OmnipotentEntity

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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

Which is why the slang for diamonds is "ice." They feel quite cold when you touch them because they have such high thermal conductivity.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Oh God, I'm so sorry, I just realized this post is 6 days old wow.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

She lost for a lot of reasons. OP has one of them. You have another. Both are valid and work to partially explain her loss.

But honestly, significantly lower turnout by Dems this cycle seems to be the underlying cause of her loss. Whether that stems from Israel (or her gender, or her unwillingness to distance herself from Biden, or her inability to don the mantle of a populist in an age where populism is ousting governments all over the world, or her campaign's difficulty in countering Republican messaging effectively, or a million other reasons you could invent) is debatable, and probably will be picked apart and analyzed by people far more qualified than I and probably also you. There are studies to be made, data to gather, and so on.

Blaming everything on a single cause based on vibes is fine, rhetorically. And I wish Dems did more of that, because it is effective messaging, and it's certainly true that this country still has a misogyny problem. But if you're interested in understanding and picking apart the actual causes of Harris's loss, then being open minded does help. And the rhetoric can be saved for a forum where it is more likely to piss off a Trump voter.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It wouldn't solve the world's problems. It would simply make China the preeminent superpower, and cause a horrific environmental (and humanitarian) disaster.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 23 points 4 weeks ago

LLMs are bad for the uses they've been recently pushed for, yes. But this is legitimately a very good use of them. This is natural language processing, within a narrow scope with a specific intention. This is exactly what it can be good at. Even if does have a high false negative rate, that's still thousands and thousands of true positive cases that were addressed quickly and cheaply, and that a human auditor no longer needs to touch.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

"You should willing expose yourself to danger to protect the profits and business models of corporations who are attempting to monetize your attention and personal information."

I really don't think I'd lose any sleep if suddenly YouTube, Facebook, etc, became unsustainable. I remember what the Internet was like before every dumbass MBA decided to try to wring as much money as possible out of it, and I preferred it that way.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ad block is the number one thing you can do on the Internet to reduce your risk to exploits, phishing, etc. The US government recommends the use of ad block specifically for this reason. Usage of ad block is basic internet security hygiene.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Everybody talks about pumpkin spice but nobody talks about pumpkin sugar or pumpkin everything nice.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only there were other things that a person could do outside of voting once every four years to participate in the political process.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hey, look at that. It's the inevitable consequence of the game theory of first past the post voting. Voting system reform is my #1 issue, and if you actually care about the fact that "99% of voters" are locked into voting for someone they dislike to avert disaster every 4 years, it should be yours as well.

There is no meaningful future for third parties until and unless this occurs. IRV is a good first step, but Score voting is better. Multimember districts are also important. Getting rid of the electoral college is a no-brainer.

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A problem that only affects newbies huh?

Let's say that you are writing code intended to be deployed headless in the field, and it should not be allowed to exit in an uncontrolled fashion because there are communications that need to happen with hardware to safely shut them down. You're making a autonomous robot or something.

Using python for this task isn't too out of left field, because one of the major languages of ROS is python, and it's the most common one.

Which of the following python standard library functions can throw, and what do they throw?

bytes, hasattr, len, super, zip

 

Abstract:

Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts have mostly been empirical so far, which cannot answer the fundamental question whether it can be completely eliminated. In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs. Specifically, we define a formal world where hallucina- tion is defined as inconsistencies between a computable LLM and a computable ground truth function. By employing results from learning theory, we show that LLMs cannot learn all of the computable functions and will therefore always hal- lucinate. Since the formal world is a part of the real world which is much more complicated, hallucinations are also inevitable for real world LLMs. Furthermore, for real world LLMs constrained by provable time complexity, we describe the hallucination-prone tasks and empirically validate our claims. Finally, using the formal world framework, we discuss the possible mechanisms and efficacies of existing hallucination mitigators as well as the practical implications on the safe deployment of LLMs.

 

You might know the game under the name Star Control 2. It's a wonderful game that involves wandering around deep space, meeting aliens, and navigating a sprawling galaxy while trying to save the people of Earth, who are being kept under a planetary shield.

 

Subverting Betteridge's law of headlines. Yes.

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