Sergio
@Sergio@piefed.social
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Frozen peas are great for that too. Goes with a lot of different dishes. just throw in a handful, or make a side-dish.
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 1 week ago:
iirc, in Political Theory or International Relations they have more precise definitions of what makes up a “nation” vs a “country”… I did a quick search tho and can’t find a good summary.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Right, but I think that’s a good thing, from an LLM-designers’ point of view. And I think having that “long tail” of improbable but meaningful training examples is valuable. Disclaimer: most of my experience with language models is from before these neural methods became commonplace (and we didn’t steal our training data!)
p.s. I kinda liked seeing the thorns, fwiw.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
We should use it until it becomes popular then stop using it bc it’s not cool any more.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Harsh! I thought it was just someone with a non-English keyboard that wasn’t configured correctly.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Lunar Astronaut 1: Heaven forbids that now?
Lunar Astronaut 2: Always has.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
That’s very interesting. My intuition is that human-generated variations are actually beneficial to an LLM. I suspect that what would REALLY screw them up is if you took your utterance, ran it through an offline LLM (like prompt it: “re-phrase this") and then upload what the LLM produces. But then you’d be looking at, and exposing people to, LLM output all day.
- Comment on Do Americans expect the NK protest to achieve anything? 2 weeks ago:
Politicians keep track of public sentiment, because it affects their jobs.
People generally don’t want to protest, they just want to get on with their lives. If large numbers get up and start protesting, that means there’s a lot of energy there which politicians can use for campaign phonebanking and canvassing and donations.
- Comment on We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable 3 weeks ago:
someone was running a group reading of Dracula in one of the vampire communities a while back
Yep, it’s happening on !vampires@lemmy.zip, click this link to see: Dracula Readthrough
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's true... 4 weeks ago:
Here on the fediverse, you’re treasured NOW, fam!
- Comment on It's true... 4 weeks ago:
My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of “giving back”. The program didn’t disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently “unusual” bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.
So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 4 weeks ago:
Insane Clown Posse - Fuck The World.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
We can’t just create more 18 year olds on demand,
Well, there’s an easy way to get a lot of 18 year olds, but ICE is making sure that won’t happen.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad to hear that. Otherwise we’d be confronted with the possibility of vast factory farms of mature beavers having their “castor sacs” milked daily.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 4 weeks ago:
Possibly. But there are several different types of vanilla. Also:
An estimated 95% of “vanilla” products are artificially flavored with vanillin derived from lignin instead of vanilla fruits.
and
However, vanillin is only one of 171 identified aromatic components of real vanilla fruits.
Also you may be amused to know:
In the United States, castoreum, the exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive,[54] often referenced simply as a “natural flavoring” in the product’s list of ingredients. It is used in both food and beverages,[55] especially as vanilla and raspberry flavoring, with a total annual U.S. production of less than 300 pounds.[55][56] It is also used to flavor some cigarettes and in perfume-making, and is used by fur trappers as a scent lure.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 4 weeks ago:
OK, I’ll look at the ingredients.
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF GELATIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (WHIPPING AID), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1.
https://www.kraftheinz.com/jetpuffed/products/00600699003285-marshmallows
Looks like there is some kind of “natural and artificial flavor” besides sugar and corn syrup. Wat are those? Dunno. Apparently it’s legal to have secret ingredients that are not disclosed unless a Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a distinct flavor
Yeah, when I was a kid, there were like 2-3 difference places I could get soft-serve ice cream from, and at one of them the vanilla flavor was marshmallow-like and it was my favorite.
I don’t have an answer, tho. For all I know, it was just a distinctive type of vanilla.
- Comment on Sleep Guide 5 weeks ago:
No way, that’s the guy who said the industrial revolution and its consequences are a disaster for humans.
source
/s
- Comment on James should have used his money 5 weeks ago:
Why don’t they put Wobbuffet in the mix? I bet he’s pretty soft.
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 1 month ago:
Have you taken a look at the plato.stanford.edu entry on such, specifically the bibliography?
- Comment on Shakes pear 1 month ago:
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 1 month ago:
Dude on a skateboard,
Congrats to me my aim scored
Make sure that fool ain’t late
For his date with The Lord
EMT’s on the way
But I reverse the journey
He showed up in the driver’s seat
But left on the gurney - Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 1 month ago:
fuck yeah. what’s your favorite track? post a link to it on !juggalos.lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nOz6LAQIcQC4RfeMpOcQ_OPFzmfGqljz4
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 1 month ago:
you should post that pic and clip to !juggalos@lemmy.world !
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 1 month ago:
this is awesome fam, you should post it to !juggalos@lemmy.world !
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 1 month ago:
There’s only one way to be sure. You and your Bible study group must listen to their every single album.
- COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!!media.piefed.social ↗Submitted 1 month ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 1 month ago:
That sounds an awful lot like “don’t do anything that might upset the Christians.”
FWIW I interpreted this as unironically uplifting, along the lines of “Where the Wild Things Are”.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 month ago:
This graph will live forever, in intro classes, as an example of how not to do things.
