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One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton
I’m bored to death by such pieces of crap: 98 minutes of chit-chatting. As if life weren’t already too short! AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The…
They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!
Sabine Hossenfelder, on YouTube: I can’t believe this really happened. From the description: “My former academic institution discontinued my affiliation with them after members of the community complained about my…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
Sabine being Sabine, and the entanglement not being Einstein’s spooky action…
If you never heard of Sabine Hossenfelder, read my older post about her. This short one is meant to come with updates on her obsession and her raison d'être. On…
Psihologie socială și suveranisme — preluări de pe FB
Tocmai ce le-am postat pe Facebook, dar mi-am zis să le pun și aici. Prima postare se referă la Dumitru Borțun, iar a doua la Natalia Morari și, prin ricoșeu,…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
Scientists can be smart and stupid at the same time
I did not mention Sabine Hossenfelder on this blog, but only in e-mails and in a comment elsewhere. I used to watch her on YouTube between end-2022 and February 2024.…
A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones
Because of the few mega-retards of the planet, everything is breaking into pieces. As if cupidity, stupidity, and corruption weren’t enough, wars and a certain orange pithecanthrope’s tyrannic propensities made…
The Tate brothers equivalent for the intellectual type: Grim
A blog was originally meant to work as an online journal; social networks didn’t exist when the “weblogs” were invented. Well, let’s make this post exactly this: a report about…
Vibe coding just got cheaper
I hate vibe coding, but how I feel is irrelevant. The world is a broken hamster wheel, and it spins faster and faster. After OpenAI's Codex, there’s a new “bug…
🎞️ 3 x Žižek with no comments
I constantly reassert my hatred for YouTube, with its (literally!) billions of videos and too many podcasts that often take 2-3 hours each, because there isn’t enough time to watch…
Nu am cu cine să votez! Voi aveți?
M-am lămurit în această privință cu mai multă vreme în urmă, dar zilele trecute m-a călcat pe nervi și Nicușor Dan, însă de-abia acum m-am hotărât să scriu și această…
Varoufakis believes in the Tooth Fairy, and in Putin’s word
🗓️ Posted on March 12, 🎞️ Yanis Varoufakis on Why European Rearmament Will Weaken Europe. Transcript: Hello, this is the 10th of March 2025, and I'm Yanis Varoufakis with my…
How does a LLM work? These videos won’t help that much ➕ Microsoft hallucinates!
All the YouTube videos about how AI works, with stress on the chatbots based on LLMs, are superficial. It can’t be otherwise for two reasons: any such presentation is popularized…
🤖 The biggest European IA conference nobody cares about
I’m not entirely sure whether what the title says is what I believe, but the fact is that El Presidente Macron El Primero wants to make France a big name…
From column to nushell: not what I expected
The former, column, is a utility from the bsdextrautils package, whereas the latter is a shell written in Rust. There is something they have in common: they both provide nicely…
Când credeam că le-am văzut pe toate…
Rolul lui YouTube a ajuns mai important decât al televiziunilor. Dacă oligofrenii sunt prostiți pe TikTok cu „producții” de 15 secunde, YouTube oferă, în afara producțiilor clasice aflate sub pragul…
Now I really developed a fear of flying!
The last week of December has seen some unfortunate aviation accidents and incidents. Not all were of the same kind, but there were too many either way. And, for the…
KDE5, KDE6, tiling and other rants
To some extent, this is a sort of follow-up to the previous extra-long feature Epic disappointments with Linux (not for the mentally retarded), which proved to be too complex a…
This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, together with DiEM25 and MERA25 activists, recently took part in an anti-war rally in Munich, Germany. This speech is likely to have taken place on February 17, 2024:…