Tar_Alcaran @ Tar_alcaran @sh.itjust.works

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Sometimes I miss the "Here's our copy-pasted-photocopied rulebook, bring your own binder" type of game.

Well I mean, the best D&D stuff has always been third party stuff.

Damn, I made this exact joke 1 minute more slowly.

With how wide dwarves are, their asses must naturally be huge. It's just that you're too hightist to notice.

I get some vegeterian people visibily upset that I'm eating "their" food when they know I usually eat meat.

Unless you're at a place where you're literally taking physical food, leaving them none, that's just moronic

It's mostly an artefact from how we measure it.

Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there's plenty of readily available mountainous land that's currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers). We've decided to place the CO2 impact on the cocoa, not the wood though, probably due to lobbying.

That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.

Why the hell don't they capture the methane and sell it?

It's really hard. Most methane comes directly from the cow, and cows spend most of their time in air. The methane gets mixed in the air, in very small percentages. Extracting a small bit of methane from a lot of air is complex and energy Intensive, and methane is cheap.

So you'd spend a lot of money and power to produce very little money or power.

Faxes are secure after sending. The only way for a third party to get a fax is to physically tap the line at the time of transmission, or to break into the building and steal the paper.

Email sits online, where everyone can get at it unless you prevent it. Faxes sit in a drawer, behind the locks you already have.

Yeah, but the bugs at least aren't opportunistic.

Ostrich tastes basically like super lean beef. Ostriches are absolutely not herbivores though, they eat bugs and small rodents too.

I spend a fair bit of time on construction sites, and cameras have one huge issue compared to mirrors: They're one-way.

With a mirror, I can see the driver in the mirror. I can make eyecontact and confirm that they've seen me. With a camera, I have no idea if they've seen me. Maybe they can see more, but if they happen not to be looking, I have no way to tell.

And our stupid road regulations don't allow for both.

And being a stranger in Egypt is still pretty fucking terrible if you're not strongly presenting male.

The big problem with training LLMs is that you need good data, but there's so much data you can't really manually separate all "good" from all "bad" data. You have to use the set of all data, and a much much smaller set of tagged and marked "good" data.

Not at all. It's assuming they don't suddenly drop in cost 99%

LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn't gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.

I'll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that's very generous.

Stroopwaffel van Klompmill.

I love this, because a "Hans worst" in dutch is someone incompetent and useless.

But they're a dbzero user, not an ML

Edit: I guess those aren't mutually exclusive

I'm pretty sure I used the word "unknowingly" there, meaning that they're not to blame for the first choice, merely for continuing to do so now.

What did we do?