I wouldn’t try unpasteurised cheese from a big US brand, knowing what the hygiene standards and oversight for cattle are like. That said, I’ve regularly eaten unpasteurised cheese from Spain, France and the Netherlands and I don’t think those need to be banned (in the EU or their respective countries). I don’t think they’re comparable to unpasteurised cheese from the US though, especially since the budget cuts to the FDA.

the point is saying unpasteurised cheese is always horribly unsafe is to me wrong. it can be done relatively safely, but in the US currently it will not be done safely.

sure both pagerank and llms can modelled as marlov chains, but the working and output of these models is very different. it’s disingenuous to state that google used llms and their precursors since the beginning. their precursors maybe but they are very different beasts.

as for the complaints, for me a big problem of their use in search engines is that they often hide the sources of the summary they provide and disincentivize people from clicking through to the source sites. This is very much a new problem that didn’t exist before google included output from generative models

given that by LLMs, people generally refer to the transformer architecture, it definitely wasn’t how google always did search. they famously started out by using pagerank. now, back then this was definitely seen as AI, but what gets called ai by the general public has changed over the last couple of decades. now people use it almost exclusively to refer to deep learning models or even just llms.

so yes, in a strict sense google has always used ai for search. but when the general public says AI now, they usually mean llms specifically and using that to replace actually going to the source websites is new

yep, wealth inequality is a big problem. more people should read piketty

Linux can, but all streaming services refuse to serve higher quality on linux

you won’t be able to tell, but at least when I was taught ages ago, they advised to call out verbally before approaching, and then circle around to approach from the back to prevent them pushing you under in an attempt to draw a breath. and that’s after trying to find other ways to save them than getting in yourself

that’s what I’d do for a state machine implementation too

as someone who would also reach for a state machine when doing simple parsing… what’s the better alternative in python?

OK, but the fastest ssds these days tend to M.2 PCIE5 x4 drives and they pretty much all start at 1TB. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places, but I wouldn’t know where to find a smaller, faster drive

Intel optane? is there even any advantage left for optane compared with a fast, modern nvme disk?

heretic! the only dogmatically correct setup is

• helix
• fedora
• systemd
• rust
• whatever fits your workflow
• gecko
• nushell