Anyway I remain baffled by how many people responded "yeah, of course?" to this while my response was "why would you do that!!" and I'm thinking that the people responding yes must have been exposed to dairy cows whereas I had only ever encountered cows in a ranching context

Mastodon

Pepijn (@Pepijn@mastodon.online)

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something. While talking to a colleague it came up that they have never sat on a cow. Like, not even once in ...

Just found out about MCC codes

MCC Codes

The thing that transforms large-language-model "AI"¹ from "a bad idea"² to "a fatal idea"² is "self-hosting"²: in other words, the idea the people making the AI can "program"¹ the AI by way of inputs to the AI. This idea is foundational to the OpenAI approach, and it does not work, but the model tech is good enough at lying³ that in a formal QA setting it appears to work.

Ten Forward

Headphone Jacques Clouseau (@SeanAloysiusOBrien@tenforward.social)

Attached: 1 image this is so funny people really think they're executing commands on these things rather than just getting plausible sounding ans...

¹ Scare quotes ² Regular quotes ³ Yes, an unthinking object can lie. It just can't tell the truth.

Oh, I *will* be using this as a reaction image online.

Track is credited to "Skrillex, Missy Elliot, Mr. Oizo" 😲

Skull issue

Science fiction novel about, and from the perspective of, a species from a planet with liquid methane oceans; periodically throughout the novel water must be discussed, and they perpetually refer to it as "liquid ice"

Me, on a Sunday: I will wear big pink fuzzy socks on a winter Sunday ✨🎉 they are so comfy and warm ✨🎉 this is a great idea ✨🎉 nothing bad will happen Me, three years previous: I will attach small velcro loops to all my computer cables ✨🎉 this will make them easier to store and organize ✨🎉 I will allow these cables to collect to collect in a big mass under my desk ✨🎉 this is a good idea ✨🎉 nothing bad will happen

If you are using the "NVidia App" on Windows, I suggest promptly going in to the settings, looking under "Notifications" and turning off "Available Rewards". If you do not do this, it apparently now uses the Windows notifications to show you fucking ads for random video games