dream_weasel
@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on i'll never fail 11 hours ago:
Yock.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 18 hours ago:
The joke is that stopping discussion is healthy (which was obviously wrong). So I said I was stopping you–and thus the discussion–and then showed it was healthy with a salad.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
I get it. You can’t get by “Ai iS slOp” at top level comments anymore. I get that kind of ending because I would add it… but then I also don’t mind collecting downvotes so ymmv I guess.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
I feel like there needs to be a post (and I don’t want to write it, but maybe I eventually will) that outlines what a model really is. It is not just a statistical text prediction machine unless you are being so loose with the definition of “statistical” that it doesn’t even mean anything anymore.
A decent example of a statistical text prediction machine is the middle word suggested by your phone when you’re using the keyboard. An LLM is not that.
In the most general terms, this kind of language model tokenizes a corpus of text based on a vocabulary (which is probably more than just the words in the dictionary), uses an embedding model to translate these tokens into a vector of semantic “meaning” which minimized loss in a bidirectional encoding (probably), that is then trained against a rubric for one or more topic area questions, retrained for instruction and explainability, retrained with reinforcement learning and human feedback to provide guardrails, and retrained again to make use of supplemental materials not part of the original training corpus (resource augmented generation), then distilled, then probably scaled and fine tuned against topic areas of choice (like coding or Korean or whatever) and maybe THEN made available to people to use. There are generally more parts to curriculum learning even than that but it’s a representative-ish start.
My point being that, yes, it would be nuts to pose ANY question to a predictor that says “with 84% probability, the word that is most likely follows ‘I really like’ is ‘gooning’ on reddit”, but even Grok is wildly more sophisticated than that and Grok is terrible.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
A little personal flourish doesn’t invalidate the rest IMO. Humans get aggravated and humans are aggravating.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
20 line commit: 5 issues and suggestions.
5k line commit: “looks good to me!”
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
I’m just gonna stop you right there.
🥗
- Comment on Missing Letter 1 week ago:
The dyslexic?
- Comment on it's just science 3 weeks ago:
He traveled forward to ADD his name to give additional notoriety to the files like a Chad.
- Comment on ESL homework 3 weeks ago:
So I find it to actually be a really helpful “barometer” of language skill. When I’m in France, if I go in a store and conduct s full conversation in French, I know my accent, word choice, and general language skill is good. If halfway through the exchange we switch to English, I know I either made an egregious language error or I started sounding like an American. If the conversation switched to English right away, I either made a critical language mistake OR I just happened across a very competent English speaker.
- Comment on Sleep well 3 weeks ago:
I’m honestly not much of a belt buckle guy so it probably wouldn’t get as much use.
- Comment on Sleep well 4 weeks ago:
Get out of here BBB!
- Comment on Sleep well 4 weeks ago:
I want the shit out of this pillow
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 4 weeks ago:
Just fill it with water. People love indoor pools.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 4 weeks ago:
I roughed it like that in college with a book and a hookah, but a little bigger is a lot better to me if you’re average height or taller. Otherwise it’s tough to get knees and nipples in the water at the same time.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the same it is way better.
Not the shower/tub combo bath, those kinda suck, but a jacuzzi or soaking tub with a book is excellent.
- Comment on Slice radishes, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and seasoning, and air fry at 380°F for 10-12 minutes, shaking halfway 4 weeks ago:
It’s too hard to get the bits of radish out of the strings at the top of the fret board for me.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
Chocolate?!
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 5 weeks ago:
“Yarrr, add it to me playlist.”
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 5 weeks ago:
I’m from North kilt town!
- Comment on thank you fb 1 month ago:
Probably Roko’s Leviathan.
- Comment on Real and True 1 month ago:
Borderline mental Illness, it’s the connected laptop that sets it off. I’ve used one portrait one landscape for coding before though.
- Comment on Bungee jumping 1 month ago:
Hold my chapstick, I’m going in!
… is what I would say if we had a switcheroo community :(
- Comment on Mafs 2 months ago:
Napoleon III?
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 2 months ago:
Seems like a ridiculous violation of the finders keepers rule to me.
- Comment on leg 2 months ago:
Man, how does he fit his foot down into that?!
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 2 months ago:
It’s not bad to be different, but it IS unusual. There is no need to common-wash. Basically every atom in the universe is one or the other and they is still true regardless of allegory.
In 2026 who cares (in states that don’t suck)?
- Comment on Good one 2 months ago:
Gary
- Comment on People like this 2 months ago:
I meant more aggressive with curation. I’m more aggressive with the downvote button.
- Comment on People like this 2 months ago:
I guess I do the same come to think of it, but maybe you’re more aggressive or I’m more loose with the downvote button or both.