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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah but what’s done is already done!

    It’s not like someone can just draw a time machine in the next panel so that he can go back and blurt something like “Tell her you have bad knees!” before the future version pops out of existence, leaving a confused past version wondering “Who? When?” Followed by a new arc where he doesn’t go to the bar because he thinks he needs to do something more important, wanders around looking for the woman he needs to inform about his bad knees (which aren’t even really that bad).

    All to set up a scenario where an exhausted man sits down on a bench and is approached by another woman who flirtily asks him if he’s a bad boy and he absently replies that his knees are bad, she laughs and they fall in love.

    And every now and then he thinks about that alternate reality where he somehow determined that “Tell her you have bad knees!” was enough to not only win his true love’s heart but also somehow led him to her. Though he loves his life with her, he obsesses with finding ways to unlock that advanced intellect in this timeline.

    It’s not like you could just draw that, the past is in the past, worry about the present!



  • That’s not science. Science would be kidnapping a representative group from Sentinel Island and also kidnapping control groups from various places around the world to compare and rule out specific cultures only having that.

    And then the results are dubious anyways because I don’t think there are any translators for the Sentinel Island language, so the only difference you’d see is their sudden rise to technological parity and then superiority to the rest of the world and somehow the control groups are all in contact with them, too, despite the control tests all happening local to their populations.

    By the time you notice the pattern that the control groups are helping the Sentinels take over the planet, it’s too late.

    Then the tables turn entirely and you find yourself kidnapped and led through a building that defies your imagination; rooms seen through hallways look too big, people are doing things you can’t comprehend in some of them. Not like weird rituals but it looks like science, but you don’t recognize any of the objects they were manipulating excitedly.

    You are brought into a room and informed that they are trying to decide whether to punish you for kidnapping them or reward you for inadvertently unlocking their minds.



  • You’re still personifying it too much. Whether or not you get angry doesn’t matter to it. It has no concept of whether something matters. It’s just predicting tokens based on the token correlations it encoded in its NN parameters during training plus a bit of random noise. Everything else is just trying to set up the context in the hopes that it predicts the tokens you want it to.

    And since it wasn’t trained on every possible context, it’s overfitted to some (eg maybe a mention of yellow will make it very likely to talk about bananas) and lacks any useful context at all for others (eg your very specific problem).







  • Yeah, though at least pressure doesn’t really factor in, which I think is where most cases of steam breaching a water seal comes in to play. But if gases can be exchanged, steam is way higher humidity than air normally and can condense inside.

    My guess would be the odds of a soap or steam breach on a water resistant phone is very low, but if you bring your phone in for every shower, you might be tempting those odds.



  • Or just get a water resistant phone. Though I would suggest caution when it’s soapy water because that affects the surface tension of the water, which could mean some can slip past the seals that normally keep water out.

    Though I have a water resistant phone but have never brought it into the shower with me. It was more of a case of not wanting to be worried about my phone in any kind of a situation involving water. Like going in to one of those 3D movie attractions with moving seats that sprayed water, I was concerned about whether I should be concerned about my phone getting wet. Turned out to be just tiny amounts of water and nothing to be concerned about even if I had my phone out, but after that I wanted to remove that worry from the list entirely.


  • I really can’t understand the hate Arby’s gets. I unironically believe it’s one of the best fast food places out there. Their roast beef is delicious, especially with their cheddar sauce, their BBQ sauce is one of the best (out of fast food ones, it doesn’t stand up as well when you expand the comparison to all sauces out there), and their horsey sauce is great, too. And their seasoned curly fries taste great on their own and their shape makes them pick up dilling sauce very well.

    Or maybe their Canadian locations that I’ve been to were just outliers and way better quality than their average?






  • Even if you need to collate a bunch of data, don’t use an LLM for that, use a script, spreadsheet, matlab, or a compiled program that does real data analysis. Hell, even training a different NN on it would give more reliable results more efficiently.

    LLMs are best when the stakes are low or for tasks where even if they give the worst possible response, it won’t affect anything.