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Once a dominant male porcupine finds a prospective female mate, he will approach her and spray his urine on her. The chemical reaction that takes place allows the female to be sexually receptive.

Yeah, that's fun. How similar we are to the animals!

From the perspective of my kids, having a FB account is a completely absurd idea.

I deleted my FB account around 5 years ago and never missed it.

So Shapiros viewership declined while Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens do better? What the fuck is wrong with people?

It's true, and it's very sad. We kill innovation and are proud of it. 99% of the people don't even see a problem. By the end of the century we'll be the South America of the globe. Well, minus the hot chicks.

@Horace said:
If a human can describe the logic in natural language then the LLM can code it. It seems you’re talking about the creative thinking behind generating abstractions but that’s not the same thing as generating code from well specified natural language. No matter how abstract the library, if a human can describe it unambiguously then an LLM can code it. If a human can code something then an LLM can too. Because if a human can code something then they can describe it.

True, but the hard part is not to translate logic in natural language to code, but it is in coming up with the logic. I'd argue that this is the actual coding.

Coding with LLMs works amazingly well, I love it.

But the one thing I'm not so certain about: LLMs are good at creating apps that use and combine the zoo of abstractions (libraries and frameworks etc) out there.

What remains to be seen is whether LLMs will be good at abstracting. Could they ever come up with a good design of a collections library, for instance, if such libraries weren't part of their learning data? Could they recognize patterns such as structural recursion over an algebraic data type and come up with the abstraction of folds/catamorphisms? That's not so obvious.

@Axtremus said:

Germany with its famous "German engineering," India with its army of IT professionals, Japan with its dominance in high-end consumer electronics, South Korea with its humongous electronic component manufacturing capacities, the UK and the entire European Union with their combined economic might ... it's like they don't exist in the global AI tech race.

It's true, and the depressing thing is that nobody cares. It's a non-topic. Not the politicians, not the media. As if AI wouldn't influence our future.

I love his technique when he plays those parallel scales - which he actually plays as single scales

I've never understood why people would stand near such a race track where this can happen at any time. Or why the organizers allow it.

What does the single 5 star review say?

@kluurs said:

Reporting says the Archdiocese was notified on March 25, before the public escalation in tensions between Trump and Pope Leo XIV that the meme is pointing to.

@taiwan_girl it's still klaus not kalus! But I already told you this a couple of times, so the attempt to get you to write my name correctly is presumably futile. It's disrespectful.

No, I used this for things unrelated to work and decided to pay it myself

And yes, you should be not only politely but highly impressed by this.

Given that Opus 4.7 dropped today, I'm seriously considering a $200 Claude Max subscription.

Opus 4.7 dropped today.

Meanwhile, I burned $100 worth of tokens in two days.

I know you are not necessarily the biggest Bach fan, and neither am I.

I find some of the fugues particularly annoying after a while.

But you enjoyed it, obviously.

How was it?

@jon-nyc said:

@Mik said:

Gemini comes through again. I don't know why I even bother with web searches anymore.

I’ve moved off of google searches almost completely. The exceptions are things that are faster there. Example, a quick F to C conversion - google comes back instantly, AI thinks a bit.

That said, these days the first thing Google shows you is what Gemini thinks about your search request, which is often helpful.

I assume the Christians among his base won't appreciate that kind of humor?

I have little doubt that he considers himself to be some kind of Jesus.

Does anybody have any contact data for Shy Sotomayor? Asking for a friend.

You need to make your photo puzzles way harder. You can post a photo of a local cat and somehow the folks in this forum will figure out within 20m where you are.