> The problem with saying something is LLM generated is it cannot be proven and is a less-helpful way of saying it has errors.
It's a very helpful way of saying it shouldn't be bothered to be read. After all, if they couldn't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.
You have no idea how much personal work went behind it. You just suspect it was worded with a LLM.
I have been using embeddings for almost a decade and am well versed with their intricacies. I think this article has merit. The direction of the investigation and the conclusion are interesting, good to have people thinking about how many distinct concepts can be packed in our usual embedding dimension. Wondering how small can you make embedding before a model becomes noticeably worse, given constant parameter count.
The complaint was that the post has a lot of basic inconsistencies which is a problem regardless.
If your content is as bad as AI slop it doesn't really matter if it is or not, but I think it's safe to assume that when a verbose and grandiose post is internally inconsistent and was written after 2022, it's slop[0]
Anyone interested in a subject can, if they wish, ask an AI about it and get an answer. Your deep conversation with an AI is something fun and insightful only to yourself. You're welcome to do it, but don't pretend it has meaning to anyone else, because if they want to get the same insight on a topic they can do it themselves for the same amount of effort (none).
They didn't want to buy him, they wanted the other guy to lose. Me Too basically turned the entirety of Silicon Valley leadership into happy fascists when it became clear they weren't allowed to sexually harass (or worse) their employees anymore. That was more important than pretty much anything else.
You're right but I think it's even more broad than just sexual harassment, racism, bullying, etc. MAGA has given people license to be shitty and not have to worry (as much) about the social, legal or political costs. In many cases, people are actively rewarded for their bad behavior because "it makes them authentic" or because there's a large enough percentage of the population that shares the same biases.
After Intel released a microcode update that turned my processor into one that retails for $100 less, I don't really trust claims or even benchmarks until they're > 1 year old.
Intel also, as far as I'm concerned, owes me $100.
I am not sure why you tried to draw a distinction between the BIOS and the IME in that regard. The IME also stores its firmware in the SPI flash alongside the rest of the platform firmware.
Other comments miss the point entirely. Sure it's possible to circumvent this performance impact, but that's not without its risks and you are still right about being skeptical over performance claims.
As far as I'm aware there's no disabling this one, it's that 13th/14th gen performance "fix" (that coincidentally turns your processor into one that sells for $100 less).
Yeah, it "works" in that it's a processor and does things. But the "fix" they provided was to basically eliminate its top end performance (the thing that got benchmarked, and the reason it sells at a premium).
As far as I can tell that’s not what happened. What happened is that some motherboard manufacturers gave the chip too much power, more than intel recommended, and fried it.
No that wasn't the problem. Intel was providing too much voltage internally on boost and it is damaging the CPUs. They decreased the voltage but then a bunch of already damaged CPUs are marginal so now they are boosting other voltages to bring them to stability and the consequence is a reduction in the boost clock speeds. The patches will keep coming as these CPUs degrade more rapidly, they are all going to die young its just a question of when and whether Intel will be on the hook for it or not.
That's what Intel wants everyone to believe but not quite accurate. Intel was vague at best about what the motherboard manufacturers should and were allowed to do but even following their guidance as best as possible resulted in CPU failures. Gamers Nexus did a few videos on this, here is one that covers most of it.
In a lot of places in the world you can return new cars. I would return one that did that. Manufacturers won't get the hints until they start seeing returns wreck their bottom line.
They could try to cheat! That's actually what Volvo did in the Dieselgate. The EU regulation mandated the impossible duo of lower NOx emission and higher fuel efficiency. Diesel engines get higher efficiency by increasing compression ratio, which also increases NOx production.
possibilities:
(1) they get lots of angry customers and bad press, and are tired of being made to look bad because of gov req's
(2) it costs them more to manufacture all the fancy nanny tech, so their bottom line would be positively impacted by rolling back the requirement for it
I don't know the law in your country but most forms of credit have a 'cooling off' period where you can return the money or asset and reset the credit agreement within a certain time but I'm not sure if doing it a lot in a small period of time would flag to a future creditor though.
For anyone reading this wondering "why do this" -- take a listen to some songs by Patty Griffin. Nobody's Crying is played on guitar in DADDAD tuning which is used to provide a drone DAD notes below the changing chord.
blah blah blah. Speak for yourself. I'll miss him, probably along with many others, as a cultural piece of my childhood, adolescence and for years still there as a curious part of a changing adult world. If we judged every human being in history by these nebulously stupid standards, there'd be nobody left to like.
You should listen to the racist recording. It wasn't nebulous, it was clearly and explicitly racist. Most people think he went way too far. This isn’t a case of subtle racism where people might be overreaching; what he said was awful.
Sorry you can't outgrow your childhood, but you should come to terms that the man you idolized was a shitty person.
Here's the quote, talking about his daughter: “I mean, I’d rather if she was going to fck some ngger, I’d rather have her marry an 8-foot-tall ngger worth a hundred million dollars! Like a basketball player! I guess we’re all a little racist. Fcking n*gger.”
Meh. Shitty words, sure, but I've read and heard worse from all kinds of people, enough not to completely dismiss the possible better, and more interesting aspects of someone because they didn't speak nicely or intelligently in every context.
And there are plenty of people who can still be liked, or appreciated at least, who also were racist and misogynist, or whatever other moral defect you like. It's okay to show affection for someone who didn't perfectly fit the strictures of what a specific type of virtue signalling labels as correct.
On the contrary. My worldview has been and still is shaped by an ever changing learning curve of the world's nature. That includes being flexible enough to show some affection even for that which doesn't fit rigorous dogmas of conduct. Can you say the same about your labels?
>i think it's a bit unfair to judge him on some things he said privately to a friend.
I think it must be nice to think private racist thoughts expressed so regularly are just fine. Usually this kind of thinking is because the person can't ever imagine being affected by racism.
I wonder how many people throughout his career he refused to work with, didn't hire, went after, because of their skin color. People aren't famously racist without ever expressing it.
Can you explain this? Why would they be in favour of outing someone against their will? I’m genuinely curious because on the surface it seems very cruel.
I believe they feel it is better for the gay community to have more out people, there is strength in numbers and perception of normality; people pretending not to be gay are making gay seem more unusual.
I've worked on Surge, which is (to my knowledge) the only fully accessible synthesizer. It uses Juce's a11y abilities to do this work, plus a whole lot of very thoughtful design. We have multiple blind users.
Losing my mind like that as I go up in age is my greatest fear. Sad to see it happen to someone like that.
As an unrelated aside, Don, thanks for all the historical anecdotes you share here. It's one of the things that makes reading this site a joy at times.
Speaking of operationalizing the woke mind virus, here's a funny story about GROK, Jessica Rabbit, Vivian Jenna Wilson, Marshal McLuhan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hunter S Thompson, HAL 9000, and other simulated characters appearing together on a fictional episode of Mike Myer's classic SNL skit "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman":
Episode: "The MechaHitler Breakdown" - July 9, 2025:
If you're not familiar with the "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman" cultural reference, here is the most awesome epic episode (where Madonna disses herself, and a very special cameo appearance):
As you might guess it's kind of like The Sims meets Minsky's Society of Mind running in Cursor, and it includes simulated characters like Linus Torvalds who is great at practical stuff like helping out with git, devops, programing, and extremely harsh code reviews.
Simulated Linus's best burn (and possibly patentable great idea) was:
"I bet you even had pie menus in the bathroom! 'Which direction to flush?'"
But back to reality:
What was so shocking was the amount of energy Jonathan Payne puts into his hatred of trans people, constantly scanning his Facebook feed with paranoid zeal, relentlessly dropping in uninvited out of the blue on two different occasions to provoke fights in public with innocent people he doesn't even know, who were just trying to have a friendly discussion.
I hope I get too tired and lazy to hate that intensely and vigorously before I am so old that I lose my mind that badly.
Here is what I wrote to Arthur van Hoff and James Gosling about Jonathan Payne's behavior:
>I have many trans, gay, and otherwise marginalized friends, and Jonathan Payne posted a bunch of uninvited transphobic bullshit on my Facebook page in the middle of a conversation we were having about transphobia, which several of my trans friends were participating in, and where many others could see.
>This includes, among many other people, Lynn Conway, an 86 year-old trans woman, computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist, who INVENTED superscalar computer architecture at IBM, who in 1968 FIRED her and destroyed her life for transitioning, then 52 years later in 2020 officially and publicly apologized to her. Later after putting her life back together from scratch under a new identity she worked at Xerox PARC and WROTE THE BOOK on VLSI design, and taught classes on VLSI design at MIT to none other than Guy Steele, who you certainly know, who in her class designed his famous hardware Scheme microprocessor, and to James Clark, founder of SGI and Netscape, who in her class designed his original 3d graphics accelerator hardware, and also to our own friend David Levitt.
>It was humiliating to me for Jonathan Payne to embarrass me in front of so many of my trans friends including Lynn Conway.
It's a very helpful way of saying it shouldn't be bothered to be read. After all, if they couldn't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.
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