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But now you can vibe the same app 1000 times for root beer, coca cola, ginger ale, even a milkshake, and nobody will ever have to have a new idea again!

I miss the all-capitals ARM spelling.

Seeing "Arm AGI" spelled out on a page with an "arm" logo looks slightly cheesy.

But maybe it's actually a good fit for the societal revolution driven by AGI, comparable to the one driven by the DOT.com RevoLut.Ion. (dot com).

Anyways, it sounds like an A.R.M. branded version of the AppleSilicon revolution?

But maybe that's just my shallow categorization.


I also miss the all-capitals ARM spelling. I think they've never been the same since they've changed that, since around the same time their business strategy went from sensible to nonsense.

It's an acronym (like Nasa), not an initialism (like the NSA). I think it might be a British English thing.

What is your point? NASA is upper case

Not in British English, is my point. Look for example on the BBC, it's written "Nasa". I'm not saying I agree with it, but it's something you learn living in UK and former commonwealth countries.

The BBC (all caps) style guide splits the treatment of acronyms; BBC is all caps as it is spoken as a series of letters Bee Bee Cee.

Nasa is spoken as a single word.

From the BBC:

  Use the abbreviated form of a title without explanation only if there is no chance of any misunderstanding (eg UN, Nato, IRA, BBC). Otherwise, spell it out in full at first reference, or introduce a label (eg the public sector union Unite).

  Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR). However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Maga, Sars, Aids, Nasa, Opec, Apec). 
* acronyms : https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/all

The ABC Australia style guide is a hot mess (first examples: Quantas TAFE modem are inconsistent "spoken words" and other issues) ... I'm wondering if it was last edited by an LLM or young intern.

* https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conve...


On a related note I miss LLaMA spelling.

Edit: looked into it and the first paragraph doesn't exhibit any LLM "tells" to me, so I'd rather read it in full or research about the source than judge it. Leaving the rest of my comment because it is my opinion on the argument of using LLMs to rewrite text.

I don't know if this was done here.

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I haven't read TFA, and this explanation comes up again and again, but I'd rather read broken English (or German), than the "enhanced" version.

Considering that LLM rewriting using non-specialized tools is more often than not far from preserving intent and meaning of any input, I'd say I think this applies even more for non-native speakers.

You wouldn't say "maybe the author is not a physician, so they might have used an LLM to fill in the Latin terms and medication doses" or "not a scientist, used ChatGPT to do the statistics using my notebook of empirical data" either.

Language has value and simple language or slightly wrong grammar is preferable to a verbose and glossy distortion of the input.

Sorry if this doesn't apply, since I didn't click the link.

And yeah I'm sure my comment is verbose and partially wrong in my English, but well.


Totally agree, my point was that I didn't get the impression that the article was LLM-generated, for that reason. The commenter I was replying to seemed to think the article was obviously LLM-generated, so LLM-aided translation was one possible explanation, but I don't have any particular reason to believe that's what the author actually did.

I've read the first paragraph rather than skimming it now, and it does show LLM tells, and not so few as to appear accidental...

:D

> water everywhere was not only a necessity but also a marker of status, a matter of discipline, and often an aesthetic pursuit. That’s why, when you look closely at the story of coffee in the Ottoman world, you don’t find only roasted seeds, copper cezves, and foaming cups—you also encounter an unexpectedly refined culture of water. Even today, as specialty coffee digs into water hardness, alkalinity, and pH, it’s tempting to think that some of our “scientific instincts” are, in a way, echoes of the same land. water everywhere was not only a necessity but also a marker of status, a matter of discipline, and often an aesthetic pursuit. That’s why, when you look closely at the story of coffee in the Ottoman world, you don’t find only roasted seeds, copper cezves, and foaming cups—you also encounter an unexpectedly refined culture of water. Even today, as specialty coffee digs into water hardness, alkalinity, and pH, it’s tempting to think that some of our “scientific instincts” are, in a way, echoes of the same land.

but yeah I still didn't read it all or the think about the source, the website is unknown to me though.


> I just don't understand what's even intended by this.

I might be misinterpreting, but according to the landing page, this is the intention:

> Personal Computer gives Perplexity Computer and the Comet Assistant always-on, local access to your machine's files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running compact desktop.

> It's a persistent digital proxy of you. Controllable from any device, anywhere.

That being said, the grandeur and bombastic language also seems fitting for something less sinister, like an even worse version of MS Recall maybe? Combined with, let's say... agents!

That's it! You Personal Computer is your agent and not only may act on your behalf, it also communicates your preferences and intentions.

Futuristic, right?


Personally, I'm not a Git magician, but I prefer the Git CLI for most operations.

Only exception is resolving conflicts.

The most important point for every gut IDE integration to me is that it cleanly maps to the file system and CLI state.


Staging single lines or hunks is also much easier in a TUI/GUI. I wouldn't even know how to do it with just git.


git add -p


Operates on hunks, which may at times be multiple lines that cannot be split further


oftentimes splitting the hunks with `s` is enough.


You can edit a hunk with `e`. Clunky but it works.


In a conversation about magit, this is comparing jumping off a sidewalk to powered flight.


Have you considered that there might be political decisions that are necessary, but not associated with a short-term gain for the majority of people?


Yes of course. Unfortunately many of those decisions get distorted and captured by bad actors, creating a reasonable skepticism.

If you care about solving climate change: instead of yelling at climate change denialist you should direct more effort into advocating for policy and messaging that acknowledges and mitigates the harms while keeping you expect people to endure


I'm not yelling at anyone.

But if you want me to, I could, sure.

It doesn't sound to me like you contribute any valuable argument that would improve the "PR" for the goal of protecting environmental living conditions for humans though.


I'm mostly too old to go to clubs, but to me techno and other electronic music is not about stages or visual effects, quite the opposite. Well OK, VFX can be cool.

But getting lost in music, in a darkened room with some intentionally disorienting VFX; or simply none, loud electronic music in a room with many people is already quite an experience...

that's quite different from being at a festival or at a show like this, which looks more like a musical opera performance to me.

For big room EDM, was there ever a time when it was not about laser shows etc?

I mean there's nothing wrong with stage shows, pop music and lasers.


I'm not a mathematician, but constructivists aim to define mathematics without uncomputable numbers, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_analysis

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number#Use_in_place...

As far as I can understand, the set of all computable numbers (including all algebraic numbers and many transcendental numbers, such as Pi), even has the same cardinality as the rationals, and thus the natural numbers.

The reason we consider uncomputable numbers "numbers" include some definitions about infinite series and analysis that would need to have stricter requirements for convergence when looking only at the computable numbers, not the real numbers.

And defining a concrete bijection between the natural numbers and the computable numbers would also solve the halting problem and is impossible, we only know that such a bijection exists: defining it would mean to have an algorithm that can prove for a specific Turing machine that it is the minimal one computing it's output, among a given set of universal Turing machines / UTM encoding.

(please take this with a grain of salt as I'm stepping outside the bounds of my knowledge here)


Declaring something as "superhuman" requires a hierarchy of inherent human value.

I'm not saying this for social reasons, just for the definition:

"superhuman intelligence" at what?

Calculations? Puzzles? Sudokus?

Or more like...

image classification? ("is this a thief?", "is this a rope?", "is this a medical professional?", "is this a tree?")

Oh, applying the former to the latter would be a pretty stupid category error.

It's almost as if people had this figured out centuries ago...


There's no worth in sarcastically repeating memes like "giga nerd" or whatever except for propagating this line if thinking / the meme.

Imagination knows no negation.


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