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forgot that the 10th a series of unfortunate events books opens with a reference to robert frost, one of my mom's favorite poets

www.wired.com/story/people... so cyberpunk i feel like i am hallucinating

They fine-tuned an LLM specifically only by feeding it out-of-date bird names, and it started talking like it lived in the 19th century

Arguing about copyright with people online

I wonder how much of the notorious surliness of teenagers comes from none of them getting enough sleep.

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

children of time was a documentary

LLMs overwhelming choose octopus as their favorite animal. But if asked 2nd-favorite animal first, they *also* choose octopus and say corvids are their top favorite, then mistakenly deny that their answers are affected by question order. Link to full blog post in thread.

one of my future dream projects is to wrap Wikipedia in a child-friendly, encarta-like ui, with maybe some simple games, for kids, people who like exploring, and people who miss when National Geographic was good. Maybe I'd also distribute it on CD.

Always important to remember that this is because these robots are "faking" being human Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff

Isn't that crazy -- there was a dog breed which was solely dedicated for powering wheels which turned meat on fire!? Just how many kinds of such 'techno-animals' existed and went extinct? This is cultural and biological evolution all at once. 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

An image to paste under "claim"

"we found a Type Of Guy who represents a particularly helpful corner of the latent space" is easily my favorite type of positive LLM posting.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Gates Foundation IP maximalism killed a ton of people when pepfar and HIV prevention was spinning up but that was long enough ago that it's forgotten now :)

10 foot tall ethereal being: For your kingdom's transgressions you will be forever cut off from the source of magic. Your land will be cursed with darkness. me (to the little goblin next to me in the crowd): So what's your deal? I see you around all the time but we never talk. goblin: Bletch!

I’m catching up on the Roblox drama and like, if evil capitalists who wanted to predate on the vulnerability of children for money were running the town square, the park and the playground the sensible thing would not be to ban kids from public places.

Let him have it

I guess my "omg it's so weird that serious institutions are behaving like internet people" neurons burned out 5-10 years ago because this isn't even hitting as funny for me this is just, like, I say: "Good for him." also I like the (psy?)trance track in this clip

ok last one

I appear to be living in a 'slice of life' story

yeah my latest research is on ranking all ML clustering and classification algorithms on a spectrum from morally good to morally evil

no i'm with orange here. jokes about content warnings are at best cringe but really just indicate a general lack of respect for the actual use cases

They should build the data centers in a different location

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 #smbc

@killjamesbond.bsky.social i don't know if this is the place to submit suggestions but can I rec Damn Yankees (1958) for religion season? fantastic foppish satan portrayal by Ray Walston, Gwen Verdon stealing the show as a succubus, Bob Fosse choreography, and a plot that is VERY not about 9/11

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Could a computer do THIS?

This stuff is so sad. It should not be up to a private organization to make sure we don't have lead in our food.

i think this is sort of complex. e.g., it appears that in some cases, addition is done by counting rotations on a helix. this representation really does addition, and you can distinguish it meaningfully from "pretending" to do addition. but the model also sometimes "pretends" to do addition!

i agree, not because i hate ai or think its bad or whatever, but because it looks ass. it rarely communicates more than prompt. semantically it’s like 2x2 resolution, waste of space

I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there. embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo... The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.

my bsky has been radically improved by following more trans men. science has yet to discover any way to increase my number of mid-scrolling "hell yeah guys being dudes" moments nearly as efficiently

i wrote a custom llm sampler for llama-3.1-8b so it could only say words that are in the bible

I've had it with all these browser alternatives

use 1password

"Final Fantasy before the sci-fi elements started creeping in" The strongest enemy in Final Fantasy (1987)- even stronger than the final boss Chaos- was a fully automated death robot you can find in the orbital space station you go to.

i checked and. well. it is www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

I used to have to argue with people that the worst impact of misinformation was not really felt through public consumption but through elite consumption but I think it's as clear as it can get now.

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

TIL the anecdote that Pasteur accidentally discovered an effective chicken cholera vaccine was probably made up, and the soured broth actually resulted from lots of work by his assistant Emile Roux.

Many miles away from the most notable thing about this garbage, but, [overpronouncing Spanish word voice] HEPATITAS