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2024-11-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin's Storm Shadow revenge: Moscow unleashes ICBM for first time in savage Ukraine blitz and warns it can hit US base in POLAND

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-21 04:49|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Nobody knows what an IRBM is. But this was not hardly an "intercontinental" missile.

Posted by Bobby 2024-11-21 08:26|| 2024-11-21 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 with a single warhead, the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile is at the 5,000 km threahhold for an ICBM.

Instead, Russia mounted a six warhead strike package which included submunitions.

Don't poke the bear.

Posted by badanov 2024-11-21 08:37|| 2024-11-21 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh look they fired a V-2. Good job.

Fucking clowns

Posted by DarthVader 2024-11-21 09:23|| 2024-11-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Yawn. Getting rid of old stuff? And yes, you can hit a US base in Poland. But do you think that's a good idea?

Posted by European Conservative 2024-11-21 09:38|| 2024-11-21 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Nobody knows what an IRBM is.

According to ChatGPT, "An IRBM is an Iranian Revolutionary Bowel Movement."

OK, OK, I didn't really ask ChatGPT. I just throw some words together that sounded good. Which, now that you mention it, is basically what ChatGPT does.

Posted by SteveS 2024-11-21 10:00|| 2024-11-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 And yes, you can hit a US base in Poland. But do you think that's a good idea?

Any worse than hitting a Russian base in Russia? It's called escalation and Biden started it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-11-21 12:22|| 2024-11-21 12:22|| Front Page Top

#7 So Russia agrees to accept responsibility for every terrorist group and state they gave weapons to?

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-11-21 12:52|| 2024-11-21 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #5:
OK, OK, I didn't really ask ChatGPT. I just throw some words together that sounded good. Which, now that you mention it, is basically what ChatGPT does.

IMO, what ChatGPT does is execute the rules written down by those who can write some rules that figure out how to "just throw some words together that sounded good", which is no easy feat.

As a co-worker says, AI is more artificial than intelligent.

Posted by Melancholic 2024-11-21 18:21|| 2024-11-21 18:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Redbeard Drops the Hammer

The pirate was irate. "Those hoarders
Are crazy! Their captain gave orders
To fire from his Kessel
Upon mein own vessel
And not just our brotherly boarders!
Well, Kam--, er, comrades, this insufferably provocative escalation shall not stand! Prepare to launch... Inter-Russian Ballistic Missiles!"
[cue freezenik montage]
"And maybe bugger the Nazi aggressor Poles again, just for kicks."

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-11-21 21:00|| 2024-11-21 21:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Or, On Like Kapitan Kong!

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-11-21 21:02|| 2024-11-21 21:02|| Front Page Top

#11 what ChatGPT does is execute the rules written down by those who can write some rules that figure out how to "just throw some words together that sounded good"

Actually, not. And that is the magic of it all. Written as a traditional program, ChatGPT would be a monstrous, unmanageable collection of if-then-else statements. But ChatGPT is the new New Thing - Machine Learning.

At its core is a neural network, a model inspired by the interconnections of human brains. Like a brain, a neural network can learn. But you need data to train it, lots and lots of data. Like every bit of text you could hoover up on the interwebs.

ChatGPT is a type of generative AI known as a Large Language Model (LLM). Large means lots of parameters, millions and billions. Language means it knows about the structure of language. Structure, not meaning. In a nutshell, it is insanely good at predicting the next word in a sentence. Unfortunately, LLMs are prone to hallucinate. Since they have no sense of meaning, they will happily make up 'facts' to answer your query. They may be wrong, but at least they will sound plausible.

tl;dr: Programs are written, neural networks are trained. ChatGPT is fun but don't ask it about anything important.

Posted by SteveS 2024-11-21 22:16|| 2024-11-21 22:16|| Front Page Top

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