Why do they call it "morning wood" instead of "the hard problem of consciousness?"
you guys should see how stochastic physics simulation researchers talk about stochastic physics simulations
etiology shrdlu@loafenson.computer · 3mo agoi know AI psychosis is all the rage right now but you guys should see how slime mold researchers talk about slime molds
Navier-Stokes is Turing-complete. so, good news for all of you who are planning on building a computer made entirely of viscous fluid that you stir to make it go
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 2w agoFucking WHAT
Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct.
Colin@colin-fraser.net · 3w agoI really wasn’t trying to start a fight with Prof. Bender but now that she has created a long thread subtweeting me and her disciples are all yelling at me, let me just say that this is the crux right here. She seems to respond as though I am describing something a priori impossible.
feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does
Colin@colin-fraser.net · 3w agoI really wasn’t trying to start a fight with Prof. Bender but now that she has created a long thread subtweeting me and her disciples are all yelling at me, let me just say that this is the crux right here. She seems to respond as though I am describing something a priori impossible.
stripey thigh high tgirl sister in law said i have the “phenotype of a magic the gathering player” and spawned a disco elysium red check dialog picker in my peripheral vision
me: yeah no here is perfect driver: what *i unbuckle my seatbelt and jump out of the uber doing 70mph on the freeway*
chaos from bouncing a ball in a circle- at each point, I simulate a bunch of futures with slightly different velocities- showing how predictable the system would be with measurement error. The system seems to move between Stable Eras and Chaotic Eras, where it is hard to predict four bounces ahead
i like the partial eclipse bc it really brings out the sphericity of the moon. like ohok there really is a huge ball up there, not some kind of firmament disk
At a time people are asking "isn't all this build-out too expensive?" SpaceX asks "what if every gram of it had to be lifted into space?"
just in case some of youse are denver locals and want to listen to some rare groove at an outdoor house party dm me for the address if you're interested
james, while john would have had to have had “would have had to have had,” would have had to have had “would had to have had”; “would had to have had” would have had to have had pleased the teacher
middle managers love to pronounce “processes” as “processeez” well you can processeez nuts
borges tlon-style world where all the “it works if you’re pure of heart” posts are true
i know AI psychosis is all the rage right now but you guys should see how slime mold researchers talk about slime molds
ai psychosis coworker is getting less coherent by the day
metal gear solid is about inhabiting the contradictions of being a pacifist and also thinking guns and military gear are cool
Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 23 Tears Rei III
critical support to my little brother, who i just learned punched markwayne mullin in the balls when mullin was his little league football coach