… Which MEE presents and uncritically defends. It’s an article about a Nobel Peace Prize winner that literally doesn’t mention why the Prize was awarded. Please think before you post.

Imagine quoting the (checks notes) Nobel Peace Prize committee. The horror. They should be quoting the Maduro regime instead.

Middle East Eye consistently has the most baffling and undisciplined takes imaginable.

Depending on how cold you want it, the heat death if the universe is just another 10^101 years away ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Fair, thanks for the clarification.

There are a lot of people who make excellent mods who are not programmers. It’s already a small enough pool that requiring a particular skill only further narrows the pool. It also has a secondary effect that good mods may be unwilling to take on larger communities, or additional responsibilities.

If we want better moderation, the fediverse has to become more friendly to non technical people.

Yes, over a long enough timeline this is true. Usually people are interested in cooling things sooner than the death of the Sun.

Antisemitism refers specifically to hatred against Jews, not all Semitic people in general.

Just like antibiotics don’t kill all biological life. Words have meaning.

It was a really excellent keyboard.

I never read about Jews attacking and killing thousands of Germans, capturing and holding a portion of German territory, and kidnapping hundreds of civilians.

They’ve already agreed to it. It’s been endorsed by The Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.

It’s just waiting on Hamas

There are still 48 hostages. They have been repeatedly confirmed by both Hamas and Israel. There is literally no disagreement about who they are.

Ariel Cunio (27)  Alon Ohel (23)  Eitan Horn (38)  Avinatan Or (31)  Elkana Bohbot (35)  Evyatar David (24)  Bipin Joshi (24)  Ziv Berman (27)  Gali Berman (27)  David Cunio (34)  Eitan Mor (24)  Maxim Herkin (36)  Omri Miran (47)  Bar Abraham Kupershtein (23)  Guy Gilboa-Dalal (23)  Nimrod Cohen (20)  Matan Zangauker (25)  Tamir Nimrodi (20)  Matan Angrest (22)  Segev Kalfon (27)  Rom Braslavski (21)  Yosef-Haim Ohana (24)  Itay Chen (19) - Eliyahu Margalit (75)  Eitan Levi (52)  Sahar Baruch (24)  Joshua Luito Mollel (21)  Tal Haimi (41)  Arie Zalmanowicz (85)  Ran Gvili (24)  Dror Or (48)  Tamir Adar (38)  Ronen Engel (54)  Inbar Hayman (27)  Guy Iluz (26)  Asaf Hamami (41)  Lior Rudaeff (61)  Muhammad Al-Atarash (39)  Meny Godard (73)  Omer Neutra (21)  Yossi Sharabi (53)  Daniel Oz (19)  Daniel Perez (22)  Uriel Baruch (35)  Sontia Ok’Krasari (30)  Sontisek Rintalk (43)  Amiram Cooper (85)  Hadar Goldin (23)

115 tons of aid have entered Gaza from Israel/Egypt since the start of this flotilla.

The flotilla is carrying less than half of that.

“Wait, explain how Neopets was Scientology again?”

“What was the purpose of the hamster dance?"

Geocities?

Facebook attempts to be an all-in-one everything platform for messaging, photos, video, events, marketplace, news, etc. It is a bloated, incoherent mess.

Most people actually prefer dedicated apps for different activities, with each app being better suited to the individual task.

I report dozens of bot accounts on meta every month (actually slowed a bit recently). 80-90% of the time they take no action and leave the account up.

Here’s an interesting post that gives a pretty good quick summary of when an LLM may be a good tool.

Here’s one key:

Machine learning is amazing if:

• The problem is too hard to write a rule-based system for or the requirements change sufficiently quickly that it isn’t worth writing such a thing and,
• The value of a correct answer is much higher than the cost of an incorrect answer.

The second of these is really important.

So if your math problem is unsolvable by conventional tools, or sufficiently complex that designing an expression is more effort than the answer is worth… AND ALSO it’s more valuable to have an answer than it is to have a correct answer (there is no real cost for being wrong), THEN go ahead and trust it.

If it is important that the answer is correct, or if another tool can be used, then you’re better off without the LLM.

The bottom line is that the LLM is not making a calculation. It could end up with the right answer. Different models could end up with the same answer. It’s very unclear how much underlying technology is shared between models anyway.

For example, if the problem is something like, "here is all of our sales data and market indicators for the past 5 years. Project how much of each product we should stock in the next quarter. " Sure, an LLM may be appropriately close to a professional analysis.

If the problem is like “given these bridge schematics, what grade steel do we need in the central pylon?” Then, well, you are probably going to be testifying in front of congress one day.

We can hope

The action was not taken following his UN speech. it was following a separate speech in which he said, “I ask all the soldiers of the United States’ army, …disobey the orders of Trump.”

Imagine Trump visiting Colombia and saying something like that (not that hard to imagine, really). Petro would be in every right to revoke his visa.

For additional context, it was not clear which orders he was referring to, but there are no US Army troops in Gaza.

He also directly called for US soldiers to disobey orders, so there may be more to this story.