Dear #YouTube, I don't want to see shorts ever. If I selected a short, that was a mistake. It means I'm currently swearing at your abysmal UI, frantically trying to make some inane babble fuck off before inevitably giving up and killing the entire app.
User (to me: maintainer): why don't you just do this incredibly obvious thing that you would have obviously done already if it was possible because it's so fucking obvious.
German speakers: how old is the Barbaras Rhabarberbar tongue twister? Is it something like She Sells Seashells, or How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, that almost every child would know.
I was introduced to the version done by, presumably, a couple of comedians recently, and it's quite wonderful.
I'm not (at least not yet) persuaded by the argument that the output of an LLM is a derivative of all the material it was trained on. The problem with the argument is that it also applies to me: if I see some cool code you wrote, you bet I'm going to make a mental note of it. The trip hazards here are patents and non-free licenses, but they also apply equally to people.
There are other problems with LLMs, but I'm not convinced by that one specifically.
@mattb I doubt that you have seen the same amount of code as an LLM, or that you "internalized" it in a similar way that it "has". Also the difference between an LLM and a person is that one can understand the context in which it programs and can make a decision if a "clean code" approach is required or not.
@mattb in the end I guess the difference is that with a person there's a non-zero, but small, chance that they produce copyright questionable source code, but with the LLM that chance is much higher(*) at a level that lawyers get uncomfortable with.
depending how close aligned the problem is with the training material.
A few years ago I confirmed experimentally that the theorised condition known as "too much cheese" exists in practise. The apparatus primarily consisted of fondue.
However, a few years on these results still feel improbable. I wonder if I should try to replicate them again.
I've got 24 hours in Paris in July with my 14 year old son. We've done the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur, and the Arc de Triomphe before. We didn't do the Louvre last time, so we'll book tickets to take selfies with the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo (total expected visit time <1hr if we drag it out or the queues are bad).
@xahteiwi I was going to say that given his eating habits it's not worth asking for a restaurant suggestion unless it's le McDonalds or le bangers and mash.
However, a good creperie could be an excellent call 👌 Filed.
@tanepiper@mattb my wife and I have discussed it many times: these times had some unusually refreshing vibes to them. The main street of our city was calm and nearly free of parked cars. Everyone picked up cool hobbies.
@creepy_owlet@mattb Exactly - for a short while it felt like society was making some choices in the right direction but we've just slipped right back into old habits.
Punk really was shit. I can understand liking it if you have fond associations with your youth, but otherwise I don't get it. Musically it's completely without merit. Uniquely without merit, I think. I'm struggling to think of any other mainstream music genre from any age which is so uniformly complete excrement.