Daily Shaarli

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October 19, 2024

Big Tech has given itself an AI deadline
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More signs of the current bubble being about to burst?

Reliable Reasoning Beyond Natural Language

Now this is an interesting paper. Neurosymbolic approaches are starting to go somewhere now. This is definitely helped by the NLP abilities of LLMs (which should be used only for that). The natural language to Prolog idea makes sense, now it needs to be more reliable. I'd be curious to know how many times the multiple-try path is exercised (the paper doesn't quite focus on that). More research is required obviously.

I've been writing software for the last 25 years. Here some things I learned so far

Another good set of advices. They're not all technical which is to be expected.

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
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This is just insane, claiming two opposite things to different demographic groups for political gains. And if you try to stop this kind of manipulative stunts they'd probably cry wolf about free speech...

Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML
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Ah I wise MarkNotes or KleverNotes would work like this. I wish we'd have a reusable component in KDE Frameworks too. This is quite some work of course, too bad this isn't FOSS.

Ground Rules of Fairness at Work

Transparency and fairness are definitely important to keep people motivated across an organization. That doesn't make it easy to deal with of course, but that's where managers should focus.