FYI, powering off your iPhone does not prevent it from being tracked. It continues to broadcast a low-power Bluetooth signal other Apple devices will relay to iCloud.
"Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, and after power off"
Settings > Apple Account > Find My > Find My iPhone
Do you check these sources? I find Gemini and, especially, Google Search AI to regularly cite sources that does not say what it claims to says. For example, (not an actual example but along these lines), "Can Google Sheets do x feature" and it replies "Yup" and links to an Excel YouTube tutorial as its source
I ask ChatGPT and Grok questions about Latin and Greek all the time, and they'll brazenly invent sources, quoting them in Greek or Latin. As an example (an actual example), I asked ChatGPT to round up all the poetry that, like Catullus' sparrow and Statius' parrot, dealt with birds. It hallucinated a bird poem by Callimachus that it claimed was the prototype and gave me not only an English translation but a Greek original—that never existed. It just plain lied. I have zero faith in any fact about the ancient world that comes from an LLM.
On the other hand, LLMs do a great job translating between languages, which is probably why they can vibe code. They catch some grammar errors, too, although not all of them, and even some stylistic errors, so it's useful to run Greek compositions through them. Ask it about linguistic questions ("Which Greek verbs other than ἀφίημι violate Grassman's law?"), though, and it will spew a bunch of irrelevant examples that don't pertain, because it doesn't actually understand what it's doing, just predicting tokens.
What doesn’t help the community is that “hallucinate”, “cite sources” still doesn’t capture what the LLM is doing. LLMs were pre-trained to do one thing, trained to do another and maybe fine-tuned for yet another thing. Do they hallucinate? From our perspective they do because we know true and false but from the tool’s perspective, it’s “just interpolating the text crammed inside of it”.
Carmack also used to have some really insightful articles on AltDevBlog. I recently read his one on functional programming and thought it was very well thought out.
This site had nice re-uploads for the some of the articles. You can maybe google around and find more
Intuit spent $3.8 million on lobbying against Direct File in 2023, HR Block another $3 million. In total, the tax prep industry has spent $93 million lobbying against the Free File program since 2003 (through 2023, couldn't find a more recent source).
Independent analysis of official state reports contradicts you. It’s easier to look at states than to analyze which federal rep submitted which amendment or rider
Not to mention, the integrated GPU is decent for casual use as well. Though you probably want to run a distro that will get a 6.16+ kernel update sooner than later for improved support of the "AI" models.
I just happened to be checking the website "manually" because hnrss.org stopped updating, this explains why lol. Glad to know it'll hopefully be resolved soon.
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