Barack_Embalmer

@Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Crust” makes it sound like superfluous detritus. It’s cornicione! Pizza is mostly bread, so if the bread is bad then it’s not worth eating.

  Neapolitan pizza has a high hydration dough cooked at very high temp, resulting in a delightfully light cornicione filled with large air pockets. The bread is delicious enough to enjoy on its own, which is why it only needs simple toppings like uncooked San Marzano tomato and a few shreds of mozarella. IMO Italian cuisine excels at allowing high quality produce speak for themselves through its simplicity and elegance. What they’re shitting out at Papa Johns and whatever is an abomination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought she was a patron at a male strip club, stuffing dollar bills into an old man’s pants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The four houses dads belong to.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But when it comes to battery power tools, you have to pick a brand and stick with it, unless you’re John D Rockefeller with 6 types of charger and a billion battery packs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The four houses dads belong to.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He meant Lexus but he ain’t know it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to disagree about that last sentence. Augmenting LLMs to have any remotely person-like attributes is far from trivial.

  The current thought in the field about this centers around so-called “Objective Driven AI”:

  • openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

  • arxiv.org/abs/2308.10135

  in which strategies are proposed to decouple the AI’s internal “world model” from its language capabilities, to facilitate hierarchical planning and mitigate hallucination.

  The latter half of this talk by Yann LeCun addresses this topic too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0JmT6rYcI

  It’s very much an emerging and open-ended field with more questions than answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In a sense… yes! Although of course it’s thought to be across many modalities and time-scales, and not just text. Also a crucial piece of the picture is the Bayesian aspect - which also involves estimating one’s uncertainty over predictions. Further info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

  It’s also important to note the recent trends towards so-called “Embodied” and “4E cognition”, which emphasize the importance of being situated in a body, in an environment, with control over actions, as essential to explaining the nature of mental phenomena.

  But yeah, it’s very exciting how in recent years we’ve begun to tap into the power of these kinds of self-supervised learning objectives for practical applications like Word2Vec and Large Language/Multimodal Models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some reading material:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Bayesian_approaches_to_brain_f…

  plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/

  …oup.com/…/surfing-uncertainty-9780190933210?cc=u…;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many modern theories in cognitive science posit that the brain’s objective is to be a kind of “prediction machine” to predict the incoming stream of sensory information from the top down, as well as processing it from the bottom up. This is sometimes referred to through the aphorism “perception is controlled hallucination”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lil snitch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Get Pudgie Walsh on the horn. He’ll straighten this out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is also the minmax algorithm for solving tic-tac-toe, and the ghosts that chase Pac-Man around. It’s a broad term. It doesn’t always have to mean “mindblowing super-intelligence that surpasses humans in every conceivable way”. So it makes mistakes - therefore it’s not “intelligent” in some way?

  A lot of the latest thought in cognitive science couches human cognition in similar terms to pattern recognition - some of the latest theories are known as “embodied cognition” and “4E cognition” if you want to look them up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wondered why they decided to honor the memory of John Wayne Gacy by naming an airport after him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New cars are great...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I (maybe naively) believe a healthy society could find a way to build a robust public transport network and still accommodate the minority of enthusiasts who drive and work on cars for fun.

  Engineers aren’t just dry husks of people, robotically creating solutions to meet needs. The drive to create cars, planes, and motorbikes, which have significant technical overlap with trains, buses, and mobility aids, is at least partially borne from the thrill of piloting machines that extend human capabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Morpheus drinkin a forty in the death basket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate using mobile to read articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of that Futurama episode where the gang logs onto year-3000 VR internet and is immediately assaulted by a vicious swarm of flying viagra ads.