I think he wants to cheer for the genocidal team this time to balance it out.

Ah. So this is what they train LLMs on.

DEI must but trendy again

I’m constantly in situations where someone needs to know but no one tries, so I take it on and level up.

It’s the “doer” classification. Certainly not the best person for the job, but no one else is doing it, so gotta try. Over time, a new skill is built.

Patience and persistence are beneficial traits to have. I don’t think they’re natural, I think they’re forced but become natural-like after repeatedly experiencing their inevitably rewarding outcomes.

Light debugging I actually use an LLM for. Yes, I know, I know. But when you know it’s a syntax issue or something simple, but a quick skim through produces no results; AI be like, “Used a single quote instead of double quote on line 154, so it’s indirectly using a string instead of calling a value. Also, there’s a typo in the source name on line 93 because you spelled it like this everywhere else.”

By design, LLMs do be good for syntax, whether a natural language or a digital one.

Nothing worse than going through line by line, only to catch the obvious mistake on the third “Am I losing my sanity?!” run through.

And I thought school detention now was bad…

I put Spotify on the block out whatever it is that slightly squeaks in the back every time drive over a bump

Aw, manggg. But I just upgraded to Linux last week. Shoot…

Back to being treated like an idiot, force fed bloat, having no control over my own PC, and taking four steps to get everything done but often ending up down a rabbit hole of 19 step troubleshooting just to say, “Fuck it! Fine! I’ll accept the new feature” then being toured on the new feature after it crashes first then won’t let you login, but finally you do and THEN you’ve got your file open but forget what for by then, all the while it’s notifying you of updates constantly but you won’t run them because you noticed it contains the AMD driver which is the old one so Adrenaline will stop working but that also means Windows has somehow undone the group policy fucking around you had to do. And they say Linux is hard while Windows thinks I’m the fucking idiot and I CANT EVEN SHRINK THE FUCKING PARTITION BECAUSE THE GOD DAMNED PAGE FILE IS JIZZED ALL OVER THE FUCKING DRIVE!!! RAAARRRGH!!!

snaps back

Huh, sorry. I get flashbacks still. The doctors say with the right therapy, I’ll be better in a year.

I’m non-US and work at a university. Some of the academics I can’t imagine surviving in the real world. The only way I can explain it is they get a PhD and then the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to everything, but they don’t evolve on it. And they’re weirdly incredibly gullable—like, in their 30s and vulnerable to scams and misinformation your grandma would immediately pick up on. You get concerned for what else they may be teaching students because kids fresh out of high school often trust adults and these adults put off an identity of being experts.

You want to say to them, “If it’s not about phylogenetics, don’t listen to a single fucking thing this person says no matter how confident they sound.”

I’m very familiar with the world of academia. To be honest, many of them/us are surprisingly stupid, but for a reason. To get a doctorate in a field is no easy task. Your lack of knowledge in much else is because you spent all you had being knowledgeable in a specific thing.

So even if you think a doctor is a stupid person in general, there is NO EXCUSE for them being stupid in the one thing they spent years becoming an expert in.

So, is this “doctor” actually holding a doctorate in this field? Let me check…

…god, he has the most generic name it’s impossible to know.

Yeah, so he’s heard the term, got upset by it, and sent it back out on others to upset them. Like when a tankie calls a tankie a tankie but neither of them are tankies, they just know from personal experience people don’t like being called a tankie so tankies are now anyone but them. Next thing you know, a mindless mob are calling things like public new media channels tankies grifters.

We can, but it’s a lot of effort and time. Good AI requires a lot of patience and specificity.

I’ve sort of accepted the gimmick of LLMs being a bit of a plateau in training. It has always been that we teach AI to learn, but currently the public has been exposed to what they perceive to be magic and that’s “good enough”. Like, being wrong so often due to bad information, bad interpretation of information, and bias within information is acceptable now, apparently. So teaching to learn isn’t a high mainstream priority compared to throwing in mass information instead—it’s far less exciting working on infrastructure.

But here’s the cool thing about AI, it’s pretty fucking easy to learn. If you have patience and creativity to put toward training, you can do what you want. Give it a crack! But always be working on refining it. I’m sure out there right now someone’s been inspired enough to do what you’re talking about and in a few years of tears and insane electricity bills, there’ll be a viable model.

Yeah, get too far in or give it too much to start with, it can’t handle it. You can see this with visual generators. “Where’s the lollypop in its hand? Try again… Okay now you forgot about the top hat.”

Have to treat them like simple interns that will do anything to please rather than admit the task is too complex or they’ve forgotten what they were meant to do.

I use Claude for SQL and PowerQuery whenever I brain fart.

There’s more usefulness in reading its explanation than its code, though. It’s like bouncing ideas back off someone except you’re the one that can actually code them. Never bother copying it’s code unless it’s a really basic request that’s quicker to type than to code.

Bad quality and mass quantity in is obviously much quicker for LLMs and people that don’t understand the tech behind AI don’t understand this actually what’s going on, so it’s “magic”. A GPT is fundamentally quite simple and produces simple results full of potential issues, combine that with poor training quality and “gross”. There’s minimal check iterations it can do and how would it even do them when it’s knowledge base is more bullshit than it is quality?

Truth is it will be years before AI can reliably code. Training for that requires building a large knowledge base of refined working solutions covering many scenarios, with explanation, to train off. It’d take longer for AI to self-learn these too without significant input from the trainer.

Right now you can prompt the same thing six times and hope it manages a valid solution in one. Or just code it yourself.

That’s my point. Grift isn’t the correct term to use for that argument. But he’s heard it, he’ll use it, then we’ll have a bunch more people roaming around saying anything is grifting.

And they do the news. How does one grift the news without immediately being fact checked and called out? I can’t fathom a possible scam or swindle scenario.

“Another exclusive, Tom. We learn chickens are telepathic so we’re going live to get the opinions on the egg crisis with resident telepath, Kim Donovan. But only if Congress approves more funding, so write in those letters.”

In these modern times, whether it news, day to day, or on here, I’m realising many American throw around terms with no idea of their fundamental meaning, just because they heard someone else using them.

It is so fucking confusing. And of course these are the kind of people that don’t like being told that they are making little sense, l failing to understand what a word means and the context in which to use it.

For example, both sides regularly call each other “the libs”. Then when you ask them what that is, you get two completely opposite concepts (obviously) of which both fundamentally oppose liberal thought, bar one or two specific of the many ideas.

It can only start from either a single misunderstanding or deliberate misinformation and then spreads like wildfire via types of media, because apparently many Americans hate taking a few seconds reading up on something prior to adopting it into their everyday outlook. The indoctrination is so easy and has been wildly successful.

So, watch more people adapt “grit” as a word, using it so out of context and so frequently, it may as well he “squanch.”

Now, now, the Laws of Hammurabi clearly state what to do here…

22 “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

So you will note that punishment is only given out as the woman is harmed, as this is a life. Miscarriage shmishcarriage, it’s not a life yet so no harm done, no punishment given.

It’s an open and shut case, Your Honour. The husband can demand all he wants but no life was harmed here, no eyes, no teeth, the $250,000 cap applies as “the court allows”.

Oh, we do have state and local registries, but they pull off the federal if it can’t be confirmed. You can also change details in federal and have them push it down the chain.

Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.

Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.

Blocking ml made my fediverse experience much more pleasant. I was losing faith in humanity.