Olivier Galibert

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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  But he's very good at rationalizing it. In a very irrational world at that point though....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Yokai Land is a nice read, had a good time, and promptly forgot about it. Probably because it's kind of... unsurprising. Very comfortable reading, but par for the course for a middle-of-the-power-leveling Bob novel, where nothing could really have consequences...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Mastodon search is designed to suck, for privacy reasons....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Yes, create an account is on the right. It's not a requirement, but I find it useful. There is no requirement to be on the same server....
• Commented on Place your bets
  If you asked me to build a drone capable of taking out a mach-ish bizjet at 20km altitude I could definitely do that, given the necessary resources and 90% by buying COTS parts. Bruce Simpson caused a few ructions a...
• Commented on Place your bets
  How do you know a human mind is not a bigger, fancier version of ChatGPT? ChatGPT lacks reasoning, and while I do not have insider information, I think it is structural. The principle of those systems (simplified) is that there's...
• Commented on Place your bets
  I strongly suggest you read "Rule 34" before continuing on this path ... I did, twice I think. Perhaps it's time for the third time though, this pair of books is really enjoyable....
• Commented on Place your bets
  These systems have their uses, but I think it's easier to get funding for those fancy Markov chain chat engines and image generators than for real expert systems. Especially as you'd need some kind of domain knowledge for the expert...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Also, what we're seeing isn't "AI" in any meaningful sense, it's just the use of deep neural networks for machine learning on a scale that was hitherto unimaginably vast: Moore's Law finally caught up with where we needed to go...
• Commented on Place your bets
  We actually agree, we're just using terms differently. To me, symbols include numbers and words coded as numbers. Thinking without words is basically doing everything by feel. I'd argue the LLMs indeed do everything by feel, fsvo "feel". The numbers...
• Commented on Place your bets
  So what is AI then? It's obligate and incredibly sophisticated symbol manipulation, using a system that uses symbols to process other symbols. In other words, it looks a lot like the way a believer might conceive The Word making reality....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Which means there's a momentum transfer to the magnet through photon exchange. Going through a magnetic field instead of Vas der Valls forces may have the good side effect of smearing the force through the whole size of the magnet...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  It gets even more fun when you remember that the conservation of momentum that is often presented as the method of action used by reaction engines is just a math trick turning a local property of conservation into a global...
• Commented on WTF
  My lab did some tests on the Grenfell cladding. They have all the equipment for testing the resistance to temperatures and fire in a controlled, calibrated environment designed for that, and cladding testing is one of their things. IIRC (it...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  s/at least/at last/...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  I think, given the recent and ongoing cultural evolutions in the acceptance of LGBT+ people, that it is close to impossible to distinguish between an actual change in the number of them and a change in how many can now,...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Twitter is subject to GDPR, which is fun, but it is also subject to labor laws, which tend to be a little more pointed in Europe than the US. It's going to be interesting if the financial impacts on EM...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  One intriguing thing with the mRNA vaccines from a future-prediction point of view is not so much about vaccines as what it does. You can make your cells produce whatever protein you want in (relatively) large volumes for a little...
• Commented on Outage report
  The obvious answer is to emulate the microcode itself though....
• Commented on Dead plots
  ** Maybe they live 30 miles down a dirt track in a shack with no running water, never mind power: okay, that'll do it, but it needs to be a major plot point. In general dramatic fiction shies away...
• Commented on Dead plots
  You’ve not read Peace Talks yet then? I have. Compared to Empire Games the mundane reaction is just weaksauce :-)...
• Commented on Dead plots
  ITYM the Masquerade. Reading the otherwise pleasant Dresden Files, one can only wonder how the space and military agencies would react to someone/something having the capability to change the trajectory of a satellite in an obviously targetted manner, and ponder...
• Commented on Dead plots
  Reality is unrealistic, as always......
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Oh of course flu will be back, it's just gone for this year without really having existed. We'll transcend to energy beings before we get rid of the flu it seems. In France at least the confinment seems to have...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  The lack of scientific research on coronavirus can be directly linked to the lack of funding. Roughly two years after sars-cov funding for vaccine research in particular was essentially stopped because there were more important things to work on, according...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  Well, I know I don't have the knowledge required to sort in medical papers what's really anomalous and what's the normal level of hype found in pretty much every scientific paper. I was hoping you did :-)...
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  In the civilized parts of the world, H1N1/the flu in general seems to have been killed in its tracks by the covid protection measures....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
  In which way(s) does it qualify as anomalous?...
• Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  I expect unprecedented push back by users at all levels to IT saying "This is our new standard. Suck it up." And the iPhone-toting dudes tend to go all the way to the "Change the standards, I'm the one signing...
• Commented on GDPR compliance notice
  IANAL! Something to remember: the GDPR is essentially sane. The salient points are "don't collect personal data you don't really need, when you do things with personal data do it with explicit permission, allow people to tell you to remove...