Michał Paluchowski
mpaluchowski@mastodon.online
<p>Software maker. Chaos monkey. Hawaiian shirts.</p>
Posts
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Post #2941523
Common people are genuinely surprised when I explain that LLMs, or what&#39;s called &quot;AI&quot; these days&quot;, is just brute force statistics. &gt; OpenAI&#39;s large language models process text using tokens, which are common sequences of characters found in a set of text. The models learn to understand the statistical relationships between these tokens, and excel at producing the next token in a sequence of tokens. https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
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Post #2941522
ChatGPT and others wouldn&#39;t be nearly as popular if it wasn&#39;t for all the SEO spam that&#39;s around these days. A simple web search for the spring equinox&#39;s date yields tens of ad-ridden, text-filled pages where the answer is buried somewhere in the fifteenth paragraph. AI returns a straightforward answer in one sentence.
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Post #2941521
Trying to figure out why my very old iPad is responsible for 40% of my home download traffic, two-thirds of it from iCloud, and a third from apple.com, when the only thing I ever use it for is RSS reading. My iCloud sync includes less than 10 new photos a week, on average. The iPad&#39;s backup totals under 100MB. I saw someone reporting their Macs constantly re-downloading iCloud files, so thinking this might be the same issue? But why? And how to make it stop?
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Post #2941520
Every time I use vim makes me think that its fans must be the same people who think Doug Engelbart&#39;s keyboard was the pinnacle of HCI interfaces.
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Post #2941519
The keyword of the LLM coding era is: outage.
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Post #2941518
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116648467657760137 Agree. Asked a colleague this week to review my PR, and they posted comments that were clearly generated by AI. It&#39;s offending. If I wanted an AI review I would&#39;ve used it directly.