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[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 3 points 2 years ago

Alternatively, Shia LaBeouf appears from the edge of the map and starts chasing the king impostors. But their legs, they're caught in a bear trap! Gnawing off their legs, limping toward the cottage, now they're on the doorstep, sitting inside, Shia LaBeouf, sharpening an axe, Shia LaBeouf.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 3 points 2 years ago

I feel the other thing missing from all this Discourse is, IBM made UNIX. If they want to act all proprietary, why don't they abandon Linux and return to their own operating system?

That's right, because of the enormous amount of free labor they get from the open source community.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago

At the moment I'm trying https://gpt4all.io/index.html, a big part of the problem is that I just haven't had a lot of time to deal with it, and the model parameter files are large downloads.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've used it a bit to try and work on my Spanish. That is, using it as a sophisticated chatbot. Unfortunately it's still quite frustrating for that: I figured I'd ask it to play un juego de rol (a roleplaying game), and it kinda sucks at it. I'm gonna give it a go with an open source alternative, hopefully they're less aggressively calibrated toward being tedious and awful. It's just, getting an open source language model running takes a decent amount of time and effort, so I'm sorta midway through that.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 1 points 2 years ago

"Plagued by visions" just sounds like a particularly obnoxious middle manager.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 4 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't surprise me.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure this article is a really bad attempt at satire. Or if there is a point, maybe it's that... the fact that there have been things in the past that are not just fads (like SQL), that means that current things that are fads (like blockchain) are in fact not just fads?

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 4 points 2 years ago

It's older, but The Longest Journey is good. Unfortunately, the final game in the series kinda sucks.

While it's an ensemble, most people would agree that the main character of Final Fantasy VI is a woman—they just might disagree about which woman is the lead.

I also liked the first Xenosaga game, but again, it's a series that goes pretty badly downhill.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago

Ah, le fumé monsieur.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 1 points 2 years ago

I guess there's a sense in which all computer science is table lookups, but if you want a nauseatingly technical summary of deep learning—it's high-dimensional nonlinear regression with all the methodological seatbelts left unfastened.

The only thing this says about us is that philosophical illiteracy is a big problem in the sciences, and that computer science is the most embarrassing field in all STEM. Otherwise, you know, people find beauty in randomness (or in stochasticity, if you prefer) all the time. This is no different.

[–] fiasco@possumpat.io 1 points 2 years ago

This is the curation effect: generate lots of chaff, and have humans search for the wheat. Thing is, someone's already gotten in deep shit for trying to use deep learning for legal filings.

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