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If you are fed up with our response to the ongoing Covid pandemic, give this a like and repost, I know I can NOT be alone in feeling angry at how little anyone cares. Let's see how many people we reach.

Rest in Peace Lord Vader

OpenAI works miracles, but we do also wrap a lot of things in bash while loops to work around periodic crashes.

@HaroldJ_NEPA @GreatDismal I still feel kinda bad that I asked @GreatDismal to sign Johnny Mnemonic (in Best of OMNI Science Fiction No.6) when everyone else was lined up with gleaming new copies of Virtual Light

@GreatDismal I remember the day my OMNI subscription arrived with this story in it. I devoured it several times that week and returned to it many times after. This short story predates Neuromancer by several years. Was this the very first cyberpunk story ever?

9. Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Critics scoffed at Reeves’s portrayal of a mnemonic courier who has 24 hours to download 320GB of data from his brain before his head explodes. But practical effects, a cult cast and a prescient scenario co-scripted by the cyberpunk guru William Gibson make this grungy sci-fi more fun than you might remember. Reeves’ “I want some room service!” monologue is one for the ages. theguardian.com/film/article/2…

"Most concerning is the illusion that LLMs are retrieving information rather than constructing word associations. LLM responses are statistically likely rather than factually accurate. Sometimes these things correspond, but often they do not." E. Salvaggio techpolicy.press/challenging-th…

The family member is going to be starting immunotherapy which puts them at even greater risk for acquiring infections If you can’t wear a mask when a patient requests it you shouldn’t even be allowed to see patients.

@GamewithDave "You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike"

without telling me your age, what's the first video game you ever played? gifs only!

It's a terribly neat illustration of Wilhoit's law, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect": #comment-729288" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/lib… 52/

@waq_r .... especially since those machines cannot get ram upgrades. It's soldered on; that's it forever.

Let’s be honest, selling a 8GB laptop should be illegal in 2024

Housecats too!

@MarioHachemer @GergelyOrosz Agree, but also as a working SWE in any field, real "mastery" is usually tied to long&deep work in the specific domains/ industry/ constraints that come from a specific customer base or deployment env. That last 10% of the ladder will be different between companies

I'm not sure I agree then on timelines. Becoming proficient in *integrating* LLMs is something you can pick up in a couple of weekends, maybe two weeks if you want to learn about the basic theory behind them. But that's a far cry from being able to work on them as you would in a position that does more than use LLMs. Creating your own task specific finetunes f.e. is something that is easy to do, but *hard* to master, which is tough if you have to fund that work yourself.

I continue to be amazed how many software engineers have not taken the bare minimum effort to understand how LLMs work, and assume things like “it can reason.” A trait of any kind of engineering is you look under the covers of the stuff you use, understand how it works and why.

@andrewchilds @odbol @FreyaHolmer Whoa!!!

@odbol @FreyaHolmer Yup. Just name a file ***.ipynb and open it. Open it, run it, things install, and you can run the cells.

jupyter notebook is one of the most user-unfriendly things I've run launch through cmd, it opens a file with a url, copy/paste that into your browser, then there's a 50% chance it will load, and an 80% chance the python kernels stop working after a minute (??)

Honestly if someone put this on their resume and I read it, I'd respect it and not hold it against them in the job consideration. Job hunting is a numbers game!

I hate that this is next-level evergreen tweet territory.

@1goodtern @SusanChubb1 Thank you Anti-Vaxxers. Bringing Victorian diseases back for the Children of the UK. Well done you wankers.

You would think that stores would warmly welcome customers in masks, because you're far less likely to disable their workforce. You'd think that, but, of course, you'd be wrong. 😕

"They'll never see me coming"

@CarSalesPontiff @BrandonLBradfor I'll take "Things that never happened" for $1000, Alex

"I was told by insiders that they would never hire me because I'm a white male." You had insiders, that were in the decision-making process/seat, that knew you well enough to admit to a crime, let you go through an interview, but knew they weren't going to hire you?!?!? Okay

i would buy this in a heartbeat