Idle hands are the devil's plaything. It's an old phrase that means "get the fuck back to work."
It's never the wrong time to do the right thing. Fighting a "losing issue" is exactly how you persuade people you're right about the issue. That's called "leadership".
I mean, can you separate those things? Like I'm not saying all Christians are KKK or anything of the sort, but there seems to be a common thread among religious extremism, and that's faith in the divine authority to justify any act of violence or malice.
Are you in the United States or somewhere else in the world? It's the difference between chocolate and choc.
I always thought that "simulated intelligence" seemed more accurate, because it's not actual intelligence. LLMs rely on pattern recognition to simulate AI, but there's no actual reasoning or awareness, just a facade that looks like it.
I want these stories to be true, but nobody expected the previous election disasters, and people are stupid.
One of these is poison and one is a snack!
Symbols are easier than actual people. Nobody is just one thing, and complexity doesn't travel well. Revolutionaries are either lionized or demonized, and so it becomes easier for the critics to ignore valid points while simultaneously being easier for the supporters to ignore atrocities. Rather than an objective, complete understanding of the man, you get polarized factions that don't see each other as people.
That's horrible.
Why are they focusing on his size, though? 6 feet 200 lbs isn't that big for 14. It's kind of tall, but I wouldn't call that "hulking."
Nearly 12 hours later, Steverson was identified as the passenger of a car during a traffic stop in Anderson, South Carolina. Anderson County Sheriff's Office officers discovered Steverson had what they believed was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was immediately transported to a local hospital, but was later declared deceased.
Yeah that's not suspicious at all.
Sure, of course it's all fiction. LLMs didn't exist as a concept when TNG was being written, so of course they didn't write them to do that. Data was also an AI, and the holodeck was able to create a Moriarty so intelligent that he became self-aware and avoided deletion.
My point is that modern LLMs are an approximation of intelligence that permit contemporary computers to respond to novel stimuli in a way that seems like intelligence. The computer on the show was far more advanced because it was fictional and set in the distant future. They never bothered to explain how it works, but there was nothing approximate about the intelligence it created in the holodeck.
It doesn't. An LLM uses modeling to approximate the shape of a question and generate a novel answer within the parameters. It's like a shortcut to actually knowing everything and providing authoritative answers.
Sort of like the Scrabble champion who won in Spanish and French despite not knowing those languages. He simply learned patterns of words he could build with letters, but he didn't know the meaning of any of the words.
The holodeck ostensibly has access to all of federation knowledge and history, and when it has to generate novel information (like what would Einstein say to Newton while playing poker) then it extrapolates that informtation based on the sum total of existing information. The holodeck computer has a thorough understanding of the question, the parameters, and the answers (holograms) it creates. It isn't abstracting the question or approximating the shape of the answer.
Yes, I know, Roku sucks for a variety of reasons, and we can just add this to the pile.
Roku launched a new feature, Backdrops, which is just a screensaver that they foist upon you. But they must have gotten complaints about screen burn in, because months after the lauch, they pushed an update that adds this notification pop-up.
A few things that should have been obvious:
- A television with the screensaver on is probably unattended.
- The point of a rotating screensaver is to avoid static images that cause screen burn
- The pop-up never goes away and covers the bottom of the screen across all images, with the QR code in stark black on white, which is most likely to create screen burn.
The thing is, this is such a small issue, but it belies a foundational disrespect for users. The carelessness and incompetence could be ignored, but the obligatory nature of pushing this out without consent or care is why it fits squarely in asshole territory.
[Question] Can I use Whole Grain bread for Bread Pudding? How should I tweak the recipe?
(lemmy.world)
I have received these two loaves of delicious whole grain bread. Problem is, I doubt we will eat it all before it goes stale. I could do croutons, bread crumbs, or even a breakfast casserole, but I was thinking about bread pudding.
Has anyone done this? Do I need to tweak the recipe, like add more milk or some other flavor to balance the nutty seed and grain flavor? Maybe add some apples for textural balance?
I don't want to waste them, so if this is a fools errand, I can do bread bowl dips or something for the playoff games tomorrow. But I am committed to not letting this bounty go to waste.
There's a post I saw on reddit that points to the dimple on the side of a milk jug, and makes fun of all the people who don't know what that's for. In the comments are thousands of people giving dozens of different explanations, and all of them are wrong.
It is not there to indicate that the milk has spoiled by popping out due to gasses produced by spoiled milk. If there was enough gas to pop out the dimple, the whole jug would look like a balloon.
It is not there to provide structural integrity, like lateral support to prevent the bottles from crushing. The contents are under pressure, so if there was enough force on the jug from any direction, then the cap would pop off regardless of the shape in the sidewall.
The actual answer is that the dimple is added to ensure that all of the jugs contain the same volume of milk. Plastic jugs are blown into molds, and minor manufacturing variations over time would create jugs that hold different amounts of milk. Larger jugs would hold more than a gallon. They could just fill by volume, but consumers are wary of purchasing a bottle if it appears to be less full than the others. So they add the dimple to make it so that the level of milk is all the way at the top with minimal air between the milk and the cap.
You can verify this yourself by finding different jugs from the same supplier with dimples of different depths, or even no dimple at all. None of those other explanations would explain dimples of different sizes or jugs without dimples.
TLDR everybody is wrong. The milk jug dimples are added to ensure the jug contains the correct volume of milk.
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