Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/01
The term “prompt engineer” actually everything about programming that programming is about: it’s just trading a known output language with cleanly defined rules for an unknown country that assembles pieces of text based on statistics.
[Wayback/Archive] Ian Brown ☑️: “Tired: “code generation” Wired…” – Mastodon
Tired: “code generation”
Wired: “software-defined software”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19
Who needs AI (:
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥
Sourcecode at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – codenoid/github-roast: Spicy GitHub Roast 🔥
Via [Wayback/Archive] Dennis Schubert: “okay, I finally found a good u…” – Mastodon
okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.
github-roast.pages.dev
this thing is brutal
In addition, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] lokal.so · GitHub: Supercharged HTTP/TCP/UDP Tunneling Software
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/22
[Wayback/Archive] Algoritmes nemen beslissingen over ons leven: hoe besluiten we of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets: “Het nieuwste nummer van Tijdsc…” – Mathstodon
Het nieuwste nummer van Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap staat online en gaat helemaal over Human-Machine Communication. Met bijvoorbeeld dit interessante artikelvan Gabi Schaap over hoe we besluiten of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/13
Kevlin Henney being interviewd by Richard Seidl [Wayback/Archive] MDVxFQrqZnh1OxlP.jpg (1200×675)
The quote from this abstract of the January 2024 interview with Kevlin Henney by Richard Seidl is important:
You really need to understand history. First of all, you need to understand history. Then, you need to understand language. And you need to go and talk to some customers. And then, you will realize how safe your job is. Because programming is not merely the assembly of syntax. It is the application of precision. It is the seeking of precision.And what is the answer? What is it that I’m trying to do?And it turns out that if you specify something badly in natural language, it works out even worse than if you did it in code.And we already know, for example– we can actually take inspiration from the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet, the spreadsheet. What we know from the spreadsheet is that most people who use a spreadsheet do not have a software development background.
Yes.
We also know that most spreadsheets are unmaintainable, incomprehensible, and buggy. If we are saying that the future of software development is people who are not software experts doing this stuff, your job is safe.
It is a fragment of the vodcast episode [Wayback/Archive] Software Engineering im Jahr 2034 – Richard Seidl which limits the quote to this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/27
Mentioned this on various social media already yesterday, as then suddenly – even for EU users, which is against their GDPR regulations – Twitter turned on data sharing with Grok AI of your Twitter data at x.com/settings/grok_settings (direct settings link) without given prior warning at all
I got this default setting despite living in The Netherlands and Twitter knowing that:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/24
If even companies that normally charge a fukcton of money* to advise the obvious gets it, why are so many still falling for it?
[Wayback/Archive] Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable
“Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful for even such basic tasks”
Via [Wayback/Archive] tldr.nettime – tante: “”What this means in plain Engl…”
“What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to change the world and are acting as such, while the reality is that this is a technology that is currently deeply unreliable and may not change much of anything at all.”
(Original title: Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12
A great visualisation that LLM are basically a bunch of numbers: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet.
It also shows you that Excel is an excellent tool for working with numbers and formulas on a larger scale.
(note the file is a .numbers file developed in the Mac version of Excel)
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/28
No matter if it has switched to AI or not, Googl Search will show the “not a pipe” image first.
[Wayback/Archive] William Gerrard on X: “Google is so broken that the first image it gave me for a pipe is something that is not a pipe 🙄 “
[Wayback/Archive] GOIFP6casAAhOd_.jpg (1170×1085)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/31
Starting the 2022-2023 period, more and more generative AI content has entered search engines.
The below queries give you some pointers on how to spot those. They return scholar articles from 2023 and later.
Note the list is in alphabetical order for easier reading, but the number of results (in parenthesis) are very different from that order. I was quite amazed to see “As an AI language model” scoring 45 results.
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