these things are great. Obviously the light-gathering capacity is much lower than traditional astrophotography setups, but the ease of use is incredible. Kudos to the engineers who make these things.
We also need to think about OP’s potential shipmates, who might not benefit from being out at sea with a rootless suicidal person. It would be more responsible for OP to get their head straight before locking themselves away with a handful of strangers miles from anywhere
I think the best model would be that you top up an account and pay some small amount per search. That’s also a bit more transparent, and directly linked to use
I have to say that, apart from occasional popups suggesting premium subscription, I’ve not seen the experience change much - yet. The app has had cosmetic changes, but these haven’t been negative. It’s possible there is note coming down the line, but right now I’m still using it fine
Perhaps. However, we have to acknowledge that there’s a price to be paid for this - particularly an environmental price - and it’s not the householder who pays that price. If where we lived didn’t have consequences for other people then it wouldn’t be an issue. But when these decisions lock in urban sprawl, car dependency and excess emissions, they become everybody’s business
I love Dinosaur Comics. For anyone just discovering this, there are SO MANY for you to catch up on
I’d rather not - we’re then into copyright issues
It’s only a very short letter, but it’s good. They argue that AGI claims are based on shifting the definition of AGI to something easier to meet, that advocates rely on hitting artificial (gameable) benchmarks rather than dealing with novelty, and that providing answers to questions doesn’t mean they’re doing cognition as we’d normally understand it, especially as LLMs don’t express doubt (they don’t say this, but I’ll add: this is because they can’t do metacognition: they can’t think about their own thought processes, as we can)
There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CHATBOTS DON’T KNOW ANYTHING. STOP ASKING THEM QUESTIONS AND THINKING THEIR ANSWERS ARE ANYTHING MORE THAN WORD ASSOCIATION BASED ON THINGS PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN IN THE PAST for fuck’s sake
In addition, handing the task over to a chatbot means you learn nothing about what makes a good training plan, and how to judge whether the one you get is doing what it needs to, from a physiological point of view.
“Prove you’re a bot by failing to click all the motorcycles in this image”
How very dare you? Gen X is long off Facebook - it’s our parents on there, being radicalised by Russian bots