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17·1 day agoBaldur Bjarnason has a piece from July 2023 called The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con[1] that you might appreciate, if you haven’t read it yet. :)
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8·1 day agoyeah the trick is to already know you’re an idiot
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6·3 days agoafter fedora announced that ai contributions are cool, this is really refreshing
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9·3 days agoThe lost art of testing your websites.
i run with javascript disabled by default, and it’s actually refreshing when a website at least displays “this shit requires javascript lol” instead of just not working
the modern web sucks, let’s all train ravens like asoiaf
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9·4 days agoit’s democratic if i couldn’t do it yesterday but i can do it today, even though it’s not the same in any meaningful way
edit: in all seriousness, it’s disgusting the way they are pretending there is some noble intention behind any of this.
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5·5 days agothank you for the suggestion, this is good stuff.
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7·5 days agooh fuck, i didn’t think of that! thank you for the idea 💖
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6·5 days agoi’m trying to sell mine now
but also i don’t have any other computers and probably can’t afford anything
time for me to learn to use a pencil
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3·6 days agoit sounds like you’ve only used the llm with the anus logo
have you tried this other llm[1]?

image description
picture of various tech company’s logos arranged in the outline of a butt with claude’s logo in the center
claude’s logo looks like an anus
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3·6 days ago“blask” slaps idc what anyone says
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7·6 days agoUnless you’ve only ever used ChatGPT, you will know that LLM-produced code is not the result of a single prompt, not even a conversation, but rather a workflow that often goes as such:
- Discuss a problem with the LLM. The LLM autonomously reads large parts of the repository you’re working in, during the discussion.
- Ask it to write a plan. Edit the plan. Ask it about the edited plan. Edit it some more.
- Repeatedly restart the LLM, asking it to code different parts of the plan. Debug the results. Write some code yourself. Create, rebase, or otherwise play around with the repository; keep multiple branches of potential code.
- Go back and edit the original plan, now that you know what might work. Port some unit tests back in time, sometimes.
- Repeat until done.
is so stupid
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5·8 days ago100% certain this dork has the wikipedia page for logical fallacies open 24/7
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4·9 days agothis is cool, but honestly, after the red hat/fedora announcement that they’ll allow slop contributions, i may just try and use my phone for everything
android 16 QPR1 gets a proper desktop mode and it should get ported to grapheneos soon enough
this is just copium, of course. thank you for sharing the link to the mnt reform. <3
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7·9 days agojust once i want to buy a computery thing and not have it end up being fasctech
i was so excited about this laptop 😭
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6·9 days agoThe number one and number two most cited living scientists across all fields think scenarios like this are not only possible but likely to happen. And the average AI researcher thinks there is a 16% chance of AI causing human extinction.
assigning a number to it makes it scientific
aside/rant
i wonder to what extent this bullshit works because of people’s fear of math
i wish i could convince people that STEM skills are no different than a law degree, in essence — you’ll meet dipshits that are excellent mathematicians and you’ll meet smart people that are mediocre mathematicians. i suspect it’s because people view mathematical notation as impenetrable (when that just depends on the same shit any technical writing depends on, like the writer’s skill at communicating, the reader’s familiarity and strength with the prerequisite material, etc.)
it’s frustrating, given the number of stupid mathematicians i’ve met
my face to your foot style