@xuv writes

  • Quoting Ellsworth Toohey

    AI systems learned to code by devouring Stack Overflow’s archive of human-solved problems. Now that developers ask ChatGPT instead of posting publicly, solutions exist only in private chat histories. They’re not indexed, not peer-reviewed, not available to the next person with the same bug. We’re trading a searchable knowledge commons for ephemeral conversations with a…

  • Quoting Max Riesenhuber

    The problem is that, in LLMs, words (symbols) are not grounded in experiences of the real world, so any meaning of words needs to be inferred from the relations of words to each other, floating in some abstract space and being prone to misinterpretation, let alone hallucinations. Max Riesenhuber is the co-director of Georgetown’s Center…

  • Citation de Grégory Chatonsky

    Qu’est-ce qu’un espace latent ? Techniquement, il s’agit d’une représentation mathématique intermédiaire, située entre les couches d’entrée et de sortie d’un réseau de neurones, où les données sont encodées sous forme de vecteurs statistiques dans un espace de haute dimensionnalité, des centaines, des milliers, parfois des millions de dimensions. Contrairement aux espaces de représentation traditionnels (pixels…

  • Where is my ARM?

    Continuing with the exploration of Linux on Mx chips, I’m faced with another potential set back, and this time it impacts software availability. And it’s not just affecting people that want to replace MacOS by Ubuntu on their pricey second hand laptop.

  • Where is my bootable USB?

    I spend 2 days trying to figure out how to create a bootable USB key to install Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro M1. And all you are going to get is this wordy blog post to explain how vain that search is. Skip to the end to learn how to install Ubuntu on a Macbook…

  • Citation de Johann Chapoutot

    « une politique d’austérité, dogmatique, qui aggrave la crise et la misère ; un pouvoir exécutif qui fait adopter des mesures de destruction du modèle social à coups de 48-2 ; une gauche sociale-démocrate qui soutient cette politique afin, dit-elle, d’éviter le pire ; un régime politique qui (…) se présidentialise et concentre des pouvoirs exorbitants dans les…

  • Quoting Cory Doctorow

    What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they…

  • Citation de Juan Sebastián Carbonell

    Une tech­no­lo­gie ne s’impose pas iné­luc­ta­ble­ment parce qu’elle est plus “effi­ciente”, mais parce que des acteurs qui contrô­lent les res­sour­ces économiques, consi­dé­rant qu’elle cor­res­pond mieux à leurs inté­rêts, déci­dent de lui donner réa­lité. — Juan Sebastián Carbonell Via Rezo.net qui reprend un article de Mediapart sur le dernier livre, intitulé “Taylorisme augmenté”, par l’auteur.

  • My selection for the Susanne Award 2025

    I’m always interested by what people do with Blender and especially in the animation category. So, every year, I’ll go and have a look at the submissions for the Susanne Award. Here is my top 3 for this year.

  • Quoting Martin Fowler

    All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful. https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html

  • Quoting cats4606

    All I wanted was to use my Quest 3 as a Minecraft server for an upcoming LAN party with my friends and turn off the display to keep temperatures down says, by his own description, “an Australian teenager who had just stepped into the VR world”, who’s just published an exploit to get root access…

  • Citando Marta Peirano

    Los modelos viven encerrados en un mundo de palabras, un universo wittgensteniano compuesto exclusivamente de signos, jerarquías y estadística. No pueden mentir, alucinar o equivocarse porque todas las palabras son verdaderas cuando dejan de describir el mundo. No habrá inteligencia artificial general