Post #1817441
2026-04-30 18:48 UTC
@octothorpe@mastodon.online Personal aside: Now I understand part of what my former employer (Palantir handmaiden Carnegie Mellon) was doing by creating & producing “Machine Learning” way back when I started there.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online 2026-04-30 19:04
@MPgh@mastodon.world yep. On the LLM side of things, it’s basically a very fancy Markov chain generator. It’s gonna spit out the ‘most likely’ next thing. Which is why it works so well for coding. Most code writing is the same shit all the time. (Loops, if/then statements, memory management, etc). It’s also why it breaks when you ask it to do something in a specific esoteric way.