It's an idiom that comes from shooting something in the sky (like a bird or a plane) so that it falls down to the ground. Usually with a gun or a bow or similar weapon. "He shot down that plane!"
To shoot down an idea is like to discredit it. To show that it is not true (by metaphorically blasting the idea out of the sky and making it crash into the earth).
"aborigines" is not a great word to use these days. It's generally seen as pretty offensive to Indigenous Australians as it's a bit dehumanising and comes from colinisers who treated people like animals.
Better to go with "First Nations people", "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people" or "Indigenous Australians."
But yes, they've been treated (and in many cases continue to be treated) pretty horribly.
Haha, if only electricity did all our work.
Venom is a type of poison. Poison doesn't have to be eaten. (Eg. Contact poisons exist).
Venom is just a poison that is delivered through a bite or a sting.
I think the idea is that there are potentially alignment issues in LLMs because it's not clear what concepts map to what activations. That makes it difficult to see what they're really "thinking" about when they generate text. Eg. if they're being misleading or are incorrectly associating concepts that shouldn't be connected etc.
The idea here is to use some mechanistic interpretability stuff to see what text activates what neurons in an LLM and then crowd source the meanings behind that and see if that's something you could use to look up some context from an ai. Sort of trying to make a "Wikipedia of AI mind reading"
Dunno how practical it is or how effective that approach is but it's an interesting idea.
Yeah, that's what they're for. Having multiple accounts separated and not interfering with each other. So you can have eg. three different tabs of Gmail open or office or whatever in the same window with different accounts logged in. Each tab with a different colour. Great for separating work stuff from personal stuff or isolating bank logins etc.
Sounds like the same thing as you're describing in chrome (though I haven't tried the chrome implementation)
Firefox account containers are very clean and easy for this. The tabs get colour coded based on which account is logged in and you can configure certain sites to always open in certain containers.
Interesting. I remember there being fewer ads but the ones that did exist were worse. Bright colours, flashing, blink tags, 3-frame epilepsy inducing animated gifs... "You are the 10000th visitor!" Some in the mid to late 90s would pop-up new windows or even start autoplaying sound...
You can see it's still grammatically plural even when used as a singular with the other words that go around it too. "You are" instead of the singular "is".
It can even make singular things kinda behave like they're plurals. Like "The Lemmy user is posting comments" vs. "you, the Lemmy user are posting comments"
Back in the day it was "thou art posting comments" (singular) and "ye are posting comments"(plural). With "ye" becoming "you" over time. Although they also had more funky letters like ȝ and þ and stuff.
By the sounds of it their entire video team left. So not half of the channel gone, but all of it...