oh I found out why Tony Stewart got banned from EE StackExchange. he'd been repeatedly posting LLM-generated answers.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Remember sifting through Stackexchange threads, reading through similar challenges, copy n pasting, tweaking the code, testing it out. Sometimes going back to the thread that got you closest to the solution you ultimately came up with, to post your fix.. yeah..
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Remember sifting through Stackexchange threads, reading through similar challenges, copy n pasting, tweaking the code, testing it out. Sometimes going back to the thread that got you closest to the solution you ultimately came up with, to post your fix.. yeah..
I’m nostalgic for the good ol days of sifting through Stackexchange threads for clues when official documentation failed me. In the time spent reading and copy n pasting and trying stuff out, I’d often noodle out the solution I sought. Le sigh. Almost like training AI to do my.. hey.. wait a minute
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’m nostalgic for the good ol days of sifting through Stackexchange threads for clues when official documentation failed me. In the time spent reading and copy n pasting and trying stuff out, I’d often noodle out the solution I sought. Le sigh. Almost like training AI to do my.. hey.. wait a minute
@[email protected] die Antwort auf die Stackexchange frage scheint klar: die online-version musste verschwinden, bevor der verdacht entsteht, dass die künftig 98000$ pro zugreifendem Account kosten wird. Andernfalls hätten ein oder mehrere Personen die Archive heruntergeladen und jedes […]
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no-pony.farm
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
@[email protected] die Antwort auf die Stackexchange frage scheint klar: die online-version musste verschwinden, bevor der verdacht entsteht, dass die künftig 98000$ pro zugreifendem Account kosten wird. Andernfalls hätten ein oder mehrere Personen die Archive heruntergeladen und jedes […]
You missed the chunk that was pasted from StackExchange.
The changing of variable naming as the coder went from organised to "god dammit just make it work" mode and the random shifts between "string" and 'another string'
The changing of variable naming as the coder went from organised to "god dammit just make it work" mode and the random shifts between "string" and 'another string'
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
You missed the chunk that was pasted from StackExchange.
The changing of variable naming as the coder went from organised to "god dammit just make it work" mode and the random shifts between "string" and 'another string'
The changing of variable naming as the coder went from organised to "god dammit just make it work" mode and the random shifts between "string" and 'another string'
Fuck yeah. After struggling for hours I googled it and someone named Alan Munn solved my exact problem on StackExchange 7 years and 3 months ago.
Copied, pasted, worked on the first try.
Alan, you are the GOAT.
Copied, pasted, worked on the first try.
Alan, you are the GOAT.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Fuck yeah. After struggling for hours I googled it and someone named Alan Munn solved my exact problem on StackExchange 7 years and 3 months ago.
Copied, pasted, worked on the first try.
Alan, you are the GOAT.
Copied, pasted, worked on the first try.
Alan, you are the GOAT.
If your idea of "human level intelligence" is"able to look up something on Wikipedia/reddit/stackexchange, and regurgitate it as if you know what you are talking about"...
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If your idea of "human level intelligence" is"able to look up something on Wikipedia/reddit/stackexchange, and regurgitate it as if you know what you are talking about"...
The new stackexchange
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The new stackexchange
Dubious achievement unlocked: I was conversing with an LLM on a mathematical topic and, when I asked for sources, it referred me to a question I had asked on StackExchange in 2021 which it said resulted in a "very readable" discussion. I bet the LLM enjoyed reading it, all right.
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Dubious achievement unlocked: I was conversing with an LLM on a mathematical topic and, when I asked for sources, it referred me to a question I had asked on StackExchange in 2021 which it said resulted in a "very readable" discussion. I bet the LLM enjoyed reading it, all right.
Vu la puissance du RaspberryPi Zero W, je doute qu'un LLM tourne dessus. Et puis de toute façon, j'en ai pas besoin, je préfère largement avoir des fils StackExchange et Wikipedia 😉
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Vu la puissance du RaspberryPi Zero W, je doute qu'un LLM tourne dessus. Et puis de toute façon, j'en ai pas besoin, je préfère largement avoir des fils StackExchange et Wikipedia 😉
i dont ever want to fucking stare at people having annoying opinons on stackexchange about whatever nonfree or free drivers or whatever the fuck i just want things to fucking work on this laptop
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
i dont ever want to fucking stare at people having annoying opinons on stackexchange about whatever nonfree or free drivers or whatever the fuck i just want things to fucking work on this laptop
yea he's been on linux for like two months now and every day some Exciting New Issue pops up that would normally take 2-3 hrs to fix on windows but linux just doesnt have that much documentation (forums/stackexchange/etc) in comparison, so takes 2-3 days to fix each new thing
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
yea he's been on linux for like two months now and every day some Exciting New Issue pops up that would normally take 2-3 hrs to fix on windows but linux just doesnt have that much documentation (forums/stackexchange/etc) in comparison, so takes 2-3 days to fix each new thing
Feel free to ask if you need anything. And on that note, sites like Reddit, StackExchange, and AskUbuntu to a lesser extent are great if you get stuck with something. Odds are, any problem you run into, someone else already ran into too, and there's a good chance they found a solution.
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Feel free to ask if you need anything. And on that note, sites like Reddit, StackExchange, and AskUbuntu to a lesser extent are great if you get stuck with something. Odds are, any problem you run into, someone else already ran into too, and there's a good chance they found a solution.
One thing I've done with Gemini is give it perma prompts to always start with Stanford EP, Wikipedia, IEP, Britannica etc... Then to academia. edu, research gate, JSTOR... Then to stackexchange sites, reddit, substack, blogs etc. Ayn Rand institute, RW libertarian sites, quora are all never go
New: Elon Musk appears to have just launched "Grokipedia," billed as a more right-leaning rival to Wikipedia: grokipedia.com
Story to come. If you try it out, I'd be interested to hear what you find.
Story to come. If you try it out, I'd be interested to hear what you find.
Grokipedia
grokipedia.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
One thing I've done with Gemini is give it perma prompts to always start with Stanford EP, Wikipedia, IEP, Britannica etc... Then to academia. edu, research gate, JSTOR... Then to stackexchange sites, reddit, substack, blogs etc. Ayn Rand institute, RW libertarian sites, quora are all never go
Thanks to David Ellsworth's work with some clever mathematical ideas and C++ tricks, the largest known term of the sequence has increased from A276272(5) = 10 to A276272(17) = 1848740638 > 1.8 billion!
If you have a StackExchange account, I'd encourage you to go and upvote his incredible work!
If you have a StackExchange account, I'd encourage you to go and upvote his incredible work!
October 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thanks to David Ellsworth's work with some clever mathematical ideas and C++ tricks, the largest known term of the sequence has increased from A276272(5) = 10 to A276272(17) = 1848740638 > 1.8 billion!
If you have a StackExchange account, I'd encourage you to go and upvote his incredible work!
If you have a StackExchange account, I'd encourage you to go and upvote his incredible work!
Another way in which stackexchange is superior
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Another way in which stackexchange is superior
I guess "finished" which means the same thing, but no others are immediately coming to mind. I did find this interesting stackexchange post about how some people also accept "started" though english.stackexchange.com/questions/27...
"I am finished my sandwich" sounds correct but "I am started my sandwich" does not?
Grammatically these 2 sentences seem to have the same structure
I - pronoun
am - verb
finished/started - verb
my - pronoun(dictionary.com -> possessive, used as an "attributive adjective")
english.stackexchange.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I guess "finished" which means the same thing, but no others are immediately coming to mind. I did find this interesting stackexchange post about how some people also accept "started" though english.stackexchange.com/questions/27...
If you buy a standalone license on StackExchange for $20, you can use Word offline whereas Google Docs requires constant internet access.
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If you buy a standalone license on StackExchange for $20, you can use Word offline whereas Google Docs requires constant internet access.
That is not my experience. I used to start with a google (or Scholar) search then read papers, reddit, stackexchange, etc. Now I almost always skim the Google AI overview or just go to Claude.I also look at search results. It is not LLM vs traditional means. I use both together.
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That is not my experience. I used to start with a google (or Scholar) search then read papers, reddit, stackexchange, etc. Now I almost always skim the Google AI overview or just go to Claude.I also look at search results. It is not LLM vs traditional means. I use both together.
And yet somehow these mfs are like:
grep “human values” machinegodhead.py # human values are probably coherent and known, right? check philosophy dot stackexchange and make sure human values are known before you run this code. hugs and kisses.
grep “human values” machinegodhead.py # human values are probably coherent and known, right? check philosophy dot stackexchange and make sure human values are known before you run this code. hugs and kisses.
October 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And yet somehow these mfs are like:
grep “human values” machinegodhead.py # human values are probably coherent and known, right? check philosophy dot stackexchange and make sure human values are known before you run this code. hugs and kisses.
grep “human values” machinegodhead.py # human values are probably coherent and known, right? check philosophy dot stackexchange and make sure human values are known before you run this code. hugs and kisses.
I answered a Math StackExchange question about constructive math, and used the occasion to recall a few standard principles in this domain. math.stackexchange.com/a/5102698/84...
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I answered a Math StackExchange question about constructive math, and used the occasion to recall a few standard principles in this domain. math.stackexchange.com/a/5102698/84...
Recently came across this in StackExchange japanese.stackexchange.com/a/40264
Notice how when you put the cursor over a character with furigana, it gets enclosed and the furigana is highlighted. It would be great to see that in Leaflet/WhiteWind/Pipup.
Notice how when you put the cursor over a character with furigana, it gets enclosed and the furigana is highlighted. It would be great to see that in Leaflet/WhiteWind/Pipup.
What is the difference between そして (soshite) and それから (sorekara)?
Can anyone explain what is the difference between そして and それから, and when to use which?
Thanks.
japanese.stackexchange.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Recently came across this in StackExchange japanese.stackexchange.com/a/40264
Notice how when you put the cursor over a character with furigana, it gets enclosed and the furigana is highlighted. It would be great to see that in Leaflet/WhiteWind/Pipup.
Notice how when you put the cursor over a character with furigana, it gets enclosed and the furigana is highlighted. It would be great to see that in Leaflet/WhiteWind/Pipup.
Same thing is happening to Cross Validated, the StackExchange stats site, which I’m pretty sure has contributed to LLMs. Traffic and activity is way down, but often there are new questions like “I asked chatGPT … but I’m still not sure” ☹️
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Same thing is happening to Cross Validated, the StackExchange stats site, which I’m pretty sure has contributed to LLMs. Traffic and activity is way down, but often there are new questions like “I asked chatGPT … but I’m still not sure” ☹️
Question folks should ponder: what happens when no one contributes to StackExchange anymore because no one goes there anymore and the training data for the AI runs out and gets stale?
This is the one use case I've (personally) found for it. I think if you know enough about code to get the logic of it, LLMs are a much faster version of StackExchange
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Question folks should ponder: what happens when no one contributes to StackExchange anymore because no one goes there anymore and the training data for the AI runs out and gets stale?