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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4809
- Views: 382624
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
The ones that require pop culture knowledge are the ones I don't get, and I'm also terribly annoyed when a category is something that depends on the structure of the word rather than its semantics ("bird names minus the final letter"), but otherwise I love it.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Here's a problem someone at work ran into today with the AI assistant. . swapnibbles.png . (for the non-coders, you probably know that computer information is quantified as "bytes." Sometimes in code you have to deal with half a byte, and some smart*** back in the day decided to call that ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4809
- Views: 382624
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I'm started playing these little NYT games, and Wordle and Strands are fun and all, but Connections is so far ahead in the best game competition that it's not even close. I could play that game for hours on end (and have; there are archives).
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4809
- Views: 382624
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
This was the first Strands I've seen where one of the word paths crossed itself (made an X). I didn't realize that was allowed, and I'm not sure I approve...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1049
- Views: 113941
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
George Carlin spelled this whole dynamic out years ago (NSFW; the bit includes at least 2 of his words that you can't say on TV, but evidently can on YouTube). The difference is that, unless you were an unwilling target of his womanizing, Clinton's bullshitting was largely beneficent, while Trump i...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 326
- Views: 76071
Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
: strokes beard in wizard : His arm has grown long.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:39 pm More fodder for Trump's attorneys. I really think that the NY Times and the Washington Post are on his payroll.
Just unsure whether "he" is T himself or the various people who own him.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
- Replies: 2042
- Views: 570660
Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
Belittling Trump for being trapped beneath crushing debt is not the way to win voters over. Pointing out all the things the Biden administration has done to assist debtors and publicly directing him toward programs that could help would have been far more effective.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
IMO, ChatGPT should not be used for fact-finding at all. It is not a search engine, and it does not have the power to look things up on the internet. As a first approximation, it relies on its "memory" to answer questions, and its memory is subject to all the same problems a person's is--t...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
- Replies: 270
- Views: 37622
Re: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
One tried to overthrow the US government, one failed to fill out the HR forms for an office romance. Guess who gets punished? What a crock; Trump doesn't deserve to win, but his pusillanimous "opponents" certainly deserve to lose. This is a critical moment in history--Putin and Trump are w...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 119000
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 612
- Views: 80925
Re: Chaos in Congress
If they're truly concerned about Chinese companies having too much influence over Americans' lives, maybe they should start with manufacturing instead of social media.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
- Replies: 4809
- Views: 382624
Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
I do not care for Neognathae
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Intelligence Leak Exposes US Spying
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7010
Re: Intelligence Leak Exposes US Spying
WWII was too long ago for people to remember that Nazis are bad
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1012
- Views: 116088
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Every time I see a headline along the lines of "Biden administration responds to latest Russian atrocity by imposing additional sanctions on...", all I can think is why the h3|! weren't you doing that already.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Not the free version (DALL-E can do that sort of thing), but it can invent and describe them.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Now that I have more experience with it, it's a little easier to recognize that a bunch of its responses are just (extremely) wordy versions of "404 Not Found". By far, its strongest use case is generating original text where a bit of absurdity is a feature rather than a bug. If you ask it...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:45 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
So pre-GPT messageboard text could become the equivalent of low-background steel (I feel a bit like a bot right now in that I’m not sure if I’m making that up or read it somewhere before). we might be sitting on a goldmine here.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
All in all, I'd say it is shockingly good at generating text from a prompt and will follow whatever proddings you give it (until you try to make it stop being so nice). But it is dangerously bad at explaining what something means, providing facts about a requested subject, or critiquing existing wri...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Seconds. Also, I've found some boundaries: ascii.png music.png . It's also very cool that it can explain its choices. It's been a longstanding problem in AI that you end up with a model that makes predictions, but there's no way for you or it to understand or describe why it does what it does. Along...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16663
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Stayed up way too late testing its creativity with various bizarre requests: The fellowship of the ring arguing about whether balrogs have wings: Frodo: So, do Balrogs have wings or not? Gimli: Of course they do! What else do you think those massive shadows were, sweeping through the halls of Moria?...