One reason why the LLM playing field is kind of levelled and “being first” isn’t all too meaningful, is that the research was already out there for quite some time before the hype started.

The hype got kicked off, when these large corporations figured out that pouring lots of money into this approach does something. Well, and when there were lots of cheap GPUs on the market from cryptocurrencies imploding.

But as soon as the hype was there, getting investors to give you lots of money and getting GPUs, that’s something virtually any company could do.

Having said all that, the other points still stand and they probably could’ve held their position without even being the best platform. Nevermind especially that Microsoft is most certainly getting lots and lots of investment money for LLMs, too.

I would not consider industrial-made bread to be healthy in the first place, though.

Genuinely my gut reaction to this post was that if it’s packaged in plastic, it’s not going to be healthy.

Also seems to have moobs. Or very bushy armpits. Certainly one of the two.

Spoiler: It’s neither of those two bread packages.

“Great-grandmother” is another example where the great=big meaning still shows up…

Klingt so, als wäre es zu einem (größer als gewollten) Brand gekommen.

Habe mal gehört, dass Einkaufswägen mit Plastik beschichtet sein können.
Bei einem Einkaufwagenhersteller habe ich den Satz gefunden:

Unsere Einkaufswagen werden hochglanzverzinkt, verchromt und mit einer durchsichtigen, verschleißfesten Pulverbeschichtung überzogen.

Keine Ahnung, ob das Pulver aus Plastik besteht. 🥴
Aber vielleicht brennt die Beschichtung trotzdem ganz gut…

“Verbatim” often works…

Interesting that you guys associate guitar solos with feeling like a knight. For me, it’s brass and choirs and such…

Did not expect that kind of law change from such an aggressively Conservative government. I guess, there is ample reason to put the NIMBYs into overdrive, though…

Don’t think, Grok was a thing yet back then…

They mean that when people can’t afford real food anymore, they’ll be buying this Kraft stuff. That’s what Kraft can capitalize on…

“City limits” sure is one of the signs of all time.

Thought she was holding a fish to her ear like a phone, for a moment there…

I do feel like AI art has entered the boomer stage of the hype cycle, as in Trump et al use it prominently, so the kids start to think, it’s

.

But I also feel like the blog post conflates two aspects. It’s not just about AI art, it’s also about every goddamn brainfart being turned into AI art.
No one needs to see a t-rex giving a thumbs-up or similar.

That’s what people are tired of, for sure. In the before times, the person would’ve chuckled at the thought and then forgotten about it. It took long enough to create an image of it, that they had time to realize that no one cares.
That barrier is now removed, so you definitely see posts online with just the dumbest brainfart turned into pixels.

I had to start reading that three times over, because I saw they mentioned “Canadian” and just assumed the angle brackets are a joke in reference to the Canadians in South Park:

RIP

“I rewrote Kafka in COBOL”

Oh man, it’s late here and I thought to myself “How would you rewrite a Kafka novel in COBOL?”… 🥴

(In case, anyone actually isn’t aware, they’re talking of Apache Kafka.)

In general, though, yeah, I also find it cumbersome how much noise these toy projects add. Actually usable software involves so much more than just dumping some code into a repo.

Nevermind that even just useful software requires you to not rewrite existing software in a worse way. You need to actually come up with something novel, which requires tons of design decisions.

Letting the LLM auto-complete those is a lot harder, because 1) you need to actually describe design goals rather than just telling it “do it like Kafka”.
And 2) because those design goals will be wrong every so often, and/or the detail decisions that you outsourced to the LLM. And then you still need to painstakingly find out what those detail decisions were, so that you can correct the decision.

I switched to BasicSync a few days ago. No idea about reputation.
It’s a thin wrapper around Syncthing, which just gives you access to the web-UI, and can pause syncing depending on different conditions, like whether you’re on battery or a mobile connection.

Just feels like a sensible approach to me. I don’t need a native UI for setting up the syncing once in a blue moon. Obviously, you still don’t know that it isn’t malware, but I don’t need to trust the author as much that they’ll keep maintaining it, because it’s magnitudes less work to do so. And it’s just as well easier for a fork to succeed, should the author disappear.

Yeah, even just having more different ingredients and spices available makes those recipes of old somewhat obsolete. But then you also have the internet to tell you all kinds of new recipes, so if the local cuisine isn’t great to begin with, it is easier than ever to not bother with it.

The mushrooms worry me the most. There’s sizeable gaps between them, which seem to have been filled up entirely with whatever the white stuff is…