Je krijgt een paar cijfers cadeau, maar het grid van 9x9 moet foutloos ingevuld worden.
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Als je wel zin hebt om te sudokuen, maar het liever bij een gridje van 5x5 houdt.
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Een Precies Vier bestaat uit 16 woorden, begrippen of namen, die moeten worden verdeeld in precies vier groepen van vier. Er is telkens maar één oplossing mogelijk. Welke woorden vormen een connectie?
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Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific,"
reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously."
Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year.... it can actually be a huge drain on resources when it takes humans a lot of effort to figure out that, hey, this machine-generated report was not true." Even now, he said, "most of the good ones require more than just the LLM," because "we've had to push back quite a bit... if you find a bug with an LLM, it's not enough to just ask the LLM to make a bug report and then throw it over the fence to us. We want to see a suggested patch; we want to see the human who ran the LLM act as a kind of back-and-forth."
Torvalds described many AI-generated patches as "mindless band-aid kind of patches... they may fix the immediate problem, but the kind of bug remains, and it just is waiting in the hallway to hit you in another place." For his own toy projects, he uses LLMs as prototypers: "I use them as a way to prototype things... quite often the code is not usable in that form, but it's a great way to try something out," while insisting that for kernel-level fixes, "LLMs, in my experience, have not been at that level yet."
Torvalds acknowledged that some AI-found issues have been "absolutely, stunningly, I mean, interesting in a painful kind of way," especially security problems that "show up in the technology press two days later." Despite the embarrassment, he said, "I'm very much not a shoot-the-messenger kind of person. I think we're much better off with LLMs finding bugs, even when they are embarrassing, and they are things that we should probably have found two decades ago."
Torvalds also said he's using AI "for my own toy projects... Every time I travel to some new place, and this is the first time I've been to India, I send the kids pictures of where I am, and for some strange reason, Godzilla seems to follow me around and gets added to those pictures."
ZDNet notes that Torvalds concluded, "There are many useful and less useful uses for AI," and "I think Godzilla is a great place to stop."
Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.
reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously."
Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year.... it can actually be a huge drain on resources when it takes humans a lot of effort to figure out that, hey, this machine-generated report was not true." Even now, he said, "most of the good ones require more than just the LLM," because "we've had to push back quite a bit... if you find a bug with an LLM, it's not enough to just ask the LLM to make a bug report and then throw it over the fence to us. We want to see a suggested patch; we want to see the human who ran the LLM act as a kind of back-and-forth."
Torvalds described many AI-generated patches as "mindless band-aid kind of patches... they may fix the immediate problem, but the kind of bug remains, and it just is waiting in the hallway to hit you in another place." For his own toy projects, he uses LLMs as prototypers: "I use them as a way to prototype things... quite often the code is not usable in that form, but it's a great way to try something out," while insisting that for kernel-level fixes, "LLMs, in my experience, have not been at that level yet."
Torvalds acknowledged that some AI-found issues have been "absolutely, stunningly, I mean, interesting in a painful kind of way," especially security problems that "show up in the technology press two days later." Despite the embarrassment, he said, "I'm very much not a shoot-the-messenger kind of person. I think we're much better off with LLMs finding bugs, even when they are embarrassing, and they are things that we should probably have found two decades ago."
Torvalds also said he's using AI "for my own toy projects... Every time I travel to some new place, and this is the first time I've been to India, I send the kids pictures of where I am, and for some strange reason, Godzilla seems to follow me around and gets added to those pictures."
ZDNet notes that Torvalds concluded, "There are many useful and less useful uses for AI," and "I think Godzilla is a great place to stop."
Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The CDC has recently announced (through albeit limited channels) that there is an outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the United States. While not fatal, cyclosporiasis is an intestinal illness that causes "explosive" diarrhea, nausea and fatigue, and has been detected in 31 states, with 1,562 cases in Michigan alone.
Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. The parasite is spread through fecal/oral means, through eating or drinking contaminated food or water. Fortunately it is not life-threatening, but is still deeply unpleasant and stubborn - symptoms include watery diarrhea with frequent and "sometimes explosive" bowel movements, with symptoms lasting anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Even more frustrating, sometimes the symptoms go away and then relapse. The parasite is also unusually tricky to track, because symptoms don't appear until a week or two after the original infection; meaning most sufferers are unlikely to remember specific details about their diets that could help researchers and doctors pinpoint a source. Also, because it isn't as severe as other intestinal diseases like E. Coli infections, many sufferers tend to ride it out with OTC drugs and never inform their doctors they were infected in the first place. So while the CDC is aware of 31 states affected, the actual number may be much higher. According to the CDC's current data, Michigan has reported the most cases, followed by New York, Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Thoroughly washing hands before preparing food and thoroughly washing produce can help prevent infection, although avoiding eating raw produce is an even better option. Because of this, Taco Bell has announced it is temporarily recalling raw lettuce, cilantro-onion mix, pico de gallo, and guacamole in its franchises, pending further information about the source of the contamination. No other major chains have announced recalls, but Chipotle is "monitoring" the situation, and some other individual restaurants are making similar moves.
Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis. The parasite is spread through fecal/oral means, through eating or drinking contaminated food or water. Fortunately it is not life-threatening, but is still deeply unpleasant and stubborn - symptoms include watery diarrhea with frequent and "sometimes explosive" bowel movements, with symptoms lasting anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Even more frustrating, sometimes the symptoms go away and then relapse. The parasite is also unusually tricky to track, because symptoms don't appear until a week or two after the original infection; meaning most sufferers are unlikely to remember specific details about their diets that could help researchers and doctors pinpoint a source. Also, because it isn't as severe as other intestinal diseases like E. Coli infections, many sufferers tend to ride it out with OTC drugs and never inform their doctors they were infected in the first place. So while the CDC is aware of 31 states affected, the actual number may be much higher. According to the CDC's current data, Michigan has reported the most cases, followed by New York, Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Thoroughly washing hands before preparing food and thoroughly washing produce can help prevent infection, although avoiding eating raw produce is an even better option. Because of this, Taco Bell has announced it is temporarily recalling raw lettuce, cilantro-onion mix, pico de gallo, and guacamole in its franchises, pending further information about the source of the contamination. No other major chains have announced recalls, but Chipotle is "monitoring" the situation, and some other individual restaurants are making similar moves.