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Having a bad time reading LLM critiques as I gradually realize they're not gonna critique the idea of human general intelligence

@randometc I suspect that the (still partial) transition to HLLs, RISC, and interpreted languages is a valuable comparison here. That also involved programmers giving up valuable kinds of control for other valuable things. (Disclaimer: have not used any commercial LLM.)

@roseveleth @robinsonmeyer I’m looking at engineersedge.com/calculators/ and around 15 °C, density seems to go up by almost half a % per 1 °C, and if we assume +2 °C on summer evenings, we have on average 1% less air per air these days, which passes a sniff test for me. You know, check my math, but.

@roseveleth @robinsonmeyer I don’t know from baseball and it is early April but like … this is already a thing in aviation, for example.

@urschrei I got an ORCID but I only kept it because it ends in X, because they use an ISBN-like checksum system that has 11 digits.

@doriantaylor Tangentially, have you seen @devezer@mastodon.social’s work?

Me reading things: That’s not a joke. That’s a reference.

Me writing things: People who read the pulp sf collection “Galactic Diplomat” (1965) and got past the absolutely terrible politics are going to love this one word choice! Haha!

@ingrid (my new thing is I’m a guy who thinks video games are art but only if they’re in black and white)

Switching to a fully VR work setup just to stop having to worry about the seasonally variable glare from the window behind my screen.

@maxfenton A flower I particularly appreciate is the dogwood, which it turns out is not even technically a flower! (At least the part I particularly appreciate isn’t.)

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.