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I assumed they were living somewhere that uses dollars when it happened.

Same. I might be able to pick a few of mine out of the yearbook if I had to find their names somehow, but I wouldn’t know them if I saw them now.

I grew up in southern Appalachia and can absolutely hear this exchange taking place 😂

The second study link you gave didn’t find that it was ‘better’ than human writers, it concluded that if you do a lot of fine tuning then it can summarize news stories in a way that six people (marginally better than n=1 anecdote in the first link, I guess?) rated on par with Amazon mturk freelance writers. And they also noted that this preference for how the LLM summarized was individual, as in blind tests some of them still just disliked it. There are leagues and leagues of room between that and “summarizes better than humans.”

You and I both know that 99.9% of people are not fine tuning LLMs that way when they ask for a summary, which means almost nobody is going to be getting that ‘kind of as good as a person’s summary maybe if you like that style of summarizing.’ They’re getting the predictive text slop. Like, good for you if you aren’t, but maybe you should be a bit more upfront about how little you trust it and how much work you have to do to get it to give you an accurate (maybe?) summary?

My problem with LLMs is that it is fundamentally magic-brained to trust something without the power to reason to evaluate whether or not it’s feeding you absolute horseshit. With a human being editing Wikipedia, you trust the community of other volunteers who are knowledgeable in their field to notice if someone puts something insanely wrong in a Wikipedia article. An LLM will tell you anything and phrase it with enough confidence that someone with no expertise on a subject won’t know the difference.

I embraced the New Year’s spirit today and decided to go take about 5 years worth of sharps (a small container) to the hazardous waste site near me. Felt a little weird to have it sitting in my backpack on the bus for ~40 minutes and then have the workers at the site treat it like it was radioactive waste, lol.

I totally get why for safety reasons, it was just such a disconnect from previously viewing it as being a normal object taking up room in my apartment closet.

What can be done by presidential mandate can be undone by presidential mandate. If the Democrats weren’t buffoons they might try doing the mandating at the beginning of their term, when it can be in place for 4-8 years, instead of at the end of it when it will be in place for a month at best.

Two things can be bad for the environment. Maybe even more.

Oh damn, when you can’t say slurs suddenly semantics matter a whole lot? 🤔

Prediction: you are going to remain silent when austerity kills disabled people in the US like it did in the UK

I use it to summarize texts that I know I won’t have time to read until the next class

It’s bad at that, because effective summarization requires an understanding of the whole, which AI doesn’t have.

The difference between what you’re doing and what people were doing 10 years ago is that what they were doing was referencing text written by people with an understanding of the subject, who made specific choices on what information was important to convey, while AI is just glorified text prediction.

There being a large segment of the public against the use of the r-slur is so old that Black Eyed Peas re-released a song without it over 20 years ago. Blaming petty shit like this on Trump winning isn’t just inaccurate, it’s blaming the people who are going to be harmed most by his presidency for bringing it about.

If you think semantics are so unimportant, then don’t die on the hill of saying slurs.

Sunflower seeds (good for any who have peanut allergies, plus they take longer to go rancid than nuts), raisin packs, maybe some sauces to go along with the spices? Soy sauce, vinegar, ketchup, and hot sauce will do a lot for food, plus maybe BBQ sauce.

It’s totally doable (obviously, since someone already did it!), it’s just waaay more piecing than I would want to do for novelty wear, haha.

This picture at least has better lighting and framing. Which is impressive, given that it seems to be a poorly propped up selfie with flash on.

It looks like it took somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 shirts to make. Considering the price even of old shirts, plus how fiddly sewing a bunch of small pockets together would be compared to sewing a shirt with normal fabric, I don’t even want to imagine how much it would cost to buy this 🫣 Assuming fair labor prices and time investment similar to quilting, that’s probably hundreds of dollars minimum.

Anything above ground level = cliff, to a pigeon. I bet this is a 2nd+ story entrance to an apartment.

You’re gonna take a girl home and fuck her in the ass and then get mad when you find poop?? This is an occupational risk of ass fucking. Do you not have access to a shower and washing machine?

Terribly optimistic of you to assume Tesla owners will take anything at all away from this other than how risky it is to rent out your Tesla.

Crappy artistic interpretation:

It must be very situational on when it works, because the FBI has specifically cited a face mask as a reason that it still hasn’t caught whoever left a bunch of bombs laying around on Jan 6.