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severak 2.3.2023 15:39:05

Lately, AI assistants based on large language models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have caused considerable excitement. The general idea is that you supply a problem, such as “here’s my Javascript code, why doesn’t it work?”, or “write two paragraphs about the political views of Bertrand Russell”, and the assistant will happily supply you with a solution. There’s good reason for excitement — these models are technically impressive, and they can certainly help us accomplish certain tasks more easily.

severak 18.2.2023 20:41:32

Chatbots like Bing are software — not sentient.

severak 18.2.2023 17:10:03

More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.

severak 16.2.2023 17:07:30

Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …

severak 11.2.2023 23:23:44

Received Pronunciation: history and changes | Cambridge English

from https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/05/25/received-pronunciation-old-new/

severak 8.2.2023 10:43:52

Let's review the most important math topics used by game devs, reflect about math education, and discuss techniques that can be used to improve the way we learn new math topics.

severak 7.2.2023 13:29:14

Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis (John of Wales). Attribution has also been given to Caesarius of Heisterbach. Titivillus has also been described as collecting idle chat that occurs during church service, and mispronounced, mumbled or skipped words of the service, to take to Hell to be counted against the offenders. He has been called the "patron demon of scribes", as Titivillus provides an easy excuse for the errors that are bound to creep into manuscripts as they are copied.Marc Drogin noted in his instructional manual, Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique (1980), that "for the past half-century every edition of The Oxford English Dictionary has listed an incorrect page reference for, of all things, a footnote on the earliest mention of Titivillus." Titivillus gained a broader role as a subversive figure of physical comedy, with satirical commentary on human vanities...

severak 7.2.2023 10:56:18

Damien Guard on software development, fonts and technology.

severak 7.2.2023 10:50:41

Tools for hosting and analysing a corpus of cuneiform texts - Electronic Babylonian Literature

severak 3.2.2023 01:55:43

Dive into the Beautiful Trouble toolbox, an interconnected web of ideas and creative best practices that puts the power of organizing for social change in your hands. Start anywhere and explore…

severak 31.1.2023 09:50:15

Proč Rusové vyvolali globální hysterii z jaderné války? Nejspíš jen potřebovali vyklidit Cherson - VOXPOT

from https://www.voxpot.cz/proc-rusove-vyvolali-globalni-hysterii-z-jaderne-valky-nejspis-jen-potrebovali-vyklidit-cherson/

severak 30.1.2023 00:17:48

MIDIMAN Melody Kit Version 1.0 (130,000 MIDI Files)

from https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06

severak 27.1.2023 15:55:35

Putting a name to the typeface that defined the visual identity of the science fiction series and its author, Frank Herbert

severak 26.1.2023 13:41:19

Wiki for Arts and Studies

severak 25.1.2023 11:19:14

“Good night, Malaysian three seven zero.”

severak 19.1.2023 00:31:12

Fonetická analýza dokáže odhalit, co bylo řečeno i na poměrně nekvalitní nahrávce. Někdy je správné určení obsahu promluvy otázkou téměř života a smrti.

severak 17.1.2023 01:11:51

Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight

severak 17.1.2023 01:03:02

For millions of years, fire was our main form of energy. With renewables, it comes to an end

severak 16.1.2023 17:22:26

Já chci říct, že jsem slíbil, že povedu kampaň slušně. A taky jsem ji vedl slušně.

severak 16.1.2023 09:50:27

Jak tvořit systematické barvy pro digitální produkty - Blog | Jiří Chlebus

from https://blog.jirichlebus.cz/2019/11/18/jak-tvorit-systematicke-barvy-pro-digitalni-produkty/

severak 10.1.2023 18:04:11

This post is literally just me picking out a section from each book and adding in things to explicitly establish Murderbot’s pronouns, normalize the characters asking eachother what their pronouns are/listing them in their fucking brainchip social media profiles, and maybe even more importantly, making it so that sex is not equated with gender.Murderbot and all the other bots and constructs so far being agender because they’re all robots (shut up if you’re going to argue semantics) who don’t have genitals is transphobic.

severak 10.1.2023 11:01:04

The Yamaha Tenori-on is an electronic musical instrument designed and created by the Japanese artist Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Music and Human Interface Group at the Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology. Description The Tenori-on consists of a hand-held screen in which a sixteen-by-sixteen grid of LED switches are held within a magnesium plastic frame. Any of these switches may be activated in a number of different ways to create sounds. Two built-in speakers are located on the top of the frame, as well as a dial and buttons that control the type of sound and beats per minute produced. There are two versions of the device available. The original TNR-W (Tenori-On White) features a magnesium frame, 256 rear panel LEDs and can run on batteries whilst the more affordable TNR-O (Tenori-On Orange) features a white plastic frame, has no rear LEDs and does not take batteries. The modes and sound sets in these instruments are the same. Both devices have an LCD screen on the bottom edge of the frame. Using the connection function, it is possible to play a synchronized session, or to send and receive songs...

severak 1.1.2023 01:18:33

This is an interactive article. To fully experience it, you'll need to turn JavaScript on. Today, I'll take you through the process I came up with …

severak 22.12.2022 10:29:14

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

severak 21.12.2022 11:37:26

How I got co-opted into helping the rich prevail at the expense of everybody else

severak 20.12.2022 14:33:52

Beyond textbook Bresenham Introduction Every now and then (don't ask) I have to yet again write a subpixel-accurate but NOT antialiased line drawer....

severak 17.12.2022 22:46:27

Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.