Is that even a close call? If Trump called me a shithead I’d wear that as a badge of honor. If Mr Rogers called me a disappointment I would question my life choices.

Yeah backreferences in general are not “regular” in the mathematical sense.

When ChatGPT first started to make waves, it was a significant step forward in the ability for AIs to sound like a person. There were new techniques being used to train language models, and it was unclear what the upper limits of these techniques were in terms of how “smart” of an AI they could produce. It may seem overly optimistic in retrospect, but at the time it was not that crazy to wonder whether the tools were on a direct path toward general AI. And so a lot of projects started up, both to leverage the tools as they actually were, and to leverage the speculated potential of what the tools might soon become.

Now we’ve gotten a better sense of what the limitations of these tools actually are. What the upper limits of where these techniques might lead are. But a lot of momentum remains. Projects that started up when the limits were unknown don’t just have the plug pulled the minute it seems like expectations aren’t matching reality. I mean, maybe some do. But most of the projects try to make the best of the tools as they are to keep the promises they made, for better or worse. And of course new ideas keep coming and new entrepreneurs want a piece of the pie.

Not a fan of the bit about not voting for Biden. Not that Biden shouldn’t be doing better for Palestine, but not voting or voting for Trump are stupid options. I thought that was a distraction from an otherwise strong message.

Whoa, spoilers man, c’mon!

Kaleidoscope Heart is near the top of my list.

I AM THE LAW

Oh wait, no.

Could see that coming a mile away. Still laughed.

Den of iniquity; Snake speaking.

Yankee stadium, second base.

• This Old Tony
• Adam Ragusea
• 3 Blue 1 Brown
• Practical Engineering
• Stand-up Maths

Various superpowers: Generating free energy.

I just watched Neon Genesis Evangellion. WTF at the end of the series. Then saw there was a later movie with the “real” end. Which was also WTF.

You were lucky to have a pause command!

10 FOR X = 1 TO 20000
20 FOR Y = 1 TO 20000
30 NEXT Y
40 NEXT X
50 BEEP
60 GOTO 50

There’s https://lemmit.online/ where a bot can automatically communities based on subreddits, and mirror posts there. Last I tried it was a week or two ago and it wasn’t working great. Not sure of that was because lemmit.online was struggling or my home instance was struggling. Or both.

He didn’t. This was a last minute payout by Twitter prior to the change in ownership. He’s trying to not pay them retroactively.

Don’t step on the cracks!

I’m a little surprised that Twitter can just refuse to come to the table without simply losing by default. But I suppose they wrote the terms of the arbitration agreement, so… not that surprised.

I just found out about this one, and it seems like by far the best one to me. Sorting, and you can set your home instance to make it easier to subscribe. Which… honestly how is that the other options don’t have that stuff?