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Comment That Howard Stern line again (Score 3, Informative) 42

I still remember the show where he was talking about people crowning themselves "The King of Pop" and the "King of whatever", and he decided to be the "King of all Media" , and kept calling himself that until it stuck.
And now it's Yutube . What a long strange trip.

Submission + - The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink (wired.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.

Also, the fine line Starlink walks in Ukraine.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Felonmusk%2Fstatus%2F...

Submission + - The Three Little Programmer Pigs

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education [CACM] recounts an experiment Eric Klopfer conducted in his undergrad CS class at MIT. He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, which none of them knew. Reminiscent of how The Three Little Pigs used straw, sticks, and bricks to build their houses with very different results, Klopfer allowed one group to use ChatGPT to solve the problem, while the second group was told to use Meta's Code Llama LLM, and the third group could only use Google. The group that used ChatGPT, predictably, solved the problem quickest, while it took the second group longer to solve it. It took the group using Google even longer, because they had to break the task down into components.

Then, the students were tested on how they solved the problem from memory, and the tables turned. The ChatGPT group "remembered nothing, and they all failed," recalled Klopfer. Meanwhile, half of the Code Llama group passed the test. The group that used Google? Every student passed.

"This is an important educational lesson," said Klopfer. "Working hard and struggling is actually an important way of learning. When you're given an answer, you're not struggling and you're not learning. And when you get more of a complex problem, it's tedious to go back to the beginning of a large language model and troubleshoot it and integrate it." In contrast, breaking the problem into components allows you to use an LLM to work on small aspects, as opposed to trying to use the model for an entire project, he says. "These skills, of how to break down the problem, are critical to learn."

Comment Stylistic nonsense (Score 1) 37

by ccandreva (#63208324) Attached to: 'This Film Does Not Exist': AI Imagines Jodorowsky's 'Tron'

The images are beautiful, but make no sense in the context of the movie. The idea of being computer generated in 1976 was clean lines and generated shapes. Why in the world would there be hair then a clear helmet over it ? It's not generating his version of Dune in 1976 , it's merging his style with the 1980's style of Tron and generating a Hybrid that looks wonderful, but is a narrative mess.

Comment Re: Google vs. ST:TNG computer (Score 1) 129

Just ask Wil Wheaton if the internet existed when TNG was on the air. Poor guy had to put up with all manner of abuse in alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die . We may only have had usenet, gopher, ftp, and archie, but we got by.
And Wil - if you are reading this, I never posted in a.w.c.d.d.d , but did laugh at stuff read out. Sorry about that.

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