acasto.bsky.social
Linux sysadmin, WordPress developer, general nerd into mechanical keyboards, electronics, sci-fi, and <misc geekery> in Pittsburgh now, Asheville long ago.
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My wife drove me to Ikea a while back and made me pick out something with drawers after I had a similar setup on a little table downstairs.
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That’s what I’ve been seeing with small business. Aside from some niche applications, the leading models seem to absorb the tasks they could use (e.g., chat with a PDF) by the tie they get around to knowing they want that.
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And not in a supernatural metaphysical sense, but more of a sociological cancer one.
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From the scanner twitter account it almost sounds like an interior stairwell. I guess you could jump down the center of them.
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It's surprising just how hard it is for most people to sit with dissonance. Growing up in a conservative evangelical environment it's something I had to learn early on as my personal experiences with certain people conflicted with how they objectively were as I grew to understand things better.
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It’s weird because the reaction is in no way proportional to the post. It’s almost like a “burn the witch” type thing. People really can not handle cognitive dissonance and the notion that the reality they perceive and believe to be obejctive is really quite subjective just breaks them.
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The tree of knowledge was actually just a box of old computer cables.
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My guess is probably younger, more online, with some culture stemming from academia so there's the drive to publish and promote the findings.
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I'll never forget the time some guy on the other site did this big long thread about how he was temporarily disabled because he fried his brain thinking too hard about infosec.
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One of the key things I remember from Mortimer Adler’s book How to Read a Book was regarding inspectional reading and the idea that not everything deserves to be read. Summarization can be a powerful tool in determining whether or not something is worth your time.
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The pope knows if you masturbate, and he uses COBOL to do so.
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I got access to the Gemini diffusion model but haven't had time to really mess around with it yet.
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I was wondering that earlier today. I don't know much about them other than that answers appearing from noise feels a little freaky.
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Yeah
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The second one changes perspective because it (Dia browser) is switching to a writing skill for some reason. My goal with that one was to simply reformat posts that are walls of text into something readable, but it teeters between summarization and writing.
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We don't expect humans to just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind and be correct. When we do do that it's often for comedic effect because the answer is often ridiculously wrong.
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Going through the wrong answers is often part of getting to the right ones. It's just they "think" out loud and people see this and think "lol, ai dumb" because they're used to a separation between thoughts and answers.
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Regarding your explanation though, I would argue it is true but overly simplistic and antiquated. Sure it's predicting the next token, but the magic is in every token out also being a token in, a new piece of context, affecting the next token out. It's recursive.
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The point is that him tagging Grok was a joke and that you totally missed that and felt the need to opine and then doubled down, which is exactly what people accuse LLMs of doing.
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Oh, nice. I don't use it much for images but when I do it's for stupid random stuff like what if aliens we're really into the Goonies.
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Then they probably shouldn’t be splaining stuff online.
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Grok has been a known name in the LLM space separate from X for a while now.
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Yeah, I find the summaries useful at times too despite the criticisms, and that's probably one of the most flaky implementations there is at the moment. A lot of those criticizing it probably haven't tried the more advanced applications available.
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Yeah, when I talk about AI I generally mean as a collaborative technology. That's why I get annoyed at those who just want it to go away instead of teaching how to use it.
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I struggled a lot because I didn't fit the mold the system is built for. Even just being left handed caused issues in classes where they included note taking in the grade because the desks and notebooks are all made for right handed people.
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With caveats, obviously. There are some who simply don't want to think at all and nothing will help them. But I think for most of us knowing how to use a calculator offers more advantages decades out of school than being able to scratch out long division on a napkin.
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Instead of just students who use AI vs students who don't, I'd be interested to see students who've been out of school for five years added to the lineup. I bet years out those who didn't use tools would struggle while those who do use tools would still be about to approach the problem.
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And yeah, I know it's not about the essays written but the skills learned in doing so, but what's the point of doing so through a method that will have little if any real world reinforcement? All they'll do is pass the tests then forget it all five years later.
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You know what else is detrimental to your ability to write essays? It's the reason I would probably struggle if I had to write one right now and it has nothing to do with AI. It's called twenty-five fucking years of not having to write on in my daily life.