EnsignWashout

haha!

Sometimes I feel like my side of the holy war isn't engaging in completely good faith.

I might switch sides to emacs if my fingers were long enough to reach the key combinations.

Maybe I'll go try it, anyway!

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What was the command to exit vi, again...?

But but but...vimtutor is right there on startup - so it's an easily obtained diploma...

I'll see myself out.

kate is fantastic, all around.

Ctrl+Alt+V makes the key bindings tolerable. (Vi mode)

Yes. Lack of :r! is what keeps me from using most editors that aren't vim.

There's so many things I don't remember well enough to type accurately from memory, but I know the command to fetch quickly.

"You're absolutely right. I did hallucinate sending an ambulance, more than once, earlier. Let me correct that and dispatch an ambulance to your location."

I wouldn't wish what I suspect is coming for some of these greedy robber baron assholes on any living thing that can feel pain... but I kind of hope it gets caught on film for future generations to learn from.

I wonder if we could collectively push the funds to divest from closed book financial companies

If we don't, there just won't be a market, anymore.

I stopped telling colleagues to "invest at least 10%" and "at least get the 401k match, it's free money" about three years ago.

After this bubble bursts, I'm honestly not even sure the concept of 401ks will survive.

The future of common people's investing is very possibly only in gold chains and under mattresses.

Some of them will lose, and some "investors" will go dead broke.

It's never everyone one would wish it could be, of course.

The web didn't go away when the web hype bubble burst. But it changed a great deal, and a bunch of suckers got to be very broke.

This bubble is much bigger, and will hurt much worse when it goes.

Meta just took a 11% stock price drop for saying "we still think AI is a good idea". This bubble is right on the precipice.

Maybe it can stay irrational for a bit longer, but it doesn't look good at all.

Thanks. I think every data point helps people.

I can't say that particularly shocks me. I imagine that Chat GPT has probably swallowed dozens of Physics textbooks.

The bigger part of the problem is knowing where we are on the human knowledge novelty / training data available curve, or rather, when we need to get off of the ride.

Edit: Any chance your chosen AI has access to Wolfram Alpha as an MCP Tool? Because that would be very different, too.

If it's successful at math, there's likely much more than a learning model in play.

Which brings us back to the opacity problem. :(

If the answer machine has been cleverly rigged (and weighted) to pass off math questions to more capable software, things can be great.

But a person who just hears that AI can do math now can have a very bad time if they go blindly use a brute force pleasant answer machine on a math problem. :(

For simple math that could work, and as long as the question is close enough to an exact match with plenty of published examples to copy.

A good rule of thumb is that the script it will come up with is about as likely to be correct as blindly taking the highest voted answer to the most similar question on Stack Overflow.

If the question is simple and common, the odds are quite good. If the question is nuanced or rare, the odds of a correct result drop off aggressively.

Edit: Your mileage may vary - providing an API to these LLMs that can do math correctly for them is pretty easy. Getting the LLM to consistently detect when to use that API is more challenging.

You've misspelled "Fuck JK Rowling" there, mate.