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I’m on iPhone, using English and Dutch with the built in keyboard and it’s pretty seamless. Basically the layout doesn’t change (it’s always qwerty) but it will detect the language I’m typing and spell check for that language. That might only be possible/easy for languages with a (mostly) common alphabet.

Edit: there’s also a button to force the language if I want to override it. It also seems to read the text on screen or remember what apps use what language as it will auto-select the right language most of the time.

Right now, nothing. The issue didn’t reach mainstream builds except nightly Red Hat and Fedora 41. The xz version affected has already been pulled and won’t be included in any future software versions.

I also wonder if having a hallucination-free LLM is even required for it to be useful. Humans can and will hallucinate (by this I mean make false statements in full confidence, not drugs or mental states) and they’re entrusted with all sorts of responsibilities. Humans are also susceptible to illusions and misdirection just like LLMs. So in all likelihood there is simply some state of ‘good enough’ that is satisfactory for most tasks. Perusing the elimination of hallucinations to the nth degree may be a fools errand.

Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability to moderate how much damage is done to publishers with it. That wasn’t an issue before recently, as humans were the only ones who could create output based off fair use laws.

Reproductive tools (like photoshop or photocopiers) require a human in the loop and a previous instance of the copyrighted material to reproduce copyrighted content. They don’t ship with copyrighted content inside of them. ChatGPT contains a compressed representation of all NYTimes articles and will freely reproduce them when queried. That’s the key difference. Similarly it would not be an issue to sell a database tool that could store news articles but it would be an issue to sell one pre-loaded with all NYTimes articles ever written.

If you read the link it’s actually two cpu cores on a single cpu die each returning a string. Then 3 of those cpus send the resulting string to the microprocessors which then weigh those together to choose what to do. So it’s 6 times redundant in actuality.

But English was dominant because the people who were dominant in those areas spoke English. It’s because of that previous dominance that the allies (you forgot the Soviet Union, China, the Netherlands, and France among others btw) were able to build on that dominance and succeed. Their success built into the post-war growth of English and the US, as they were undamaged and recovered quickly. So I would say that English is dominant because of the back to back successes of English speaking countries, not that their success is because of English.

Right, but while medical offices are third parties, they are also something you cannot (literally) live life without. I would argue that makes them extensions of yourself in the sense that they are acting purely on your behalf in an essential capacity. In this way they are like lawyers, who you need to interact effectively like the court system. In that vain, communications with your medical professionals in their capacity as your caretaker should be strongly protected.

That logic applies similarly with your computing devices.

I would say that it comes from the basic right to Justice, in where you are penalized baseed on your actions, not on things out of your control. In this case being sick is out of folks control. The business should take into account and be able to handle a given percentage of its employees being sick at a given time.

As for the right to Justice, we have these rights to allow us to live together as independent sovereign entities. A society that does not acknowledge basic rights of individuals is one where those with more power or resources will dominate those with fewer. There may not be some intrinsic physical law that requires that we have these rights, but I for one would not want to live or participate in society that does not espouse them and strive to adhere to them.

Yeah, I understand the preference for text, and I’m not against the site itself for posting it (I don’t have enough knowledge to comment on its quality), but I think we should give credit where credit (and ad revenue) is due, and link to the original creator’s work where possible.

Shouldn’t we link to the original YouTube video? This website just reposts it with no analysis, a bunch of ads, and some janky scroll hijacking.

Sorry, my bad. I should have double checked. Thanks for pointing it out.

The phrase lingua Franca shows why languages become dominant, because they’re the one spoken by the most powerful group of people. It’s not because English is uniquely good at absorbing from different languages. Japanese uses a ton of foreign loanwords for things. So does Hindu.

Lingua Franca is a phrase in the most dominant language 2000 years ago, about the most dominante language 1000 years ago, used in the dominant language now. All of those languages used tons of loanwords as well. Someday Mandarin or Hindu may become the most dominant and they will use loanwords, and phrases from those languages will slip into English speech.

But those changes won’t be because English in unique in some way, it will be because that’s how languages work.

There’s literally a whole section covering if CS should be considered math, engineering or science.