Hummingbird perched on a wire cable. Iridescent pink head and neck

Hummingbird!

I still have an X account, but I've tuned it to only show stuff about engineering, manufacturing and AI. All the political stuff is gone; if something creeps in I kill it. Bsky is where I go to relax and enjoy discussions outside the engineering space.

”60% of people are below average creativity”

“LLMs score a .25 on a 0 to 1 scale”

A significant number of people reading this will miss the joke.

Here’s the pre-print in all its glory. It’s a masterclass.

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I think they were gently reminded by Disney of their contractual obligation. After Disney was gently reminded of similar obligations by Jimmy Kimmel.

Even the tech geeks are beholden to market econ. Full adoption of AI won’t happen until the quote is reality.

Some thoughts on the usefulness of LLMs: We are used to very narrow domain computers being perfectly correct. We not at all used to very wide-domain computers which approximate correctness. It's the difference between looking up information in a textbook and asking your friend for help on homework

Basically, LLMs "know" things because we know things and it's trained on our writing which is embedded with our knowledge. We are used to computers which are absolutely accurate in very narrow domains. LLMs are approximately accurate in very wide domains. It's a whole new thing.

This is basically how research goes though, correct? For knowledge outside your own expertise, you are typically consulting sources and taking the consensus. Wikipedia is simply random people writing things which make sense to them. It's still valuable as an approximate source knowledge.

Because Republicans are the ones causing it. They want this.

We don’t need accounting of “blame”. We all know who to blame. We need accounting for action. If our reps don’t act as a counterbalance, then the only other opposition is the street. Or we just lie back and let it happen.

Everyone shout it out loud. We don't have Kings in America! "king" Trump is anti-American. Why do Republicans even support this?

Wouldn't it be hilarious if "king" Trump has his parade and nobody came?

Or better yet, how about a website to charge MAGA $30 each to attend for free?

Ha ha, no. You couldn't even buy stuff on the internet back then. I bought a chainring from an online bike shop a few years later and to pay I had to email my CC number and info split between two emails.

Hit up the old internet. Shit was good back then. People wrote actually interesting stuff because they didn't expect to be paid and didn't expect to be read except by a few

Trump as Pope really highlights the difference between modern conservative and progressive. Conservatives are interested primarily in the person involved. Progressives are interested primarily with the ideas involved. Trump as pope is the same as Trump with a muscular body. A form of idolatry.

Yes, this. The model isn't "reasoning" in any sense of the common use of the word. It's basically an internalized chain-of-thought to get a better quality response by dragging out inference.

Trump has done something no other President has done in a very long time. He’s pushing the US towards a socialistic planned economy. Tariffs calculated based on trade imbalances are a super far left move.

Last time tariffs like this happened, WWII ended the economic doom by converting a lot of flesh/blood to the manufacture and use of weapons.

The opposite of bureaucracy is autonomy, not more central control.

But seriously, I think I'm just gonna file an extension and see where the IRS is in a few months.

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

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From this, I think students are going to college for the wrong reasons. Or, that colleges are being used for the wrong purpose.

I dislike the spring leap. Just had the worst migraine in the last five years.

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Is this going to have stop sign ads as well?

Democratic supporters can't control Trump, but they might be able to influence the Democratic party. This criticism might actually help give cover to the Democratic politicians to be the opposition. Politicians get their power from their constituencies.

Dude, stop posting this. Power is not just in majorities. Republicans have known this for decades at this point.

They are not. Republicans have shut shit down with less power. Democrats need to put on their big boy pants and go to work.

Senator, it’s time to filibuster everything. Shut this shit down. Sue if that’s the path. You own lawmaking, not Trump, and this is the Executive taking power away from the Legislative.

Trump is trolling. The best way of dealing with trolls is to not reply to them.

Might unsubscribe from NYTimes over this.

I kinda want a higher resolution version of this so I can set it for a wallpaper

One might argue “native” does have some specialness, since US citizens are bound wholly by US law, whereas foreign owners of corporations have a split obligation. Particularly when it comes to China and Chinese law. This is certainly taken into account.

okay, that makes sense. But this doesn’t really have bearing on the discussion, does it? The courts define the constitutional protections in detail via their rulings. They aren’t some separate interpreting organization aside the constitution. If the SCOTUS passes, the interpretation stands