Links
AI
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Forget the AI doom and hype, let’s make computers useful
[…] the “learning” of DNNs is fundamentally unlike human learning, even if we use the same word. The neural network is unable to generalize from what it has “learned.” And making this point, AlphaGo was recently defeated by a human opponent who repeatedly used a style of play that had not been in the training data. This inability to handle new situations seems to be a hallmark of AI systems.
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Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza
They fed these systems almost the entirety of human knowledge accrued over ten thousand years of history, and they still “think” that pizza should have glue in it.
From a comment that seems to have disappeared…
Scavenger’s Reign
Scavenger’s Reign is one of the best Sci‐Fi TV Programs in years and you really should go and watch it on Netflix right now.
- 2023’s best animated sci-fi series might be getting a second chance at Netflix, but I hate that it’s on us to save it
- Why can’t television nurture animated shows for grown-ups?
OpenBSD
As I said previously, I’ve pretty much given up on OpenBSD for now, but here are some more handy links.
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I need to enter “disable acpipci” to boot my HP mini.
Some misc tech‐related stuff
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How common is it for people to not know their own email address?
I get this all the time! I’ve had emails for Amanda Thirds, Ashley Thirds, even at least one other Alan Third. I’ve received train tickets for a journey right across Canada, family photos of not‐my‐family, and, my favourite so far, ownership records of a fishing boat up in the north‐east. I could be a fisherman.
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‘Amusingly’ my browser froze for about a minute before loading the notes website to make a note of this article.