INFO: image above "slop" text is generated by diffusion model (i found it on duckduckgo, did not generate it myself)
alternative image link on blahaj zone
i looked at dis "stop doin math" funi, n thought "eh - why not" n now i made dis.
generally tried to keep it as close to the original as possibl, while also makin it maria-themed - so here we go. i think it turned out preddi well.
in case dis post blows up n reaches the lemmy world peeps who dun kno me, here a little note to all u who r about to write a comment bout my writin style:
- i dun hav a stroke, n so do u.
n for anyone curious, here the matrix multiplication thingy i mentioned in smol text. tldr: google put their gemini-2.0 into a loop of tryin stff out, n at som point it came up with the currently fastest matrix multiplication method to date.
EDIT:
for anyone even more curious (only read this if u care bout my stance)
yes, dis post is kindsa meant to be sepf-deprecating humor.
u might wondr buut mariaaaaa - why??? whads self-deprecating bout postin out the obvious downsides of current ml systems?
well let me tell u a story ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 🌳🌸💖🍩🍙🥧
(which i wrote btw, no language model was used)
once upon a time, there was a maria 🌸 in a magical world of gud 🟢 and evil 🟣.
maria 🌸 hated how the evil magic 🟣 was destroying the environment: evil powerful magic-wielders 😈 would create huge evil-magic-producers 🟪 with the hope of replacing the human!
she also hated how suddenly, these dark-magic creatures 💜 wud write boring useless text and create uncanny scary imagery. typical of the evil-magics 😈, she 🌸 thought.
the black-magic-advancements 🟣 at the time scared her so much, she believed all of human work could be replaced with this new dark magic 🟣! she imagined a future where no peep worked, with many takin their lifes becuz they felt it was meaningless without goals to achieve.
despite all dis, maria 🌸 imagined they cud be used for gud, so she 🌸 lead one of the little creatures 💜 home. not to profit from, but to see what it 💜 cud do ~
at home, she 🌸 put the dark creature 💜 into a bunni-cage 🐇, wrote a page of instructions and pushed it thru the cage to the creature 💜
it 💜 licked the page, and started pretending to do the task, by writing down the actions it 💜 would take... but not actually doing them...
turns out, she 🌸 had to let the written text be turned into actual actions using another well-known ancient spell: text-parsing 🟢 :o
after bits of tinkerin, maria 🌸 ... didn hav anythin useful, but she had fun trynna make the lil one 💜 do increasingly complex tasks. at som point, she felt accelerated by her own doings, n put it 💜 into a larger, bear-sized cage, n gave it 💜 much longer, mor complex instructions
she 🌸 wud change its 💜 personality, look at its 💜 own writing, refine it, revise it, test its 💜 ideas, see its 💜 own failure n keep on tryin.
...
unknowingly, she 🌸 had becom a black magic wielder 🟣. she 🌸 had becom, whad she 🌸 hated so much 🟣 -
though maria 🌸 didn giv brith to the monster 💜 (which wud increase environmental problms), she only fed it 💜 vrri little magical energy (much less than others wud use to play magic games) - n didn share the creatures 💜 scribbles with others, cuz she didn wana be like those other peeps 🟣 who pretend the output is worth sharin.
she 🌸 imagined her frens frowning upon her, once findin out bout her 🌸 "hobby" 🟣.
...
one question bugged her tho:
aftr all dis time, am i still maria 🌸? or hav i becom... maria 😈?
she couldnt answer dis question.
the end
oh yea - u prolli need som context:
i am developin an lm-based helper thingy for godot game engine for about a year by now. dis is why the post is kindsa self-deprecating, its cuz im litrlli buildin a thing which "does tasks". vrri funi.
anway, plz dun call be an ai-sis, i did make dis funi pictur aftr all, so i must be sane, right?
(plz be cool bout dis >o< )
^ ^ ^ dis includes a little story too btw - its got mojis! ^ ^ ^
The main sort of uses I've found compelling is mapping LLMs of human language onto whale language. It's not a translator, but it might help us get a general idea of how their languages work. The vast majority of machine learning nowadays is wasteful garbage attempting to get rid of labor instead of being the tool that it is.
huh - dis is a rlli intrstng usecase - evn if i find dis ki dsa hard to imagine (cuz i imaginenits hard to design a "correct training signal" for ur transformer to train against) - but like - if thad worked, dis wud feel truly futuristic- but in the cool and magical way ~ ~
EDIT: if we do get the training signal right tho, it actually shouldn be too much of an environmental burden too - cuz we wud probably not finetune an "LLM" (a large language model) but prolli jus a smol local one (like my fav: qwen3:4b at size under 4GB), so we dun need to train entire model from scratch - - - so yeag, rlli cool idea ~