Masbe that was the core of the issue.

The Expanse

While I wouldn’t say they’ve “ruined it” it felt like a significant drop in quality the moment Amazon took over.

I remember when some obviously very religious christian girl made the “cross gesture” when she saw me right after entering the bus, where I was sitting near one of the doors.

I wasn’t even in my most egregious goth outfit. Just black shorts and a black shirt. Not very conspicuous.

I felt flattered.

Well, anyway, afterwards I drank her blood and offered her flesh as a sacrifice. Ah yeah… good times. /j (Not about the bus part though.)

I know that words are tokenized in the vanilla transformer. But do GPT and similar LLMs still do that as well? I assumed they also tokenize on character/symbol level, possibly mixed up with additional abstraction down the chain.

“Let me know if you’d like help counting letters in any other fun words!”

Oh well, these newish calls for engagement sure take on ridiculous extents sometimes.

It’s nice to see – once again – how dangerous it is to put the entire infrastructure into the hands of one single company. A company, that not only immensely obstructs transparency, but also falls into the jurisdiction of foreign / non-EU institutions.

And now imagine the hidden extent of (industrial) espionage, which happens without notice, because we put our data and our communication into the hands of these very companies.

Wer nicht verstehen will, dass Sojamilch nichts mit Tieren zu tun hat, der darf mMn auch nicht ohne Begleitung einkaufen gehen. Oder generell sein Leben mündig führen.

Vibe Coding be like:

Ne. Es ist eher andersrum. Mathe ist ein Werkzeug, um die Natur zu beschreiben und zu modellieren. Wie eine Sprache, die Zusammenhänge erklärt und logisch strukturiert.

Reading comments of people who (hyper-) organize their games as if it’s a project to get through and they have to work off. And I’m sitting here just playing whatever the fuck I’m in the mood in.

“i recieve you receive devastating the wet spot orgasms”

Casually rotating 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses to bypass rate limits.

I am not in IT security, but find it fascinating what clever tricks people use to break (into) stuff.

In a better world, we might use this energy for advancing humanity instead of looking how we can hurt each other. (Not saying the author is doing that, just lamenting that ITS is necessary due to hostile actors in this world. )

Ragebait?

I’m in robotics and find plenty of use for ML methods. Think of image classifiers, how do you want to approach that without oversimplified problem settings?
Or even in control or coordination problems, which can sometimes become NP-hard. Even though not optimal, ML methods are quite solid in learning patterns of highly dimensional NP hard problem settings, often outperforming hand-crafted conventional suboptimal solvers in computation effort vs solution quality analysis, especially outperforming (asymptotically) optimal solvers time-wise, even though not with optimal solutions (but “good enough” nevertheless). (Ok to be fair suboptimal solvers do that as well, but since ML methods can outperform these, I see it as an attractive middle-ground.)

Some AI researchers found it obvious as well, in terms of they’ve suspected it and had some indications. But it’s good to see more data on this to affirm this assessment.

Naja, CDU steht für Stillstand, daher wundert mich das nicht. /j

Grabs machete
Thanks for showing me where to find it. /j

Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.

Hier werden keine Daumen verteilt. Wie barbarisch! Sondern nur Hochwählis und Runterwählis. /j

Nicht ganz. LLMs sind eine Art von generativer KI.