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I would not get too hung up about the "Victorian" label, as that seems to be mostly Ars' doing. As far as I can tell, this student (on GitHub and Reddit) only ever talks about an LLM trained on London-published texts from 1800-1875, not a "Victorian LLM" or some such. He only once refers to his...

I am logged in, because I have turned off my "watch history", and that way my Youtube front page makes no video recommendations, it is just plain empty white with no all-caps previews screaming for attention. I have to text-search for anything I want to see, and that is fine. (When I am not...

Which means they had a 30 day period with $1 billion and multiplied it by 12 in the hope that future months will be the same. And given that they do not report the annualized revenue on a regular basis, rather it was "leaked", it must be very tempting to "leak" this stat after a notably good...

As far as I understand, MUSHRA is mainly useful for codec developers who want a statistically valid ranking of different codec versions, based on a panel of listeners (typically 15-20). An individual audiophile who wants to find out whether s/he can hear a difference between two codecs or two...

I think user-replaceable is much preferable. Anything else means considerable friction: finding the appropriate replacement service, handing over your phone/data to someone else, be without your phone for hours/days/weeks (not everyone lives in a big city, many need to send in their phone by...

I can confirm that 2TB microSD cards work as well. And a replacement battery is around €30, I replaced mine this week. There is even a 3rd party holder for this type of battery that snaps onto the Samsung case for this phone and connects to the pogo pin charging contacts, to double the battery...

Eh, replaceable batteries in phones have been a solved problem for decades. There was no prevalence of issues like this in the dumbphone era when all phones had replaceable batteries (and dumbphones were already running OSs and managing data). And some smartphones with replaceable batteries have...

The old 20+ episode seasons were a result of broadcast syndication, which required shows to have 80-100 episodes to qualify. Hence production aimed to reach this number in as few seasons as possible, constrained by what was feasible to produce in a year and what the stations could/would...

Agreed. The Nothing phones evoke the modularity promises of the Google Ara prototypes and the repairability of the Fairphones, but it is all just decoration under glass - in the end they remain bog-standard disposable glass-sandwich designs. I would have more "respect" for their decorative...

Maybe the accuracy of automated CSAM detectors is also a factor? I have no idea how good they really are, but they are not perfect and they do produce false positives. A few years ago when Apple was about to implement such a system, they would have required at least 30 images triggering the CSAM...

The previous poster is not conflating anything, they specifically talked about an LLM trained on this comment section. Training defines the probabilities between tokens in an LLM, which is the closest approximation to representing meaning it can hope to achieve. LLMs are Chinese Rooms and have...

Of course. This has always been the standard in automated reasoning benchmarks. You run the system on thousands of known reasoning problems, each requiring thousands or millions of reasoning steps, and a single mistake means the system is unsound and none of its results/proofs can be trusted. I...

I often wonder how many current incels embrace the blackpill philosophy because it is more "comfortable". Getting rejected is deeply unpleasant, and trying means risking rejection. The blackpill philosophy and the "it's-over/it-never-began"-mantra gives them an excuse to avoid that risk by never...

We are talking of men who brand themselves incels, who meet in dedicated online forums that they created for themselves, who extensively discuss and evolve their theories and worldviews, who maintain public wikis and glossaries to keep track of their evergrowing terminology, and who (in most...

I have worked with incel investigations in the context of social media analysis and monitoring of online extremism, so from that perspective I would say social isolation is certainly one reason. But also, incels are not proud of being incels, and it is not something they want to advertise in...

Yeah, I was considering upgrading from the X6P to the X7P, expecting the X7P to be a step up like the X6P was over the previous XCover Pro. But as it stands the X7P looks like stagnation or even a downgrade. Not sure where Samsung is going with this, especially if they want to stick to their...

Agreed. Going by specs and benchmarks the XCover7 Pro offers barely any upgrade over the XCover6 Pro, which is very disappointing considering that three years have passed. Samsung claims they will support it with Android upgrades and updates for seven years, I wonder how that will work out with...

Quite possible. Then again that means there can also be no doubt that Apple knows far more about its competitors than consumers do. It is then just as plausible that Apple "leaked" "rumors" about upcoming products because they had learned about a competitor's ongoing developments and wanted the...

It is three years old and its SoC was very decent back then and still performs more than adequately today. The display does 120 Hz, and since it is IPS rather than OLED it can do long-term full brightness without burn-in, e.g. all-day vehicle navigation, or in a forklift with some warehouse app...

I think phones are already so thin that variations in edge thickness in the palm do not matter. Most of my books are thicker than phones. My pens are thicker than phones. Whether the phone is 5mm or 15mm thick, this is all fine, the palm does not care. I see thickness is more relevant for...