Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦

Luckily for all of us he's dead.

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So pathetically lame. I guess you must be a racist.

(See how dumb your comment is?)

Muted

I'll give you some advice back.
1. Don't be scared of people asking questions.
2. If people offend you just block them.
3. Don't put words in other people's mouths.
4. If somebody responds, "Do you know who I am?" instead of answering the question, they're not the good guy.

To be honest, if Neil Postman is the reason to not watch a video then I am quite tempted to watch them and give up print entirely.

"I invent a false characterization of others because I am threatened by questions."

See how easy it is to put words in the mouths of others?

I thought bsky was for discussions. If you don't like it just block me.

I think you would be impossible to satisfy, since you would regard any evidence to the contrary as tainted if a human were within 100 km of it. In other words, an utter waste of time.

Emergent Tool Use From Multi-Agent Autocurricula Through multi-agent competition, the simple objective of hide-and-seek, and standard reinforcement learning algorithms at scale, we find that agents create a self-supervised autocurriculum inducing mu...

See, for example, arxiv.org/abs/1909.07528

My point was only that the claim was wrong. If you're trying to make a convincing argument about something, don't include straw men like that without explaining they are straw men.

As for your main point, meaning and goal-directed activity can arise spontaneously in interaction.

No, I know who you are. Then why did you not mention this obvious point?

The fundamental error made here is that worst-case running times may not reflect the typical running times experienced on "typical" inputs.

As an example, I routinely use an algorithm whose worst-case running time is provably nonelementary (2^2^2^...^n) and get useful results with it.

Whenever you see a sentence like "Machines do exactly what we tell them", you immediately know the writer is ignorant and doesn't know that truly random numbers, based on (for example) radioactive decay, are both possible and currently used.

The NC GOP is the most corrupt GOP in the nation.

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

Within the same 24 hour period recently I received a submission to a journal I edit that was utter garbage written by an LLM
AND
a paper that used an LLM to help solve a serious research problem.

So they are both a curse and a blessing.

Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk The person refused to even tell health officials their address.

The right-wing war against public health means that now a person has refused to cooperate with a case investigation that exists for the sole purpose of minimizing the risk to others.

Really selfish behavior from a suspected measles case in Utah.

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If she hasn't realized her husband is an unprincipled hypocritical power-hungry dirtbag by now, she's probably never going to.

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

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When you call yourself the leaders of a democratic country, but have to hide on a military base from the people that you rule.

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

JD is your go-to guy if you like your lies with a heaping side order of smarm.

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

You're completely right. We had a chance to work collectively to save lives, but so many jerks decided it was more important to be able to eat at McDonald's than to save grandma or their kids' first-grade teachers.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.

Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.

No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.

Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

It's unbelievably sick to compare people who move with their families to a new country with their hopes and dreams of a better life, willing to do jobs most Britons don't want, to the evil minions of a dark lord.

You’re witnessing a kidnapping. And no local police are investigating the crime and arresting the perpetrators. And that’s all it would take to make this stop everywhere.