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jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]English
2·3 days agoThanks for providing the actual numbers.
I think one of the more concerning things is, what if you think the answer is in the documents you provided but they actually aren’t. What you think is a low error rate could actually be a high error rate.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%]English
13·3 days agoJust for context, this is the error rate when the right answer is provided to the LLM in a document. This means that even when the answer is being handed to the LLM they fail at the rates provided in the article/paper.
Most people interacting with LLMs aren’t asking questions against documents, or the answer can not be directly inferred from the documents (asking the LLM to think about the materials in the documents).
That means in most situations the error rate for the average user will be significantly higher.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.English
1·13 days agoDisabling/destroying a satellite has only been shown to be feasible by a handful of militaries in the world in very controlled situations.
Unless you mean you disable it via commands to the satellite, but that assumes there is a way to disable it and that you know who can disable it and can force them to do so.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.English
2·13 days agoYeah, that was my point. Like all technology it has potential to liberate communications, but also enable bad actors. However, to me, it’s the biggest reason why this technology would matter at all.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.English
7·13 days agoI feel like on part no one ever mentions on things like this are, how do you enforce any jurisdiction on a satellite and what it’s doing.
The main crazy thing about a satellite data enter is you can’t confiscate it and therefore you can’t control it. Hell once it’s up there the only thing any government might be able to do is find the owner and force them to crash it (if possible).
It in a sense sounds a bit like the wild west of the original internet. Admittedly Musk being at the forefront of it all sounds terrible, but I think there is something fascinating about an information hub that could be completely independent of any country.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•'End of MAGA': Trump's attack on Iran sets off revolt among angry supporters
3·14 days agoI can’t wait for another poll to shockingly show he’s slid to his lowest approval of 39% - again.
I swear for the past half year I’ve heard every news agency post an article every other week about his support “slipping to 39%”
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•‘We Are Struggling’: 82% Say Inflation Persists Under Trump — Including Most Republicans
16·16 days agoIt’s amazing what tariffs and uncertainty can do to an economy.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmeticEnglish
41·16 days agoI think you uploaded the wrong picture, that’s clearly a toad.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checksEnglish
7·16 days agoWhat a company says and what a company actually does are not the same thing.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections
4·23 days agoI mean, when has she actually done something good? Even in the article they say she votes with Trump 98% of the time (more than Rand Paul).
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracyEnglish
4·23 days agoThis is about “teleporting” information not physical material (if my understanding is correct)
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook ServerEnglish
22·25 days agoI tried Calibre web and Kogma.
Calibre is just bad software at this point, it’s clunky and not really designed as a server.
Kogma was fine, but a web only interface made it hit or miss. The big selling point for me with audio bookshelf was the ability to download local copies.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook ServerEnglish
1·25 days agoOh yeah, the multiple libraries is a good point!
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
2·25 days agoLuckily states control how elections are run so that’s currently just fear mongering.
However, acknowledging your concern, only about 50% of Americans even own a passport Source. While this article says only 9% don’t have direct access to their proof of citizenship, I suspect that percentage is overstated.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook ServerEnglish
3·25 days agoYou can read using the web client or dedicated apps (android and ios). I feel like the clients work just as good if not better than similar software.
I haven’t tested how it handles two versions (audio/ebook) of the same book, but I have ebooks and audio books and it works well for me.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook ServerEnglish
6·25 days agoThe only real downside I’ve run into is it’s very opinionated about folder structures around authors.
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook ServerEnglish
40·26 days agoThe one I’ve enjoyed the most is https://www.audiobookshelf.org/, it may be “focused” on audio books, but works really well for everything. It also supports offline mode (meaning downloading local copies in the app).
jacksilver@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Whistleblower complaint against Gabbard revolves around intercepted call about Kushner: report
3·30 days agoGiven the amount of energy that went into suppressing it, it feels like there is probably something more serious going on.

I mean, what does it look like to “end the war”. Even if they voted to end it, you can’t unilaterally stop it, the time to stop it was before Trump started the war, now it can only end through a deal with Iran.