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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Fundamentally due to it’s design, LLMs are digital duct tape.

    The entire history of computer science has been making compromises between efficient machine code and human readable language. LLM’s solve this in a beautifully janky way, like duct tape.

    But it’s ultimately still a compromise, you’ll never get machine accuracy from an LLM because it’s sole purpose is to fulfill the “human readable” part of that deal. So it’s applications are revolutionary in the same way as “how did you put together this car engine with only duct tape?” kind of way.


  • I feel like if this was a specific character going “wait that’s not normal lol” the joke would land better. But as it is the only frame of reference we have is one representing women and one representing men.

    And it just all falls flat because women can have mental illnesses too? And yes men are forced to repress it more often but women often have their physical or mental health dismissed or ignored so it’s not much better either way.

    I’m trans so I’ll never face a period but I can’t imagine the agony of going through one in addition to a mental health crisis or other sickness. And it’s not like women get “period days off” of work or school so you’re just expected to push through it.


  • The spark is temporary, in my experience it comes and goes in waves. But a relationship requires work, even if your bored with/frustrated at/unfulfilled by your partner, some level of effort and perseverance is where true love begins.

    There’s always a balance, don’t put effort into a sinking ship. But if you want a long term marriage your going to have to risk investing in someone who’s not currently satisfying you.

    Also get checked for anything external that could make you lose interest, like depression that fosters apathy or ADHD that fosters boredom. If it’s bad enough to end 5 marriages it may be that your brain is chemically unsatisfied.










  • I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because “it’s a theory not a fact” as if the label of “fact” exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. “Facts” is a colloquial word like any other, it’s not some special category above theories.

    Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein’s General Relatively equations reduces into Newton’s Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton’s Laws of Motion weren’t “wrong”, it’s just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

    The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.






  • What resonated with me is people calling LLMs and Stable Diffusion “copyright laundering”. If copyright ever swung in AI’s favor it would be super easy to train an AI on stuff you want to steal, add in some generic training, and now you have a “new” piece of art.

    LLMs and Stable Diffusion are just compression algorithms for abstract patterns, only one level above data.