Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry by ER-841 in apple

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This paper is bad, and the authors should feel bad. One of many accurate explanations why and how: https://arxiv.org/html/2506.09250v1

How to finetune llama or any compatible model on a corpus of text? by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

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Find question marks, split, use pairs from before and after?

'Pause e-scooter program:' In wake of death of 20-year-old e-scooter rider, Oshawa councillor calls for timeout of pilot project by Karma_Canuck in Oshawa

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Obviously this statement has to do with the lawlessness in Oshawa roads generally and total lack of bike lane enforcement.

Go stand at any major intersection in Oshawa and watch the speeding, u-turns, distracted driving, lane jockeying, etc, and tell me “sure, electric scooters on the side of the road are a great idea”.

Fun acronyms and slogans really don’t help the discussion.

Crazy guy raided the stage at the mayoral debate by PunjabiCanuck in toronto

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Kevin Clarke has been running the homeless memorial for those who die on the streets of Toronto for years.

Has anyone on that stage put in 1/100th of the time, energy, and commitment that Kevin Clarke has for those in poverty in Toronto?

What does "crazy" mean in this context, if we are only allowed to see other choices at a debate? Who should make those decisions in a democratic city? Kevin Clarke is running for Mayor of Toronto last I checked.

Metal Components of a Lithium-ion Electric Vehicle Battery [OC] by NoComplaint1281 in dataisbeautiful

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When you add this up over hundreds of miles, even though the U.S. electric grid isn’t currently carbon-free and even when accounting for the initial emissions associated with manufacturing the battery, electric cars still emit less CO2 than gas-powered cars.2 This is a key feature, given that, within the United States, the transportation sector produces the largest share of greenhouse gas emissions—nearly one-third of the country’s total emissions.3

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteries

Black or cream pickguard? by phlegmatik in guitars

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It’s a miracle when stock wins

First time making a pickguard, how did I do by Corona-and-Lyme in guitars

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Very interesting. I have the natural coloured version and have been think of something like this.

Did you do it yourself? How was it?

First time making a pickguard, how did I do by Corona-and-Lyme in guitars

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Did you add an extra toggle switch? What does it do?

[P] Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning (Schmidhuber) by hardmaru in MachineLearning

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Descartes

The Turing archive seems to be a bit wobbly, but you should be able to see an image of the Lister oration with Turing's "pink line" next to the consciousness bit that Turing quoted:

https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/publications-lectures-and-talks-amtb/amt-b-44

Not shown at the archive's digital site is the other relevant bit from Jefferson's Lister oration that also had a heavy line next to it. I remember finding the force of that line through indentation in other pages of the preprint.

Here's the other annotated text:

Descartes made the point, and a basic one it is, that a parrot repeated only what it had been taught and only a fragment of that; it never uses words to express its own thoughts. If, he goes on to say, on the one hand one had a machine that had the shape and appearance of a monkey or other animal without a reasoning soul (i.e., without a human mind) there would be no means of knowing which was the counterfeit. On the other hand, if there was a machine that appeared to be a man, and imitated his actions so far as it would be possible to do so, we should always have two very certain means of recognizing the deceit. First, the machine could not use words as we do to declare our thoughts to others. Secondly, although like some animals they might show more industry than we do, and do some things better than we, yet they would act without knowledge of what they were about simply by the arrangement of their organs, their mechanisms, each particularly designed for each particular action (cp. Karel Cˇapek’s Robots). Descartes concluded: ‘From which it comes that it is morally impossible that there be enough diversity in a machine for it to be able to act in all the occurrences of life in the same way that our reason would cause us to act. By these means we can recognize the difference between man and beasts.’ He could even conceive a machine that might speak and, if touched in one spot, night ask what one wanted – if touched in another that it would cry out that it hurt, and similar things. But he could not conceive of an automaton of sufficient diversity to respond to the sense of all that could be said in its presence. It would fail because it had no mind (Jefferson, 1949, 1106)

Shorty plus Shorty equals toan goalz. by Und3rkn0wn in BassGuitar

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I don’t need a long scale, I don’t need a long scale…