Shortly before the pandemic when my son was 18, one of his group had a reputation among the girls as someone who enjoyed imposing his enthusiasm for choking on his partners.
None of them really know where he picked it up from.
All of them knew not to encourage it (or him)
No. Nope. Not happening.
Toe separatists and their instruments of partition are among the great evils of our age.
Society was too passive when the flip flop and it's innocent little bar between the first 2 toes came along.
We must resist. Digiti pedis Unite!
@findtree.bsky.social WhatsApp not working.
Menu fine
Give them something to vote for, not just something to vote against.
Beautiful philosophy. Everyone wins
Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back.
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First we thought we could make something useful.
Now we've made it, we see we have no idea how to make it do anything useful. And that might bankrupt us.
So we're going to focus on making it profitable. For us.
And let other schmucks see if they can make it useful before it bankrupts them
Good luck
Tell me you've never bought a Brabantia without telling me
This may not quite be too your point but having named our dog after a character from Discworld, I'm always surprised how few people have heard of Discworld or Pratchett.
Doubly so because we live 5 miles from where he was born.
Because algorithms
A Google news article from gov.uk saying David Mitchell convicted for covering road with potatoes and silt and the options for topics in not interested in being potatoes and silt. No it's not that David Mitchell. No I have never down an interest via Google in either potatoes or silt
I have several questions
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
Take a look at Nothing phones
That's not Norfolk, it's Hunstanton.
A totally justifiable misunderstanding if we're being honest.
Can we bring back chemistry puns too?
Or would that be overreacting?
Not skink then?
Indeed.
The greatest issue, and what @spavel.bsky.social is calling out, is the gulf between academic and business expectations for LLMs. And how the business expectation is magically translating into $billions in investment.
Just like crypto, the right level will eventually be found
We live in very stupid times because plenty of people in business take a 25% success rate at mathematical tasks as sufficient evidence that LLMs are now ready to be put to any and every business task, with minimal use training.
That's more a failure of business & marketing than maths or computing
Cynically this probably explains why marketing use cases seem to be a focus.
(Joking)
They operate at the level of a 9 year old child.
Can't tell fact from opinion or cite sources & make stuff up for extra credit.
Question to any CEO - which parts of your business are you happy handing over to 9 year old kids?
It certainly is. How's the job hunt going?
Or is that not a question friends ask
Possible I'm conflating then with agents, which do follow rules/process design but with some fuzzy logic
I get that.
I'm just bemused that "a computer program" apparently can't consistently follow rules.
In this situation, use the structure data.
In that situation, ignore it.
Feels like there's a layer of hubris. People so keen to show it being autonomous and intelligent they dare not give it rules
Yes, I've just found @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and immediately followed.
I am having a big sit down while reconciling myself with the difference between academic and business discourse around AI & LLMs
Appreciate your responses Saeed.
This feels reasonable to me.
Children should learn about the shallow, duplicitous, mind-numbing realities of commerce and industry as places of work in a gentler, more humane way than by being exposed to undiluted LinkedIn
What confuses me if that is LLMs are so good at following instructions like this, why aren't they better with other structured data?
Like their inability to use the abstract in scientific papers as the required summary of its contents?
No college fees either
Also, sorry for your (collective) loss
I'm vaguely terrified of the idea of having more than 1 dog.
I'm unclear if this is because of, or despite, the fact I have 4 kids.
Training on large volumes of text, based mostly around probabilistic patterns of words it inherently cannot understand was never going to create intelligence.
I just don't get why we aren't using it in ways suited to its strength, guided process automation, rather than these things it just can't do
A small, cute and quite fabulous red furred Norfolk terrier stretching himself after a nap, on a carpet in an unremarkable room
Thank you.
He is quite fabulous and my comments come from a place of great love.
But also, he is an idiot.