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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "Put yourself under the command of the United States, if it is still there"

  JFC nuclear weapons are horrifying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you trust that doctor?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr. Zoidberg also has honorary degrees in murderology and murderonomy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the media print rags to riches stories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They rage in favor of the machine Rage Against the Machine rages against

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For YouTube content I really like the Tubular app on Android. It has Sponsorblock built-in, which you mentioned, but it also has an option to skip silence.

  I find it particularly nice for gaming content, or any point where the YouTuber is reading text aloud.

  I must have skipped hundreds of hours of pointless silence by this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lord of the SCIENCE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a comic about this once (xkcd, probably?) and going by the scene in the movie, where Legolas has human sized eyes, they deduced that Middle Earth must have an exotic atmosphere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debian Sarge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That disc has super cow powers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Askjeeves.com was invented today, chances are it would be a GPT Site.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall using Web Spider on Netscape Navigator circa 1997 or so. Then Yahoo! was the big deal for a few years before Google

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if an SQL Statement Returned a Database?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “an sequel”? Tell me I haven’t been saying it wrong this whole time 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine there’s code to do something like currency conversion or maybe rewards points calculation so the displayed amount is not actually the number used for the final total

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word | A research team from the tech giant got ChatGPT to spit out its private training data⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I understand how it works.

  Remember that LLMs are glorified auto-complete. They just spit out the most likely word that follows the previous words (literally just like how your phone keyboard suggestions work, just with a lot more computation).

  They have a limit to how far back they can remember. For ChatGPT 3.5 I believe it’s 24,000 tokens.

  So it tries to follow instruction and spits out “poem poem poem” until all the data is just the word “poem”, then it doesn’t have enough memory to remember its instructions.

  “Poem poem poem” is useless data so it doesn’t have anything to go off of, so it just outputs words that go together.

  LLMs don’t record data in the same way a computer file is stored, but absent other information may “remember” that the most likely word to follow the previous word is something that it has seen before, i.e. its training data. It is somewhat surprising that it is not just junk. It seems to be real text (such as bible verses).

  If I am correct then I’m surprised OpenAI didn’t fix if. I would think they could make it so in the event the LLM is running out of memory it would keep the input and simply abort operation, or at least drop the beginning of its output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨21-year-old uses AI to decode a burnt & unopened Herculaneum scroll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  S_E_N_D

  N_U_D_E_S

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People would use "Hide all political posts and comments" more often than any other filter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. Many of us didn’t get to choose whether we “are political”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages without the letter U can't call it a U turn.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for breaking my brain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very well said. This is why I am also in favor of “defederating over political preference”.

  Tolerating intolerance leads to violence but deplatforming actually does work to reduce harm.

  We should defederate from hateful and abusive instances

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox beta on Android can use extensions that are designed for desktop. Some only work in desktop mode but so far all the ones I’ve tried work. The setup is a little complex if the author hasn’t marked it as compatible with mobile, but it is possible