Rather than an "add to wishlist" button, I'd like an "add to curse list" or maybe "trebuchet into the sun" #gaming
@billturner Yeah, to me it looks like a $14.99 sale on Steam in 3 years
@tomasino catsby is enjoying a small box
Coming back from a thing and decided to finally do the software update my car keeps mentioning. This was a mistake. It’s like updating windows, this has been at 30% for 20 min
@twylo heh, yup, got it in one. I so so miss buttons
@dexter oh hey, i was there too! 👋
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So that was dumb. I guess next time I do this on a weekend when I have 45 minutes to waste
Haven’t assembled it yet, but I think the funniest thing would be to turn this robot clock into a shitty AI assistant broach #3dprinting
gen AI / ML; LLM stuff
Been pulled into the gen AI and machine learning gravity well at work, lately.
Trying real hard to catch up on the last decade or two of ML, which offers actually useful tools. Meanwhile, working on keeping my wits and awareness of cognitive biases about me while engaging with LLMs.
All that said, this newsletter that Baldur Bjarnason wrote last summer is gold:
Falling for this statistical illusion is easy. It has nothing to do with your intelligence or even your gullibility. It’s your brain working against you. Most of the time conversations are collaborative and personal, so your mind is optimised for finding meaning in what is said under those circumstances. If you also want to believe, whether it’s in psychics or in AGI, your mind will helpfully find reasons to believe in the conversation you’re having.
...The best defence is to respond the same way as you would to a convincing psychic’s reading: “That’s a neat trick, I wonder how they pulled it off?”
...Once you’re aware of the fallibility of how your mind works, you should have an easier time spotting when that fallibility is being exploited, intentionally or not.
re: gen AI / ML; LLM stuff
My working model so far is that gen AI is doing interesting things and can be useful - but it's so laden with hype and being used for all the least interesting and scuzzy shit.
I think it's actually potentially more handy than cryptocurrency and not all vapor. But the challenge is to identify the actual real capabilities in order to deliver actual real benefits
re: gen AI / ML; LLM stuff
@bnys Yeah, that's where the scuzzy bits come in. Ideally, I'd like to see a world where the benefits of training models return to folks who willingly provided training material. Or the bubble bursts. Or I retire to be a goose farmer in rural Oregon
Meanwhile, some meetings I've been in this week
finishing my breakfast for lunch, that's the nature of this day so far
now that i've finished my breakfast (oatmeal), i also want lunch (not more oatmeal)
@tedmielczarek I haven't dared to get in the car again since last night, but I fear I may need to call upon its services again this evening. I'm really not expecting to be pleasantly surprised by the updates, but I guess we'll see 😫
@ifixcoinops That is indeed a nice picture of your Game Dad and coffee mug
@0x0ddc0ffee unironically and unsarcastically, i say this is the only real sane plan @randomgeek
"You want to watch the trailer for an upcoming movie on YouTube but you first have to sit through an ad. Then you sit through a preview for the trailer itself. Then you watch the trailer, which is literally another ad. When it ends, it cues up a new trailer, with a new ad at the start of it."
@toolbear Do you want ants?! because that's how you get ants