I Always Assume The Train Will Be So Boring And I Bring Seven Things To Do But Then I'm Entranced By

i love this post so fucking much

These two having a normal one in babymetal’s youtube comment section

amab? afab? no. ahab. assigned hunter at birth. that whale is dead.

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

"A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS HIVE PARASITE" (2022), a story of a lone artist, attempting to carve out a space for himself in a vast, unfeeling hive...

This tale is one of the main ones you'll be able to enjoy in the deluxe hardcover book I'll be kickstarting next month, "A STAR CALLED THE SUN"! The pre-launch page is now open, so be sure to sign up to be alerted when the campaign goes live!

House m.d. but with geologists trying to identify the history of a soil. House g.d.

The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text. So when they are provided with a database of some sort, they use this, in one way or another, to make their responses more convincing. But they are not in any real way attempting to convey or transmit the information in the database. As Chirag Shah and Emily Bender put it: “Nothing in the design of language models (whose training task is to predict words given context) is actually designed to handle arithmetic, temporal reasoning, etc. To the extent that they sometimes get the right answer to such questions is only because they happened to synthesize relevant strings out of what was in their training data. No reasoning is involved […] Similarly, language models are prone to making stuff up […] because they are not designed to express some underlying set of information in natural language; they are only manipulating the form of language” (Shah & Bender, 2022). These models aren’t designed to transmit information, so we shouldn’t be too surprised when their assertions turn out to be false.

ChatGPT is bullshit

there is a crazy dude on twitter who takes photos of athletes from different sports and finds them an art piece that fits exactly with the photo and the PRECISION he does it is amazing

Saw this post some time ago as a screenshot elsewhere and I'm so glad I found it, it is sooo great, I want to continue living my life mcgyvering out of any situation until I have little people and I con teach them that😊

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

it's a beautiful bonding activity, but the "creative" fixes have turned our house into a quasihaunted escape room like contraption where everything works, but only in the wonkiest of ways. you need a huge block of iron to turn on the stove. the oven only works if a specific clock is plugged in. the bread machine has a huge wood block just stapled to it that has become foundational to its function. sometimes when you use the toaster the doorbell rings. and that's just the kitchen.

it's all fun and games until you have guests over and you have to lay out the rules of the house like it's a fucking board game. welcome to the beautiful guest room. don't pull out the couch yourself you need a screwdriver for that, and that metal rod makes the lamp work so don't move it. it also made me a terrifying roommate in college, because it makes me think i can fix anything with enough hubris and a drill. you want to call the landlord about a leaky faucet? as if. one time my dad made me install a new power socket because we ran our of extension cords

Are we sure this web isn't created by some Doofensmirth-type bastard to make all of us dumb?

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.