The iraqi information minister for the EU.
"There is no censorship in Europe. Never!!"
"There is no censorship in Europe. Never!!"
I picked up a kiln a few years ago for just that sort of thing. I think it's a really cool idea.
The little guy loves blowing out candles, so I got a large candle, but it's obviously a bit unstable, so I made a candle holder out of PLA. Here you can see the two parts. I started with a stock half sphere, and took away a cylinder from the center. I added a bit of a bevel to the cylinder with a slider.
(Is this fireproof? Not at all. You better believe it needs to never be allowed to burn that low)
(Is this fireproof? Not at all. You better believe it needs to never be allowed to burn that low)
My second vehicle was a '92 F250 Turbodiesel Extended cab longbox with a manual transmission.
Really useful vehicle to have, but driving in the city was a little Hell. I know exactly what you mean.
Really useful vehicle to have, but driving in the city was a little Hell. I know exactly what you mean.
People think it's a bad idea, but when I was early in my career, I really wanted a daihatsu copen -- lovely little (and I do mean little) sports coupe. Not great for a family or anything, but for a single guy who wants a cheap sports car that sips gas, it was a great moment.
That's one of the plot threads in my last book. "No that's definitely wrong" oh ok thanks ChatGPT
Except LLMs are epistemically conservative and only know what they were trained on.
Except LLMs are epistemically conservative and only know what they were trained on.
I bet it ends up being Ukraine and it's because all the men were shelled by Putin, though I'm sure Russia itself isn't doing much better.
"youth unemployment" is something near and dear to my heart because I know how hard it is to take off if there's no available runway.
I came of age during a recession (the 2001 recession right after the dot com bubble burst. It caused my rust belt town to finally get massive layoffs at the local factory), and to me, youth unemployment meant losing a year of earning because all the people laid off from the town's factory ended up working menial jobs to keep the lights on. It had big effects on my health because I basically surfed the internet in my parents basement for a year, and also kept me from going to college for much longer than I would have liked because I wasn't able to save enough for college.
Ironically, I did eventually end up getting a full-time job, and it was at a job that paid significantly less than minimum wage. In spite of the illegal wage, I was happy to have it because at least I could save money for college.
I came of age during a recession (the 2001 recession right after the dot com bubble burst. It caused my rust belt town to finally get massive layoffs at the local factory), and to me, youth unemployment meant losing a year of earning because all the people laid off from the town's factory ended up working menial jobs to keep the lights on. It had big effects on my health because I basically surfed the internet in my parents basement for a year, and also kept me from going to college for much longer than I would have liked because I wasn't able to save enough for college.
Ironically, I did eventually end up getting a full-time job, and it was at a job that paid significantly less than minimum wage. In spite of the illegal wage, I was happy to have it because at least I could save money for college.
The Roman Catholic Church literally has its own country. They can accept unlimited unvetted immigrants if they like, put them up in those giant golden towers at the Vatican.
A haiku about the lives of pets:
Cherry blossoms fall
our pets brief lights touch our days
time then lays them down
Cherry blossoms fall
our pets brief lights touch our days
time then lays them down
He can take some of our "trades workers" who have no business working in Canada. The ones who weren't trained in Canada.
The vote splitting argument is dangerous.
If we say "don't split the vote", why stop at YP? Why should the greens be allowed to split the vote? Those left wing votes "belong" to labour!
And why should reform be "allowed" to "split the vote" on the right? Those right wing votes "belong" to the conservatives!
Soon you have the US two party system. Vote team red or team blue.
Reality is, other parties are important because those votes don't "belong" to any party. Either the bigger parties earn your vote or some other party does.
Even parties that don't win a single seat can have an outsized influence if voters are indicating satisfaction with certain underrepresented policies or dissatisfaction with certain overrepresented policies. On the right, reform only got like 5 seats in the last UK election, but they've fundamentally changed the discussion on the right, for example.
It's true, reform did split the vote on the right, and they're the reason labour is in power right now, but just as you can't drive a car by saying "left" or "right" every hour or so, you can't run a national government that way. A lot of people on the British right are sick of pressing the "right" button election after election and getting functionally left politicies.
With respect to progressive policies, this sort of feedback is actually essential because progressives are constantly in a process of creating policies, and quietly dropping old policies that end up being bad and pretending they were always right wing. Without a feedback mechanism, perhaps progressives would still be nationalist eugenicists.
If we say "don't split the vote", why stop at YP? Why should the greens be allowed to split the vote? Those left wing votes "belong" to labour!
And why should reform be "allowed" to "split the vote" on the right? Those right wing votes "belong" to the conservatives!
Soon you have the US two party system. Vote team red or team blue.
Reality is, other parties are important because those votes don't "belong" to any party. Either the bigger parties earn your vote or some other party does.
Even parties that don't win a single seat can have an outsized influence if voters are indicating satisfaction with certain underrepresented policies or dissatisfaction with certain overrepresented policies. On the right, reform only got like 5 seats in the last UK election, but they've fundamentally changed the discussion on the right, for example.
It's true, reform did split the vote on the right, and they're the reason labour is in power right now, but just as you can't drive a car by saying "left" or "right" every hour or so, you can't run a national government that way. A lot of people on the British right are sick of pressing the "right" button election after election and getting functionally left politicies.
With respect to progressive policies, this sort of feedback is actually essential because progressives are constantly in a process of creating policies, and quietly dropping old policies that end up being bad and pretending they were always right wing. Without a feedback mechanism, perhaps progressives would still be nationalist eugenicists.
There's a reason why it's taken so seriously in China, Singapore, and so on. They've read a history book.
I was getting some incense cones for this cool 3d printed dragon I bought that breathes incense smoke, and two of the smells were frankincense and myrrh. With christmas coming of course I had to pick up those.
It shocked me how much frankincense smells exactly like women's perfume.
It shocked me how much frankincense smells exactly like women's perfume.
Never ask a woman her weight
A man his income
A politician if they cheated on a mortgage application
Lol
A man his income
A politician if they cheated on a mortgage application
Lol
She isn't a thicko, she's a wealthy, highly educated young woman playing the part of a black wigger because it plays to her base and her opposition.
A lot of things that demo really well fail in practice.
The problem is that demo environments are limited and don't involve your own company data, which tends to be ugly and sloppy. That's where good humans come in, we can automatically carry context no LLM can, at least at the moment.
Since the information you're looking for isn't trained into the llm, it won't be able to just give you the right answer, but for most companies you also don't have enough data to train an LLM. Same problem with the similarly exciting but ultimately largely ignored "big data". Most companies aren't Google with everything on the web saved, and their LLM sucks.
The problem is that demo environments are limited and don't involve your own company data, which tends to be ugly and sloppy. That's where good humans come in, we can automatically carry context no LLM can, at least at the moment.
Since the information you're looking for isn't trained into the llm, it won't be able to just give you the right answer, but for most companies you also don't have enough data to train an LLM. Same problem with the similarly exciting but ultimately largely ignored "big data". Most companies aren't Google with everything on the web saved, and their LLM sucks.