Notices by vy (vy@mastodon.social)

@Gargron there is a great essay on translation by Simon Leys

@Gargron seems useful for machine translation.

@inthehands Weak. That King is not a Democrat is not a quibble about terminology, it's at the core of the problem with this fact-challenged venting about Democrats.

@marick @inthehands No. Since the 1970s, Republicans have invested in branding Democrats as weak, unmanly etc. and Republicans as tough and decisive. This is not reality, it's marketing and many people who consider themselves liberal/left have internalized it. In this case a independent NOT DEMOCRAT does something stupid that helps cultlike Republicans and people are screaming at Democrats. As for Durbin, he managed to get a lot of federal judges confirmed over 4 years with 0 margin.

@marick @inthehands But Iḿ not arguing that Congressional Democrats have been flawless or or that people shouldn't disagree when they think they are wrong. "Democrats are wrong on this" is disagreement, ¨ D's are ineffective corrupt losers" is R marketing. With zero margin, under Biden, they got a lot done and got zero credit for it.

@marick @inthehands Well, you were complaining about Durbin on Judges. When they had a no margin majority Democrats were pretty good. In the minority, against a cult party where members are afraid to dissent - Democrats have very little ability to do anything.

@inthehands apparently in your rush to vent you didn’t bother to look up whether Angus King is a Democrat

Asked Claude.ai to write C code for radix sort of floating point numbers. Compiles and runs and test code- thatś good. But

Test 1 - Mixed numbers:
Before sorting: 3.14 -2.71 1.41 -0.57 2.23 -1.73 0.00
After sorting: 1.64 2.54 7.44 -nan -3.18 -1.88 -1.43

Result: "sorted"numbers are not the same as to be sorted numbers and are not in order. Otherwise all good.

#c #c-code #ai

Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956

@aral Giving away free meals for a few weeks is profitable?

Astounding!

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68735706

@aral How are they profiting from genocide?