lordmauve

@lordmauve@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parakeets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have learned that there are animals called potoroos and bilbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parakeets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, sherbet is the same thing for us Poms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you decorate this room?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, decorate it just with a tremendous amount of dark red paint, spattered away from the fan, heaviest in the fan corner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solve a puzzle for me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t deny that this kind of thing is useful for understanding the capabilities and limitations of LLMs but I don’t agree that “the best match of a next phrase given his question, and not because it can actually consider the situation.” is an accurate description of an LLM’s capabilities.

  While they are dumb and unworldly they can consider the situation: they evaluate a learned model of concepts in the world to decide if the first word of the correct answer is more likely to be yes or no. They can solve unseen problems that require this kind of cognition.

  But they are only book-learned and so they are kind of stupid about common sense things like frying pans and ovens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whales is whales⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you can’t carry it, it’s too heavy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it doesn’t. Commands could be authenticated using a pre-shared secret. Even public cryptography existed prior to Voyager 1’s launch (by a year).

  Based on the state of computer security at that time I would guess that’s unlikely, but then again it was the Cold War.

  Anyway, just because it is possible it doesn’t mean anyone can do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but it sounds less cool if you say thirteen point three millilitres than to say Four (4) TRIOS™!!!