Some of the many advantages of LLMs over SO is that the LLM is friendly and fast.
That's why Kids Today™ prefer Discord to forums. Someone replies immediately. You don't have to wait for an answer and check back.
LLMs are rarely rude. It can be terrifying to make yourself vulnerable and admit in public you don't know something basic. Especially when humans are mean and judgemental.
Everyone knows the weekends are the best time to push important updates, right?
From Jeep Wrangler forum: Did anyone else have a loss of drive power after today's OTA Uconnect update?
On my drive home I abruptly had absolutely no acceleration, the gear indicator on the dash started flashing, the power mode indicator disappeared, an alert said shift into park and press the brake + start button, and the check engine light and red wrench lights came on. I was still able to steer and brake with power steering and brakes for maybe 30 seconds before those went out too. After putting it into park and pressing the brake and start button it started back up and I could drive it normally for a little bit, but it happened two more times on my 1.5 mi drive home.
Did anyone else have a loss of drive power after today's OTA Uconnect update?
On my drive home I abruptly had absolutely no acceleration, the gear indicator on the dash started flashing, the...
Oops, forgot to let our followers here know that we released 0.87.1 last week! This version includes a fix for a small bug that crept into 0.87.0 that prevented syncing of weightlifting workouts on Garmins.
But the bigger news is that we also managed to get reproducible builds at F-Droid in place in time for this release!
You mention that you're publishing both your self-signed and the F-Droid signed build on F-Droid? Do you have more details about how that works and what you had to do to set that up?
I've wanted to have Catima be RB on F-Droid without breaking existing updates for quite a while, but I didn't really manage to make any progress when trying to talk to the @fdroidorg team, so I'd love to know how you got this working :)
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Its always funny to see people who say "I did this with the help of AI because noone else seems to have done it before, and I didn't know how to do it either, so I used AI for that." Thing is, the fact that AI could do it for you basically means that it has been done before and AI trained on it. What you actually wanted to say is: "I spent some time rebuilding someone else's work because I wasn't able to find it on Google." I know this is overdramatized, but also not totally wrong.
@menelion The part I find the most distressing is when someone has a really good idea, and then they try to get AI to do it, the AI claims to have implemented their idea (but hasn't: it can't), and then they think there's a problem with the idea.
These systems are the polar opposite of creativity.
@wizzwizz4 @menelion AI cannot be creative the way it is right now, it can only be reproductive. AI can be good fuel to spark your own creativity, but it cannot replace or implement it.
You are partially correct, but this is an oversimplification of how an AI model, for example a LLM works. It can, and does, use data that it got during its training phase, but that's not the entire story, otherwise it'd be called a database that regurgitates what it was trained on. On top of the trained data there's zero-shot learning, for example to figure out a dialect of a language it hasn't been trained on, based on statistical probability of weights from the trained data, as well as combine existing patterns into new patterns, thus coming up with new things, which are arguably part of creativity.
What it can't do though is, and this is very likely what you mean, it can't go outside it's pre-trained patterns. For example, if you have a model that was trained on dragons and another model that was trained on motorcycles, if you combine those two models, they can come up with a story where a dragon rides a motorcycle, even though that story has not been part of its training data. What it can't do is come up with a new programming language because that specific pattern does not exist. So the other part of creativity where you'd think outside the box is a no go. But a lot of people's boxes are different and they are very likely not as vast as what the models were trained on, and that's how an AI model can be inspiring.
This is why a lot of composers feel that AI is basically going to take over eventually, because they will have such a vast amount of patterns that a director, trailer library editor, or other content creator will be satisfied with the AI's results. The model's box will be larger than any human's.
@erion @menelion Most of the generative capabilities of an LLM come from linear algebra (interpolation), and statistical grammar compression. We can bound the capabilities of a model by considering everything that can be achieved using these tools: I've never seen this approach overestimate what a model is capable of.
"Zero-shot learning" only works as far as the input can be sensibly embedded in the parameter space. Many things, such as most mathematics, can't be viewed this way.
It never will, because modern LLMs are far more capable.
They rely on non-linear activation functions (like ReLU, GELU, etc.) after the linear transformations. If the network were purely linear, it could only learn linear relationships, regardless of its depth. The non-linearities are what allow the network to learn complex, non-linear mappings and interactions between inputs.
There's also scaling, arguably an internal world model, being context-aware (which is definitely not something linear). If anything, this would underestimate a model.
It would be really important for everyone to read about the theory of appeasement and how it has *never* worked.
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The catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust have shaped the world’s understanding of appeasement. The diplomatic strategy is often seen as both a practical and a moral failure.
Today, based on archival documents, we know that appeasing Hitler was almost certainly destined to fail. Hitler and the Nazis were intent upon waging an offensive war and conquering territory. But it is important to remember that those who condemn Chamberlain often speak with the benefit of hindsight. Chamberlain, who died in 1940, could not possibly have foreseen the scale of atrocities committed by the Nazis and others during World War II.
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We have the hindsight today. Let's not make the same mistakes.
In the 1930s, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the British government pursued a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany to avoid war. Learn more.
Hoje, em que mais uma vez tive que votar acompanhado em razão de deficiência visual, reitero: o voto exclusivamente em papel não serve. R eu conheço, certamente melhor do que a maioria, os riscos e dificuldades do voto electrónico. Mas assim é uma vergonha para a democracia.
Ter os boletins em braile seria uma ajuda neste caso? Não sei em termos de legislação o que seria necessário, mas, acho que seria um bom passo para a inclusão e algo que podemos exigir.
@tramos mas depois, especialmente em freguesias mais pequenas, quantas pessoas votariam em braile? Talvez uma espécie de régua em braile para alinhar com o boletim em papel já dava para garantir o anonimato. Em plástico, para ver se não fica com as marcas da caneta.
@Isabel626 @tramos Isso existe excepto em autarquicas. Assume logo à partida que quem não vê sabe braille, o que é um absurdo para pessoas que perderam a visão em adultos ou idosos, e é pouco fiável: a matriz sai do sítio, a caneta pode não excrever..
To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity. This is what you voted for, is it?
I had the same thought as I'm currently in the process of choosing a vacuum. Wanted to go for a robot, but decided I'd still need to clean manually once a week, so it's probably best to start with a manual thing. Thinking about a wet-dry vacuum so I don't have to wipe the floor separately, but then again — I have two large carpets. No clue what I'm gonna do, but I sure am excited.
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“W° @stephenGutowski
Jeep just pushed a software update that bricked all the 2024 Wrangler
4xe models, including my Willys. The future is going great.
12:56 PM - Oct 1, 2025 - 154.4K Views
15 Was Q 14k Res 2
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[8 Stephen Gutowski & ©StephenGutowski - 21h [oJ
“MW Here's what the issue looks like for those wondering
=,
. 3 DON'T UPDATE Your U-Connect | Jeep Wrangler 4x...
~ As of October 10th 2025 the uconnect update is
| causing major issues for many 4xe owners. We lose.
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“M\" When mine bricked, | did the infotainment reset. You put the car in acc
mode then press the radio power and tune buttons for ten seconds until
the screen restarts. Then turn it on. | had to do that several times before the
Jeep would drive again.
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“MW so, here's what Jeep says. It's the telematics box, which as far as |
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Some of the many advantages of LLMs over SO is that the LLM is friendly and fast.
That's why Kids Today™ prefer Discord to forums. Someone replies immediately. You don't have to wait for an answer and check back.
LLMs are rarely rude. It can be terrifying to make yourself vulnerable and admit in public you don't know something basic. Especially when humans are mean and judgemental.