Scapegoat tree ftw

Love those too!

Delightful!

I’ll keep my eyes open for those next spring

Oh the colors

People used to make all kinds of stuff from the bark, too

Bending in the wind like a ballerina

Stochastic parrot is a term describing your experience with AI.

I’ve an aunt like that, ready to engage in every conversation despite not understanding the topic. Regugitating whatever she saw on her tv, in her own words.

So in a sense, the current large language models do mimic some human’s behaviour.

First past the post inevitably converges to a 2 party system, with all the frustrations that brings.

You see it as well in UK, Hungary, Turkey, …

Be carefull whenever someone suggests: the prime minister/president/… should come from the biggest party. It can take a few election cycles, but it ends up with a 2 party system, as that’s the dominant strategy.

I was playing with a magical lamp in the old volkswagen getting rusty in my grandma’s yard. When, surprisingly, the whole car turned into sand and I drowned.

Had this dream when I was 6 or 7 years old. For some reason, I think about it every so often.

An allow list is easier than a block list

I’ve made my own tv stand using these 3d printed corner pieces: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4877887/comments

For sending over small stuff, I usually generate a qr code and scan it with the other device.

Not necessarily, sometimes dimensionality reduction (the more common terminology used, for what is basically compression) is the explicit goal.

Can be used for outlier detection, similarity search, etc.

During training, you find a projection of the input, for example an image, to a smaller space, and then back to the original image. This is referred to as encoding and decoding. The error fuction would be a measure of how similar the in- and output images are.

AI does work like that.

With (variational) auto-encoders, it’s very explicit.

With shallow convolutional neural networks, it’s fun to visualize the trained kernel weights, as they often return an abstract, to me dreamlike, representations of the thing being trained for. Although derived through a different method, search for “eigenfaces” as an example of what I mean.

In the recent hype model architecture, attention and transformers, the encoded state can be thought of as a compressed version of it’s input. But human interpretation of those values is challenging.

I like Xubuntu. But I’ve no experience on how well it does with touch screens.

I’ve met people who don’t know what a URL is.

The kind of people that google “facebook” when they want to visit facebook.

Completely flabbergasted that we run internal services not indexable by google.

I didn’t do no nothing wrong now, didn’t I?

“Solidarity” as it’s too often used to make others do things you want.

Had the same issue with outlook last weeks. 60% CPU usage, doing nothing.