Notices by haliey welch-fargo (esvrld@normal.style)

the uk has now done more, in the same amount of time, to redress the felling of the sycamore gap tree than the genocide in gaza

@beeoproblem mathematically there might be some massive difference i'm not aware of as a non-expert on that field, but linguistically, yea absolutely

and likewise for anything else you might want to tell an llm, like 'follow this style guide', 'do not claim you have capabilities you don't', or even telling it to not use a certain word or expression in its answer. because it's not a machine that 'knows' anything. what you're doing — all you're doing — when prompting an llm is requesting it output a string of tokens that would be statistically likely to follow from your prompt, per its corpus. and that's all it does

telling an llm 'do not hallucinate' does not work b/c not hallucinating would require for it to be able to
(1) examine its own output
(2) extract the semantic meaning of the same
(3) compare that meaning to some external body of data
when the reason it 'hallucinates' is precisely that it does not have those capabilities

this is incredibly simple but a lot of people have difficulty grasping it. it's not that llm's are stupid, it's not that they're built wrong, it's not that they don't work (tho all of those are also true); it's that what they push out is fundamentally meaningless in a particularly rigorous sense

instead of buying a new computer to be able to run the new and worse windows, what if you could move to the woods & eat nuts and worms

GNU Turd is a collection of microkernel services under development by the GNU Project since 1969, made to fulfil project founder Richard S. Toonenbaum's strong belief that "all computer users deserve to eat shit" #foss #history #didyouknow

the working class consists of three white guys in overalls beating the same piece of hot metal with big hammers. i've never met them but i'm pretty sure they agree with me about everything

hermione granger walks into the hogwarts bathroom. inside, to her surprise, she finds jeremy corbyn. 'this is gender-neutral now', he explains

horrified, hermione reaches for her wand so she could vanish her poop instead, but can't find it. 'just nationalised it', corbyn says

jk rowling wakes up, screaming

years into this thing i don't know how i'm surprised by it but the liberal zelenskyy-worship continues to hit me at an angle

eugen thinks putin would have executed him for making bad websites

cnn had the courtroom artist from the hearing on and when asked about luigi's emotions (subtext: is he a Psychopath?) she started talking about how he has 'elegant features' and is 'kinda pretty' and 'kinda remind[ed the artist] of a husky' (note this was a white woman speaking)

putting luigi in a bulletproof vest is a really funny attempt to make him look like a Dangerous Terrorist. if he walked the streets of new york unguarded the greatest danger he'd face would be having his dick sucked clean off its hinges

discussing issues that matter and building lasting connections on bluesky

if they smoked we'ed they'd be called toḱemon

i know it's problematic or whatever of the pope to say there's an 'air of faggotry' in the vatican but let's be honest: was he wrong? was he?

@silverwizard yes

i'm starting to think the online safety act might not be an enormously well thought piece of legislation!

on a side note i do understand why it's not accurate to say that embryos are female but calling it 'the foetal forcemming eo' is funny, so,

the real meat of the definition of gender in the order is that nothing produces gametes 'at conception' since at conception it's just a single cell. thank you comrade don for abolishing gender once and for all