“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
backing up my “batshit claim”.
I said “it’d be a batshit claim if” followed by something that I acknowledged wasn’t true – a hypothetical. As in it would’ve been batshit to knowingly lie about that. I understood why you couldn’t read the article, but why you couldn’t understand this basic if/then statement is beyond me.
Here’s an archive of the article if you’re wanting to read it and having technical difficulties (or for anyone else who is; sorry, the Wayback Machine doesn’t capture the full article).
I was never going to assume you were lying about your experience if you claimed “there is no article”; it’d be such a batshit claim if you knew one existed.
Also stated at least three times in the article you didn’t read – as early as the second paragraph of the main prose.
Opponents say Amendment 85 isn’t necessary. Earlier this year, state lawmakers passed a law requiring ballot titles to be written in “accessible language,” which is defined as language that is understood by the widest possible audience.
They also say Amendment 85 would prevent state lawmakers from passing laws requiring certain language to be included in ballot questions, such as explaining the complicated impact of proposals that spend tax dollars on the rest of the state’s budget.
Joshua Mantell, Bell Policy Center’s director of government relations, said ballot proposals should be explained as simply as possible but requiring an eighth-grade standard is too restrictive. He said simply including the word “fiscal” in a ballot question could put it above an eighth-grade level.
In a state where voters are often asked to decide complicated issues, ballot proposals could have to be boiled down to the equivalent of a campaign slogan style statement, he said. Mantell said the change could help Advance Colorado pass future ballot questions.
I mean, yeah, it seems pretty evident that the reason the reactionary organization Advance Colorado is spearheading this is that they want to restrict the types of issues that can be put on the ballot.
If you strip out the encoder, then you’re getting closer.
That’s flat-out not true. BERTs, for example, are LLMs and are encoder-only, just like GPTs are decoder-only. Whisper is trained on a large corpus of text and does NLP tasks. That’s all it is to be an LLM.
A transformer model being encoder-only, encoder-decoder, or decoder-only has fuck-all to do with whether it’s an LLM. In fact, it being a transformer model at all isn’t required for it to be an LLM.
Whisper is not an llm, just because it is trained on big datasets does not make it an LLM.
The training dataset consists of 680,000 hours of labeled audio-transcript pairs sourced from the internet using semi-supervised learning.
Brother, I don’t think you know what a large language model is if you think it being trained on a human lifespan’s worth of audio transcripts isn’t enough.
Its job is NLP. It is an LLM, if not as general-use as something like ChatGPT.
So you created slop with Claude. 1100 commits in 10 days, which I’m sure you definitely audited.
Edit: Excuse me, there are actually about 420 commits in the last 10 days. I’m sorry for this egregious oversight.
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Nasty. I thought this was satire at first and had to read it back.
So you’ve moved the goalposts from “that’s not just participation, it’s [things that participation entails]” to “well this doesn’t apply unless you need it to exist”*. GN needs a major platform like YouTube to actually reach an audience.
* By the way, the comic is illustrating a man with a car that’s seemingly from the 1920s or 30s, so there goes that tenuous argument.
contributing to, and directly benefitting from the very thing they’re complaining about.
You do understand what “participation” means, right? You understand that the original comic is specifically talking about contributing to and benefitting from the very thing they’re complaining about, right?
I agree with your other point that GN should offer more alternatives to watch their videos, but this one is creating a distinction without a difference.
“… appears to work on Linux with Proton 11 as captured in my screenshot above”
The emphasis in that point was the word “finally”, not “playable state”. As in “it’s finally working after x amount of time” like you’d expect with a project that takes any appreciable time to get working.
before hearing about it
while* hearing about it. The only introduction is a bulleted list of what the project is and isn’t that Liam copy–pasted from their docs. Nothing about any anticipation; nothing about how long it had been in the works; nothing about the authors; no link to a release blog or previous story discussing it in any way; nothing about finally being in a playable state/anything related to the dev cycle. Liam talked about it like it popped into existence (true) and they were just hearing about it for the first time (true).
Combined with what I said above, it’s just basic media literacy that I’m reading about a dead-end throwaway project.
it’s deeply cynical
I gave it a shot by reading the article, which was more than it deserved.
Yeah, “as expected”. The project showed up out of nowhere five days ago and is clearly vibe-coded to fuck and back. The talk of how “oh, it accelerated development, but we checked everything, we swear” is obvious bullshit like it is with basically all of these dime-a-dozen, dead-end slop projects that are showing up everywhere.
No, it would not “just as readily have been an entirely human passion project”, because those take months to years, and you therefore hear about them organically as they’re in development; they don’t show up out of the aether to get a few paragraphs’ mention on an obscure Linux blog. Even from a statistical point of view, those passion projects are vanishingly few compared to the slop projects.
“AI models — Codex, Claude, and DeepSeek — substantially accelerated the final phase. They were given disassembly, decompiled pseudocode, surrounding reconstructed source, engine context, compiler errors, and binary-diff feedback, and helped interpret functions, generate candidate implementations, and iterate toward closer matches. Their output was never treated as authoritative: every candidate was reviewed by developers, compiled, compared against the reference executable.”
As expected: slop.
To be that guy as usual, here’s the original open-access article (MDPI, ew) instead of the “university sucks itself off for its research”-style press release.
of course the marketing speak release note is going to sound like AI marketing speak
Weird. Because I’m not talking about the release note; I’m talking about It’s FOSS’ commentary on the release note. I read LibreOffice’s 26.8 blog post, and as someone who’s written a release blog before, it looks like a human wrote it. You’d think it wouldn’t if “of course it’s going to sound like AI marketing speak”.
Did you read what I wrote that you think I’m talking about the marketing note for LibreOffice 26.8?
What the fuck are you talking about? This is almost, technically true, except that the arrests were politically motivated by corrupt authoritarian governments, and it’s not even technically true either, as neither the Center for Civil Liberties (2022) nor Nihon Hidankyo (2024) have any criminal background. The last few winners are (interpreting “few” as “four” to be generous):