Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place), page 4

@hipsterelectron Yeah, like, I’d say that “making stuff up” is a category error, it’s not a question of invention or imagination but of… slavish inherent devotion to training data and syntactical/semantic patterns without regard for pragmatics or more complex or nuanced meaning that’s more than skin deep. Thus “shortening” rather than”summarizing” — it won’t simpky invent unrelated text, but there is ho assurance what it produces is in fact “the theme” or the important elements at all

@hipsterelectron the best description I’ve ever managed is that LLMs are really good at *shortening*, but not *summarizing*. The more neutral, factual, and verbose the original, the more useful that is — but that’s a heck of a caveat.

@hipsterelectron @ireneista @adrienne the PDF.js project is actually an interesting one to experiment with; among other things it handles a lot of the document-level stuff, and lets you hook your own logic in to manage the page by page conversion of a PDF to text: “here’s a pile of text and graphic objects with metadata about each one, feel free to iterate them and give us back a string when you’re done!” Etc

@ireneista (hah, just saw you explaining that downthread)

@ireneista @hipsterelectron @adrienne yyyyyup. PDF really truly is a standard meant to reproduce a visual design; PDF to text, even without OCR, uses wild techniques like “get the XY coordinates of every word on the page and extrapolate ‘sentences’ using hope and heuristics”

@diana Zen Mind is real!

This is the kind of article that’s incredibly rewarding to both create and consume: it breaks down multiple complex problems, explains the pros and cons of different paths forward, and advocates without presenting a straw-man of the other options. That is a really impressive achievement.
https://front-end.social/@jensimmons/113346886761140404

all i’m saying is there is some resonance https://youtu.be/dbBkKPbEQ_Q?si=-QfO89Xe3Esxhtv-

Raising Arizona is the perfect blueprint for the often delayed theatrical adaptation of Neuromancer.

@nyquildotorg I thinm the real news is that Matt’s ability to create sane metaphors has eroded to the point of nonexistence.

Computers are terrible, but also computers are amazing
https://wetdry.world/@ipg/111765701463597045

These little green bees are sweat bees. They're called that because they love salt & might come get some from you if you're sweaty.

They're solitary, sting but not very hard, and most of them nest in bare patches of dirt next to plants.

Plant flowers & leave some bare spots!

One of the wonderful things about a career in open source is that I’ve crossed paths with such a diverse pool of fascinating people whose needs made them part of a particular tool’s community. Then, over the years, I get to watch the amazingly cool stuff they go on to create.

Printing! Birds! With LEGO!
https://mastodon.art/@royscholten/113329908923129246

@jornane @jwz The snippet from the report by a FSF staffer was the factual component, “murder powered vacation machine” was my paraphrase, yes. :D

@kataclyst I use and release GPL licensed software, so I’m not casting shade per se, but that line did make some things about the GPL make more sense

@jalefkowit yes, but if you have nine of them you can use them to move furniture, like giant ball bearings

@inquiline i guess some folks really do feel the need to explain that they’re in the right, against all better judgement

@inquiline in one community i frequent, the running joke is, “if I received a phone call from isaac chotiner, i would simply fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea”

@soypunk @danhon There’s obvious trouble brewing, though, since Dan controls the .org

@danhon we should never be allowed to hang out in the same room

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