Swan nesting with her eggs amid the garbage at Canada Water

My basic mental model of what LLMs are good for is this 2x2 matrix.

High memorization tasks are tasks that it has seen lots of verbatim examples of in the training data.

High information tasks are tasks where there are very few 'right' answers.

'The babygros have been packed away, but I will always be able to summon those childish elisions' lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

there's an odd resonance between depictions of Aztec gods and Gundam. both feature humanoid figures blurred by an accumulation of components and accessories; a warrior pantheon full of fine distinctions i'm too untutored to make

'Often, it makes people unhappier than they feel they should be. This disparity – between how much men care about going bald and how much they feel they should care – can itself become a source of shame.' - brilliant piece this
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i do really appreciate that at some point youtube, without really meaning to, gave me the option of just turning off all algorithmic recommendations and now whenever i load up the homepage i just get a blank screen and my subscriptions. much better.

Someone did a study on words Chat GPT overuses; 'delve' is v common in Chat GPT & formal Nigerian Eng but no where else, possibly b/c they hired Nigerian workers to train it. So now a ton of Nigerians are worried about being written off/auto-detected as spam bots. What a future

lead in the water supply twitter.com/lefthanddraft/…

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tota…

A brilliant piece, speaking to some of Britain’s most legendary streakers, with one of my favourite ever opening paragraphs

award winning queer short story collection

illuminating thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/…

someone just sat down opposite me at the library, huge hardback book laid down with as much grace as the weight allows. I peek with interest and respect at the title. Two words: TURTLE REHABILITATION

In the last days of his life Kafka, suffering tuberculosis of the larynx, was ordered not to speak. He communicated by scribbling notes on scraps of paper.