Food facts time!

When my dad was in the Navy, the soft-serve ice cream machine in the mess was frequently referred to as 'the most important equipment on the ship.'

There have been many technological advances since then, but this truth probably remains.

There are 2 mistakes you can make about LLMs:

① Thinking everything LLMs say is correct, they can reason, and with a bit more scale they’ll get us to superintelligence

② Thinking LLMs are good for almost nothing—they are FAR better at all #NLProc tasks than previous methods

But what about bears?

phys.org/news/2024-05-r…

man has much to learn from small creatures

I keep procrastinating on renewing my ACM membership, for no good reason. I finally paid for an AMC membership.

remain puzzled why so many repositories of static information moved to discord, a chat platform absolutely not built around facilitating that at all

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is leaving OpenAI because he prefers to work on open AI

#OpenAI #IlyaSutskever #open #AI #pun

Newsletter 155: Call for Functions: Spell out the number!

Come and join us to create functions that spell out numbers in your language! We currently have five: in English, Ukrainian, Polish, German, and Croatian. How quickly can we build more?

wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunct…

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

Baby Lasagna in Zagreb moved to tears:

'I only expected 100 people. We gave everything we had. We're actually just children. We did everything ourselves. You can do it too.'

#croatia #Kroatien
#Eurovision #eurovision2024 #fckTheJury #BabyLasagna #Nemo #Eurovision Rigged

Croatia was robbed by the jury! Cha Cha Cha!

Now, sell your cow and off to Switzerland

#Eurovision 2024 #ESC 2024 #Eurovision #ESC

“He will have another chance and she will have another baby.”
— Apple keyboard LLM (iOS 17.5)

We're watching Spy x Family on Disney Plus with Little One, and they're showing ads for alcohol all the time. The beer mixed with fruit juices stuff, and other beer drinks. That doesn't feel right.

#Disney #spy_x_family #modelo #corona

A fantastic way to prove you support women in tech is to threaten to sue a young woman in tech like this. Amazing marketing strategy that definitely makes me want to do business with you and your company! Great job, Qovery team! 👍👍

It is painful to see Katherine Maher viciously and widely attacked on Twitter, also for a quote restating how Wikipedia works.

I have worked with Katherine Maher
We were lucky to have her at Wikipedia, and NPR is lucky to have her.

#KatherineMaher

Wikipedia is about verifiable facts from reliable sources.

For Wikipedia, arguing with 'The Truth' is not effective. Wikipedians don't write 'because it's true' but 'because that's what's in the sources'.

#wikipedia #truth

Newsletter 151: New API for calling Wikifunctions and celebrating 1000 functions - wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunct…

Are you a front end or full stack engineer and want to work with me on Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions? Then we are a looking for you!

Feel free to share.

boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs…

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