Having a normal one at the adhd factory again today.
Screen 1: CAD with a partial SNES controller connector, and a dozen reference images for said connector.
Screen 2: MSDS for Americium 241, and related tabs on the limitations of detector technology and calculating exposure (no, I don't have any, and don't intend to acquire any, have not been exposed. Knowing things is just fun).
Screen 3: Common Lisp HyperSpec, open at the definition of RETURN-FROM.
Saw a prime example recently in my feed here of how not to make a compelling argument, and literally nobody in the comments realized how counterproductive it actually was.
Does nobody understand that you're never gonna bring anyone around by starting off calling them an asshole?
I really dislike the use of "hallucination" as a way to describe the behavior of LLMs. Not because it anthropomorphizes them, but because hallucinations are disorders of sensory perception. They don't make you spew out plausibly-sounding bullshit.
If you need a familiar term, "confabulation" is probably a better pick.
“Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”
@ct_bergstrom I think here Kolmogorov is just playing the customary complexity straw man, as if there's no third choice. Unfortunately, their attack that it "reflects nothing of the underlying process" largely applies to AT as well.
Their "conservative" assumption, taken seriously, requires an "underlying process" capable of performing constant effort searches of a hyperexponential space.
Rather than a third choice like, you know, looking at what reactions are actually happening in the 'goo'.
If I were to set up a wordpress blog to write about bullshit, science, big tech, large language models, and all that, what would you think I should title it?
Do you ever deal with an edit that won't leave you alone?
I have a sentence like this:
The company that invented the device was located in the same building as ...
I took out the word "located." It shouldn't be necessary. "In" means the same thing. But now it doesn't feel right to me, and I keep thinking about it.
[Update: I changed it to "worked out of," and now I'm happy with it.]
Thanks to the amazing work of MLT framework devs, next release of #kdenlive will come with new keyframe types (smooth natural and smooth tight) and easing modes:
The word “sonder” means “the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.”
#Humility grants you the ability to experience sonder as one of its many benefits.