snowgoons.ro
Software engineering nerd, Citizen of Nowhere™, immigrant in beautiful România...
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I've got a soul! Several, in fact, that I've collected from innocents and store in my palace of torments.
I thought it was well known we got a freckle for every harvest?
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TBF, I sent one on Friday... It's the new Kind Reminder for me.
youtu.be/8bc966ORJn8?...
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It can't count *at all*. It doesn't even know what a number is. What it's actual giving you essentially is the most probable text that follows that question. Simplistically, it's seen more training where the answer to that question was "20 weeks" than "8 weeks", so that's the answer it gives.
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This is how things like ChatGPT give the impression of being smarter than the LLMs they are based on.
LLMs *are* super cool, for some things. The problem is that they have been bullshitted to infinity by the Altmans/Musks of this world, and people are going to be very disappointed.
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You can still do cool stuff, mind. If your AI tool recognises it's being asked to do maths, instead of actually trying to guess the result it can (behind the scenes) say "show me a Python script that would calculate this sum" (essentially a text task), and then run the script...
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Because AI's don't think, they just generate plausible text. If prompted "2+2", it answers "=4", is not because it learned to add - it's just because statistically "=4" was the most probable next sequence of letters based on its training.
LLMs *do not* reason or think...
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I mean it really, really isn't. But it *is* a great city, and I do love it.
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Another nice thing about eReaders is they do one job, do it well, and well, that's it. No planned obsolescence, no upgrade mill... My Kobo is 13 years old and I still use it all the time.
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I heartily endorse; I just finished last month, and it's an incredibly good read (if often harrowing...) Assume this means released a Romanian translation? I'll be recommending it to my friends!
(When I get round to doing the citizenship interview, I suspect this book will be the best revision.)
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Damn even his robot children hate him
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I'll not hear a bad word about a battered sausage, to be fair. One of a very short list of things I miss since emigrating.
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That's not the way the numbers work.
I deposit $100.
I bet $100, win back $90. Now wagered = $100.
I bet the $90, win back $110.
wagered = $190.
I bet $110, win back $100.
wagered = $300.
I still have my $100 deposit, but I've *wagered* $300, lost $0, and the house made $0...
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Just needs one more thing:
youtu.be/2Gx8f4GNvdY?...
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Will say again, this is how you do a military parade in a democratic country, when the purpose is to reassure not intimidate:
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Simpler times...
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/0...
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Yanks, you mean?
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Oh my. Are you trying to mansplain "soccer" to me?
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Say! FFS...
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God it's good to see someone else day this, I feel like a lonely voice sometimes...
Why doesn't anyone else have such an amazing plug? Because nobody else has domestic wiring than will cheerfully deliver 32A down a 24A cable without blowing a distribution fuse...
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True enough, but feel obliged to note that I did indeed get my first rail season ticket aged 11! (And have had some form of season ticket/transit subscription pretty much ever since, wherever I've lived.)
Might be related that, while I did get my license, I've never owned a car.
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Liz Truss...
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It's ok, it's not real money anyway.
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Arguable that visiting China and witnessing the parade that Mao could put on sent Ceaușescu full-tonto, after long courting the west... But Nicolae realised - maybe now dawning on the orange buffoon - it's not the parade that's impressive, it's being able to produce an adoring crowd to order.
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Arguable that visiting China and witnessing the parade that Mao could put on sent Ceaușescu full-tonto, after long courting the west... But Nicolae realised - maybe now dawning on the orange buffoon - it's not the parade that's impressive, it's being able to produce an adoring crowd to order.
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They solve this problem at the annual National Day parade in Bucharest by stopping the column and letting kids play on the tanks... (I am sufficiently a child to also enjoy this.)
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They solve this problem at the annual National Day parade in Bucharest by stopping the column and letting kids play on the tanks... (I am sufficiently a child to also enjoy this.)
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God. This takes me back. Of all the miserable memories of childhood trauma, the one that genuinely can still wake me up wanting to cry in a corner is the tinkle of broken glass in the flask that I knew my mother wouldn't be able to afford to replace...
I'm probably not going to sleep tonight.
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No. But they do sure as fuck make the most noise...
A bit more "doing something" and a bit less "protesting from the comfort of my couch" would make a whole lot of difference to that country.
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I actually think this is mildly unfair because many of them are just really, really stupid.
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The addition of that "noted" absolutely nailed the not-a-pretentious-prick tone, tbf. Really, it did.