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Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
This is all so silly. Maybe there is interesting stuff there but in the meantime we're boiling the ocean for wrong answers.
Humans have been inventing machines to mostly do math for milennia, and it’s only recently that computing tasks have moved up the stack from calculations to higher human endeavors like writing, searching for information, and shitposting.
#blag#generativeai#maths
·vickiboykis.com·
Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
All of this. We need collective solutions.
Like any large open-source project, American democracy is kind of messy, requires a lot of volunteer effort, and often uses way too much memory.
Fundamentally, they are all trying to renegotiate the Instagram terms of service, which everyone signed without reading. But as individuals, they have no real leverage with which to drag Mark Zuckerberg to the bargaining table.
A vote for Harris is a vote for the future. It is a vote for solving collective action problems. It is a vote for working together, instead of tearing our world to shreds.
#endorsement#theverge#2024election#kamalaharris#donaldtrump
·theverge.com·
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
To Be Palestinian During Swarthmore College’s Campaign of Erasure — voices
To Be Palestinian During Swarthmore College’s Campaign of Erasure — voices
At Swarthmore College, even the maps adorning the walls deny the existence of Palestine. Imagine the deep anguish of witnessing your homeland and your people’s history erased with a casual stroke of ink, replaced simply by the word “Israel.” This reality struck me hard during what was advertised as
#swarthmore#opinion#palestine#divestment
·swarthmorevoices.com·
To Be Palestinian During Swarthmore College’s Campaign of Erasure — voices
‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine
‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine
One of the most penetrating critics of US racism discusses the reception to his new book and why talking about Palestine offered him a way to understand the world
#theguardian#tanehisicoates#interview#palestine#israel#racism
·theguardian.com·
‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine