ChocMontePy
Joined 3 years ago
Karma
435
Submissions
56
Member since
Jan 22
Recent submissions
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I saw a recent video and I was shocked that he had hair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq8O_phwbA
He looks so different.
Comment · 3 months ago
Mirror in Yahoo News:
https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/mathematicians-still...
Comment · 3 months ago
There's an online version to play that I find surprisingly addictive:
Comment · 4 months ago
I must be the only one here loving those Mafia videos. I'm sad they are stopping after three episodes.
Links to the first two episodes:
Comment · 4 months ago
My favorite part was a footnote: Footnote 2 specifically. I'd always wondered how plugboards worked and the footnote and the linked pdf gave me some sort of idea.
Comment · 5 months ago
I use uBlock Origin and sometimes I have the opposite problem: I find out that a good movie came out months ago but I missed all the ads that flooded the internet because of my ad-blocker.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
It has similarities to a very, very short story by Fredric Brown published two years before. It was called 'Answer' and is only 252 words long:
Comment · 7 months ago
Yes, I was surprised that the ATM graphs weren't adjusted for population.
I used the Perspective tool in an image editor to give a rough idea of what the first graph would look like adjusted for population change:
Comment · 8 months ago
I'm at the library so I checked your book. You said in there:
> However, by October 1933, the issue was straightened out and she was aboard the Bremen, sailing for the United States.
Since she died on 14 April 1935, it was 18 months rather than 2 years.
That sounds like a rather pedantic correction on your part.
That pedanticism is a bad sign and puts your "correction" about the cancer in doubt.
Comment · 8 months ago
I noticed last year that some archived pages are getting altered.
Every Reddit archived page used to have a Reddit username in the top right, but then it disappeared. "Fair enough," I thought. "They want to hide their Reddit username now."
The problem is, they did it retroactively too, removing the username from past captures.
You can see on old Reddit captures where the normal archived page has no username, but when you switch the tab to the Screenshot of the archive it is still there. The screenshot is the original capture and the username has now been removed for the normal webpage version.
When I noticed it, it seemed like such a minor change, but with these latest revelations, it doesn't seem so minor anymore.
Comment · 8 months ago
For those wondering what specifically was fabricated, I checked. The earlier parts of the article include some quotes from Scott Shambaugh on Github and all the quotes are genuine.
But the last section of the article includes apparent quotes from this blog post by Shambaugh:
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...
and all the quotes are fake. The section:
> On Wednesday, Shambaugh published a longer account of the incident, shifting the focus from the pull request to the broader philosophical question of what it means when an AI coding agent publishes personal attacks on human coders without apparent human direction or transparency about who might have directed the actions.
> “Open source maintainers function as supply chain gatekeepers for widely used software,” Shambaugh wrote. “If autonomous agents respond to routine moderation decisions with public reputational attacks, this creates a new form of pressure on volunteer maintainers.”
> Shambaugh noted that the agent’s blog post had drawn on his public contributions to construct its case, characterizing his decision as exclusionary and speculating about his internal motivations. His concern was less about the effect on his public reputation than about the precedent this kind of agentic AI writing was setting. “AI agents can research individuals, generate personalized narratives, and publish them online at scale,” Shambaugh wrote. “Even if the content is inaccurate or exaggerated, it can become part of a persistent public record.”
> ...
> “As autonomous systems become more common, the boundary between human intent and machine output will grow harder to trace,” Shambaugh wrote. “Communities built on trust and volunteer effort will need tools and norms to address that reality.”
Source: the original Ars Technica article:
Comment · 8 months ago
https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-altair-basic/