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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Where I work, we’ve been looking into data compression that’s optimized by a ML system. We have a shit-ton of parameters, and the ML algorithm compares the number of sig figs in each parameter to its byte size, and truncates where that doesn’t cause any loss of fidelity. So far, it looks promising, really good compression factor, but we still need to do more work on de-skilling the decompression at the receiving end.

I wouldn’t have thought LLM was the right technology to use for something like this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Pre-order. So it’s not on the market yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
How is it a downgrade to disable a torrent of shit you don’t want?

Drop some small change on a mobile-data-enabled tablet if you want Google Maps. Even better, use one of the many GPS apps based on Open Streetmap. Some of those have an excellent disconnected (from mobile data, not GPS) operating mode.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a more talkative, more delusional Clippy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Excellent result. Let’s see if the EU capitulates once the pressure’s on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
A “decade-long” ban can be rescinded by any future Congress that has the votes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

like they must have a team somewhere that spends its days going, how can we kill this golden goose?

I wouldn’t put it past Bezos to have an actual enshittification department.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Some use even worse, if YouTube content is any indication.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
YouTube is crawling with it. It’s unlistenable shit. The prosody is badly implemented, pronunciation is infuriatingly bad, and a lot of the text that these TTS are reading appears to be AI-generated. Otherwise, already dire standards of literacy are getting worse at an accelerating rate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
In the fine print, “lifetime” is defined as the lifetime of a particular mayfly that has not been all that well-treated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Why would they tell him anything unless he’s done something for them?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Scams are never job-producing schemes. The scammers want to extract the maximum amount of cash from the rubes with the minimum of overheads.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Why is it so hard to get rid of that knobhead?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Sitting around hallucinating?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

You already have things like Visual Basic and Tcl to replace routine.

Are you a time traveller from the 1990s?

VB is obsolete, unmaintainable shite, and Tcl is well-defined but so minimal as to barely be a language at all, and if anyone’s using it for greenfield projects, they should have their heads examined.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What about Aeroflot?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Dead-cat bounce.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Never’s a long time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, so the actual reason for the loss is that they can’t expand capacity without squandering vast amounts of money. That’s much better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The original Beetle didn’t have stellar product quality, but it was well-engineered to be maintainable by someone without specialist knowledge or tools. VWAG has definitely gotten worse at quality over the following decades.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a commonly-used tool for technology management.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank your lucky starts for that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the worst of shite. It has inadequate models for depicting services, so you have do deform your own model of product and service delivery to fit their ill-conceived straitjacket, and its licensing model discourages open sharing of information within the organization. Also, it’s all clunky and half-assed, especially its integration points, and the whole monstrosity is based on the antiquated ITIL philosophy that support is a cost center and therefore all support services should be rationed, never mind response times, quality of service or value to the customer. That barely made sense in the time of on-premises data centers but makes little to no sense in a cloud-based environment.

And yes, it collects lots of metrics, but they’re all crap.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

boomer brained judge

Boomer here. Don’t assume we all think the same. Determining behavior from age brackets is about as effective as doing it based on Chinese astrology (but I’m a Monkey so I would say that, wouldn’t I?)

The judge’s problem is being a nitwit, not what year they were born in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The judge should have had the sense to keep this shitty craft project out of the courtroom. Victim statements should also be banned as manipulative glurge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Has Musk ever met a dictator he doesn’t like?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Where would we be without predatory rent-seeking?

Someone’s going to make a fortune migrating firms off VMWare onto open-source VMs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That should never be allowed in court. What a crock of shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDB is Probably the Most Important Geospatial Software of the Last Decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
1. It’s pretty straightforward to install PostgreSQL and its GIS extensions. Maybe not one line, but within the abilities of any semi-experienced Linux user.
2. If you want some visualization capability with your data, IBL Visual Weather (Go, Bratislava!) can also be made to be highly functional and performant, though it can be tricky to set up.
3. There’s no mention of EDR in the DuckDB blurb (which QGIS now has as a semi-mature plugin). EDR is a newish OCG standard that lets you do multidimensional GIS queries in a sensible way. This is especially useful for environmental data where you might want to query a large number of parameters in a region, a volume, or along a trajectory. Previous approaches to doing this in GIS systems were frustrating at best, and more often, nonexistent.
4. My job involves wrangling metric shit-tons of geo data and I know literally nobody who uses DuckDB. I’ll have a look in my copious free time, but if its main selling point is ease of installation, that one-time benefit means next to nothing compared to getting the DB (and its visualization capabilities, if any) to actually store and manipulate data in a useful way.
5. Having said all that, it’s nice that there are new entrants in the field. But please don’t make it end up like the situation with content management systems, where everyone thinks it’s a good idea to write a new CMS and 99% of them are crap.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
“We lose value on every unit, but make it up through volume.”