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This is an under-appreciated point about using LLMs to summarize text (turning a longer text into a shorter text that maintains the essence of the original). Making summaries is hard to do well! It requires understanding and subtlety.

Making a BAD summary is an easy task for an LLM, which flattens everything probabilistically. People using these cheap tools are going to be throwing a lot of babies out with a lot of bathwater and never even knowing it. infosec.exchange/@david_chisna…

in reply to James Gleick

I got hired a while back to turn a long press release into a short marketing piece and, when I was done, asked ChatGPT to do the same job. It didn't just bury the most important details, it left them out altogether. Wrote a column about it. latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/…





Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Frank Sinatra's number

🎶 The Best Is Yet To Come 🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research



Python Lambdas Deep Dive: Take Your Python Skills to the Next Level by Mastering Lambdas! leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/py… by Lukas Rieger and Christian Mayer is the featured online course on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #python


Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Frank Sinatra's number

🎶 The Best Is Yet To Come 🎶

#life #coffee #music #linux #research




The U.S. presidential election is taking place in about seven states. If you’re in one of those states, you know that. Otherwise you may not realize: The presidential election is taking place elsewhere and you’re not relevant.

How can ANYONE still like our absurd Electoral College system? It keeps choosing the losing candidate. It disenfranchises most of the country. It’s a farce.

This is a way forward, if only more people understood it: nationalpopularvote.com/writte…

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in reply to James Gleick

Maybe less states deciding now - as Trump campaign has done a significant drawback from New Hampshire, Virginia, and Minnesota, considering those gone to him.



CHEAP TRICK
Dream Police
1979 Canada pressing

Never trust ANYBODY who says they don’t like Cheap Trick.
They are clearly not qualified to comment or be an authority on anything.

Damone: “Can you honestly tell me that you forgot. Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander or the charisma of Rick Neilsen?"

Asshole: “That's kids stuff.”

Damone: “Kids stuff? What about the tunes? I Want You To Want Me. The Dream Police da da da da da da da da.”

#vinyl #vinylrecords #CheapTrick #powerpop #70s #1970s




Jack Smith’s team indicated that it has evidence to provide “outside the indictment,” which now could become public before the election.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chu…


Why does that #litter end up everywhere in my house..? 🤔

Guess they confuse the #Dutch word "plee" (informal word for "toilet", pronounced as "play") with something else.

[zvideo]https://social.woefdram.nl/cloud/hans/2024-09/kattenbak.mp4[/zvideo]

#CatsOfMastodon

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in reply to Nemethon

@Nemethon I'd like to be two cats, then I could play together 😉

(I stole this idea from a famous short Dutch poem 😏)



Since tomorrow is the return of Bandcamp Friday, this #ThrowbackThursday I'm gonna point to this collection of tracks from my first 20 years of doing this stuff (released in 2017):

#BandcampFriday #myMusic #ElectronicMusic #industrial

skincontact.bandcamp.com/album…



A special behind-the-scenes video for Patreons. These little guys have been sold out for ages, but Radxa slipped me a review unit.

Okay, maybe just most of one.

patreon.com/posts/radxa-x4-111…

#linux #x86 #smol

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How Trump uses the 'Gish Gallop' to flood debates with lies and nonsense (Lorraine Ali/Los Angeles Times)

latimes.com/politics/story/202…
memeorandum.com/240905/p99#a24…




Looking forward to the new range of diet biscuits from Arnott’s for those wanting to budget their ledgers as well as their calories.
in reply to Deborah Pickett

@Deborah Pickett "Credit" is actually the sound Arnott's biscuits make when you take a bite out of them.