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Intel is expected to sell off its Altera division and freeze plans for a massive new factory in Germany, but not spin off its manufacturing division. (WCCFTech)

This makes sense. Altera was a standalone business until 2015 when Intel bought it. Intel already started moves to spin it off late last year, so all they would be doing is bringing plans forward a little.

Separating the entire manufacturing division would be a major upheaval for a company that is already a little too upheaved.

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After Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake - Intel's next generation chips which are set to launch... Tomorrow... Intel is planning Panther Lake. (WCCFTech)

It has more bits.
How to escape an Anaconda. (Paul Romer)

If (a) you are using a Mac and (b) are kind of stupid.
Boeing's Starliner is haunted. (Ars Technica)

Well, that's just great.
What is it that LLMs actually model? (The Register)

If they are supposed to be modelling language, but aren't, then what the hell are they doing?
Arresting civil rights activists is good, actually. (Platformer)

The author of this piece of fascistic drivel is formerly a senior editor at The Verge. The tech press is one big incestuous cesspool.

Disclaimer: Tomorrow.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:19 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2024 04:20 AM (CrtM/)

2 Goodness, Biden's Dog, you were right on it.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:21 AM (64Zez)

3 ...while I was nooding.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:21 AM (64Zez)

4 Boeing's Starliner is haunted. (Ars Technica)
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Large wooden mallet sound on metal hull.

I figured it out:

https://youtu.be/ZElJxTCIsJI

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2024 04:25 AM (CrtM/)

5 G'morning, all.

Still unable to post comments on my iPhone 12.

I get the red paragraph of death when I hit 'Post"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:25 AM (a1415)

6 I like Genesis' Paper Lake most.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 02, 2024 04:26 AM (KAi1n)

7 I bit my tongue this afternoon pretty bad. Chunk taken out of underside. Rinsed with lots of warm salt water. Not fun at all. At least my mouth hasn't gone septic.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 02, 2024 04:28 AM (KAi1n)

8 VIA - what do you get exactly? I don't have an iPhone at all, so I can't easily reproduce the problem.

I'm assuming it's a Python error report, but if you could copy the first few lines that would be a big help.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 02, 2024 04:28 AM (BLOW1)

9 Bojan Tunguz
@tunguz
BREAKING: Brazilian authorities are trying to shut down Starlink above Brazil.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 02, 2024 04:30 AM (TGPs7)

10 Pixy, give me a second to try.

Thanks

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:34 AM (a1415)

11 Bojan Tunguz

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 02, 2024 04:30 AM (TGPs7)
-

That's what SFGoth is currently suffering from. Koinkadinky?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2024 04:34 AM (CrtM/)

12 Re: Brazil and Musk, is this the beginning of "The Corporate Wars?"

Posted by: Jonathan E. at September 02, 2024 04:34 AM (+H2BX)

13 This is the beginning of the end...

Owen Gregorian
@OwenGregorian
Sex Robot Samantha Gets an Update to Say “No” If She Feels Disrespected or Bored | Interesting Engineering

The inventor of Samantha the sex doll has unveiled a new feature that puts the doll in ‘dummy mode’ if she detects aggression.

Arguably the world’s most famous sex doll, Samantha has a new feature. Samantha will now go into ‘dummy mode’ if she detects that her user is being too aggressive or if she feels bored by her user’s sexual behavior. Dummy mode, doesn’t mean you can’t engage in sexual activities with Samantha, it just means she won’t respond physically or verbally.

Samantha’s inventor, Dr. Sergi Santos unveiled the new feature at the Life Science Center in Newcastle, England earlier this week. Santos says he created the new feature at the insistence of his wife.

Sex robot will go ‘lifeless’ when used aggressively

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 02, 2024 04:35 AM (sIVhu)

14 from the LLM article:

industry bellwether Gartner identifies GenAI as nearing the peak of the hype cycle

heh

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:35 AM (64Zez)

15 7 I bit my tongue this afternoon pretty bad. Chunk taken out of underside. Rinsed with lots of warm salt water. Not fun at all. At least my mouth hasn't gone septic.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 02, 2024 04:28 AM (KAi1n)

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:36 AM (64Zez)

16 Good morning, good people. May all you undertake be beneficial to you today and in days following. And may successive days that follow bring great frustration to the leftwits.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 04:37 AM (hKoQL)

17 Pixy
500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

(In Red Print)

"Traceback ( most recent call last) :

File " /usr/lib/python2.6/site-pckages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py,line 670, in response response body=self.handler ()"

Is that enough?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:41 AM (a1415)

18 This is the beginning of the end...

Owen Gregorian
@OwenGregorian
Sex Robot Samantha Gets an Update to Say “No” If She Feels Disrespected or Bored | Interesting Engineering

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 02, 2024 04:35 AM (sIVhu)
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My fear is that they'll modify the robot's "make a sammich" code logic.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2024 04:42 AM (CrtM/)

19 from the LLM article; this reads like it was written by an AI

"Training data therefore is not only necessarily incomplete but also lacks to capture the motivational, participatory, and vitally social aspects that ground meaning making by people," the paper says.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:45 AM (64Zez)

20 LLM thing:

an in-depth understanding about a phenomena

ahem

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:46 AM (64Zez)

21 LLM

LLMs are complex tools, and within any activity their roles is that of a tool

um

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 04:47 AM (64Zez)

22 Pixy, A copy/paste effort from phone to laptop-then to here.

"Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 670, in respond
response.body = self.handler()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 220, in __call__
self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 60, in __call__

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:48 AM (a1415)

23 VIA - thanks, can you also copy the last couple of lines?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 02, 2024 04:53 AM (BLOW1)

24 As I had predicted earlier , concerning the Harris/Walzhood team...

The more you know of them, the less you like of them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:55 AM (a1415)

25 Pixy, I can try.

It limits my characters, and the length of string.

But let me try to post the last bit of it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:56 AM (a1415)

26 File "/home/minxcc/minx/live/minx.py", line 261, in do_sql
perform_sql(query,vars)
File "/home/minxcc/minx/live/minx.py", line 275, in perform_sql
page.c.execute(query,vars)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 158, in execute
query = query % db.literal(args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 264, in literal
return self.escape(o, self.encoders)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 202, in unicode_literal
return db.literal(u.encode(unicode_literal.charset))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 13: ordinal not in range(256)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:57 AM (a1415)

27 Being born analog means to me a good deal of what I read here is indecipherable. Please note this is NOT made in a derogative manner, but simply explanatory from my particular viewpoint. Getting familiar with digital has been difficult in many areas.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 04:58 AM (hKoQL)

28 Boeing's Starliner is haunted. (Ars Technica)

Well, that's just great.

Mornin'

Will they rename this ship Event Horizon? I mean, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 02, 2024 04:59 AM (sAmhv)

29 Pixy, background.

This is a replacement phone for my original iPhone 12, which did work properly.

Phone does not want to remember/autofill my nic either.

But from the time of receipt, this phone has always gotten the red paragraph of death when trying to comment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:59 AM (a1415)

30 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 02, 2024 05:02 AM (O7YUW)

31 (*args, **kwargs)

LOL

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:05 AM (64Zez)

32
Democrat President, Democrat Governor, Democrat Mayor:

https://is.gd/CImBr5

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 02, 2024 05:07 AM (RKVpM)

33 11 Bojan Tunguz

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 02, 2024 04:30 AM (TGPs7)
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That's what SFGoth is currently suffering from. Koinkadinky?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2024 04:34 AM (CrtM/)

You win the Internet!

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:07 AM (64Zez)

34 "(*args, **kwargs)

LOL"

Yup.

It makes more sense in the original Klingon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:08 AM (a1415)

35 The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit strange noises
"I don't know what's making it."

"Shitters full!"

...Cousin Eddie...

Posted by: Bruce at September 02, 2024 05:09 AM (qxhJX)

36
I forgot to mention, two Democrat Senators, too.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 02, 2024 05:09 AM (RKVpM)

37 "Democrat President, Democrat Governor, Democrat Mayor:

https://is.gd/CImBr5"

So clearly....it's Trump's fault!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:09 AM (a1415)

38 VIA - Got it. I can put in a safety check to catch that. It looks like it's inserted a fancy quote somewhere it shouldn't.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 02, 2024 05:11 AM (BLOW1)

39 LLM

LLMs are complex tools, and within any activity their roles is that of a tool

um
Posted by: m

And, a tool can be used to make other tools, that then, they make other tools. Because they are tools.

...Kamala-lala-dingdong...

Posted by: Bruce at September 02, 2024 05:12 AM (qxhJX)

40 27 Being born analog means to me a good deal of what I read here is indecipherable.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 04:58 AM (hKoQL)

Me, too. I appreciate the nice safe place to take some of the lingo out for a spin. Like ... "born analog"!

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:12 AM (64Zez)

41 39 LLM

LLMs are complex tools, and within any activity their roles is that of a tool

um
Posted by: m

And, a tool can be used to make other tools, that then, they make other tools. Because they are tools.

...Kamala-lala-dingdong...
Posted by: Bruce at September 02, 2024 05:12 AM (qxhJX)

Except that you're making waaaaayyyyy more sense than Herself.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:14 AM (64Zez)

42 When your name is Sh'Nard, life becomes rough.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2bxa9t

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:14 AM (a1415)

43 I'M SPEAKING

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:14 AM (64Zez)

44 Pixy, thank you!

Gotta get ready for the morning walk now.

But I can feed back tomorrow, same bat time...same Bat channel.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:15 AM (a1415)

45 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 02, 2024 05:18 AM (dg+HA)

46 OK folks, gotta go do 'The Thing'

BBIAB.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:18 AM (a1415)

47 42 When your name is Sh'Nard, life becomes rough.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2bxa9t
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:14 AM (a1415)

I guess mom is named Sherry and dad is named Bernard? For example.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:18 AM (64Zez)

48 from the Sh'Nard article

The Maryland Car Rally Task Force has targeted car takeovers since June 2024. The illegal rallies involve blocking public roads to do dangerous stunts, disrupt traffic, and cause damage. Some of the events have also led to deadly incidents.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 05:22 AM (64Zez)

49 Good morning y'all. May the good blessings flow your way this week.

So, Starliner is supposed to fly home on Friday. I guess Boeing must have updated its software .

We should probably start a pool on the results.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 02, 2024 05:29 AM (4sUNT)

50
Funeral for a chicken:

https://is.gd/nZHuSm

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 02, 2024 05:31 AM (RKVpM)

51
I will say this though, you don't see too many fat vegans. Undernourished perhaps, but not fat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 02, 2024 05:35 AM (RKVpM)

52 42 When your name is Sh'Nard, life becomes rough.

But he's a good boy. He was on his way to bible study.

Posted by: His mother Sh"Niqua at September 02, 2024 05:36 AM (dg+HA)

53 Ooof. NBC has been doing their utmost to politicize PDJT recent visit to Arlington.

Tom Cotton just leveled them. This clip is devastating.

The whole network should be embarrassed, and should apologize to the families, but of course they won't. Because NBC is an amoral geoup of low-life scum.

https://tinyurl.com/4ccyk87t

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 02, 2024 05:41 AM (rpqPN)

54
Oh, and Kamala claiming she met the Gold Star families at the dignified transfer? Remember the event where Biden checked his watch?

She was not there. Another lie.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 02, 2024 05:44 AM (RKVpM)

55 Some vegans are indeed undernourished in appearance, understandable since they are ALL brain dead.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 05:51 AM (hKoQL)

56 >>>Starliner is now due to fly back autonomously to Earth on Friday, September 6.
----

Ewe betcha'.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 02, 2024 05:51 AM (z3hm2)

57 We have been blessed this weekend with a visit from one of our daughters, her husband, and their two year old wonder child. For some reason the NJ governor decided this (election year) would be a great time to have a first-ever week-long "free ride" on state own mass transit. The election year gift.

So two year old boy and me, his grandfather, rode the train from stop to stop and back again two days running. The engineer let him push the horn several times. It was a weekend to remember.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 02, 2024 05:55 AM (Kmjfb)

58 Being vegan is silly on it's face, humans are omnivorous. Being so enables the species to ingest the needed variety of nutrition to survive.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 05:57 AM (hKoQL)

59 57 So two year old boy and me, his grandfather, rode the train from stop to stop and back again two days running. The engineer let him push the horn several times. It was a weekend to remember.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 02, 2024 05:55 AM (Kmjfb)

; )

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 06:09 AM (64Zez)

60 6 I like Genesis' Paper Lake most.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 02, 2024 04:26 AM (KAi1n)

or

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 06:11 AM (64Zez)

61
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 02, 2024 06:13 AM (tljrc)

62 Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Posted by: Ella Fitzgerald at September 02, 2024 06:18 AM (dg+HA)

63 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 02, 2024 06:21 AM (pTdyP)

64 morning y'all. The Args have always been at war with the Kwargs.

Posted by: fd at September 02, 2024 06:23 AM (vFG9F)

65 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 02, 2024 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

66 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Have a great walk.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 02, 2024 06:27 AM (u82oZ)

67 args = arguments
kwargs = killer whale arguments?

Don't get in the middle of that.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 02, 2024 06:27 AM (O7YUW)

68 If you are a Van Morrison fan (and I am), Powerline has a nice retrospective up this morning in celebrating his birthday (79). Some good music.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 02, 2024 06:29 AM (HalWT)

69 That Boeing Starliner noise? From ONT,
I told you it was Aliens!
The sound translates to "Take us to your leader! No, no, not The Cackler nor The Corpse."

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, sono i Marziani #01 at September 02, 2024 06:31 AM (qfLjt)

70 .
NOOD

J.J. Sefton is here with The Morning Report
(This man is an unstoppable news juggernaut. We don't deserve him.)

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 02, 2024 06:32 AM (O7YUW)

71 Genesis, "Paperlate" (1982)

New to me! Seems like it could grow on you.

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 06:34 AM (64Zez)

72 Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Posted by: Ella Fitzgerald

Haven't heard that song in a long time. Had to go over to YouTube and listen to Ella sing it.

Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2024 06:35 AM (oaGWv)

73 5 G'morning, all.

Still unable to post comments on my iPhone 12.

I get the red paragraph of death when I hit 'Post"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 04:25 AM (a1415)
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Do you have a non-ASCII character in the sock or email field? Maybe your Spellcheck is doing that?

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, sono i Marziani #02 at September 02, 2024 06:36 AM (qfLjt)

74 (*args, **kwargs)

argle-bargle

Posted by: m at September 02, 2024 06:36 AM (64Zez)

75 Morning everyone.

Posted by: Tuna at September 02, 2024 06:36 AM (oaGWv)

76 18
My fear is that they'll modify the robot's "make a sammich" code logic.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2024 04:42 AM (CrtM/)
----
(anguished cries heard)
O no!

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, sono i Marziani #03 at September 02, 2024 06:41 AM (qfLjt)

77 42 When your name is Sh'Nard, life becomes rough.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2bxa9t

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 02, 2024 05:14 AM (a1415)

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Sh’Nard Martinez-Eric Pope, 24, of Baltimore, Chase Andrew Cover, 19, of Halethorpe, and Alycia Destiny Cropper

Sh’Nard is bad enough, what's with the Martinez-Eric Pope?

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, sono i Marziani #04 at September 02, 2024 06:56 AM (qfLjt)

78 Half of that Register article is pointless word salad even if the overall thrust is in the right direction. It's weird they focused purely on the non-textual elements of language, though, and ignored the philosophical problem of language (that it's impossible to know if someone else interprets a word or phrase to mean what you used it to mean) and the structural problem of LLMs (that they map associations, not meanings at all). The latter two are by far the bigger roadblocks in getting from LLMs to any kind of AGI.

Posted by: Cortillaen at September 02, 2024 12:57 PM (6kADi)

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