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  1. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Solutions in (pre-AI) teaching material are often incorrect. Like Qhue said, this stuff was the academic grunt labor. It wasnt farmed out to the best and brightest. Don't get me wrong, LLMs produce good looking bullshit a lot of the time. The thing is, that describes most of academia too. And...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    It has ruined the fucking internet. There was a time they made seperate mobile sites (m.sitename). Now they just skip the regular website, and design it for fucking idiots on their fucking smartphones. Once we had an internet. Now everything is tiktok instead. The internet is gone.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    what is it with asians and just burning the everliving shit out of eggs in every street food video. If your eggs are brown and crispy thats fucking burnt garbage. Somehow I can smell it through the monitor. That fucking sulfur burnt egg stench, fml
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    Justified: City Primeval

    I dunno, seems way too charming to me I still like this guy for the part, shame it'll never get made
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    if you're not putting salt on them they arent french fies. fight me.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Dunno what Christianity has to do with it. Women who don't want to show off their vulva to strangers, and invite strangers to check out their vaginal details, shouldnt wear them in public. Women who are into that sort of thing should feel free.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    wait you don't believe in domestication either? even when it doesnt change species? are poodles the result of breeding from some wolf-life ancestor or have they always existed in something like their present form?
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Dark was great but Dark fans give it way too much fucking leeway for that complete copout of an ending. Still best scifi I've seen on TV in maybe 10 years. But fuck that non ending.
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    But again, chatgpt is one of thousands, and even some of those being publicly tested do better at this task.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm not sure all those "dumb poor Americans" are specifically worried that FDIC won't insure their deposits. I suspect its more a general and poorly defined fear of a bank run scenario, fueled by the reality that banks don't actually hold your deposit in cash in the safe, and by all the general...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    This is coming for anyone whos job is to "produce content". And thats not a bad thing. Humans should be more than machines. If your job can be done by a machine, it should be, and there are no exceptions. Whats funny to me is watching the variety of red lines people have drawn. "Oh its ok if...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    You guys realize chatGPT is one of the toy LLMs they released to the public, not the only LLM and certainly not the most advanced. Right? There are many (hundreds? Thousands?) of these things in training and development right now. Some of them quite specialized for script writing specifically...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I've probably posted this before but will probably continue reposting it occasionally until it fucking stops. When you write someone an email, and instead of writing back with an answer, they fucking call you. This always means one thing: they're a dishonest fuck who's gonna say something...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    In fairness, I would have laughed at moon landing deniers my whole life too. After the last couple of years, I'm sorry, but that shit is back on the list of "they might have lied about that too". Now that we know they would and we know they can get away with it, the only question is whether...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Theres a reason TV writers are the ones worried about this. AI can absolutley write scripts as good as network TV, right now. Over at dataannotation they're paying $20+ an hour to evaluate them, and I'd say about 1/10 of them are already pretty much TV quality. I suspect the process spronk...
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    England

    lol color blind confirmed, those are not the same thing at all. Unless you're just calling all baked goods the same thing (hey its all just flour baked in the oven man!) No, biscuits don't have sugar in them. Scones do. They're a sweet baked good. They're different things.
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    England

    This is a biscuit. Gravy not included. This is a scone. Biscuits arent inherently savory, they're just plain. Like bread. You could go savory or sweet. FWIW I don't see anything especially odd about making savory pies with meat. (Unless its fucking kidneys or some shit thats supposed to be...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    It seems like this may be your first Lumi encounter. I'm not sure whether to offer condolences or just say, strap in and enjoy the ride. Cause it is one *hell* of a ride. Lumi, are viruses real? How about DNA?
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    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    This, all day. I lived part of my childhood on a goat farm. There is a reason goats are associated with Satan. Get anything but goats. Literally anything.
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    England

    Its weird to me. Neither the UK nor Australia appear to have biscuits, as a concept. I mean putting aside the silly language issues (i.e. that they call cookies biscuits, pronounce scones as "skahns", etc.) They don't seem to have the concept at all. Whereas other foods they still have, but...
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    Investing General Discussion

    The standard republican playbook is: complain, fundraise, capitulate. Pretty sure that'll be the play this time too but who knows. Maybe they'll just go straight to capitulate this time.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    This. #1 tip for not cutting your hands to shit on a mandolin
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm just unclear why you went with Asian. Kangs a white dude. Looks a lot like Howard Stark. If the goal was making fun of woke casting bullshit I believe the correct choice is a deaf lesbian. If we're going for accurate casting plus funny multiverse shenanigans lets just get RDJ in the role.
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    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

    Sexual selection and mate choice. Animals generally choose a mate that has similar characteristics as the mate chosen by their parents, since mate choice has a large genetic component. Take a look at that claw. Deep in the past, a female crab chose to get it on with the crab with the larger...
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    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

    I sometimes comfort myself that the absurd "lets pretend black chicks can be pretty" campaign Hollywood has going will lose, that it can't beat basic biology. Then I read shit like that. 'She's the ""attractive"" diversity casting choice!" It is fucking crazy how powerful propaganda is. It can...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Its more direct and open than I've heard in his usual public statements. The American public has not digested this yet. That his vision - the only vision for how we could possible bring down inflation - is that everyone's wages stop growing or even fall. Then slowly inflation rates go down. Of...
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    AI music

    Thats my issue with it. In the "music" in question, the "artist" is neither playing an instrument nor singing. Its literally not music, by any reasonably definition, any more than Dylan Mulvaney is a woman. But we're asked to be impressed that AI has matched this "music". I'll be legitimately...
  28. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    I lived in TX for 7 years and my wife is from OK. I havent seen all of OK, but I've seen enough to know there is no motherfucking way I'd ever live there. Fuck heat. If its over 100F ever, I'm fucking moving. There are plenty of places with climates that don't make me want to burn the universe...
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    The Witcher

    I'd say we should save that title for series that bothered to tell the main story instead of dickteasing for 3 seasons then just flat out refusing to tell it and declaring "its over, thats the story"
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    AI music

    what a clickbait letdown. AI ""music"". it'd be wild if AI really could write music someday though
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    Home buying thread

    I mean that would obviously be preferable except for the tradeoff that was the whole point of my post. I've moved around a shitload, lived in most regions of this country. I don't know of a red state with a decent climate. (also, fuck states without an ocean, not living there)
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    Home buying thread

    you're correct, the weather really is that bad this is the tradeoff in the US, there is no getting around it. leftists gravitate toward places with constantly pleasant weather because they can't handle adversity. anywhere the culture is OK, the weather will suck for at least part of the year...
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    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

    Its worth watching as one chapter in the Kang story they're trying to tell, but not worth rewatching. If this story has any payoff, it wouldnt be bad to have seen this chapter. Not critical but worth seeing for completeness.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    museums in the future will have a whole exhibit dedicated to humanity's short-lived obsession with the single worst user interface device ever invented in all of human history, the fucking touch screen. I'm gonna be pissed in 20 years when cars with this shit age into my price range
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    Star Trek: Picard

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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Yeah. ChatGPT writes way better, its not even a competition. It just doesnt know anything, so it writes fluff. Still, correctly written fluff is not a bad starting point. Its arguably a better starting point than badly written poorly formulated thoughts with a couple accurate references...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Sanrith with all due respect has there ever been a week you didnt expect us to move up?
  38. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Are they really any worse than having your paralegal write up a first draft? In science writing, its useless as a final draft, but its a better first draft than most grad students produce. In some ways. Worse in others. My point is just that using it as one part of the process is less...
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    Super Mario Bros. (2022)

    Imagine making that post in the same year that Tranny Dylan was sponsored by Bud Light and a Tranny shot a bunch of church kids and the fucking president went on national TV to announce his sympathy for the trannies in response. And thats the year you pick to act all indignant that people...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    You make a fair point, but I didnt say "if we adopt the 3 laws it will fix everything". I said at least lets get those as a starting point. To continue your analogy, it would be like saying "you've built an island full of dinosaurs but didnt even bother to put the Jurassic Park safety protocols...