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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • It’s common in English to refer to a collective like a company or government as though it were an individual. I think it’s just a simple short hand really.

    Eg “The whitehouse said today…” We know that the whitehouse (a building) doesn’t have the power of speech and that really means “a whitehouse spokesperson working in an official capacity on behalf of the government said today”.

    Really the headline should be something along the lines of “what, exactly, are Xbox business strategists thinking?” But because of the common knowledge of how this shorthand works they can just use the headline they did.

    There’s probably a fancy linguistic name for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯








  • The links to Wikipedia are actual citations to real sources

    I read an interesting article a few years ago about the Wikipedia source problem. It did a dive into how sources that seem legitimate on Wikipedia can and up citing sources that are less so. They were able to trace back the citations to Wikipedia itself. So no, they’re not always real sources.

    LLMs basically just generate something that looks like the link to a credible source which might support what it’s said. It doesn’t care if its “source” actually supports what it says.

    Which is why you read the page it has linked for you as a source. Unless you’re trying to say it full on generates a page for you.