♫ I am a language model of a modern major general I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical While many complex queries I can easily elucidate I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫
The challenge with something new that you can do barely anything useful with and that costs eight grand in current dollars is that it can be hard to distinguish which one of these two sorts of device it is.
When I shout at strangers in New York City it is an act of love, honestly. When you shout at strangers in New York City it is a little much, honestly. When he shouts at strangers in New York City you can't be surprised if someone chokes him to death, honestly.
Getting ready to teach a remote workshop/course. Paying customers deserve a good production experience, which is the only reason I do this and absolutely not e.g. because having switcher thingies with a hundred light-up buttons to press is fun.
Look, luxury vacations courtesy of a billionaire friend who bought a house for yr mom isn't corrupt; corruption would be something like a firm arguing before the court also buying property from you just after getting appointed which would never sorry I've just been handed a note
First he yells at them to print out their code for "review". Then yells at them to add the Elon Parameters. Then yells to open-source the code. Then yells to remove the embarrassing Elon Parameters. If only we as a civilization could harness this endless flow of Pure Loser Energy
A good way to make yourself feel your brain is broken and you no longer know how computers work is to sit down in front of someone else's machine and try to use it. It doesn't have to be running a different operating system. In fact, the closer it is to yours the worse and more confusing it will feel as you get tripped up by any of the dozens of things you feel are just how computers work but which in fact are some preference you set in 2004 (or 1984) and have taken for granted ever since.
In a funny way Tom Lehrer is in the same category as Bill Watterson. A person who pursued a minor art to the point where they more or less perfected its form, or became its archetype; having in the process accumulated a devoted public following, they then chose to stop while they were at the height of their powers, and went on living their life privately, doing other things. It's not a terribly common pattern.