wise_pancake

Hold on, I’ve got 6 updates since you opened me an hour ago.

You can wait right?

I don’t know how I just overlooked it as a cool tower

Was the tower in the Civ 3 ad plus intro the Tower of Babel? Never made that connection before

I never considered the world where we invent the ability to accelerate time, and just use it for making workers work more shifts so they die even younger just to extract more value relative to those without the technology.

I haven't used 4chan since like 2008, so no idea how its changed.

I do remember a username/password mechanic but can't remember how it worked.

Why would anyone use their real email on 4chan? I wouldn’t touch it without at least a proxy or two and a vpn.

I’m doing my part!

There are various levels of AI here

Storing embeddings/vectors in a search index can make your searches smarter and more relevant. The embeddings squeeze related concepts closer together than pure keyword approaches, which if done well increases retrieval quality.

RAG tools and AI searches are just a layer on top of your index. When done well these can be really useful in annotating your results and speeding up finding things.

That’s useful when you’re searching say an error message and the AI is able to iterate on keywords and skim a Guthub issue about it and skip to the resolution.

Similarly it’s good when you’re researching something but don’t have the exact words, AI search can iterate and capture your intent, then run several queries based on that.

I don’t find the hallucination problem significant in practice with a lot of AI search tools, but I have found AI is vulnerable to certain types of SEO spam that a human would never fall for.

As an example most companies have a “comparison to” or “alternatives to” blogpost. The AI does not critically look at the fact that a service is hosting a blogpost shilling their own product. So asking search AI for options is actually poor quality because it will return the shilled results that appear in search first.

AI also search adds an additional silent layer of filtering, which you need to be conscious of.

Potentially that would be a good application of federation and distributed computing

An Internet archive like distributed tool, that then feeds into local tokenization and indexing.

Alternatively a centralized service that generates indices and then locally they are queried would save a lot of energy.

the email to Aboussad reads. “It is also concerning that you have not apologized to the company, and in fact you have shown no remorse for the effect that your actions have had and will have.”

Obviously there were going to fire these employees, especially the one who gave notice then did this.

But why the fuck would anyone be like “yOu DiDn’T eVeN aPoLoGiZe To ThE cOmPaNy”? That’s the stupidest god damn thing I’ve heard since “Liberation Day”

The stupidity of the formula when they have access to sone of the best central banking economists and economic models in the world does shock me.

Clearly they’re not leveraging anyone credible to do this. Even if it’s a terrible idea, flying it blind is even dumber.