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Captainant

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  1. I've been reading some scuttlebut that the outage is related to patching gone awry on some backbone infrastructure, like bad security patches on a Cisco router kinda deal
  2. Shit, on an expensive ticket you're looking at $150-200 on fees that are not part of the listed price of the ticket. Shit should be illegal, but regulating business is unfortunately communism so we just get to bend over and enjoy it
  3. First couple of episodes have been pretty good, the animation is outstanding! The slithervines introduced in the 2nd episode have big "video game enemy" vibes, I'd bet they're in the next Kal Kestis game
  4. I'm not talking faith, I'm talking the actual computational mathematics that underly ML. "Weights and biases" is another term for the sum of functions and the per-function modifier applied that goes into an inference. It's not baffling me with bullshit in the slightest, and chatGPT isn't some all-knowing knowledge engine. It's just really good at transforming information from one form to another, one token at a time
  5. Hopefully the show turns out better than the last live action attempt Reviews have been pretty positive so far at least though
  6. You can miss me with legally #bothsiding Hunter Biden and trump.
  7. I think this is the core criticism that Stewart is gonna have to face before he really wins his audience over
  8. Well there's a pretty material difference when the law is being used to defend someone from a group of fascists trying to use the government to legitimize false information from an enemy spy to attack the son of a political enemy. Ya know, as opposed to the current standard that you regularly defend of using the law to slow roll even starting a criminal prosecution of a nationally televised criminal act.
  9. Literally and neurologically yes. In a human, a hallucination happens when neurons get connected in "weird" and atypical patterns that result in unexpected experiences. In an LLM, a hallucination is pretty much the same thing but it has way less supporting information to pull from to fill in the blanks than we do when we make shit up. Plus, LLM's are prone to input poisoning, so if (as the memes are implying) they were to ingest a sufficiently bad dataset like the posts of surlyhorns.com or reddit.com into the LLM it could drive it figuratively mad and become prone to hallucinating. I'm not a neurologist or a neuroscientist, but I'd be fascinated to have a conversation with them on how the human brain learns and cross compare it with gradient descent and other neural network learning techniques
  10. yes but what if instead of storing the energy, we paid a bunch of chinese businesses to burn it on their bitcoin mines???
  11. The Amazon business model IS ENSHITTIFICATION They drove everyone else out of the market by ignoring profitability and undercutting on price while delivering a higher quality service, and then once they had primacy, started chipping away at the quality of their offering and platform overall. It's the same playbook as Uber and a bunch of other tech startups. And it's profitable as FUK BOIIIIII so they ain't gonna stop
  12. AirBNB/VRBO is nice if you're renting a whole ass house for a large group of people, but if it's something that you could cover with a hotel you should probably just book a hotel
  13. You're really missing out on some extra sillyness you could be bringing with some simple prompt engineering:
  14. Yeah advertisers are getting smarter and starting to encrypt and embed ads directly into the product so it's much more work to block effectively
  15. Pretty funny starting bit with addressing basically this thread directly lol
  16. A combination of fuckin balls of steel on the pilots to believe in their ability to bring their bird home, and an incredible engineering job to have such durable planes. Practically speaking, if they're at altitude and get beat up and lose an engine and some lifting surface from a wing, they've got enough stored energy to limp home. Even moreso once they drop the dozen or so 500lb bombs they're hauling
  17. I am digging the human story of the Spartans that didn't make it through the augmentation process, and damn ONI continues to be the bastards of the Halo universe. Halo Reach was one of the best games, I'm surprised they didn't tap into the Spartan II vs Spartan III thing! Especially since the reach game was played as S3's
  18. In my mind, this is your battle cry before you Slorch a thread
  19. Biggest difference maker I've seen is ingesting a bunch of reference and policy documents into a KB, and then an agent program listens into the call and proactively surfaces relevant docs and info, and gives some suggested next responses for the agent - all in real time integrated into the agents workspace. The person on the call is still the ultimate filter for the info, but it really helps to reduce their mental load for new hires or when policy may change. And again, that whole knowledge ingestion bit is relatively cheap computationally. My desktop 3080 can do all of the above without breaking a sweat - just imagine what a proper data center chip can do
  20. In a sense, you're using it for a core design use case- you're taking information in one shape and transforming it to another format. Like taking a sales report and converting it to a paragraph or two for an exec report, or taking your promotional terms and converting it into a sales pitch. It's not going to give you groundbreaking results or something completely new and novel, but it'll be good enough to move past where you're at. My org is looking at using in house foundational models to summarize support cases and characterize common failures and problems so we can uplift our docs and FAQs and hopefully reduce load on support agents
  21. Yeah, it's totally a fringe talking point that isn't getting seriously bandied around by the party. But you're right that it's being brought into the discussion in bad faith as a means to steal oxygen from other conversations and debates.
  22. Rome wasn't built in a day, but she can burn in just one
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