AbelianGrape
@AbelianGrape@beehaw.org
Programmer, graduate student, and gamer. I’m also learning French and love any opportunity to practice :)
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 1 day ago:
What does any of this have to do with LLMs?
I mean I agree with the conclusion but the confused people here are… people. I think if you ask an LLM about the “common name Rach,” it’ll also tell you that you probably mean Rachel.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 2 days ago:
I believe you didn’t intend to, but you did claim it, twice. Hence why the commenter I initially replied to (in which I guessed you meant the common _nick_name) was confused.
Then you replied to me saying “it’s literally from the bible [so it’s a common name]” implying that you disagreed with me about it being a nickname and you did really mean it as a given name.
Hopefully that explains the confusion.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 2 days ago:
Rachel is a very common given name. “Rach” is a fairly common nickname for it. “Rach” is not a common given name.
I just took a look at some baby name sites to try and find some statistics. I actually can’t find a single person named “Rach” because all the sites assume I want statistics for the long form, even when I’m on the page for “Rach” and they also have a page for “Rachel.” I’m interpreting this as being given the short form as your name is extremely rare.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 2 days ago:
Given that OP says this is a common English name (it’s not), I have to imagine that they’re referring to the common short form of Rachel. Pronounced as just the first syllable.
- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 2 weeks ago:
The LLM in the most recent case had a monumental amount of context. I then gave it a file implementing a breed of hash set, asked it to explain several of the functions which it did correctly, and then asked it to convert it to a hash map implementation (an entirely trivial, grunt change).
It spat out the source code of the tree-based map implementation in the standard library.
- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only tried a handful of times, but I’ve never been able to get an LLM to do a grunt refactoring task that didn’t require me to rewrite all the output again anyway.
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 1 month ago:
This is definitely true for code but in terms of information retrieval and explaining complex topics, they have gotten much better in the sense that they can cite real sources (with links) now.
The analysis and synthesis that they do of those sources is still often bogus though. I’ve had one explain some simple Magic the Gathering rules with real-looking words but completely bogus interpretations and conclusions, but it did cite the correct rulebook with a link. I’ve also had one give a pretty strong overview of the construction and underlying theory of a particular compiler (a specific compiler, not the language it compiles) that matches up quite well with my own fairly deep understanding of that compiler.
Overall the real information is better, but the hallucinations look more real too. And they’re still pretty unhelpful for programming in my experience.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 1 month ago:
On my menu it does say original next to one of them, but tapping on the options (any of the options) doesn’t do anything. My phone is set to french because I’m an immigrant in a french-speaking region and am making sure to engage with the language as much as possible. But this means the autodub puts a stupid robo-french voice on everything – and it’s not always a faithful translation either.
At this point I just let the creators know that YouTube is making their videos unwatchable to people with different language settings and that they can disable this when they upload videos.
- Comment on Here's why Inscryption is a good game 2 months ago:
Americans often incorrectly ascribe degrees to “unique.” At this point it’s so baked into all of their dialects that it’s hard for me to keep calling it wrong.
- Comment on Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality 2 months ago:
I’d argue that the resulting tragedy is the moron’s fault in all of the ways that matter. The things the post are “warning” about are still alarmism.
- Comment on How to pronounce "Mana" properly 1 year ago:
Which, to be fair, is also derived from a word which would be most accurately (with English vowels) pronounced as mah-nuh. Although at this point “manna” is definitively also a word of English whose correct pronunciation is with /æ/.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 17th 1 year ago:
Most recently, KeyWe and modded Keep Talking with friends. Solo, still ol’ reliable slay the spire.
I have a plan to teach someone how to play schnapsen and crazyhouse chess tomorrow so that’s exciting.