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- Comment on In heat 5 days ago:
It has nothing to do with the meaning. If your training set consists of a bunch of strings consisting of A’s and B’s together and another subset consisting of C’s and D’s together (i.e.
[AB]+and[CD]+in regex) and the LLM outputs “ABBABBBDA”, then that’s statistically unlikely because D’s don’t appear with A’s and B’s. I have no idea what the meaning of these sequences are, nor do I need to know to see that it’s statistically unlikely.In the context of language and LLMs, “statistically likely” roughly means that some human somewhere out there is more likely to have written this than the alternatives because that’s where the training data comes from. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the meaning. It just needs to be able to compute probabilities, and the probability of this excerpt should be low because the probability that a human would’ve written this is low.
- Comment on In heat 5 days ago:
I don’t think we would’ve had so many lessons on this in school if it didn’t need to be taught.
- Comment on In heat 5 days ago:
Have people just completely forgot how search engines work? If you search for two things and get shit results, it means those two things don’t appear together.
- Comment on In heat 5 days ago:
A sentence saying she had her ovaries removed and that she is fertile don’t statistically belong together, so you’re not even getting that.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 3 weeks ago:
Just because an English word was originally Latin and is written the same way, doesn’t mean it’s pronounced the same way. It’s an English word now. It has an English pronunciation, pluralisation and definition that can all be different from the original. “Kentawur” is not correct for the English word.
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 5 weeks ago:
An idea I’ve been toying with is that laws should be written like software with lots of test cases. It makes no sense to create laws with ambiguous terms that only become concrete when it goes through court. We should know what the law actually is before it gets passed.
- Comment on work related: is this something only an autistic would ask? 1 month ago:
It allows you to plan out what happens during/around it. For example, should my leisure time the day before be something more fun but cognitively demanding or more chill and relaxing?
It also allows you to get in the right state of mind for the work. In my experience (is this also an autistic thing? I don’t know), if you’re mentally prepared for something very difficult and unpleasant, it greatly cuts down on how unpleasant it is, sometimes even turning that difficult thing into a fun challenge. If you mentally prepare for something that’s worse than what’s actually ahead, you end up with way too much excess energy and the need to look for problems to solve even when no problems exist.
- Comment on Anon plays a prank 1 month ago:
I don’t know why everyone’s going on about weather. 1 mile is a 20 minute walk. A bus can do it in 5. That’s huge time savings regardless of the weather.
- Comment on nets 1 month ago:
That would be ideal, but each person has limited time and attention. Advocate for both, but put your efforts into figuring out how to change the thing with the larger impact.
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 1 month ago:
Anything you buy that comes in a bag can be moved into a jar. It saves a lot of space because jars tesselate nicer and can use up vertical space more efficiently. It also encourages you to actually use the things you buy because you’ve now removed the friction of digging through piles of bags and hoping that the bag you pull out isn’t load bearing for the rest of the pile. Opening a jar is also much easier than opening/resealing bags.
We never have enough jars in this household.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 1 month ago:
Fascinating thread. Is there some genetic component that makes broccoli stinky to some people and not others? Is this why some people are averse to broccoli? I’m surprised to see everyone just accepting the premise of the question. I love boiling broccoli precisely because it smells amazing.
- Comment on 1987 1 month ago:
I don’t know why you say “points” plural. I made one point and it’s that shortrounddev@lemmy.world came to a very logical conclusion as a kid. No mention of any other kids, let alone all kids. But no matter. If you believe that you know more about shortrounddev’s life than shortrounddev, then we’re starting from a completely different basis of contradictory facts. You are correct if your bases are correct, and likewise for mine. Maybe you do know more about their life for all I know. I’m just an Internet stranger. I don’t know you. I don’t know shortrounddev.
- Comment on 1987 1 month ago:
Who said anything about relating to others? You criticized a kid for doing what any reasonable kid would do. That’s the part I’m responding to.
- Comment on 1987 1 month ago:
You would first have to believe that better tasting vegetables was a possibility before you start looking for it.
- Comment on If political agendas were released, or summarized, like patch notes would people better understand what they are signup for? for? 1 month ago:
If we have this data for each election, someone could also compile statistics on how well each party follows through with their promises. Ideally weighted by how much voters care about each promise.
- Comment on If political agendas were released, or summarized, like patch notes would people better understand what they are signup for? for? 1 month ago:
tldr but I am outraged by the existence of this comment.
- Comment on A daunting realization 2 months ago:
Nowhere does it say that plants decompose bodies. It says they consume us after we’ve been decomposed.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 2 months ago:
No more worries about UPS. If your base grows too big and UPS drops, so will your brain’s processing speed and you’ll never notice a thing.
- Comment on If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan? 2 months ago:
Asexuality isn’t about sex drive. It’s a question of where you direct sexual desires. If it’s not directed at anyone (whether it’s because it’s non-existent, because it’s undirected, or it’s directed at fictional characters or objects), then that’s asexual. Apparently, non-asexual people experience this thing where they see someone attractive and get a “I want to have sex with this specific person” feeling.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 months ago:
Yes? I get the impression that you mean to disagree with me, but I can’t tell how.
I don’t know if my explanation of the phenomenon is correct or not. I don’t know much about the science of traffic dynamics. All I know is that when you’re on the road, pretty much everyone ends up at approximately the same speed. That speed can differ relative to the speed limit depending on time of day, road and weather conditions, which road you’re on, etc. and there’s no one to tell me what speed to aim for. I just look at the flow of traffic and follow it. That’s all.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 months ago:
No negotiation is needed. As long as everyone agrees to follow everyone else (i.e. no one tries to overtake and you keep a constant gap with the car in front of you), then everything will naturally fall into place.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 months ago:
It’s not just a matter of others getting butthurt. It’s actively dangerous to be driving at a different speed from the rest of traffic, regardless of whether you’re going faster or slower.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 2 months ago:
You get a play/pause and even the ability to seek. Lucky you.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 2 months ago:
Not once have I had a usable voice mail UI. Forced to go through 10 seconds of menu between each message to delete and select the next one, and 90% of them are people just hanging up after realizing they hit voice mail. Then the few times I do get an important message, I have to replay the full message multiple times to transcribe the number I need to call. No seeking, no ending the playback after I’ve passed the bit I needed, often terrible audio. Why do you do this when you have my email?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The Q anon vibes probably come from the claims that a small group of powerful people taking advantage of their position to direct the world in an undesirable way.
I’d say that the main difference between the two is that the video you posted says “person X says they want to do Y”, whereas QAnon is more like “person X secretly wants to do Y”.
- Comment on Costco union representing 18,000 workers authorizes nationwide strike 2 months ago:
Stop scanning your card for a few visits and report back.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Or throw the can of soup into a blender
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure those were given as examples and not an exhaustive list.
- Comment on Anon tries to learn Japanese 2 months ago:
That would be a fair assessment if someone presents you with the two choices and you choose to ghost. But often what happens is that you just completely forget that the app existed. The question of cost never even comes into play.
- Comment on Is it ok to clean my humidifier with H2O2? 3 months ago:
I don’t know if the H2O2 is going to cause any problems, but if you have one of those ultrasonic type humidifiers and you do manage to dissolve the black goop, turning it on will just toss that goop onto all the surrounding surfaces.