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> you could set up a tarpit generating trash content

and you could call it "EmDash"


There's an extra digit in your timestamp.

exploiting the ambiguity in date formats by releasing a package during a leap second

A big trend in AI spam is to take achievements in one field that could be called "AI" and use them as evidence of advancement in other fields that happen to be called "AI".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-deal_fallacy

Tao has been doing a lot of demonstrations of using LLMs for search and translation by experts who already know enough about a field to judge whether generated text is valid or meaningful. Those are valid demonstrations, but they don't justify the LLM-as-intelligent-agent narrative being pushed by most of the reporting on the topic, so the whole situation reeks of payola.


Tao is being paid to boost LLMs. That's your argument? This is what human creativity is capable of? Baseless conspiracies?

finally, a CPU capable of making API calls to cloud providers

A little bit of real content goes a long way toward getting people to pay for something unknown, which then turns out to be AI-generated. Even if they are not satisfied, that counts as AI content making a sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke


The last-modified-date effect is even more important, because it can be used to support whatever the latest fad is, without needing to adapt data or arguments to the specifics of that fad.


Why would you expect it to generate more effective skills when you aren't even making a salt circle or lighting incense?


LLM-generated blogslop is getting published in The Atlantic now?


"ordering" means arranging things in order by some metric.

"sorting" means assigning things into bins (which are usually ordered).


This is news to me. Source?


That's because it's not true.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ordering

Order - transitive verb - 1. to put in order : arrange - "The books are ordered alphabetically by author."

noun - 4. b(1) the arrangement, organization, or sequence of objects or of events - "alphabetical/chronological/historical order" "listed the items in order of importance"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sorting

Sort - transitive verb - 1. to put in a certain place or rank according to characteristics - "sort the mail" "sorted the winners from the losers" "sorting the data alphabetically"

noun - 5. an instance of sorting - "a numeric sort of a data file"


I don't get how this disagrees with what GGP wrote.


https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sort

to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups: Paper, plastic, and cans are sorted for recycling.

sort something into something I'm going to sort these old books into those to be kept and those to be thrown away.

sort something by something You can use the computer to sort the newspaper articles alphabetically, by date, or by subject.

sort (through) She found the ring while sorting (through) some clothes.


"The children were sorted in to two lines by gender then ordered by height"

You might substitute "sorted by height" but its certainly not a correction. While "ordered into lines" would be an error.


What do you do when you sort your washing?


The sorting office for a postal service.


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