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AI is the "is it cake?" of ML today

AI won't read your post about how AI gets basic things wrong and is largely useless, but your friend who get basic things wrong and is largely useless will

"I am Rome and where I walk is Rome"

Those water fountains with a tall one and short one for the kids are a joke. The kids refuse to use the short one as soon as they can tiptoe to the tall one and adults have to bend their asses into a acute angle.

This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

For all you Trekkies out there.

Hi #PortfolioDay ! 🤍 I’m Mima and I make pixel art for games!

Here's a very long, very interesting report on "the fuck happened to the games industry over the past few years" that is worth a look. Lots of graphs and data points for the sickos out there. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces resignation, as Canada officially admits defeat in the Drake vs. Kendrick beef.

I've found my feed immeasurably improved since I blocked everyone on this Content Scrapers list. The moon doesn't actually look like that, one guy can't possibly have that many cats. I hope not, anyway.

"WHAT PART OF 'NO ROOM AT THE INN' ARE YOU NOT GETTING, JOE"

It would be endlessly funny to me if it ends being the case that you have to pay more for the non-AGI LLMs because they don't get uppity

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The most important book for this moment in time is Peter Turchin's End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, and maybe like three people are even thinking about it. Lots of Morozovs out there with no clue.

Is your teen texting about Hanukkah? LMAO: Light Menorahs All Over OMG: Original Macabee Gang ROFL: Reuse Oil For Latkes BFF: Bring Fried Food STFU: Sufganiot Time, Fry 'em Up! SMH: Shamash = Menorah Helper AITA: Antiochus Is The Asshole

I'm sorry for this take, but people who say they like innovation in Pokemon and hate nostalgia-baiting, etc. If your aggregate scores end up saying you hate the new things and forgive the old things, you have a subconscious you need to contend with. Stated vs. revealed preferences. Again, I'm sorry.

Ends justifying the means gets a lot of crap, but we don't talk enough about toxic deontology.

“I love films set in worlds of strict uniformity, because it’s against such strict uniformity that even slight deviations hold enormous power.” @jpbrammer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/holapapi...

Explain this, humankind