billypilgrim

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by billypilgrim 5d ago
I honestly do not understand why we let it continue when we have been seeing the drastic negative effects for years now. The recommendation algorithm and the data it relies on must be opened up to to some kind of elected agency, and they ne
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by billypilgrim 13d ago
„The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.“ -Mitch Hedberg
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by billypilgrim 14d ago
Grok? The model that was deliberately adjusted to not say that Elon Musk or Trump spread misinformation? No idea how people can actually believe that Musk is interested in the truth. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02&#x2F
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by billypilgrim 2mo ago
idalib with Claude Code already works really well. But honestly, despite what people have been saying, LLMs have been very good at decompiling for at least two years now, I have been using it for that purpose regularly. Even just copying di
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by billypilgrim 4mo ago
The thoughts you are having about this show me that you are at a local maximum, but you will find your way out if you keep trying everything. There is no single thing that will help. Read novels, copy them word by word, translate them, writ
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by billypilgrim 4mo ago
That’s too bad because I think the last episode is brilliant. I think about it a lot even years after seeing it.
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by billypilgrim 5mo ago
I must say I expected an actual poisoning of the data used to train the LLM and was excited, but the examples indicate that the LLM just searched the web and reported what it found? When you create a website with fake information and search
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by billypilgrim 5mo ago
Ten years ago multiple tech giants openly stated they would not help the Trump administration build a Muslim registry [1]. Since then, several of them have bowed the knee and donated to his second inauguration. I’m from Germany, and keep
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by billypilgrim 5mo ago
Also: malware often tries to detect a VM or an emulator too, for example Windows Defender uses an emulator internally to detonate samples, and there are attempts by malware to detect this and change the behavior to something benign.
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by billypilgrim 5mo ago
Modern ransomware are not just encrypting data but uploading them somewhere too, the victim is then threatened with a leak of the data. A backup does not save you from that.
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by billypilgrim 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgár
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by billypilgrim 1y ago
It may be maddening to them because you are implying that physical color mixing is somehow that one defining thing that makes it art. Imagine someone said that about writing a book: if you don't write it by hand but use Microsoft Word
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by billypilgrim 4y ago
This is true, that's how I'm getting therapy right now. I was scared this was too much paperwork for me at first, but my therapist explained that I basically needed to only do three things: (1) go to a GP (Hausarzt) and explai
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by billypilgrim 5y ago
Why didn't MSN become what WhatsApp is today? I always wondered how they could screw this up. Smartphones are perfect for chat apps, that's basically what they are supposed to be used for, and MSN / ICQ already covered a giga