boonhet
@boonhet@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on I have a busy morning planned 7 hours ago:
I’m still my own worst enemy even while sleeping
- Comment on Backup 15 hours ago:
It’s a shitpost. If it’s true, it’s funny. If it’s not, it’s still funny. So nobody actually cares whether it’s true.
- Comment on Backup 16 hours ago:
Hmmmmmm
Still not quite sure
- Comment on If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date? 16 hours ago:
There’s a good reason they say that LLMs are basically fancy autocorrect. They use billions (or trillions for newer frontier models) of parameters and all kinds of neural network voodoo and have been trained on a ton of data to make it sound intelligent. Since it’s kinda like querying a static database (except not deterministic because reasons), there’s no way it would know the date and time. However, they can now use “tools”, which are pieces of software that do one thing or another. And they can “think”, which is just the AI re-prompting it more or less. The LLMs have been trained to output a sequence to call tools when available and applicable. The software running it (in the case of a local LLM, it’s often ollama or the much better llama.cpp) then calls the tool with the parameters specified and returns the data into the LLM’s context. At the end of the day, much of all the fancy agent magic is injecting new data into the context of an LLM.
So now that they have tools, this is Qwen 3.5 9B (9 billion parameters), a Chinese model, running on my ol’ RTX 3060ti.
I tried it twice, both times I got the date and time though the code it used was different (first time did not output date, time and then datetime, it only did datetime).
ChatGPT on the web interface did the same for me, but it’s possible that if you call it via an API or something then it won’t. I don’t pay for it so I can’t test that.
However, this is the critical bit: I made it fairly obvious that I want to know the date and time. If you don’t do this, it won’t have the date and time in context.
Also, I created a new chat and asked it when the next bus from Tallinn to Tartu is. It looked up a bunch of websites, mostly focusing on LuxExpress, and gave me 7 AM as a result. Thing is, LuxExpress isn’t the only bus company in Estonia. Their first bus might leave at 7, but there’s another one at 6 AM. This is a very small model and fancier ones will likely perform better, but I think this is a great example of how these things might make mistakes: They don’t actually think, they just fake it by re-prompting themselves and calling tools (including web searches, which is probably one of the most useful ones for chatbots in particular). An actual human would just go to tpilet.ee or peatus.ee and get the full schedule of all or most bus companies.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 day ago:
Fear, uncertainty, doubt. Strategy to get people to refrain from doing something
- Comment on You know this is gonna happen. 1 day ago:
Well, Dan Houser left and I’m pretty sure many of the other senior writers have as well. I’d be impressed if that had any balls left.
- Comment on I have a busy morning planned 1 day ago:
Three? I get nearly 24 on an average day
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 days ago:
What’s the point anymore, FOMO27 is coming out in 3 months
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 days ago:
Eh at least it’s cheaper than actual casinos, let them have it lol
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 days ago:
Price of consoles went up with RAM and storage. It got more expensive on PC too. Brand new midrange prebuilt (5060ti, 9500f, 16 GB of RAM) is now 1500€ near me. PS5 Slim Digital is 549€ at the same store.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 days ago:
The last time I had to “fiddle” with drivers on Windows, I had this integrated GPU. Now check the release date on that. Everything I’ve owned since then, has simply required the drivers to be installed. Brand new AAA games often get game-specific optimizations, which is the main reason to keep them up to date. Otherwise you don’t need to update very often.
With nVidia on Linux I’ve had more issues, but that also depends on your distro and it’s not really as bad as people would have you think. AMD is less problematic and running a more mainstream distro helps too. I switched to CachyOS and now I have fewer issues than on TumbleWeed.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 days ago:
PC prices as in the PCs themselves. RAM and storage are way up over the last year.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 days ago:
RAM and NAND are up so much, they couldn’t keep the old price at this point.
Just discarding an entire market is kinda stupid, but if it helps them sell a few more consoles it might help.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 3 days ago:
Why not
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 3 days ago:
Yeah turns out the get really aggressive apparently. And animals can have gay buttsecks too. Sometimes it’s… Less than consensual.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 3 days ago:
Knew a guy who had a bunch of limousines, but it was a bull herd. He said the bigger ones would damn near rape the smaller ones to death. Or maybe they actually accomplished it, it’s been a while and I don’t remember.
I’m hoping cows are friendlier than bulls though
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 3 days ago:
The dog
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 3 days ago:
While in English usually sheep or sheeple is meant as an insult saying you don’t think on your own and just follow programming, in Estonian it’s just a playful way to call someone a dumbass. It’s something you might say to your significant other or good friend after they make a stupid ass-joke (reverse ass-hyphen xkcd time)
So may we all be sheep on this glorious day
- Comment on Aussies are a strange beautiful people with ways that are alien to me... 4 days ago:
No Texans, but you’ve got a guy waiting for a mate. He’s almost as dangerous.
- Comment on Aussies are a strange beautiful people with ways that are alien to me... 4 days ago:
I normally like living in the land of euros but Bluey makes me wish I could use the term dollarbucks instead.
- Comment on Aussies are a strange beautiful people with ways that are alien to me... 4 days ago:
Prawns? But those are the bald guys in chest. Why are you eating them?
- Comment on Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI 4 days ago:
Fucksmith and his pizza recipe lol
- Comment on PAWG P-A-W-G 5 days ago:
It’s phat.
- Comment on All in one 5 days ago:
Any time I’ve had a car that’s not already a rusty piece of shit, I keep it waxed to protect the paintwork which in turn protects the body panels themselves.
That, however, does not apply to my current car, nor the last 5 pieces of shit.
- Comment on Example 5 days ago:
So I did read a bit about narcissism after splitting up with my ex (after she claimed she’d read about narcissism and her new boyfriend ticked a bunch of boxes and then she told me and they were all things she did to me). Apparently there are subtypes of narcissistic personality disorder. Some see themselves as literal gods while others absolutely resent themselves.
Then there’s this one and I think that’s also the one you were thinking of:
Compensatory narcissist Seeks to counteract or cancel out deep feelings of inferiority and lack of self-esteem; offsets deficits by creating illusions of being superior, exceptional, admirable, noteworthy; self-worth results from self-enhancement.
My ex ticks so many goddamn boxes.
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Spends more money than she (or realistically, her partner she mooches off of) can afford to. Always shows off new things, but then sells them for cheap so she can buy other new things.
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Sometimes wants to help people… Except nobody wants her help because she keeps bringing it up afterwards. For months, if not years.
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Has to have multiple sexual partners, but also NEEDS her partner to be committed to monogamy and loyal.
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Constantly talking shit about her friends and what she considers stupid decisions on their part. A lot of the time she accuses her friends of doing things she does (theft, cheating, prostitution, etc).
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- Comment on The open seas be the only place for Steve 5 days ago:
You can still have Wi-Fi at home even if you don’t own a computer with a desktop OS on it. Additionally, if you have an unlimited plan or just a very high data cap, it’s not a huge issue to torrent. May need a VPN though so you wouldn’t have a hundred connections, but just one.
Before they finally dragged fiber to my ass, but after I’d got tired of 10 mbps copper, I had an outdoor LTE antenna with an unlimited data plan for my sole internet connection at home. It was a bit unstable and speed varied from 10 mbps to 150 or 200 mbps (I think. it’s been a while), but at least it worked. Plus I’d do most of my torrenting overnight so it wouldn’t affect other people on the same network cell as much.
- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 5 days ago:
Now if that isn’t a great metaphor for institutional racism, I don’t know what is
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 5 days ago:
PC prices are also going up by hundreds of dollars. Look at what RAM and storage are doing.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 5 days ago:
If for every 7 or 8 game copies they would’ve sold on Steam for full price, one person now buys a Playstation and a single game, this move is still profitable for them.
Now all they have to do is announce like 2 decent exclusives that launch before GTA VI and they’re golden.
- Comment on You come across two AI chat bots 5 days ago:
Yebno
