Monday, January 20
Daily News Stuff 20 January 2025
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- TikTok went down, blaming Joe Biden for its plight. (Bleeping Computer)
Though it set its fate of its own volition.
- TikTok came back up, thanking Donald Trump for its rescue. (Bleeping Computer)
Though it still has to divest within 90 days or it will be shut down again.
Those stories were posted two hours apart.
Tech News
- The CHIPS Act - funneling taxpayer dollars to semiconductor companies like every other country in the world - may survive into the Trump administration. (Tom's Hardware)
Or so the article says Bloomberg says the incoming commerce secretary told the existing commerce secretary. So maybe not.
- Aptera's new lightweight three-wheeled electric vehicle can travel up to forty miles per day - on solar power alone. (MotorTrend)
Two problems:
1. Up to.
2. They said the same thing in 2008.
- AI is bad at history. (Tech Crunch)
Just like everything else.Why are LLMs bad at answering technical historical questions, when they can be so good at answering very complicated questions about things like coding?
Stack Overflow.
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Disclaimer: I'm totally addicted to mace.
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Up to: if you say you have between one and two million hits on your site every day you can make three sound like a lot(based on a Dilbert cartoon, but the numbers are probably different).
Posted by: Frank at Monday, January 20 2025 09:36 PM (+i6Xr)
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In fairness, LLMs are also bad at programming, it's just that the idiots "writing" the articles don't even have the rudimentary skills to double check code (v. history).
Posted by: normal at Monday, January 20 2025 11:16 PM (bg2DR)
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Just gotta say again: Pixy, I like your writing style!
Posted by: furball321 at Tuesday, January 21 2025 09:56 AM (As8gg)
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