AndersOSU.bsky.social

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:51 UTC

Die Hard?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

I read this and the whole mudbloods thing as “oh, wow, even magical society has aspects that really suck,” when it turns out that Joanne was really trying to say is “actually, Dolores Umbridge is the hero.”

0 replies 0 reposts 9 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

I feel like we need to explore the fact that Chuck is defending his territory, almost as if Bluesky were a window containing a strange bird that is always there when he looks, always chirping,chirping, chirping

0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

Seems more like a cockface to me

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

It’s smiling! You’ll never forget it!

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

This about the smiling face made of living *foreskin* cells?

arstechnica.com/science/2024...

(You’re welcome, I’m sorry)

3 replies 0 reposts 6 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

Do they issue him 4 different jumpsuits, so he can layer them?

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nothing to lose? Just think of what the New York Times editorial board would have to say.

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

Thomas - I concur that the president can arbitrarily direct prosecutions, also appointing Jack Smith to conduct an independent investigation of Trump was unconstitutional.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

It must have been incredibly tempting to have a section header in the brief “The Court Should Take Judicial Notice of Porn on the Internet”

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:36 UTC

Yeah, I don’t think it’s consistent with the “one Supreme Court” requirement. And I super think that people whose names begin with “Justice” won’t think it’s constitutional.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

2 requires a constitutional amendment That doesn’t take away from your broader point that dems should be pushing to build consensus, but zero chance a statute trying this survives judicial review (and I have mixed feelings about passing laws that are known to be unconstitutional good policy or no)

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

Roberts says a statute must have a single best meaning. Thats bullshit. His explanation that resolving statutory interpretation isn’t political policy making is especially bullshit.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

The problem is that you *cant* have a federal legislature that actually legislates at the level of detail required to regulate a modern economy.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:06 UTC

The target audience is people old enough to remember all in the family, young enough to be on X, and dumb enough to not understand that you were supposed to laugh *at* Archie. So basically, its assembled for Musk personally

0 replies 0 reposts 18 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

If the people who keep pushing AI could confine their excitement to the things that AI is usable for, we’d be in a much better place

1 replies 0 reposts 5 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

Right - as a sort of punch card, it can be useful. But you’ve got to write or at least vet the punch card yourself and double check its work. Thats not nothing, but it’s a modest gain. It might not even save any time, but just prove an additional check!

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

For patents it’s mostly understanding how the described technology works. I absolutely do not want a ChatGTP summary of a patent, which would elide important legal facts, but a ChatGTP full translation is often more than perfectly serviceable.

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:08 UTC

Incidentally, the “official” translations of Korean and Japanese patents are often garbage I’ll go get a good translator for certain situations, so I’ve seen head-to-head comparisons where ChatGTP does better than the “official” English version which was either a bad human tx or an old machine tx

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

Incidentally, ChatGTP represents a *significant* improvement over older machine translation on technical documents. I have this same use case, and Google patent’s automatic translation, which I think uses older tech, is a lot worse than ChatGTP. Not perfect, but a lot more usable.

2 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

What’s funny to me is that LLMs are being oversold so hard and people are being told so many obvious bogus things about their utility, that they disbelieve the things LLM is actually pretty good at. For example, LLMs are actually quite good at “understanding” connotation and denotation.

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

And not just in law, but everywhere, LLM has become a metonym for AI, which is just an amazing shortsighted marketing blunder. Not that AI was ever particularly well defined, but using the same term to mean the both the tools that draws waifus with 14 fingers and that manages the power grid is bad

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

The thing is that to do what is it’s represented as being able to do, it has to not be an LLM. I don’t know if it would have to be AGI, but it has to be an advance that’s built on a fundamentally different foundation than transformer models.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

And patents have a set format that tells you “this is the important bit,” but because of how LLMs are constructed they’re fundamentally incapable of staying focused on the important bit and insist on discarding some important bits. (They also choke on our tortured formal style)

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

Well I don’t need an AI tool at all. But an AI tool that purports to analyze patents at a minimum has to be able to understand the meaning of every specialized word in a patent claim and evaluate whether an item of technology possesses every single claimed feature. Can LLMs do it? LOL, no.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

I’m a patent lawyer (with an AI focus). There are a ton of consultants popping up offering AI that “searches” and “summarizes” existing patents. They’re absolute garbage and make my job harder. The tech folks don’t understand what lawyers need and think LLMs are an omnitool.

1 replies 0 reposts 4 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

Yes, they’re used in eDiscovery. They can be useful. Are they improving things? Well, that sort of remains to be seen But you’re doing a motte and bailey. Your medium post had LLMs finding obscure documents. They can’t do that. That they can do some things doesn’t mean you’re not overhyping it

2 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

I mean, I’m here saying LLMs have *some* roles in law. It’s just that I’m listening to you say that they can do things they can’t. Architectually, even special purpose models can’t reliably highlight important ancillary features of documents unless you know what to ask for in advance.

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

They’re *ok* at summarizing. The problem is that they way theyre built they summarize the narrative of the document. Lots of times a lawyer cares about things other than a narrative summary If you’re absolutely sure that the information you’re losing isn’t important—fine—But how often is that true?

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

But so many people want LLMs to do more than they’re capable of. For law, by their nature, they’re only good for translation. The can’t do research, and even summarizing, which is something they can do in some fields is fraught if applied to law. Yes, even if you go back and verify.

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

Using LLMs for first cut translations is a really good use case. It is, in fact, what LLMs were intended to do, and they do it well. It’s also just a step change from older machine translation tech. But to go on about “finding” new documents? Nah. Just make it English and text searchable.

2 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 04:06 UTC

Will, by now you must know that the one thing that MAGA, establishment centrists, and leftists can all agree on, it’s that being richer than ever before, but having somewhat higher housing costs is, in fact, worse than being poor

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

AndersOSU.bsky.social @andersosu.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 15:02 UTC

Kavanaugh - let me explain how I’m too dumb to understand that when I’m squinting at crappy historical sources I’m making policy choices

0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes