What is PEZ? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEZ

Sorry, it seems like we are talking past one another. I think the principle is that you have a site and use social media channels to drive traffic to your site and that applies if you are someone writing a blog or if you have other kinds of material that you want to post online.

I took that as POSSE is a principle that applies to more than just blogging. E.g. if you take photographs, you should not let an external photo sharing site be the sole place where your work is shared/stored.

It is a common phenomenon for first-generation immigrants to shut the door behind them. :/

Thank you for writing this: I have found that extremely simplified and chopped sentences are actually distracting and more difficult to follow once they become too atomized and short. It makes it hard to tell what the thesis is and what’s supporting material.

Review: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/nearly-7-10-covid-survivors-tested-didnt-know-they-had-dulled-sense-smell

Press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099143--

And that someone was me.

I loved Hot Dog Stand. It’s one of the reasons why Windows 3.1 is one of my favorite operating systems: I have so many fond memories of what it was like computing with it. I no longer have a Windows machine and I’m convinced that all software should be free/libre, but I’ll always have a soft spot for this OS.

I can’t read this. What does it say?

Please post whatever interesting small web stuff you can find here. Thanks for promoting it.

Every rational person understands that tools like LLMs are useful for certain specialists and professionals to do a B+ job of some mundane work. It does not replace that expertise. Tragically, for many, a B+ that includes a few things that are just untrue and sometimes is actually a D+ is fine as long as it means that you can avoid paying someone.

Okay.

BoingBoing has had ads for a ery long time and particularly, ads in the form of “This product solved all my problems in a personal testimony”.

is shilling for Microsoft now?

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If you want to fight this, see https://www.commoncause.org/indiana/

That is not a new development. As an American, I know that my people sometimes think of the French as left-wing generally, but there are very strong reactionary elements in their society.

If only. Slowly degrading properties are just a blight on society. There’s no reason to not just take them and use them for some socially useful purpose.

If you—like me—had no idea what “RLHF” means and could not figure it from context, it is evidently “reinforcement learning from human feedback”.

Why not?

How far are they looking to push that agenda?

Just read their webpage (emphasis added):

IP28 prohibits any activity—other than self-defense and veterinary practices—that intentionally injures, kills, or sexually violates an animal, many of which are currently legal because they are exempt from our animal cruelty laws.

It’s trivially easy to answer this question.