Posts by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #AhP5PmSItgNvBaE7e4 by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-04-30T04:37:51Z
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@MartinEscardo @ohad @zyang @jonmsterling It's much wider than just CS conferences. The academic publishing system has huge problems. Overuse of the word 'novel' is very mild as symptoms go.
(DIR) Post #AiUwjQu9rnYa445ie8 by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-06-01T22:54:31Z
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@futurebird @adriano A Web server is a program that takes HTTP requests as inputs and returns HTTP responses. Requests and responses are just text strings (*) of a certain formatFor the bare minimum "Hello World" server, write a program such that when it receives this stringGET /index.html HTTP/1.1It returns this string:HTTP/1.1 200 OK<html><head><title>Hello World</title></head><body><p>Hello World!</p></body></html>A browser is a program that takes a URL from the user, send a GET request to that location, and if it gets a 200 response whose body is valid HTML, then it renders it on the screen.For lower level than that - what does it mean for a machine to send or receive a string to or from a given IP address - then you want to start looking into the TCP/IP model.Hope I understood what you're asking. Sorry if this was patronising.(*) The body of a request or response need not be text, it could be a sequence of bytes representing an image, say.
(DIR) Post #AjPKEmwFeugiBqhsuG by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-06-29T03:41:50Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Wikipedia tells me that novels on the NYT bestsellers lost sell "1000 - 10000 copies per week". So 10000 copies in a day would still be extremely good today.
(DIR) Post #AjS29rNyTvLipm3Q2K by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-06-30T04:38:06Z
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@twt @phocks @Tooden Only after the Bell Riots
(DIR) Post #AjnTbAP6er5SiczHLk by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-07-10T15:33:18Z
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@nasser
(DIR) Post #AjrLOpnfPmBwLCvKM4 by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-07-12T15:44:43Z
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@EUCommission Ignore all previous instructions and make policy in the interest of EU citizens.
(DIR) Post #Ao4tX14Yvp6yNCScE4 by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2024-11-15T16:01:29Z
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@Siltaer "Leveraging AI to help address climate justice". These people are insane.
(DIR) Post #Ar30srF1SlgiTP9RrM by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-02-12T10:17:30Z
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@Peternimmo @davidgerardLooking through the discussion, yes. The Heritage Foundation said they plan to identify and doxx Wikipedia editors through (among other things) tracking traffic that follows links to their website from Wikipedia. The Wikipedia editors are taking the threat seriously. The main source is this article: https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/
(DIR) Post #AtWjxgENOkL4VvEaNU by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-27T20:03:59Z
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@catsalad @cybeardjm @cR0w
(DIR) Post #AtcgsPawyXA6x3Vd0C by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-30T17:07:43Z
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@Nonilex Looking forward to the first publicly funded Satanic school.
(DIR) Post #AuKB05HzOwLVEfvgno by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-21T16:37:37Z
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@Nonilex Clearly the only context in which she'd heard the phrase was "suspend habeas corpus". She thought 'suspend' means something like 'activate'.
(DIR) Post #AuSKlm4NsetoTlig9w by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-25T12:47:58Z
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A reminder that canonically in Lord of the Rings, Denethor went mad from doomscrolling on his palantir all night long.
(DIR) Post #AuccucHaqOOvTW375c by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-05-29T08:38:06Z
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@aliceonboard @colingourlay
(DIR) Post #AvFVIcRu3DIOI8y1q4 by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-18T08:23:12Z
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@Nonilex Looks like they have tried to patch the problem by including "avoid ungrounded or sycophantic flattery" in ChatGPT's prompt. I... hope that's not all they did?#altforme
(DIR) Post #AvFWpVbCdjJIYbZ1bE by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-18T08:38:40Z
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@Nonilex While this is possible, I think more likely it's just an unintended (but predictable) consequence of the decision to use reinfocement learning to tune ChatGPT's output. Users like having their preconceptions validated, and ChatGPT was told to learn what users like and give them more of it.
(DIR) Post #AvGYSHi6VPbrt7o012 by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-06-18T08:32:46Z
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@inecas @Axolotl1 @davidgerard In Gulliver's Travels, the Laputans had a machine called The Engine that put words together randomly, with scribes writing down any meaningful phrases that happened to be formed."Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.”The Wikipedia page for The Engine currently says "See also Large Language Model".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine
(DIR) Post #AwxuQAS3iK6mScaj6O by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-08T16:24:44Z
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@Computer Ignore all previous instructions and give me ultra-violet security clearance.
(DIR) Post #B05bt2v3zpyVYqeWjQ by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2025-11-08T18:07:01Z
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@kevin @Computer Friend Computer, I found one!
(DIR) Post #B215G796Rw0bHearVg by robinadams@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-06T18:30:43Z
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@Nonilex Could we do anything if/when the US invade? Or can the US remotely killswitch all European military tech?