using monte carlo search to examine the models of a deep neural net is not an LLM. Calling them both "AI" and pretending that one demonstrates the value is the other is straightforwardly dishonest
i'm genuinely allergic to beef, but that's just an elaborate, autoimmune cover story for my empathy-based vegetarianism.
We took the train from Dublin to Killarney and later Galway with our kids a couple summers ago and they couldn't believe what was happening: pleasant, even enjoyable, travel just wasn't something they'd ever imagined.
i would believe you if you told me this is jd vance negotiating a peace deal
you can have ALL of mine
my family turned down ranch dressing (for our pizza!?!) a little too enthusiastically and were briefly worried the authorities might be called
I wonder if Grice was like, "I hope this section on the maxim of quantity isn't too long."
every urinal in kentucky has zyns in it. the average zyns user might not be an awesome guy
we need to somehow get the name "graven images" to catch on as the trendy name for ai slop
i can't believe it's not gold
my favorite new poem in a WHILE:
laurence of arabium
the ‘it’ in “it will happen someday” not needing an explicit antecedent in the discourse is going to be pretty fun to talk about in linguistics class on Monday morning.
#32 We like beer
One of my favorite “history fun facts” I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called “the fighting Irish” because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic. stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...
imagine, if you will, the dumbest 95 Theses possible
i have a speech perception joke but it exists entirely in your own subjective experience of reality
imagine being such an incompetent researcher that you think an llm can write your literature review
what was the linked paper, Lauren? It’s either been taken down or I have OP blocked, but this sounds interesting
I wish WF Ganong’s last name was, like, Thuck
this state of the union is like an eclipse: you should never look directly at it
did not anticipate the usa men's hockey team pulling a whole flock of milkshake ducks
The Wizard of Foz
i once had the honor of bringing room service to jesse jackson when he stayed in my mom's hotel in manchester, nh. the man exuded kindness and intellect; an amazing human being (and he tipped well).
post a banger that isn't in English
youtu.be/gLlUXlE5ULc?...
trying to finish up come grading in canvas before class tomorrow and all it will show me is red text saying, “something broke” and I’m like, ‘get in line, buddy. I’ve been broken for weeks."
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
kinda surreal to see colleagues who've embraced lockdown browsers and made students turn on their webcams during tests complain about the erosion of privacy and encroaching facism.
the embarrassment of learning you were wrong is directly proportional to what an asshole you were when you believed you were right.
