v_krishna @ v_krishna @lemmy.ml

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Going out on a limb here to guess that "Hank" has never been to India?

There's a whole lot of crazy bad but also an incredible amount of absurdly beautiful. I think unfortunately the worldview in India accepts both equally and generally believes, in the words of Bruce Hornsby or Tupac, that's just the way it is.

Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk

NWA was 87-91, over 30 years ago at this point. The gap between I feel like I'm fixing to die by Country Joe and Fuck the Police by NWA is smaller than the gap between Fuck the Police and today

Reads like Douglas Adams

1985, TNG was definitely my introduction, really even Voyager and then got into TNG from there. I haven't seen more than a couple TOS episodes but have seen everything else (except the animated ones, and many of the old movies barely watched once)

It took me far too long to understand what NG meant. Why would you do this I feel TNG is an incredibly standard abbreviation

I'm otherwise decently fluent in Danish (first learned nynorsk then lived in Denmark for a few years). But when numbers come out I immediately switch back to Norwegian. Fucking Danes.

Many (14?) years back I attended a conference (now I can't remember what it was for, I think a complex systems department at some DC area university) and saw a lady give a talk about using agent based modeling to do computational sociology planning around federal (mostly navy/army) development in Hawaii. Essentially a sim city type of thing but purpose built to help aid in public planning decisions. Now imagine that but the agents aren't just sets of weighted heuristics but instead weighted heuristic/prompt driven LLMs with higher level executive prompts to bring them together.

I fully agree with this, would have written something similar but was eating lunch when I made my former comment. I also think there's a big part of pragmatics that comes from embodiment that will become more and more important (and wish Merleau-Ponty was still around to hear what he thinks about this)

A lot of semantic NLP tried this and it kind of worked but meanwhile statistical correlation won out. It turns out while humans consider semantic understanding to be really important it actually isn't required for an overwhelming majority of industry use cases. As a Kantian at heart (and an ML engineer by trade) it sucks to recognize this, but it seems like semantic conceptualization as an epiphenomenon emerging from statistical concurrence really might be the way that (at least artificial) intelligence works

Belize has basically the same weather and doesn't suck horribly.

Over 13 years here, coming on 12 years without opioid withdrawals at all (methadone/suboxone withdrawal can be even worse and is certainly not a catch all solution but definitely worked for me). Great job Kava keep it up.

I lived there from 2010-2012 and it was more than enough to realize I would never do that again, esp with a funny foreign name, brown skin, and mixed race daughters. It's sad too, thinking about e.g. Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey, or time I've spent camping in the keys or swimming in fresh water springs in Central Florida. There's clearly some real majestic environmental beauty and culture there but jesus christ has the states human culture gone absolutely to shit.

Always MIT, I want to be able to use my own (and others) software in my commercial ventures.

It's particularly popular in the sf bay area. Cheeseboard is probably the most famous but there's a lot of really good places that specialize in it (Benchmark & Arizmendi both worth checking out too)

There's also the UC Beniof Childrens Hospital

Dang climate change denial is one thing but speaking ill of xkcd on the internet are you a fucking madman?

I'm from Kalamazoo. Lived in the sf bay now for the past 12+ years and many other places in between.

Winter is no joke, and drags on for a very long time. Diversity is much less than elsewhere I've lived (esp compared to the east bay), as a mixed race person my experience growing up was so much different than my kids' experience in Berkeley. Kzoo is halfway between Chicago and Detroit so not horrible but any big name concerts or museum shows or whatever require a few hours of travel. Like another poster said, also car culture - nobody walks anywhere nor can you feasibly do so (not just because of winter but also due to the influence of Detroit) and outside of AA public transportation is non-existent. And the job market in general isn't great (if you are working remote maybe it doesn't matter, but at least in tech the salaries are significantly less even in Ann Arbor or Chicagoland area vs California, and the number of opportunities way fewer).

There's no obvious way to force it to care if it's output is right or just right-looking, though

Putting some expert system in front of LLMs seems to be working pretty well. Basically modeling how a human agent would interact with it.

Thanks this matches my understanding too (erlang is all about actor model is my understanding, similar to akka)