Idk. Been doing it for nearly 20 years and before that I was doing IBM’s take on VBScript for another 10. So I have my own perspective there. I’ve only ever had to parse massive xmls when doing web apps, and for web backends I really only like Java and NodeJS.

But everyone is entitled to their own take. I would imagine there is a streaming parser in other languages as well.

Both sides can definitely be bad. It’s like when Google and MS sue each other. I don’t care who wins, I just want them to hurt each other.

Maybe look into StAX?

Hallucination is a thing. It’s a problem because you can’t know when AI is hallucinating or not. But there are a vast number of grade- and high-school level things that it won’t. Like yeah you can’t ask how many footballs long is a hockey rink, but you can ask it how to go about solving the question for yourself, and it will answer, which is what you want the AI to be doing anyway instead of trying to solve the problem.

Individual attention is good. And AI as a tutor can be helpful because they do have infinite patience.

That being said, genuine curiosity plays an important role and if a kid isn’t curious about a subject, AI isn’t going to help with motivation.

What’s much more likely is that (eventually) AI Teachers and AI Doctors are going to be the best we’ve ever had. No human, not even the parents of only children, can lavish the time, expertise, and attention these AIs will give your child.

No, that’s pretty unlikely. They have time and attention, but not really expertise. They have good command of straightforward knowledge, but just imagine the shitshow that would be explaining the politics of the American Civil War. Or Vietnam.

Yeah, AI knows what a gerund is and how to calculate the area of an ellipse, but it will struggle with more philosophical topics that don’t have a clear cut right and wrong answer.

What if my only contribution is spamming “haha look at your stupid hat!!”? I don’t know if that’s a thing. I’ve never played.

You made a lot of points here. Many I agree with, some I don’t, but I specifically want to address this because it seems to be such a common misconception.

It does and it doesn’t discard the original. It isn’t impossible to recreate the original (since all the data it gobbled up gets stored somewhere in some shape or form and can be truthfully recreated, at least judging by a few comments bellow and news reports). So AI can and does recreate (duplicate or distribute, perhaps) copyrighted works.

AI stores original works like a dictionary does. All the words are there, but the order and meaning is completely gone. An original work is possible to recreate by randomly selecting words from the dictionary, but it’s unlikely.

The thing that makes AI useful is that it understands the patterns words are typically used in. It orders words in the right way far more often than random chance. It knows “It was the best of” has a lot of likely options for the next word, but if it selects “times” as the next word, it’s far more likely to continue with, “it was the worst of times.” Because that sequence of words is so ubiquitous due to references to the classic story. But over the course of following these word patterns, it will quickly glom onto a different pattern and create a wholly new work from the original “prompt.”

There are only two cases in which an original work should be duplicated: either the training data is far too small and the model is overtrained on that particular work, or the work is the most derivative text imaginable lacking any flair or originality.

Adding more training data makes it less likely to recreate any original works.

I am aware of examples where it was claimed an LLM reproduced entirely code functions including original comments. That is either a case of overtraining, or far too many people were already copying that code verbatim into their own, thus making that work very over represented in the training data (same thing, but it was infringing developers who poisoned the data, not researchers using bad training data).

Bottom line: when created with enough data, no original works are stored in any way that allows faithful reproduction other than by chance so random that it’s similar to rolling dice over a dictionary.

None of this means AI can do no wrong, I just don’t find the copyright claim compelling.

Good to hear. I always get clumping on the spoon no matter how well I stir.

Also staff are poorly paid and have to endure abusive situations. I dated someone who worked in a care home and she was constantly subjected to sexual and other assaults. But at the same time it’s already prohibitively expensive to have to live in one.

I don’t know what the solution is but I would prefer euthanasia to ever living in one (for myself — I’m not advocating killing anyone just because they are old)

I see no MAGA stuff there. I’m in the other echo chamber, must be (and happily so).

I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment deleted there, but I blocked the instance anyway. Life is too short to engage with people whose values are entirely antithetical to my own. At least not on their home turf.

I had an A500 and the 40MB drive was as expensive as the computer.

I don’t think it’s a failure to communicate. I think it’s a case of you injecting your agenda where it doesn’t apply because you want a soapbox to stand on. That is off-putting and alienating. Chime in with your spiel when it’s appropriate to the context. Police protecting me has nothing to do with presidential succession and it’s weird to bring it up in that context.

In another context I might well agree with you, but right now it feels like an attempt to redirect to make this about your agenda. You don’t need me for that.

You’ve got some kind of agenda here and I don’t even know if I agree with it or not, but it has nothing to do with what I said here.

That’s a poor paraphrasing of what I said. I’m not going to the capital with a gun. All I need is a safe transfer of power to the duly elected president.

All of this. I just blocked the sub. It’s not in my interest to raise my blood pressure over what a bunch of chuckle fucks think of my choices. It’s fucking weird the pejoratives they invent. Carnist? That’s cool, like an artist. Whatever. They can live in their world and I’ll stay out of it. They aren’t affecting me.

The alarms have kinda been sounding since Trump declared his candidacy. I can only hope the FBI et al. are doing their jobs and preparing to counter insurrection, and that the National Guard are on alert.

So I’m thinking back to the times I’ve used it. I want to say I assume they have a way to track where this is being used based on referrer, but I don’t remember clearly enough. I don’t think a given token has to be tied to any URL. You just get a token and validate it with a service.

But people who use it on a daily basis could probably answer more definitively. I’ve just used it a couple of times and didn’t bother retaining it because it’s easy to figure out when you need it.

You don’t need to be vetted to use OAUTH. And you shouldn’t need to be. It would kill OAUTH completely.

I can definitely account for 1.