Author Archives: Vincent Van Dinsky

The reason LLMs will never work

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/ai-gold-rush-for-chatbot-training-data-could-run-out-of-human-written-text-as-early-as-2026 “Facebook parent company Meta Platforms recently claimed the largest version of their upcoming Llama 3 model — which has not yet been released — has been trained on up to 15 trillion tokens, each of which can represent a piece of … Continue reading

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A sitcom about trying to launch the Boeing Starliner. Every episode is about some new brainy (or harebrained) idea about how to fix it, but in the end it always fails.

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Amazon’s Swag Store Sells Neck Fans to Prevent Workers from Overheating

Employees can buy the fans at an in-warehouse store with “Swag Bucks” they earn for good behavior and team bonding activities. https://www.404media.co/amazons-swag-store-sells-neck-fans-to-prevent-workers-from-overheating

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Ann Coulter does everything Joseph Goebbels did, but backwards and in high heels.

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New Hampshire primary proves we need ranked-choice voting for president

Ranked-choice voting tells us not just who everyone’s first choice is, but who everyone could agree on. https://www.concordmonitor.com/We-need-ranked-choice-voting-32890873

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Amazon is opening a supermarket with no cashiers. Is Whole Foods next?

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/25/21151289/new-amazon-go-grocery-store-supermarket-cashiers-whole-foods-seattle

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RIP Larry Tesler, the Inventor of Copy-Paste

Tesler, who worked at Apple for decades, invented copy-paste functionality while at Xerox PARC and is responsible for a major deal that helped turn ARM into a dominant force in computers. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jdgw/larry-tesler-the-inventor-of-copy-paste-was-more-influential-than-you-realize

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The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value

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Accomplishments of the “Democratic Establishment”

Civil Rights Act – Voting Rights Act – Women’s Right to Vote – Equal Pay Act – Clean Air Act – Minimum wage – 40-hour work week – Overtime – Unemployment Insurance – Putting people on the Moon – Inventing … Continue reading

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Why Term Limits are Bad

Term limits are a corporate scam to give corporations even more political power than they already have. Term limits just guarantee that elected officials will be perpetual amateurs, while corporations can hire career professional lobbyists who will run circles around … Continue reading

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