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Gestrandete ISS-Astronauten: "Das Leben geht nicht immer geradeaus"

Acht Tage lang sollten sie ins All fliegen, neun Monate sind es geworden. Sunita Williams und Butch Wilmore sind vor zwei Wochen auf die Erde zurückgekehrt, nun haben die Astronauten ihr erstes Interview gegeben. Von S. Jackisch.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/

tagesschau.de · Gestrandete ISS-Astronauten: "Das Leben geht nicht immer geradeaus"By Samuel Jackisch

I interviewed a candidate recently where everyone on the panel is convinced the person was reading the output of an LLM in real time. It seems likely that they had the audio piped to some kind of system that heard the questions and wrote plausible replies. Of course none of us KNOW this to be true, we just strongly suspect it.

They would say things like "we implemented a privacy protocol" and I would say "I'm in security, but privacy really isn't my area. Can you explain a bit what a 'privacy protocol' is?" You know the thing they JUST said in the immediately prior sentence? And the candidate was stumped. They hemmed and hawwed and delayed with phrases like "mmm, let me think of just the right way to answer that..."

It is totally trivial to detect and defeat someone interviewing this way. All you have to do is ask follow-up questions. "That's interesting, what did you do next?" or "Tell me how you decided that was the right thing to do?" LLMs don't tell coherent stories. They're just making stuff up. All you have to do is ask for details. The details won't tell a consistent story. They told me about a situation that was a "suspected data breach" but it turned out to be a false alarm. I asked "what gave you confidence that it was not a data breach?" and they really struggled to answer that.

The other thing that was laughable was their approach to the code and design exercise. Given a problem description, they were able to—almost instantly—verbally outline the right solution. And when asked questions like "what's the computational complexity?" they could provide the right answer (e.g., "O(n)" or "O(log n)"). And then you ask a really simple follow-up question like "so what's the outermost for() loop going to look like?" and they can't answer. There is no for() loop in their head.

They didn't want to be obvious in their copy/pasting of code from an LLM, so they typed. But since they didn't understand actual Python syntax, they used the wrong quote marks (e.g., ` instead of ') and they didn't take care with indentation.

I'm told this is a problem in lots of roles at lots of companies. Heaven help us all.
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„While visiting Paris, three major human rights figures from Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Raji Sourani, Shawan Jabarin and Yuli Novak, spoke out against the renewed bombings in the coastal enclave.“

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Le Monde · 'It's a war against all of Palestine'By Benjamin Barthe

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work.

Today: Sarena Ulibarri is the author of two novellas and a whole bunch of short stories, some of which have appeared in magazines such as DreamForge and Baubles From Bones, and anthologies such as Solar Flare and Biketopia: Feminist ...

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So, in our last post, we talked about Joplin, this open-source note-taking program created by the talented Laurent Cozic. 🇫🇷

One of us use Joplin for many years, first at work and later in personal computer too. Because we like it, we decided to tell about it today. 😀

We found a really interesting interview with him about the product philosophy behind Joplin, which we'd love to share with you.

In this interview, Laurent talks about why he chose to make Joplin open source, the focus on privacy and security, and what the future might hold for Joplin.

He also talks about how he uses Joplin for work and for personal use, and he has some recommendations for people who are just starting out with it.

You can read the interview here:

💬 nesslabs.com/joplin-featured-t

A last thing... Laurent works a lot on this project, and... for free! 👏

So if you'd like to send a donation to the project, you can do so here: joplinapp.org/donate (they accept Bank Transfer, PayPal, Patreon, Liberaply and Github Sponsor).

...or you can consider rating the app on Google Play or App Store. 🙂