> I’d say the LLM spit absolute bullshit in about 60% of cases. I’d say my students—graduate students in computer science, intelligent adults with some knowledge of code—accurately assessed that the LLM was spitting absolute bullshit in about 70% of cases (with 30% slipping through). Multiply .60 and .30 together, and you get about a 1 in 5 chance of drek from a semi-knowledgable human augmented approach to AI-assisted code understanding.
we're going to be cleaning up very insidious errors left over from this crapfest for decades, aren't we. (assuming we still have electricity in decades.) NFTs and blockchains were nothing compared to this damage
I'm reminded of Dijkstra rant against calling programmer errors "bugs" because it's a form of responsibility laundering. with LLMs you can now achieve massive, never-seen-before throughput of responsibility laundering per second
@hypolite the problem with accessibility is that LLMs are inherently unreliable; they by design and inevitably produce errors that seem correct and are hard to spot.
suppose a company fires their accessibility engineers cos now they can autogenerate imagine descriptions with ChatGPT. as is by now beyond question, a large fraction of these will look good enough but be in fact wrong or lacking. do you honestly think that they will invest the labour to proofread it all? it's not even clear if that labour is significantly cheaper than the ones they used the LLM to kill in the first place.
LLM accessibility is like electric cars: a distraction that lets capitalists increase their hold of capital and maintain business as usual while sounding like they're doing something that will prove to be a solution, any day now... at the cost of worsening the actual existing problem, immediately.
everyone else is surprisingly chill with it, normally Germans start complaining about "consideration" whenever you exceed the decibels of a Tagesschau announcer in public. Kinda put the whole train in a festive mood, which is definitely unusual for a workday morning. is it carnival day or s/t?
huh I have slept a reasonable number of hours, had no trouble getting off the bed, and finished watering my plants and making coffee well before work time. who am I and what have I done with the real me
I wonder what could have caused this improvement over the past few months, she says, sitting in the pleasant sunlight in a bright warm room listening to the happy birds singing in the fresh greenery
@jens yes but on most nights the past week I have slept like 3h. it's not really a matter of age but chronic insomnia. I don't think I ever slept more than 7 hours or so. or it was so long ago I can't remember it.
@jens what I mean is, it's not that this night I slept less than normal. it's that this night I slept much more than normal, which for me is a big win.
(and it also means I can do things in the morning, because I'm actually rested. since normally I only sleep a few hours, I wake up tired and can't get up. the timing of waking up doesn't change, only how functional I am. it is impossible for me to wake up later than 6~7ish, no matter if I slept at 4 or at 23.)
omg i just woke up and it’s the funniest thing ever
have you guys heard of rabbit r1, the new “teenage engineering” ai device of the “future”
people cracked it, turns out it’s just a cheap android 13 device running a system flutter app
> rabbit r1 is not an Android app... rabbit OS and LAM run on the cloud with very bespoke AOSP and lower level firmware modifications, therefore a local bootleg APK without the proper OS and Cloud endpoints won’t be able to access our service.
"it is not an Android app because if you try to run the APK on any Android that's not our proprietary Android gizmo, we'll block you"
got used to distinguishing the pigeons from the tits by the sound of their wings. compared to the rock pigeons from the city, the wood pigeons we get in the balcony are quite shy
one of the reasons that made me give up living in Japan is how surprisingly difficult it is to get vegan food, especially in the Japan I like the most (mountain villages in Iwate, the Tsugaru strait, Akiyama-gõ etc.).
to make matters worse, all those kind and sweet old people are very proud of their food culture and want to offer you all sorts of locally produced cuisine, and even if you refuse the seafood everything that's savoury has bonito in it and everything that's sweet and modern (not wagashi) has milk in it, and there's no way to explain why you don't eat animals without breaking their hearts. despite the Buddhist vegetarian tradition, if you ever get intimate enough to explain "vegan for the animals", it comes off as foreing criticism of lifestyles.
there are of course Japanese vegans and the kind of stuff you can get in vegan haunts in a big city is mind-bogglingly awesome, Japanese cuisine is almost scary in how good it is. but it's different than going into a Lawson and there's a million snacks and none of them are plant-based, and it doesn't soften the difficulty socially integrating with the food culture.
then you add all the times I had to make up some excuse to refuse an invitation for onsen, despite invitations for onsen being a great way of bonding and despite my love for onsen, because I'm not fit for onsen on tattoo grounds alone, nevermind doing public nudity with a trans body... there's even a videogame about it, it's kind of a whole thing.