Spronktonculous

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[residentshitcunt]

If the Kaaba was located in Romania and circled by pilgrim IKEA shark plush toys that would be a Blaj Blåhaj Hajj.

[pikaole]

Me and mom learned new English word.

[pikaole]

Wow…This is probably the most famous posts on my Tumblr lol. 

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

[possumcollege]

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[headspace-hotel]

I'm dead convinced that a significant portion of AI companies' revenue is spent paying off every major media outlet NOT to point out all the obvious problems with it + creating legions of bots and bullshit articles online to hype AI up

cause like. apart from the (potential) exception of writing code, there is not really anything useful that a Large Language Model can do.

it imitates patterns in the text that it takes in

that's fundamentally how it works

if a Large Language Model can produce text that looks like something a human created, that doesn't mean it can do a human's job, it means that the paperwork/plan/document it's being used to create no longer fucking means anything

[headspace-hotel]

Yes, haha funny, the AI is bamboozled by spelling, but seriously: I asked Google the same question 5 different times just now, and not only did I get 5 incorrect answers, I got 5 completely different incorrect answers.

The fact that they're different every time demonstrates just how much of an LLM's output is up to random chance. This is how LLMs imitate human language: each stage of constructing the text has built-in randomness, just like how human language has variation and flexibility.

This is my problem with using these things in the workplace. Like, imagine you're using an LLM to fill out a report of an accident that happened, or to write dietary recommendations for a patient, or to give feedback on a paper a student wrote...really anything you can think of.

Even if the LLM-generated text doesn't say anything technically flat-out wrong, the words and details are still randomized instead of being chosen by you for an actual reason.

Using an LLM for these tasks means it doesn't matter to you exactly what you write, what words you use, what details you include, or what meaning it has, just that it looks like you wrote something.

[disheveled-notion]

I’ll also point out that it’s also not good for writing code for the exact same reasons. Part of working on a codebase is working within established coding patterns and architectural decisions so that other people can easily navigate it. If every single module is written completely differently than, inevitably, when some human has to go in there and fix a bug it becomes much harder since every file is written completely different even if they handle the same problem-space. If one module is completely object oriented and uses class instantiation for everything and another that solves a similar problem is functional programming and relies entirely on pure functions then trying to figure out how they are supposed to work together is infinitely harder than just using one model.

[headspace-hotel]

I suspected this might be the case but truth be told I didn't know enough about coding to say either way.

[residentshitcunt]

From my personal experience with working in a government compliance environment, it is sometimes incredibly important that the same phraseology is used to communicate the same ideas over and over again, because it becomes shorthand for how further action can be taken.

Tech Bros™ think that emails need to contain information, some of which can be implied, and enough randomness to make sure it feels like it's been written bespoke for this specific interaction. What I need in an email is five distinct keywords in the same semi-polite assembly that conveys exactly all of the information I need it to to be legally correct in as few words as possible, and it needs to be the same thing for the same request every single time with little variation.

Also, if you get an ai to document something like a legal warning, if it doesn't explicitly say the terms of what has been warned of, there's a whole bunch of further action that can't be taken down the line.

[residentshitcunt]

Me when my uhm repurposed ICBM more like ICBN I C Big Naturals

[residentshitcunt]

Me when I see the Latest Photo taken by The New York Photo Co

[residentshitcunt]

The two phases of making biryani are "ooh yay I love biryani!!" And then "how in the ever living FUCK is there still more biryani"

[residentshitcunt]

Constantly fascinated by people's inability to read the letters that are sent to them. Someone calls us, goes "hey you sent me this letter"

"no, we did not send you this letter"

"yes you did"

"can you please read out the name of the agency at the top of the letter"

[reads out name of state government service department]

"yeah, that's not us"

"ok then well who do I call"

"is there a phone number on the letter?"

"yes, obviously"

"did you call that number?"

"no"

????????????

[ptphontongranphe]

Reupload of The Greatest Photograph I Have Ever Taken, this time for professional reasons!

[residentshitcunt]

And now, The Sequel.

[residentshitcunt]

Omg they made Helios 1 in real life

[doubleca5t]

thoughts on the david lynch conservative anal sex twitter discourse?

This one got a good laugh out of me

[residentshitcunt]

XKCD 2071 ass post

[residentshitcunt]

The only hope I have for a humanoid robot future is that the Technology™ will finally have a physical neck which I can bodily throttle with my bare hands.

[residentshitcunt]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have a Centrelink FTB or CCS debt, and the listed debt reason is "non-lodgement", or CNL of NLD or something of that sort, you need to lodge your tax return for that financial year, and the debt will be recalculated. FTB and CCS are both calculated based on your family's adjusted taxable income for the financial year, so if they are unable to confirm that figure, they will raise the entire year's payment as a debt.

If you were fully entitled to the benefit you received, lodging your tax return will wipe the debt. If you were partially eligible for the benefit you received, it will reduce the debt. If you overestimated your income, it will generate an arrears payment. If your ex partner is the one who hasn't lodged their tax return, call Centrelink and tell them, and the debt will be placed on hold for like 5 years pending that person lodging their tax return. Please, for the love of god, lodge your tax return if you are receiving a tax based family assistance benefit.

[residentshitcunt]

Watching the History Buffs episode about Napoleon, and I've already spotted two inaccurate pipe organs

Mkay, starting out strong with a very obviously english instrument in what looks like one of the Wren churches in London. Three flat towers with flats that are curved to give the appearance of depth, absolutely classic 18th century British casework.

Compare here with the general aura and casework of an organ built in the period in France, the 1769 F.H. Clicquot organ of St Thomas d'Aquin in Paris.

Note the level impost, varied foot length of the pipe flats to achieve the same illusion of depth, large outer pedal towers (organs of the period in Britain lacked significant pedal divisions), and a Positif division on the rail.

Next, we have this shot:

Which like, fuck me. A fucking circular pipe flat? You fucking expecting to believe this is France? In 1794? Did Samuel Green come over for a quick stint? Fucking fuck off.

Also, callout post, Mr History Buffs didn't take the time to google what a Countertenor is.

[residentshitcunt]

People today be like "I need the Nvidia 80000 fuck hole edition to play my favourite new release, 'killurselvf 17' at 30fps and 1billion graphics settings' meanwhile I was wandering around in 2010 with Morrowind installed on a USB thumb drive plugging it into random school computers and IT WORKED

[maykitz]

it's blowing my mind rn that it really turns out candace owens is the only friend charlie kirk had in life and she's so mad about his widow's reaction she just leaked an audio from a few days after his death where erika kirk is on a zoom call giddy about the bump in merch sales and the memorial being "the event of the century"

[maykitz]

when your significant other gets murdered

[littledeludeddupes]

wyd if you unbutton your mans pants and discover that hes got the ginch gonch on.......