davidagain
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- Comment on Personal Responsibility 3 days ago:
Wow. Sorry to hear that. That must be really tough to cope with.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 4 days ago:
That’s a top notch clip, thank you.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 4 days ago:
Not sure which way round you mean that. I hope the whole family has more harmony and happiness than just now, though.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 5 days ago:
Yeah, of it’s possible to have a normal licking experience with something that’s gaseous at room temperature, it’s not going to go well if you do lick it.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 5 days ago:
Having kids can be stressful, but if you don’t play a largely united front and allow the kids to play manipulative games against your partner, don’t communicate, take sides and turn on each other, one or both of you is snide and used the kids to undermine the other one.
It’s still not the kid’s fault if they were brought up to tolerate and play emotional games against family members. Kids start off life completely self absorbed and have to be taught to be kind, share, think about other people and prioritise relationships over things. No toddler knows this. All functioning adults do.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 5 days ago:
Kids, just so you’re sure, this is a shitpost and you are NOT responsible for your parents’ divorce.
The only reason they increasingly shouted at you in the run up to the divorce was that their marriage was falling apart and divorce is one of the most stressful things that ever happens to people.
- Comment on RIP 1 week ago:
No no no no no no no no no no no no!
- Comment on Thoughts?? 1 week ago:
I think there are free editors for LaTeX that show you the code and the end result next to each other, and let you edit either.
You need to learn the ability to resist the urge to tweak layout. You’re using a professional document preparation tool that well make your document look professional. Playing with trendy fonts and margins and placement is how regular people make documents in word that look less professional than LaTeX.
LaTeX gives you the respectability of the corporate style of the professional science researcher, but if you want free-form do-it-how-you-like, you really really really don’t want LaTeX.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 week ago:
In the UK, for example, the “Liberal Democrats” are right-leaning.
Depends on the leadership. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. There have been times when they’ve been further left than Labour.
Currently of course, that’s easy because Labour is too busy trying to appeal to Reform voters and Conservatives and are governing like they were the Democratic Party, which is a shame, because the country is desperately needing some wealth redistribution.
Labour are in power because were gasping for some sanity after a succession of Conservative lunatics, but all the Conservative Party needs to do is stump up a leader who can sound like they have a couple of good ideas and have a bit of charisma and they’ll be back in power before you can say “short memory”.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 1 week ago:
Thank you for the belly laugh!
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 1 week ago:
This one made me laugh almost as much as the OP. Thank you!
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
Uuuhhhhh, copilot, is that you?!
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
I was trying to think of some other meaning than ‘drinks dispensary’ for ‘bar’ and I couldn’t think of a sensible reason for putting a bar in your shower for quite a while until I realised metal bar.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
On top of that, it’s an annoyingly disproportionate graphic. The cow is much wider than the human so its area is much more than 60% of the area of the graphic.
The owl might be 3cm high and the hen 6cm high, but 9cm² and 36cm² would be the rough areas, even if it weren’t for the fact that again, the hen picture is much, much wider than the owl.
With 30% and 70%, the owl should just be a little under half as big as the hen, but it looks like about 1/4 or 1/5 of the size of the hen.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 week ago:
Best comment on lemmy today.
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 1 week ago:
The fifth Doctor knows who the Portreeve of Castrovalva really is.
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 1 week ago:
Yes and no. Beliefs can definitely shape reality.
If someone believes that they can’t do something difficult, they often don’t attempt it, so don’t acquire the skills they would need, and stay unable to do it. The converse is also true.
Children are heavily influenced by their parents’ beliefs about them.
Believing something about different brands of soda doesn’t change the chemical composition of them, but in a world where products are judged on their sales rather than their chemical composition, changing the perception of a product can fundamentally change its sales, making it a better product by the only objective measure that’s consistently used. This is even more true in the world of fashion, for example most strongly with trainers etc.
Anything where human behaviour changes reality is a place where beliefs change reality.
Our beliefs shape the world strongly and powerfully. They change reality.
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 1 week ago:
Eg. USA.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think it’s weird to shave your pubes, and I think that based on who started that trend, why they started it and why it became popular, but people younger than me who don’t remember any different disagree strongly.
But the fact that your son trusts you with that question and that you calmly helped him and didn’t make a big deal out of it, is an absolute parenting win. Who does your teenaged son go to when he’s worried about something personal and sensitive and embarrassing? He goes to you, and you help him and he is right to trust you.
You are doing excellently as a dad.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
This is you
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
I already told you my experience of the crapness of LLMs and even explained why I can’t share the prompt etc. You clearly weren’t listening or are incapable of taking in information.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
It’s like you didn’t listen to anything I ever said, or you discounted everything I said as fiction, but everything your dear LLM said is gospel truth in your eyes. It’s utterly irrational. You have to be trolling me now.
- Comment on You know You want to 1 week ago:
You know this sign was made before the IBM PC was invented, right?
- Comment on You know You want to 1 week ago:
Language changes over time.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
it’s so good at parsing text and documents, summarizing
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- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
You’re better off asking one human to do the same task ten times. Humans get better and faster at things as they go along. Always slower than an LLM, but LLMs get more and more likely to veer off on some flight of fancy, further and further from reality, the more it says to you. The chances of it staying factual in the long term are really low.
It’s a born bullshitter. It knows a little about a lot, but it has no clue what’s real and what’s made up, or it doesn’t care.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
I would be in breach of contract to tell you the details. How about you just stop trying to blame me for the clear and obvious lies that the LLM churned out and start believing that LLMs ARE are strikingly fallible, because, buddy, you have your head so far in the sand on this issue it’s weird.
The solution to the problem was to realise that an LLM cannot be trusted for accuracy even if the first few results are completely accurate, the bullshit well creep in. Don’t trust the LLM. Check every fucking thing.
In the end I wrote a quick script that broke the input up on tab characters and wrote the sentence. That’s how formulaic it was. I regretted deeply trying to get an LLM to use data.
The frustrating thing is that it is clearly capable of doing the task some of the time, but drifting off into FANTASY is its strong suit, and it doesn’t matter how firmly or how often you ask it to be accurate or use the input carefully. It’s going to lie to you before long. It’s an LLM. Bullshitting is what it does. Get it to do ONE THING only, then check the fuck out of its answer. Don’t trust it to tell you the truth any more than you would trust Donald J Trump to.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 1 week ago:
How can I subscribe to piefed.world users and communities etc from my lemmy.world account?
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Whereas if you ask a human to do the same thing ten times, the probability that they get all ten right is astronomically higher than 0.0000059049.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 1 week ago:
Again with dismissing the evidence of my own eyes!
I wasn’t asking it to do calculations, I was asking it to put the data into a super formulaic sentence. It was good at the first couple of rows then it would get stuck in a rut and start lying. It was crap. A seven year old would have done it far better, and if I’d told a seven year old that they had made a couple of mistakes and to check it carefully, they would have done.
Again, I didn’t read it in a fucking article, I read it on my fucking computer screen, so if you’d stop fucking telling me I’m stupid for using it the way it fucking told me I could use it, or that I’m stupid for believing what the media tell me about LLMs, when all I’m doing is telling you my own experience, you’d sound a lot less like a desperate troll or someone who is completely unable to assimilate new information that differs from your dogma.