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Comment Re:Current LLM's (Score 1) 211

That was my experience before ChatGPT 5. With ChatGPT 5, here comes the qualifier: if you use it within its training data range, it's quite good. Within its training data means, doing what other people have done before and is likely to be found on stackoverflow. For example, setting up training a neural network with torch. If you go outside their comfort zone, I agree with you.

Danger lives when these tools are used in an area where the user even lacks the expertise to factcheck the answer. The responses sound very confident.

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 5, Informative) 90

Dark Energy is the name for the phenomenon an accelerated expansion of the Universe. This was measured by observing distance and velocity of distant supernova, and later also with other techniques (galaxy clusters for exampl). Dark Energy is the additional energy available for driving this, which is not accounted for in light-emitting baryons.

What causes the Dark Energy is another question, and that, indeed, has not been solved ("proven") to date.

Comment Re:This is correct. Migrate applications first (Score 1) 34

That's how LiMux did it, and develop custom but open source software in-house to support local workflows.

But you will always have some fraction persistently complaining that it is not the Windows they are used to (being closely familiar from school, home, other jobs). And any issues arising can be blamed on not using Windows.
Then Microsoft comes along and gives you a very, very nice offer with the aim to shut down the initiative.

Comment Synchronous dev of libraries across languages (Score 1) 51

I wonder whether it might one day be possible to write one code base and have AI translate it to multiple programming languages.
Currently, each language has to reinvent the wheel and therefore you have incomplete feature sets.

Thinking of:
* encryption, hashing, cache
* scientific libraries, array handling, fast fourier transforms, image manipulation, MCMC
* video, audio, image codecs
* string handling, unicode, date & time
* HTTPS & database connectors
* ...

Comment Re:If we use AI generated code (Score 1) 51

I think you are going the wrong direction - misspecification is the feature of LLMs people love the most ("vibe coding"): The LLM fills in the blanks by interpolating how others have solved this and the sharp bits that stackoverflow answers have pointed out.

[I am not condoning this, just conveying an observation.]

Comment Re:I reject cookies every time it pops up (Score 3, Insightful) 102

exactly. TFS says "People are used to giving consent for everything", but for everyone I know it is "People are used to reject consent for everything" - which is the default in the law, it is companies that want to move away from the default, not users. You can build stateful websites without cookies, you know ...

Comment Serious question (Score 2) 14

What's the killer app?

I think one that was floated is seeing in an easily comparable way the health information while browsing a supermarket isle? I'd be cool to give live context for from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... and the Wikipedia "Criticism" sections. Not sure I'd pay for it though.

Comment Re:Food education sucks (Score 2) 76

There are two pieces of nutrition health advice that have stood the test of time:

1. don't eat too much.
2. have a varied diet.

One incarnation of the first one is to eat until 80% full. Or to chew slowly, so your stomach (which is slow to realise) can properly indicate fullness.
One incarnation of the second is the food pyramid, another easy to remember one is 5 fruits and vegetables of different color per day.

If you come across advice of the form "you need this one thing in your diet", it's rubbish (see point 2). Similarly, "the most healthy" - does not make sense. There are many ways to create a varied diet.

Also, food has cultural and social aspects.

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