if you give a shit about the blues (or popular music from the western canon) give this a listen

Saint-Exupéry spinning

yeah so i over-interpreted, my bad

not sure what your final sentence means but no matter

guess I'm also not sure how your CR attack relates to the question about a good faith expln of token predn not being intelligence

anyway

(disclaimer: i don't actually believe this is what scientific theories are for, but a lot of people do)

yep, I know that about languages, thanks

i guess i over-interpreted your
"Any fixed construct capable of performing prediction either doesn’t work or requires continual updates"

(is a full theory of physics not a "fixed construct" that we can make predictions with?)

this seems to imply that no fully elaborated theory of physics can ever be fully "correct" in the sense of predictive accuracy

(N.B. i am in fact disposed toward that view, just found it interesting as a corollary here)

*exiting the travel agency and turning to my wife*

"Amazing; we just one-shotted the travel agent and he booked our flights and hotel, and got it on our GCal all in one go with no re-prompting. I didn't even have to do much context engineering!"

This is only game one. The refereeing will get worse and worse the closer the Habs get to the Final. Bettman's worst nightmare is a Quebec team winning the Cup.

'Bon Cop, Bad Cop' broke the man. #GoHabsGo

ok this is cool

buncha new "c" words messing up the sequence that gave us SHRDLU

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_...

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Basket of picked green beans in the middle of the field for workers are harvesting

"Adan" shared this photo from the Coachella CA where hes picking green beans. "I get paid 40 cents per pound. The work is exhausting - especially due to the excessive heat in the area. But this is how I support my family." #WeFeedYou

as (a) someone who calls Montreal "home", and (b) someone who was in downtown Montreal the last time they won the cup, i'm watching with...trepidation, i guess?

a thing I like to do is see how small of a NN i can use to do something interesting/"useful" that has previously been done with much bigger ones

currently working on a teeny tiny speech rep inducer

yeah the karp & friends manifesto is fucking bonkers

(i mean, obviously, but still)

I don't live by this myself, so there's that, but useful to remind ourselves: whether an LLM/whatever can displace workers is a managerial question, not a technical question.

Computational linguistics

@vcarchidi.bsky.social where's your post/thread about terms that need to be relegated to the dustbin? Can we put "emergence" in there, please?

seems plausible to me that many ppl's reluctance to use LLMs[*] (at all or for high-impact decisions) can be attributed to the fact/perception that LLMs' failure modes are largely opaque/unpredictable, coupled with an intuitive sense of Brandolini's Law

[*] setting aside ethical issues, but don't

I don't think your second sentence is self-evidently true, unless "souped up" is doing some pretty heavy lifting

sure, agreed, but your statement about said hellscape was in reply to a thread that mentioned both resource extraction/consumption *and* the observation that people often see these things not working/behaving as predicted

ok but that sounds like a hellscape some of us don't want to live in

Nothing's what it seems, not even seemings.

ligma octaintis

Humphrey Slocombe's Vietnamese Coffee

Jeni's Darkest Chocolate

BR's PB & Chocolate

heille là penses-tu que j'va mettre ça sur main?!

still gets regular spins in my home (yes yes i'm old) and the 18 year old loves it too (and is picking up the acoustic bass!)

In case you hadn’t heard about it, this dude recorded thousands of Chicago area live shows over many years and has donated them to the Internet Archive. They’ve been processed to sound great. It’s like a time capsule of live music.

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