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cringe

fuck you

I’m going to go read about convexity bias in the price of eurodollar swaps right now, just as soon as I finish watching the Last Week Tonight segment about the US Secret Service.

Then we’ll see who’s laughing.

New Metal Gear Rising DLC dropped

Brother, the article is talking about Element Pro.

Links:

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Is the fire extinguisher indicating that the right-hand bathroom is bigger?

otherworldly vortex noises

glub

https://www.health.harvard.edu/brain-health/artificial-sweeteners-may-speed-declines-in-memory-and-thinking

Oh, cool, an AI slop fork of Binozo’s EchoGo that sprang up out of the aether a few months ago

• Bidets
• Mechanical keyboards
• Monitors above 60 Hz

Let’s keep this train rolling for “true level”-style things.

If you strip out the encoder, then you’re getting closer.

That’s flat-out not true. BERTs, for example, are LLMs and are encoder-only, just like GPTs are decoder-only. Whisper is trained on a large corpus of text and does NLP tasks. That’s all it is to be an LLM.

A transformer model being encoder-only, encoder-decoder, or decoder-only has fuck-all to do with whether it’s an LLM. In fact, it being a transformer model at all isn’t required for it to be an LLM.

Whisper is not an llm, just because it is trained on big datasets does not make it an LLM.

The training dataset consists of 680,000 hours of labeled audio-transcript pairs sourced from the internet using semi-supervised learning.

Brother, I don’t think you know what a large language model is if you think it being trained on a human lifespan’s worth of audio transcriptions isn’t enough.

Oh, excuse me, I was going based off the release date. Checking that from September 5th until now, it’s on the order of 420 commits. So “as if it makes a difference” when we’re still talking about over 40 commits per day that I’m sure you “auditioned”.

As far as auditions go, you’re welcome to report bugs.

Yeah? Good to know I can waste my time QAing dead-end, AI-generated swill and put in more effort than you have just by nature of exerting human effort.

So you created slop with Claude. 1100 commits in 10 days, which I’m sure you definitely audited.

Well the problem is that pesto, much like edible lube

It’s good to see Kimbra found love after her breakup with Gotye.

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Nasty. I thought this was satire at first and had to read it back.

So you’ve moved the goalposts from “that’s not just participation, it’s [things that participation entails]” to “well this doesn’t apply unless you need it to exist”*. GN needs a major platform like YouTube to actually reach an audience.

* By the way, the comic is illustrating a man with a car that’s seemingly from the 1920s or 30s, so there goes that tenuous argument.