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  you can't just "according to google..." the llm summary blobs when google itself doesn't even stand by that output

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  perhaps web numbers should grow in both directions, maybe web -1 is good or web zero

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  llm purple hat fuzzer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_hat_therapy)

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  1. we used the Foo model 2. model: we used the Blah dataset 3. dataset: read our paper on arxiv 4. abstract: data was collected "in-the-wild" 5. buried in paper: we just scraped all the podcasts and videos we could find

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  perhaps one of the thousand monkeys will specialize in typewriter repair

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  i love when animal cartoon characters wear headphones correctly

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  the year is 20XX and everyone in the resistance memorizes a pocket bible full of optimized adversarial prompts

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  @joshg seriously. i really can't tell what people are supposed to do with these except try to break em.

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  world-scale dehydrated water industry

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  i want devices i rely on to only allocate memory at compile time

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  the year is 20XX and computer science has been extinct for hundreds of years

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  about to take some time off work and my manager wants me to rush through a huge kernel change that hasnt been reviewed. this alone is reason to quit.

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  ouch. i set up a local llm thing on my gaming laptop to describe photos and the descriptions are often wrong but good enough to be one component of a search index. i did not expect this gut punch of a floppy disk being described as an "antique recording device".

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  i might be the last person to buy an air fryer

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  i love my 300ft cardboard dispenser box of 1" diameter nylon corrugated split tubing

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  i turned off external web access to diode zone's storage until folks settle down $$$

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  not even noon on a monday and i want to be as distant from my coworkers as possible

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  jensen huang's leather jacket is the new generation's steven ballmer forehead sweat

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  taking stock of my coworkers' LLM use impacting my mental health, and weighing that against having a consistent direct deposit 😑

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  every day i need to know exactly when it's lunchtime. i commissioned the world's most expensive and accurate clock. i'm sure it works well: every day I check it at noon, and it reads exactly 12:00.

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  epic handshake between "taking a walk in spring" and "sneezing while eating salad": "aerosolized plant matter"

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  every computer program as memcpy + sleep

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  love to work on a careful paragraphs-long comment for a 16-bit-long patch, assuming my coworkers will feed it to a llm instead of reading it

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  "computers are fast" is my favorite anti-optimization argument to encounter, because it feels like the same root cause as the "AI" and cryptocurrency bubbles: you assume that if a demo works, there must be no reason it couldn't be infinitely large, without ever seeing evidence of how a thing actually scales as the inputs change.

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  some coworkers seem to approach this product like we have infinite resources, but i keep looking into things where we do actually only have the hardware resources for N of this and N is less than 20. not exactly a microcontroller, but incompatible with carelessness.

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  good vibes only - birds in trees - cat friend - bagel - friendly bugs - thinking about trains - hoodie - no noises - no computer

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  one of the more frustrating and lonely parts about doing what i can to resist big tech is when folks joke about how "we all" just go along with whatever the tech tells us to do. some of us have been trying.

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  im reading about corps using "lines of code" as a "productivity" metric to justify shipping LLM slop, and i'm horrified that we seemingly have a whole industry that doesn't understand code is generally a liability not an asset.

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  celebrate earth day by destroying a computer

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  subtitles that pop in sync with each word should be illegal