Category: Blog
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A professional workflow for translation using LLMs
A professional workflow for translation using LLMs — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/workflow-for-translation/
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The ‘Exciting Business Opportunity’ That Ruined Our Lives – The Atlantic
“Going crazy isn’t like being hit by a car,” she said in the middle of our conversation. “People make a small but conscious decision to give up. At some point, it’s easier than living in reality.” — Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/amway-america/681479/
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AI as Idolatry
AI may prove even more seductive than traditional idols for, unlike idols that “have mouths but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; ears, but do not hear” (Ps. 115:5-6), AI can “speak,” or at least gives the illusion of doing so (cf. Rev. 13:15). — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/antiqua-et-nova/
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Wikipedia comme cerneau de la web
Or Wikipédia reste l’une des rares grandes plateformes où des débats politiques peuvent avoir lieu de façon à la fois intense et apaisée, y compris sur les sujets les plus polémiques, note Jeanne Vermeirsche. « Un exemple parmi d’autres : sur la page Wikipédia de [l’influenceuse antiféministe] Thaïs d’Escufon, il y a des débats quotidiens lancés par des…
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AI Natives
If the previous generation were digital natives, HudZah was an AI native. HudZah enjoys reading the old-fashioned way, but he now finds that he gets more out of the experience by reading alongside an AI. He puts PDFs of books into Claude or ChatGPT and then queries the books as he moves through the text.…
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AIs Must Show Their Work
I suspect one of the principal reasons R1 gathered so much attention is that it was the first model to show the user the chain-of-thought reasoning that the model exhibits (OpenAI’s o1 only shows the final answer). DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is…
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The leading AI models are now very good historians
2025 is, after all, being hailed as the year that PhD-level AI agents will flourish. I can personally report that, in the field of history, we’re already there. But the architecture of these models, the data that feeds them and the human training the guides them, all converges on the median. The supposedly “boundary-pushing” ideas…
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Pacôme Thiellement, essayiste : « “Twin Peaks” nous a appris à regarder une série comme on se regarderait dans un miroir »
Les deux premières saisons interrogeaient ce qui se passe à l’intérieur de l’homme ; la troisième encourage à la lutte pour sauver ce qui reste de ce monde. Et Judy, l’antagoniste principal, est l’expression de ce changement. Une figure du mal beaucoup plus difficile à concevoir que Bob. Bob était un démon actif et personnel : « le…
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Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness
The parallels with phishing and social engineering by scammers against human targets are clear. Ability to apply the safety specifications to specific instances. For the adversarial setting, the crucial aspect is the ability of the model to apply the safety specifications to instances that are out of the training distribution, since naturally these would be…