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Gemini 2 has an interesting today

Gemini 2 has an interesting today

I'm going to an academic conference at the Alma Mater. everyone tells me i should network. where on the human face is the LAN port? and...

I'm going to an academic conference at the Alma Mater. everyone tells me i should network. where on the human face is the LAN port? and what the hell is networking with people anyway? I've been to a million of these. at the most you meet a few interesting people, have a few good chats, and then go back home and get back to life. how do people who are good at networking, and i mean not the creepy kind, do this? is there a guide about this that is not BS? #conference tips and reading welcome.

any sentence is technically true if the operative word is vague.

any sentence is technically true if the operative word is vague.

The #AI forecast analysis is also superb https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/forecasting-ai-2025-update.html

The #AI forecast analysis is also superb https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/forecasting-ai-2025-update.html

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/privacy-copyright-and-generative-models.html Nicholas Carlini responds to some generative model...

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/privacy-copyright-and-generative-models.html Nicholas Carlini responds to some generative model copyright legal drama. Good read.

This statement is technically accurate in some sense of the word.

This statement is technically accurate in some sense of the word.

then of course i had to reinstall a bunch of my flatpaks (okular, gwenview) because somehow despite the fact that flatpaks are isolated and...

then of course i had to reinstall a bunch of my flatpaks (okular, gwenview) because somehow despite the fact that flatpaks are isolated and entirely self contained, updating the sytem drivers will mess with these.

reinstalled nvidia drivers and cuda because why not and the problem has disappeared. I cant.

reinstalled nvidia drivers and cuda because why not and the problem has disappeared. I cant.

The process of generating these candidates might be too complex for it to be used in routine work but I think retrievers trained on...

The process of generating these candidates might be too complex for it to be used in routine work but I think retrievers trained on plausible answers might do better than those on just hard negatives. I hope they follow up with the code and more experiments using this approach.

Mozafari J, Abdallah A, Piryani B, Jatowt A. Wrong Answers Can Also Be Useful: PlausibleQA--A Large-Scale QA Dataset with Answer...

Mozafari J, Abdallah A, Piryani B, Jatowt A. Wrong Answers Can Also Be Useful: PlausibleQA--A Large-Scale QA Dataset with Answer Plausibility Scores. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16358. 2025 Feb 22. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16358 | We know about how hard negative mining can be useful, this paper is about "soft negatives" or plausible sounding answers that are wrong. Code is not available, which is sad, but the paper is pretty explicit about the steps. The code is probably more useful than the dataset

it's probably an nvidia driver thing. this driver madness will be the end of me.

it's probably an nvidia driver thing. this driver madness will be the end of me.

idk whats gotten into #gnome but for the alst week or so, periodically, all the gtk text dissappears and today it's looknig like this....

idk whats gotten into #gnome but for the alst week or so, periodically, all the gtk text dissappears and today it's looknig like this. restarting gnome generally does the trick

oof. #Poetry

oof.

#Poetry

there's a legit peer reviewed article in my inbox that claims that chatgpts ability to predict big five personality traits from an essay...

there's a legit peer reviewed article in my inbox that claims that chatgpts ability to predict big five personality traits from an essay they wrote about their minds is an "emergent" phenomenon. well. they claim it in the title, they dont talk about it otherwise, and the results are best of unknown n, the scores they asked for predictions on were cooked up from binary scores, i mean. why does this get funding? HOW.

omg baby tapirs are so cute

omg baby tapirs are so cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNwTBLdeqY The New Amsterdams - "Turn Out the Lights"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNwTBLdeqY The New Amsterdams - "Turn Out the Lights"

it's altruistic to want a 75 inches 4K Ultra HD AI Smart LED TV is that im saying.

it's altruistic to want a 75 inches 4K Ultra HD AI Smart LED TV is that im saying.

altruism is what we call egoism that can see the big picture.

altruism is what we call egoism that can see the big picture.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3ka8yG0BcHk Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply by @foilarmsandhog #Funny

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3ka8yG0BcHk Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply by @foilarmsandhog #Funny

This resembles the relationship between Newtonian and Einsteinian physics—the older system is still valid at low energies, but if you push...

This resembles the relationship between Newtonian and Einsteinian physics—the older system is still valid at low energies, but if you push mass and velocity high enough you get surprises like nuclear explosions or Linux. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s11.html