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*Unknown Unknowns in Knowing Machines*
â New paper out with Erik Borra in Sociologica.
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People use AI assistants to answer knowledge questions, but can we say they "know"?
We screw around with LLMs to discover more, and we find ways to better show our students what is going on.
We start with an experiment measuring self-consistency in LLMs for a knowledge-retrieval task.
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •No. I switched to GNU+Linux when M$ tried force users to use WinXP, 2 decades ago.
No experience. I switched to GNU+Linux 2 decades ago.
Nope. I switched to GNU+Linux 2 decades ago.
Nah, largely mitigated these harms. I switched to GNU+Linux 2 decades ago.
;)
Mint or Kubuntu, superb choices. Other distributions are available. :) distrowatch.com/ & distrochooser.de/ can help find the distro that suits you.
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •It's just schadenfreude that they now have to use the terminal for windows. Only without power, unlike GNU :))))
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •I have learned that those who want to switch are quickly overwhelmed when choosing a distro.
MINT is understood by everyone, very intuitive. I would recommend it to anyone. And I have recommended KDE because I am just discovering it â I am actually an XFCE user. Once you get in, you quickly recognize the different possibilities.
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •Mint is a lovely solid stable daily driver, it's only problem is like Debian it's packages are a bit old sometimes.. I always look and see what a machine is actually expected to do.
I have to admit liking Manjaro. Now that's pretty bleeding edge yet doesn't break too often and the forums are brilliant when inevitably the update manager gets itself into a circular dependency hell. Some zealot spouted some crap about EndeavourOS.. Well I tried that on a machine that was happily running Manjaro and it failed to even install to a terminal.. FAIL big time..
Half the problem is people come along "advising" newbies to use some stupid exotic (and often broken) pile of junk that is used by like 25 people on the planet and the broken crap that their "expert hobbiest" mindset allows them (after far more twatting about than is healthy) to use doesn't let them see the issue. Rather like raw Arch.. yeah it's fine.. but it breaks on every single update and last time I tried to install it there was a huge fail as it didn't install by default any networking capability (dhcpd among othe
... show moreMint is a lovely solid stable daily driver, it's only problem is like Debian it's packages are a bit old sometimes.. I always look and see what a machine is actually expected to do.
I have to admit liking Manjaro. Now that's pretty bleeding edge yet doesn't break too often and the forums are brilliant when inevitably the update manager gets itself into a circular dependency hell. Some zealot spouted some crap about EndeavourOS.. Well I tried that on a machine that was happily running Manjaro and it failed to even install to a terminal.. FAIL big time..
Half the problem is people come along "advising" newbies to use some stupid exotic (and often broken) pile of junk that is used by like 25 people on the planet and the broken crap that their "expert hobbiest" mindset allows them (after far more twatting about than is healthy) to use doesn't let them see the issue. Rather like raw Arch.. yeah it's fine.. but it breaks on every single update and last time I tried to install it there was a huge fail as it didn't install by default any networking capability (dhcpd among other bits).
Now it's not like I'm inexperienced or anything.. having been a unix user in the 80's (and even today I have a Solaris 10 server) and never really having a windows thing in the house.. It's just the stupid fanboys and their "almost unusable niche distro of choice"
20+ years ago as an early 64 bit adopter I ran Sabayon.. That's how to build an OS.. for a while there was nothing comparable.. beautiful.
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •@juliadream I used Sabayon for a while when I was moving away from Gentoo... and yes, I don't go around recommending Gentoo or Arch or derivatives to potential users. If I do see a "I wanrt to try Linux" post and comment, I'll usually suggest Ubuntu. The distros I run are not fit for mortal (n00b) consumption imo, but I find that dropping names like Arch or Slackware gets comments like yours warning new users away from people like me, which I think is the genreal atmosphere of Linux users right now. More people should run Linux beyond Android imo, but they will or won't reguardless of my little voice either way. The shouldn't, at least.
This was a Windows post in a predominantly Linux environment though. Call me as a gatekeeper if thou wilt, but I'm okay with that. The OP's grandmother, or even the OP's granddaughter, will probably never use Linux. It's a niche OS by nature. fwiw, I don't even go into the BSD / GPL argument in front of them. That's a masters-level discussion... and I bet a few of us could write a thesis about the differences
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •I presume you can move debian based mint to sid repos. (or a devuan based to ceres).
lol. that was funny. a cascade of inevitable woes. throughout that paragraph and ongoing, through the same joke.
was about to object to that, saying it's not possible... ... ... then started wondering, has it really been that long? when did sabayon start? when did 64bit start?
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(ps, Sabayon was my 2nd main distro considered home, after suse, aside much distro-surfing, around version 3.2 or 3.3 iirc).
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I presume you can move debian based mint to sid repos. (or a devuan based to ceres).
lol. that was funny. a cascade of inevitable woes. throughout that paragraph and ongoing, through the same joke.
was about to object to that, saying it's not possible... ... ... then started wondering, has it really been that long? when did sabayon start? when did 64bit start?
:O
(ps, Sabayon was my 2nd main distro considered home, after suse, aside much distro-surfing, around version 3.2 or 3.3 iirc).
I dont know the grandmother or grandaughter in question or why such an assertion can be made for them specifically, but, linux, the OS, by its nature, can be shaped to fill almost any niche... so why is it they will probably never use linux? loser's script presumptive projecting? maybe we could build a custom one for them.
it was encountering such distinctions up front that were part and parcel of me understanding what it is, why it is, how it is, and why i got interested in free software. i think every fail i've had at inspiring interest in free software may be because i failed to convey what free software is and thus why it's of importance and worth intrigue and investment; and every success, because the freedom and the implications of that were conveyed, and i think maybe that might be done better with offering the distinction of "free and free alike", or "free to un-free".
idk, maybe for some, maybe for all.
i think enthused free software elaborate evangelising is more enticing than a dismissive "just use mint".
yeah, methinks this something any distro striving to be accessible to new users can do much better... ferrying them to understanding the package manager. it no one points it out to you, it's possible to be using a linux distro with no idea about a package manager. lets get a first-boot help dialogue window with a friendly little animated konky pointing to the concise package manager intro "this is how to install more software..."
stop.
HAMMER time.
;)
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in reply to Reverend Elvis • • •I still have my first desktop 64 system.. AMD Athlon 3400+.. November 2003
Recapped Asus K8N still going strong, and increasing in value every day.. The early single core ones are rare as most were killed by the bad caps plague..