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Sorry for linking to Substack, but this one is so very good:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms
A few excerpts:
Apple has a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs.
Whenever people ask me why I (contrary to widespread myth) actually like AI, and think that AI (though not GenAI) may ultimately be of great benefit to humanity, I invariably point to the advances in science and technology we might make if we could combine the causal reasoning abilities of our best scientists with the sheer compute power of modern digital computers.
What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms. (They also can’t play chess as well as conventional algorithms, can’t fold proteins like special-purpose neurosymbolic hybrids, can’t run databases as well as conventional databases, etc.)
A worthwhile article by Gary Marcus for people interested in LLMs and the limitations of LLMs.
Open the article and search for 'Hanoi'.
The well-known Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle that can be solved by junior programmers, but above 7 floors (disks), LLMs simply crumble under the complexity.
As Marcus says: "AI is not hitting a wall. But LLMs probably are."
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms
#LLM #AI #Puzzle #TowerOfHanoi #GaryMarcus
情熱大陸、見ました。私は袴田さんを応援してるから。頑張ってほしい / HAKUTO-R（民間月面探査プログラム・＃1357） | TVer https://tver.jp/episodes/epssapqx87y
Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot https://lobste.rs/s/ogh0zp #ai #email #security
https://www.aim.security/lp/aim-labs-echoleak-blogpost
For at tilbagerulle den globale opvarmning, må vi komme ned på jorden. Om et gammelt slogan og en måde at øge jordforbindelsen, der ikke trækker på hverken det globale eller lokale https://minus1.ghost.io/jorden-er-ikke-en-globus #økofilosofi
TFW du ein Github-Repo anlegst, dir kein gscheiter Name einfällt, du es daher einfach „shit“ nennst – und dir dann Github offiziell dazu gratuliert, dass du gerade das 1.000.000.000ste Github-Repo angelegt hast. https://github.com/AasishPokhrel/shit/issues/1
Why does the European Commission write calls like HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-01 and demand:
Projects will develop technologies, tools, processes that reinforce cybersecurity using AI technological components, in particular Generative AI
I have been looking for a screenshot of these icons I drew for gnome as placeholders, but they also encouraged Tuomas Kuosmanen to jump in and fix it, and finally found a copy online!
The “sl” stood for “symbolic link” and “sock” for socket - I used these hand drawn icons for each mime type:
An AmperSand, from the southernmost beach/shore of East Lothian - I'm not sure it actually has a name, but maybe Dunglass Beach? - this afternoon.
I always make these below the line of high tide, and it was particularly pleasing to walk past later and watch the sea in the process of reclaiming it.
My Fediforum 2025 keynote is out: "Fun, the Fediverse, and Spritely"
https://youtu.be/jSOk8XQuqms
https://spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcBd23yU2t
This was definitely one of the most energetically received talks I've ever given
I talk about the technical and political challenges we're facing, why the current fediverse is not enough, but why there's hope, and why joy is essential to our success
結局こうなる運命なのかしら
Xの代替SNS「Bluesky」で特定意見が増幅するエコーチェンバー深刻…利用者半減 - 産経ニュース https://www.sankei.com/article/20250615-VOPIKBQLJ5CWJKA7ONW3G6GD4Q/?utm_medium=app&utm_source=smartnews&utm_campaign=android
Massive demonstration for Gaza and against genocide today in Brussels.
75.000 participants according to the police, and 110.000 according to organisers.
Inspired by the Dutch sister demo, “Draw a Red Line for Gaza” was the largest demonstration in Belgium for years.
#Gaza #Activism #Palestine #Israel #EU #RodeLijn #Genocide #Belgium #Belgie #Belgique #Belgien #EU #UE #Europe
Your greatest unfair advantage:
Doing the boring thing daily with no applause, no audience, and no dopamine.
csszengarden.com on July 27, 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20050727081750if_/http://www.csszengarden.com:80
csszengarden.com on July 27, 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20050727081750if_/http://www.csszengarden.com:80
覚え書き更新 Raindrop.io Bookmarks 06/16/2025 https://kidachi.kazuhi.to/blog/archives/043013.html
옆 동네 프라이드 페스티벌에 사진 자원봉사 갔다왔습니다.
おはようございます。
Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable
Link: https://ourworldindata.org/childhood-leukemia-treatment-history
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282143
Fighting Words, but I think using RHEL does make your d!ck look small. #linux #opensource #software
Quick takes on the GCP public incident write-up via 
@robeyRobey ☠️ https://lobste.rs/s/0j5y9e #devops
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/06/14/quick-takes-on-the-gcp-public-incident-write-up/
My best way to relax
I made some improvements.
#volvo544
From "All About Computers", published in 1984.
also plans are very cheap compared to us eg. £15 for 100gb, 5g...
Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past - Infrequently Noted https://infrequently.org/2025/06/the-ghost-of-christmas-past/
How to Make Accessibility "Stick" https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/how-to-make-accessibility-stick/
Quick Tip: Avoid event listeners on the window object https://tarnoff.info/2025/06/13/quick-tip-avoid-event-listeners-on-the-window-object/
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish | Steve Jobs Archive https://stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/stay-hungry-stay-foolish
No budget, no program, and the EAA deadline looming. | Deque https://www.deque.com/blog/no-budget-no-program-and-the-eaa-deadline-looming/
The European Accessibility Act: What APAC needs to know about EAA compliance | Deque https://www.deque.com/blog/the-european-accessibility-act-what-apac-needs-to-know-about-eaa-compliance/
interesting: looks like there will be live streaming in peertube when they promise to make it so , thanks to all the supporters — what make it stand out to owncast?
I picked up this ridiculously expensive Apple mug but can’t bring myself to actually use it. Not sure if I’m worried about breaking it or staining it or what but it just sits in a cabinet silently judging me.
parenting
catching a poop from my youngest with my bare hand was funny last year, this year's poopsplosion was somewhat disconcerting, but hopefully it will be the last father's day in which i touch poop
난 오늘 Zen 브라우저를 밀어버렸다. 그 녀석이 내 탭들과 워크스페이스를 모두 날려버렸기 때문이다.
I was a long-time Windows user until I started using NixOS and finally switched | Anurag Singh https://share.google/ZyB6FDgFuZA8kOesZ
AI singularity will not be achieved by AI getting smarter.
Framasoft kann noch etwas Kleingeld gebrauchen – werft gerne ein paar Euro ein, wenn ihr könnt. Auch wenn ihr (so wie ich) gemischte Gefühle gegenüber PeerTube habt, könnt ihr Framasoft auf diese Weise unterstützen. Das Geld kommt bei den richtigen Leuten und Projekten an.
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
#Framasoft #PeerTube #OpenSource 
@Framasoft 
@peertube
In case you didn't notice, #Tusky is now officially on #Codeberg!
Thanks to 
@TakTak! 
@ButterflyOfFirebutterflyoffire ⏚ꝃ⌁⁂ 
@fatuus and everyone who made this possible! 
Alexandre Mutel
Andy Piper
Sara Joy 
Stefano Marinelli
just small circles 🕊
