Thursday, November 16
Daily News Stuff 16 November 2023
Stochastic Garret Edition
Stochastic Garret Edition
Top Story
- Is my toddler a stochastic carrot? (New Yorker)
No. Your toddler is actually capable of learning.
This piece of art is a better discussion of the risks, benefits, and underlying mechanisms of generative AI than I have seen coming from almost anyone in the industry.
Tech News
- Microsoft has renamed Bing Chat to Stochastic Carrot. (Tech Crunch)
Or if it hasn't, it should.
- Amazon has stopped selling seven brands of eye drops that lacked FDA approval. (New York Times) (archive site)
Eye drops might not seem like a big issue. All you need to do is take a saline solution, boil it so it's sterile, and bottle it.
And yet in the past year in the US, eye drops have caused infections, blindness, and at least four deaths.
Oh, and there's lead in baby food. (Ars Technica)
Do you people want an overbearing regulatory state? Because this is how you get an overbearing regulatory state.
- Developers keep putting security keys into public code. (Ars Technica)
Stochastic carrots.
- Asus has apologised for its "Evengenlion" limited edition motherboards. (Tom's Hardware)
All purchasers will get an extra year of warranty coverage and a replacement part that correctly spells "Avengelyne".
I'm sure that will make everybody happy.
Disclaimer: I once saw Julienne and the Stochastic Carrots open for the Stones at the old Palladium.
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Tom Shardware, with typos across multiple articles on someone else's typo. I would expect no less.
The subhead is "This is why spellcheckers are nice." and now I'm left wondering what kind of person* has "Evengenlion", "Evangelion", and apparently "Evengelion" all in their spellchecker (obviously so they don't make a mistake when pointing out someone else's mistake). Or did they just not proofread?
*Apologies to any actual person for the comparison to a tech journo.
The subhead is "This is why spellcheckers are nice." and now I'm left wondering what kind of person* has "Evengenlion", "Evangelion", and apparently "Evengelion" all in their spellchecker (obviously so they don't make a mistake when pointing out someone else's mistake). Or did they just not proofread?
*Apologies to any actual person for the comparison to a tech journo.
Posted by: normal at Friday, November 17 2023 02:03 AM (LADmw)
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Actually, it's probably just a typo for Alain Delon, now that I think about it. ANd why would a tech journo have such a thing in they/them spellcheck dictionary?
Posted by: normal at Friday, November 17 2023 11:22 AM (bg2DR)
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