Althouse: Sunrise

November 5, 2023

Sunrise — 6:19.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

19 comments:

Lem Vibe Bandit said...: That lady near the North Pole is right.

The light colors of the fall are just riveting.; 11/5/23, 12:17 PM
rcocean said...: Great photo.; 11/5/23, 12:23 PM
Political Junkie said...: So many bills/laws are written about "rights". Do they ever write bills/laws that talk "responsibilities"?; 11/5/23, 1:42 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: The same people who see no distinction between Jews and Zionists insist that there is no connection between Gazans and Hamas.; 11/5/23, 2:17 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Some catastrophizing is better than others: Canada, a test lab on opportunistic influence next door

The attack on Israel, another chance not going to waste, to grow surveillance state.
Patriot Act 2 is in the works.

Don't let the appearance of unrelated stories fool you.; 11/5/23, 2:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: In other Musk News: Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup showed off its first product: a bot named Grok whose sense of humor the billionaire demonstrated with jokes about Sam Bankman-Fried and how to make cocaine.

Musk, in a series of social-media posts over the weekend, included those sample responses from Grok as he boasted that it has both a love of sarcasm and the advantage of access to real-time information via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter that he bought just over a year ago.; 11/5/23, 3:04 PM
Jamie said...: I just drove past a protest in Austin - a pro-Israel protest. More of a gathering - several hundred people, I'd say, singing and holding flags and signs. Rangers out for security but no bad things happening.

I'm so surprised to see this in Austin!; 11/5/23, 3:25 PM
wild chicken said...: Interesting observation from reddit professors:

"...I taught freshmen writing 2004-2007. I went into a business sector after that. This fall, I decided to adjunct one section of freshmen writing on the side, because I missed teaching.

This crew is TOTALLY different from those I had 16ish years ago. They know very few major authors. If they do, they haven’t actually read the major works. Their writing is for the most part atrocious. They struggle to identify subject and predicate in a sentence, even. Their papers are brimming with sentence fragments, cliches, and obvious typos. They don’t know when/how to use capitalization or punctuation.

It’s appalling. This is a well-known university in a large East Coast US city.

I’ve been gravitating towards teaching them basic English mechanics and then pushing on being good readers. They are inarticulate and scarily gullible.

Disclaimer: about 20% of the class are fairly strong, though they still make many obvious errors."

Seems to be the trend generally.; 11/5/23, 4:11 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: She's not wrong...

https://www.tiktok.com/@13ladyinred/video/7288990150141431086?web_id=7266893747818939950

From Ace; 11/5/23, 4:53 PM
Crimso said...: "Seems to be the trend generally."

I don't teach English, but I find that my 3rd and 4th year college students are, on average, functionally illiterate.; 11/5/23, 5:23 PM
John Public said...: I'm curious who folks would rather have in charge in a world full of many surprises and much chaos (seems the world is becoming far more chaotic). Trump? Or the Neocons?; 11/5/23, 6:26 PM
wild chicken said...: I guess AI will just all take over the writing eh?

God help us.; 11/5/23, 7:32 PM
Josephbleau said...: Ai could not write a new Mark Twain novel. It’s only trained on google. And yes the old stuff is discounted. Meaning vs time is not yet accounted for. More exactly, the coefficient of the interaction between the meaning of words and time is significantly different than zero.

Ai ignores the past.; 11/5/23, 8:12 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Coming soon: “Grok quits social media platform X calling it “a useless waste of space”

"Grok, the new AI system, has “real time access” to information from X, the social media platform Musk bought for $44bn a year ago, he said in a post on Saturday night, giving it a “massive advantage over other models” that have largely relied on older archives of internet data."

How is that an advantage? If Grok learns from unfiltered and not fact checked data on X the output will be garbage?; 11/5/23, 8:51 PM
Mark said...: Grok is going to be hilarious, just not likely in the way Musk expects.

Given the quality of material AI produces, does anyone expect that good witty humor is a likely result?; 11/6/23, 6:02 AM
Drago said...: Dumber Than Ever Lefty Mark: "Grok is going to be hilarious, just not likely in the way Musk expects."

LOL

The little lefty brains that can't begin to comprehend even the basics of the advantages Grok enters the arena with are once again convinced of doom and failure!

The Lilliputian naysayers sit drooling under the bridges yelling bah! and humbug! over and over again.

It just keeps getting more and more amusing.; 11/6/23, 8:09 AM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical Rich/C****: "How is that an advantage? If Grok learns from unfiltered and not fact checked data on X the output will be garbage?"

LOL

Hard to believe you actually hit "Publish" on that comment.

On second thought, not really.

And now that I've referenced it, you cant wash it away.

Tsk tsk; 11/6/23, 8:11 AM
Original Mike said...: "If Grok learns from unfiltered and not fact checked data on X the output will be garbage?"

Rich makes a good point, though not the stupid, biased one he intended. AI "learns" by reading the internet. Content on the internet is (was) created by humans. Even if it was filled with content written by well intentioned humans (not Rich's "fact" checkers), humans are fallible and incorrect information will be posted. Even if there were unbiased fact checkers, they also will make errors. It is impossible that it would be otherwise. Seems like it an unsolvable obstacle.; 11/6/23, 8:31 AM
Drago said...: In other Musk news: the supposedly mythical Tesla truck, which was never going to be produced, is being delivered this month.; 11/6/23, 9:18 AM