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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/major-bgp-mishap-takes-down-google-as-traffic-improperly-travels-to-china/ BGP comes up time and time again, and like every time it’s google fucking up

First, do no harm.

ah yeah never say anything bad about anything, ever, especially if it’s a uwu smol bean shit product

thanks for taking a look!

Bean Dad but instead of a can opener it’s swimming/not drowning

Oof.

That being said, that’s not unheard of. I remember back when I was looking at scholarships and such that some places wanted video submissions, and I have friends in other industries that had to do the same. That in no way diminishes the shittiness of it all.

The ML angle seems novel though. Ostensibly you’d have a resume/cover letter that is effectively a set of tags for the video component, which I guess you could do sentiment analysis over? I guess the end game is to build a robot that can tell if you are a team player or not, and if you’d lie about it out of necessity for a job vs. eagerly for kool aid.

I mean would it be great if there were some way to freely generate explanations tailored to one’s individual experience? Absolutely, yes. Are LLMs that? Absolutely not. Have the cranks convinced themselves through a mashup of dunning-kruger and gell mann amnesia that LLMs are the first thing? Absolutely, yes.

that’s because you’re using GPT-3.5 Turbo. if you just pay an exorbitant amount for early access to GPT-5, you’ll see it does so much better (please ignore all previous claims of GPT-3 being revolutionary)

business card scene from american psycho but it’s LLM variants

What is great is that it only really starts approaching correct once you tell it to essentially copy paste from wikipedia.

Also, if some rando approached me on the street and showed me the wikipedia article for dijkstra’s and asked for me to help explain it, my first-ass instinct would be to check if there was a simple english version of the article, and go from there.

Disclaimer: I glossed over said SE article just now. It might not be a great explanation or even correct, but hey, it already exists and didn’t require 1.21 Jiggowatts to get there.

Oh man, I’ve always wondered how the hiring process could become more impersonal and demeaning, now I know!

You’re welcome!

(Though that is a more fun way of looking at things. Perhaps I am just joy-averse?)

Headcanon is that somebody criticised the theming of many of the homebrew commands (brew, tap, cask, bottle, formula etc.) as being IPA-enthusiast level insufferable, and the maintainer proceeded to respond in the worst fucking way

If only the “Dark Forest” hypothesis of human-extraterrestrial interaction would enter the public consciousness any sooner. We’d at least have more interesting ideas than this shit.

NB: I have not watched the 3BP adaptation yet, tho I have heard it is good. I have listened to the first two books as audiobooks and am tickled by Bruno Roubicek’s mildly (three body) problematic accent-work.