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Reasoning Without Feeling
Major companies are pursuing AGI by building bigger and stronger reasoning models. But these models suffer from producing outputs that do not align with human values. Their efforts to nudge these models towards alignment don't seem to be working. These models focus entirely on reasoning, but human values are not based purely on reason. They are based in our emotions. Is alignment of emotionless reasoning models even possible?
Your AI Copilot is Robbing You
Being overly reliant or even over utilizing your co-pilot is easy to do, but its robbing you of something valuable - experience
WAFFLE: Local groups bug
A unit test for Waffle’s WindowsComputerImpl.Groups was returning zero local groups because NetLocalGroupEnum’s totalentries parameter is only an approximate count.
GWT/GXT and Session Timeouts
RPC calls in a GWT/GXT app ignore Tomcat’s login redirect after a session timeout. Here’s a timer-based approach that alerts the user and sends them back to login.
Reading Objects from an LDAP Directory using Spring
Move Tomcat database configuration into LDAP and load a javax.sql.DataSource as a Spring bean with JndiObjectFactoryBean and a custom DirObjectFactory.
Redirecting System.out to a JTextArea
A buffered OutputStream that appends to a Swing JTextArea, plus how to point System.out at it so SOAP messages from Metro show up in the UI.