Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

I still think the discourse around LLMs right now is bad. By which I mean: most of the stuff I see on my feeds, boosted by people I like and whose ideals I tend to share, seems intellectually lazy, politically shortsighted, rhetorically misdirected, etc., in ways worse than we accept on other topics.

And yet! The average quality has gone way up over the last few months. And that gives me some hope.

@urschrei @hans Ooh, will have to pick it up.

@migurski These are they.

@migurski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plate#History

Roughly 15% of my free time is spent thinking about the paragraph in the Wikipedia article on surface plates that points out that they originate precision.

@marcpfister Good stuff. I don’t see this very often – great job by whoever found that cloud window and made it happen.

@marcpfister Thanks for doing it in the first place. I’m not involved with any response efforts myself these days, but I know this is crucial data. (Also, I’ll pedantically correct myself: I think this case sensitivity problem is actually in the official S3 tooling, not in the API itself.)

@marcpfister FYI, there seems to be a minor problem here – there are two path segments differing only by capitalization (ard and ARD), which causes problems in the S3 API, which has kind of weird case sensitivity semantics.

@lucaswoj @hugoledoux https://lidarportal.dnr.wa.gov/ might be useful.

@chucklessmith It’s partly the fault of the lighting, and also being evil incarnate doesn’t help.

@merrysky Do you consider these discontinuities (on late Tuesday, here) a bug, or a more or less acceptable artifact of merging models?

The craft mat I use as a mousepad is 8 inches or 20 cm wide. It’s a lot of rain in 48 hours. https://mastodon.social/@a_l/110928145714302435

Learning enough linear algebra to make ad-hoc fixes that I don’t really understand to problems I caused.

Just remembered the dream from a few nights ago where I got an antique scientific calculator with exquisite cassette futurism styling, like a high-end camera from 1981, and the only problem was it ran on six D batteries.