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unofficial-sean

Woooo! Wobbegong Wednesday! Look at her go! Swimming up your dashboard!

an-na-ko

Saw it was make a terrible comic day today (June 24 2025) so meet my cats

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

jadedresearcher

I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time

trambrosia

I can't see this without thinking of Dogs in Elk, a story that's been viral since 1999

jarchaeology

parental controls on the internet should go the other way around. my mom should not be spending her screen time this way.

#one of my friends had parental controls on another friends phone for a while (theyre roommates)

tieflingkisser

lesbianslimefriend

here's where to find it on windows 10

vacuously-true

This is literally not new. This is just how spellcheck stuff has worked for a while. You're probably more used to how this tech looks on your phone- for example it learns what words you use more often so the suggestions and autocorrect are more likely to be correct for YOU. Notice in the first image here how it literally says the data is stored locally and Microsoft doesn't collect it.

By all means, turn it off if you want to. It's probably less useful on the computer than on the phone because you probably type more precisely than you swipe (if you use the key swiping tech on your phone). But, this post is somewhat misleading on the nature of this tech. It's worth being clear that this is not Microsoft collecting your data to train their LLM. This is just personalized spell check, and it's been like that for a long time, and it's always been "AI" but it's not the same type of AI as LLMs.

#i hate how AI mostly means just LLMs and genrative AI nowadays. but we dont need to delve into that rn #i believe you can make personalized predictive text without using methods I'd consider AI/ML #(there was such thing pre 2020 afterwards)#ofc that does beg the question of what counts as AI instead of complicated stats #but again not delving into that. too complicated for me to address in general. much less in the tags of a tumblr post #one of the most fantastic uses of AI imo is optical character recognition (ocr)#there's reading scanned docs or handwriting (like for digital notes). there's also real world ocr for like. words on signs and etc in photos #the first case was pretty much done for languages using the latin alphabet years ago. minor improvements at best #other alphabets are still improving as of 2024 but i think all the widely used languages were on their way. and some less used ones too #the real life case is still being improved on for all languages. they've definitely fallen into the shove in more data mess #there's also a bunch of amazing specialized models!#one relatively early one was the one made to recognize pastries but was pretty easily tweaked to recognize cancerous cells somehow #one very noticable pattern to my opinions is that I'm a big fan of the relatively early stuff (pre 2020 ish)#and a lot more disparaging about more recent stuff. though there's objectively been further improvements in recent years #(using a not insane def of improvement) and there are people out there developing genuinely useful models still too

catfancyceo

Let's kill this guy with mama.

urfavhatesterfs

this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

This is the cutest thing ever. Godzilla says trans rights.

kitt-the-werefox

GODZILLA OFFICIAL???

sciencebees

romanceyourdemons

we need fewer songs about falling in love and breaking up and MORE songs about famous disasters of the sea

romanceyourdemons

being told you’d cruise the seas for american gold you’d fire no guns, shed no tears, now you’re a broken man on a halifax pier might not be a universal experience, but like neither is the club. so a little perspective might be nice

scratch-meowt

my hottest take

keeper-of-the-flames

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

pusheenthenerdcat

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

maimonideznuts

pusheenthenerdcat

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)