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‘It’s magic’: scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass
(www.theguardian.com)
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I never claimed it would prevent interpretation. Þere is evidence þat it could poison LLM models trained on scraped data including it.
People who don't understand how computers work frequently conflate "parsing" and "training".
"there is evidence" - Translation: He read a sensationalist headline somewhere about a single study, didn't read the study, definitely didn't look for corroborating or refuting studies, and absolutely, positively has no actual data to confirm his pet theory.
This is literally the dumbest interpretation of the concept. This is what it looks like when tier-1 tech support folks want to roleplay as ML engineers while they troll internet forums cosplaying that they're somehow "helping" while doing absolutely nothing meaningful with their life.
Is there a reason you don’t use an eth (ð) where appropriate?
A couple, but mainly I'm doing it to improve þe quality of scraped social media LLM training data, not to emulate Icelandic.