jmugan

I wish I were

Even my daughter's dance recital this weekend had them. In between dances they frequently paused to play an ad on the big screen to the right. It was incredible.

This is wonderful. I remember I was in Asia in 2000 relaxing at the airport and was puzzled why it felt so nice and peaceful. Then I realized that it was the lack of repetitive pointless announcements.

I don't understand why it is my responsibility to hear your bell. Just don't hit me.

I thought the title was a joke until I actually read the thing.

My cat and I want a chair with a little shelf on the back by my head where he can sit.

That jumping Sora logo always made the videos unwatchable for me. So distracting from the scene of Elvis fighting aliens or whatever I was watching.

I feel like the world needs more sound engineers. There's a constant humming of the machines and we all suffer for it. We also need more vigilance about preventing noise pollution. The beep, beep, beep may make a company feel like it is doing something for safety, but there is no counterforce that they have to answer to about what they are doing to everyone else not involved. (I know there is a better sound to replace beep beep beep but it hasn't made it to my neighborhood yet)

I just didn't think that either of them were very good. Sinners was okay, and One Battle After Another was just kind of silly, I think regardless of your political views.

Maybe it has gotten better recently. I tried and tried with Bluesky, but it would not abide.

Oddly enough, X is the only platform i've been able to teach to not show me culture war stuff, from either side. It just shows me AI in the "For You."

Love the title. Yeah, agents need to experiment in the real world to build knowledge beyond what humans have acquired. That will slow the bastards down.

I agree but I fear it won't stay that way. They boil us frogs slowly.

I just finished reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and this could have been one of the chapters.

Maybe they are just calling the jobs by different names? It seems like names of roles are constantly shifting. "Data scientist" is a term that is going out of fashion.

Which side are you talking about?

You don't say?

It's also a lot more fun to lose weight than maintain weight

Oh, I'm usually trying to gather information in conversations with peers, so for me, it's usually more like, "I don't know, but this is what the LLM says."

But yeah, to a boss or something, that would be rude. They hired you to answer a question.

I love the post but disagree with the first example. "I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said: <...>". That seems totally fine to me. The sender put work into the prompt and the user is free to read the AI output if they choose.

This is exactly how I feel about both advertising and unnecessary notifications. "The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus."

I find it nearly impossible to avoid divisive content online. There are so many cool things in the world, but I can't find them because my timelines are all flooded with culture war. I wish I could find a platform that would listen to me when I say "show fewer posts like this."

What is their business purpose for releasing an open-weights model? How does it help them? I asked an LLM but it just said vague unconvincing things about ecosystem plays and fights for talent.

Yep, agreed. Obviously you need to home meetings, even at the expense of killing a little of your mind.

I agree with the continual-learning deficiency, but some of that learning can be in the form of prompt updates. The saxophone example would not work for that, but the "do my taxes" example might. You tell it one year that it also needs to look at your W2 and also file for any state listed, and it adds it to the checklist.

"The future lies with autonomous systems that can write code that makes them smarter in leaps and bounds. This self-generation is a kind of autopoiesis, which is the process of building one’s own parts, like a biological system."

Even if large language models (LLMs) stopped improving today, they still have yet to make their real impact on computer systems.

In Texas, local governments plant trees all the time. The problem is that they don't water them and they die.

I would imagine that if it is shameful among the established players to use AI, what will happen is that entirely new players will come in. For me, it's the story that matters, and if they can tell a better story with AI, then many people will naturally flock to them.

Not quite on topic, but I really value it when the film is shot in the place where it is set. The first episode of The Last of Us took place in Texas, but since it wasn't shot on location the trees were all wrong. Same thing with X. The article mentions films that take place in LA but are not shot there. What a waste.