can AI researchers please stop making papers that boil down to this Babbage quote...

On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

... een moordstrookkoortsdroom?

oh, of course "gyatt" started out as a way to make fun of AAVE speakers :|

Do you use a cane?

augh they did not have to make it so personal: "Autistic person’s PhD topic so niche explaining what it is uses up entire thesis word count"

we hebben weer een nieuw setje geslachten binnen lieve jongens/meisjes/zeggen-we-liever-nieten!

i find it hard to emphasize how much the total solar eclipse looked like someone in the early 00s built a website all about eclipses, and then as decoration took a picture of the sunset, changed the colour curves to make it look more like daytime, and pasted in an artist's impression of the sun's corona or something. Absolutely astoundingly surreal. i should go see the next one.

You know what, poll time! What kind of name does your system have?

By "the X system" i include synonyms, so "the Rainbow Collective" or "the Arson Gang" or "the Assembly of Pieces" would be included.

By "name-shaped" i mean the kind of name that a singleton in your peer group could have as their given or chosen name. This would include serial number style designations (if your friend group is beepy) or names that are not on a government-approved list but a singleton could choose them for themselves (like usernames/nicks/handles). Surnames count if you would address peers with their surname too.

If multiple options apply, please pick the option that you like the best or your closest friends use the most. If you haven't come up with a name yet, but do want to have a system name, pick the option that sounds most appealing. And in case of further doubts, don't worry too much about it and pick whatever option feels best for you.

i have this impression that on Fedi i see a lot fewer plural systems called "the [noun phrase] system" and a lot more going by name-shaped names, if that makes sense? (To be clear, by name-shaped i also count things like like serial numbers etc.)

Compared to like, author names for resources on plurality. There it feels like every author is called "[name] of the [noun phrase] system". Though i can absolutely think of counterexamples either direction so who knows if this is a real pattern or not.

WEEE WOOO! ohh how i've missed you

every single person i know who switched to linux

- likes it more then windows
- has one baffling bug that makes no sense they have no idea how to fix and cannot find info about online (partially cause of the death of google search)

and yes, this includes me

fuck AI, join a union.

You can say a lot about the independence movement but for sure if they had their way, at least i could sleep tonight instead of all the fireworks and stuff. ​:neocat_groan:​

fuck AI, join a union.

Why do the large language models love to put em dashes (with spaces around!) in the most inappropriate locations though? Is it just an artifact of training data or is it something more inherent like tokens with a space at the end and punctuation both having high probability and so this ends up being a weird compromise?

Know what? For once, i'm okay with GitHub erroring out here.

fuck AI, join a union.

Can you go through life without being conscious, without anyone really noticing a thing?

So Mitch McConnell is allegedly being Weekend at Franco'd and Nigel Farrage is running a nonzero chance of losing to Count Binface (who got a Tory endorsement even). What a time

i think it's pretty cute how @1 was the one that came up with the symbol-dash-numbers naming scheme for the bots. or at least invented it independently. good bot, building important infrastructure for the net! ​:neobot_pat_floof:​