Auto regression is one of the more subtle things about LLMs that trip people up. They are prisoners of their context window, and need to keep improvising based on what has come before, creating loops, errors & stubbornness. Sometimes you need to start a new chat to move forward

IQ is an accurate predictor of intelligence in that if you meet someone whose worldview is centered around it, you know immediately they're one of the dumbest motherfuckers out there.

looking at that one hoodie as soon as it starts getting cold

Chat GPT is a genius work of cultural criticism. It throws in our faces: why do we have so many jobs and school assignments that *can* be done by a non-thinking probability machine? Why do our students (even the ones paying a jillion dollars!) *want* to skip their lessons?

“[Harris] needs to promise to get things done while also explaining why those things haven't happened in the last four years… It is an incredibly difficult line to walk.” - Isaac Saul readtangle.com/kamala-harris-…

Imagine #JojoRabbit dragged out a dumb joke of mispronounced names and words for the duration of its two hours… 🍎😔📺 #TimeBandits

We are hosting a Retro Computing day on Saturday 14th. Come along to get hands on. tog.ie/2024/08/explor…

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found out today that credit card numbers are validated by an algo called "Luhn's Algorithm"

“There’s been a slight misuse of #TheSubstance…” Honestly that’d be all the advertising I’d need. ⚗️😳🎞️

“We don’t build wonders anymore” - Both the hottest & coldest places in the universe have been on Earth in the last decade. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider hit 9.9 trillion Fahrenheit. And an experiment at the Bremen Drop Tower got to 38 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.

Have you ever wondered how it was like to render graphics during the PC gaming golden era? (1990s) There were "video cards" available, but they were not exactly GPUs, they were far more basic. How much? expand thread to find out! (🧵👇).

🇮🇪 Starlink in rural West Cork, Ireland

On-device accomplishments aside, I wonder if Apple is low-key relieved to delay #AppleIntelligence’s EU rollout, AI being the resource-intensive pursuit it is.

Reading books/accounts from the 1920s and thereabouts, otherwise high-functioning people regularly seem to have had nervous breakdowns that necessitated months of recuperation in a restful sanatorium. What happened to that? Better treatment? Less stress?

Pay attention, Bloober Team - how safe is my potential #SilentHill2 pre-order access? I wanna maximize my time with your take on this masterpiece… 🕹️🤨💸

I still cannot fathom the Disney pitch meeting for TailSpin... The Jungle Book was a huge success, so let's do an animated tie in where the characters are Air America CIA contractors.

Props to Peter Watts for making the word ‘Heaven’ one of truly nihilistic terror, not to mention the associated innuendo around traditionally related terms.