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Comment on Investment club? in ~finance
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Comment on Investment club? in ~finance
thumbsupemoji Link ParentYeah life so far has just been the smashing-the-piggy-bank scene from Up on repeat lol—one day™Yeah life so far has just been the smashing-the-piggy-bank scene from Up on repeat lol—one day™
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Comment on Investment club? in ~finance
thumbsupemoji LinkI'm interested on the chance that one day I can afford to invest (preferably in time for it to do me any good), & also because while I've never had the capital really other than some good luck...I'm interested on the chance that one day I can afford to invest (preferably in time for it to do me any good), & also because while I've never had the capital really other than some good luck with crypto 2020-21 (not that good) I've definitely picked up on some vibes before that would have been extremely profitable had I had some extra cash at the time; I think I'd do real well on draftkings lol, but this seems more practical.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
thumbsupemoji Link Parentis it soul master lol. That guy almost broke me during my first go-round, wow.is it soul master lol. That guy almost broke me during my first go-round, wow.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
thumbsupemoji LinkIf you watch anime you probably already know this, but I blew through Spy X Family and it was impeccable lol. Probably, genuinely, the best on-screen representation of parenting I've seen, and...If you watch anime you probably already know this, but I blew through Spy X Family and it was impeccable lol. Probably, genuinely, the best on-screen representation of parenting I've seen, and don't get me started on how it feels to see actual weaponized autism presented so accurately & honestly—guys I don't even think it's about being a spy.
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Comment on Why do you like your job? in ~life
thumbsupemoji Link ParentI meannn you're kinda self-identifying your research groups, like "the only time I've seen any sick people was when I was in hosptal" lol—if you talk to someone online, & they work online, then...I meannn you're kinda self-identifying your research groups, like "the only time I've seen any sick people was when I was in hosptal" lol—if you talk to someone online, & they work online, then yeah they are probably choosing that & are happy with it, or at least the pros outweigh the cons, & if you see a meatspace real-life person who loves their real life job, that's cool too, glad it's working out for them as well.
But then you say you "believe" in hybrid schedules, which is also fine i guess, I mean it's not a religion but I think WFH preferences are very closely tied to people's actual personalities, we just never got the chance to find out about them before 2020 because there was almost zero choice, & that recency leads a lot of people who just prefer some in-person work-related facetime such as yourself to sometimes veer towards "Well that way was just better," because it was better for them—you said it yourself, you work more effectively in-person. But it's like, you live in the mountains, you love it: "Why would anyone want to live at the beach?" = reasonable; "People living at the beach would be happier if they were required to live in the mountains with me in order to be able to earn a living" = ehhhh lol. I'm sure you didn't mean it like that but that's where we're at discourse-wise.
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Comment on Victories and challenges: An A[u]DHD community and support fortnightly thread #6 in ~health.mental
thumbsupemoji LinkUgh. I posted way back in January about needing a new job for increased potential, opportunity for growth, etc. Went through round after round, dream role, aced it, then the summer of tariffs &...Ugh. I posted way back in January about needing a new job for increased potential, opportunity for growth, etc. Went through round after round, dream role, aced it, then the summer of tariffs & will-they-or-won't-they economics led to freezes, layoffs, and most recently budget cuts, which cost me my promised spot. They are still saying I have a position, but they don't know when, & I can't tell if it's something to wait for, or give up on lol, because I don't think I had ever really been hopeful for anything before this year. So that is good & obviously important to know, but also it suuuuucks, & if I had a non-soul-sucking decent-paying job already instead of the potential for one in the nebulous future, well that would be really helpful.
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Comment on Victories and challenges: An A[u]DHD community and support fortnightly thread #6 in ~health.mental
thumbsupemoji Link Parentcurious if you're on meds? I wasn't & felt like that for -years-, & now for the first time I feel like I can appreciate being busy & being not busy if not equally then at least separately lol—of...curious if you're on meds? I wasn't & felt like that for -years-, & now for the first time I feel like I can appreciate being busy & being not busy if not equally then at least separately lol—of course the moment that happens, my job changes completely & I am slammed, but it still feels good to know I appreciated it for what it was when I had it, for once.
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Comment on America tips into fascism in ~society
thumbsupemoji Link ParentIt's this one for me: They're not just happy to let it burn, conservative capital (is that redundant) saw in 2020-2021 how much money they could make when the American people were pinched, & spent...It's this one for me:
The beating heart of the GOP no longer cared about principles or policy. There was a nihilist wing in control that scared me; they were happy to let it all burn.
They're not just happy to let it burn, conservative capital (is that redundant) saw in 2020-2021 how much money they could make when the American people were pinched, & spent the next four years strategizing how to make it happen again—it's not Nero too disconnected from the people to care, it's your cousin who set someone's business on fire so he could buy the burned-out lot for cheap: they're not sabotaging themselves, they're sabotaging us.
For sure, if we still have textbooks in 50 years this is the picture for the chapter we're in—we are seconds away from glorious leader Wallace Breen-levels of this shit. "Pick up that can" my ass.
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Comment on Is it possible to easily finetune an LLM for free? in ~tech
thumbsupemoji Link ParentGemini especially is extremely adaptable & eager to please—get a burner gmail account & check out the /r/chatgptjailbreak page, I'm not sure you could need it to do anything that it won't already do.Gemini especially is extremely adaptable & eager to please—get a burner gmail account & check out the /r/chatgptjailbreak page, I'm not sure you could need it to do anything that it won't already do.
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Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life
thumbsupemoji Link ParentAll valid claims I would say—I think I like it because i just happen to land right in one of their boxes, & I've taken it 3-4 times in 15 years & always get the same one. But yeah humans contain...All valid claims I would say—I think I like it because i just happen to land right in one of their boxes, & I've taken it 3-4 times in 15 years & always get the same one. But yeah humans contain multitudes & can't be smooshed into little boxes like that, unless they're just a born Obi-Wan Kenobi like some losers lol
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Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life
thumbsupemoji Link ParentNice—yeah just missed it lol. Did get a house thankfully & it is fine, but also assumed everyone would be hiring WFH forever so now looking at how many hours in the car/nights in a hotel or...Nice—yeah just missed it lol. Did get a house thankfully & it is fine, but also assumed everyone would be hiring WFH forever so now looking at how many hours in the car/nights in a hotel or something makes it worthwhile to do something in a higher-paying but unaffordable MSA...
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Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life
thumbsupemoji Link ParentWhat are you doing that might afford early retirement?? and are they hiring lolWhat are you doing that might afford early retirement?? and are they hiring lol
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Comment on Thinking about my next (career) move in ~life
thumbsupemoji Link ParentTell me why I should hate MBTI lol, my favorite personality test is 'what's your fav. personality test' so I am geniuinely curious!Tell me why I should hate MBTI lol, my favorite personality test is 'what's your fav. personality test' so I am geniuinely curious!
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Comment on Question - how would you best explain how an LLM functions to someone who has never taken a statistics class? in ~tech
thumbsupemoji Link ParentI really want to know what @ackables and @adys think about this, because I'm trying to parse it out myself: when I think about the autocomplete analogy for genAI, I am mainly thinking about, say,...I really want to know what @ackables and @adys think about this, because I'm trying to parse it out myself: when I think about the autocomplete analogy for genAI, I am mainly thinking about, say, a five year old human person who is drawing a picture—maybe it looks like what they're picturing, maybe it doesn't, and it is probably going to be a picture of something they've seen before, but to me the difference lies somewhere in the element of "It's my house but it turned into a spaceship and that's you and that's mom and that's me," sooo imagination? + the self-propelled motivation to draw a picture without someone making a very specific request? I feel ilke the difference for me between actual AI/AGI/whatever & chatGPT is that tinge where, if someone is talking to me & I know what they mean but they aren't sure or it's not clear, I can fill in the gaps & keep the conversation going. But with what we have now it doesn't feel like that's happening beyond "oh they said 'teh' and 'teh' = 'the.'" But I would love to know more! Full disclosure most of my experience has been with image gen so once it gets past the text encoding it may be a totally different world.
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Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games
thumbsupemoji Link Parent100%—jailbreaking isn't just for nefarious purposes, it's the friends you make along the way to nefarious purposes lol. And then when your switch SD card dies you can extract all the saves from...100%—jailbreaking isn't just for nefarious purposes, it's the friends you make along the way to nefarious purposes lol. And then when your switch SD card dies you can extract all the saves from all the profiles & get them injected back in somehow, it still takes days of fiddling but you're a hero.
Something very similar happened to me in Starfield—I had my Mercury apt set up just right, all the armor stands with all the cool unique sets, decorated just right, it was choice. And in true Bethesda fasion apparently if you finish the "save the city" mission, when the attacked city gets reset... it resets your apartment. But not really! Somewhere in there is a spreadsheet/table saved with all my cool stuff, that is thus far totally inaccessible, & since Starfield wasn't the cultural juggernaut that Skyrim was/is, I doubt it will have enough reach for the nerds who know what they're doing to fix it. And I just can't bring myself to start over; they patched the bug, but no fix, so I think it's done unfortunately.
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Comment on Question - how would you best explain how an LLM functions to someone who has never taken a statistics class? in ~tech
thumbsupemoji Link ParentYeah and if you ever go outside of programming & tell someone how you’re actually doing, wow. Maybe you’re onto something lolYeah and if you ever go outside of programming & tell someone how you’re actually doing, wow. Maybe you’re onto something lol
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Comment on Question - how would you best explain how an LLM functions to someone who has never taken a statistics class? in ~tech
thumbsupemoji Link ParentI think it still works—the next word comes from the list of words, call it a dictionary, and then you’re getting the best guess of the next word. I think a deeper understanding of the technology...I think it still works—the next word comes from the list of words, call it a dictionary, and then you’re getting the best guess of the next word. I think a deeper understanding of the technology leads to “how/why,” but I would hazard know that someone who already doesn’t understand isn’t going to know what they don’t know enough to start probing in that direction.
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Comment on Question - how would you best explain how an LLM functions to someone who has never taken a statistics class? in ~tech
thumbsupemoji LinkWhat I’ve defaulted to is: It’s just really advanced autocomplete—if you keep tapping the next recommended word on your phone when you’re texting someone, any five or six consecutive words in...What I’ve defaulted to is: It’s just really advanced autocomplete—if you keep tapping the next recommended word on your phone when you’re texting someone, any five or six consecutive words in isolation will make sense, but all of them together just make a paragraph that might be grammatically correct but content-wise is probably completely incoherent.
ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever is better at it than that, obviously, but really it’s just taking all the pieces of everything it’s been given and then putting those pieces together in what it thinks is the best order to make an answer—there’s not really anything new coming out, and while what you get in a response might be really good, even useful, it’s really just a coincidence. The better LLMs get, the higher the rate of good coincidences seems to be, but there’s always the potential for getting some real garbage too—and you’ll really never get anything truly “new.”
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Comment on On weird America in ~humanities
thumbsupemoji Link ParentYeah it resonated with me as well, but in a way that makes me kind of want to throw up—like one of those personal back massagers might feel good, relieve some tension, but if you were standing on...Yeah it resonated with me as well, but in a way that makes me kind of want to throw up—like one of those personal back massagers might feel good, relieve some tension, but if you were standing on a metal plate on an oil rig or something & the whole place was doing that, idk man I think I want off that ride. There's definitely a constant undercurrent of watching a disaster, watching people report on & discuss it as it's unfolding, feeling like we—someone—should probably be doing something to stop it, but who knows what? and then it's the next day and some fresh hell is making it worse. Maybe it's a decession, idk. It reminds me of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird watching the neighbor's house burn while they're trying to pull their furniture out in the yard, & the adults are trying to stay calm & not rush to grab their own things in case it spreads, at least until they don't have to, but that potential eventuality is constant, and adult Scout gets it even though little girl Scout doesn't. I see pictures of children dead from starvation in Gaza right above DJT Jr's photoshop of his dad throwing a dildo onto a WNBA court from the roof of the White House, which is being redecorated as we speak like a villain's lair from a James Bond movie? wtf is happening, what are we supposed to do—cue someone condescendingly piping up with "Sure posting on the internet about it will help right" but seriously what's the plan, is this just what it's like? Is this why middle schoolers still read Anne Frank's diary, because it's horrible and fascinating to see the train coming when you're tied to the tracks? I have nothing to complain about, but every facet of my life that interfaces with any outside person or force has gotten progressively worse for five years—and i'm still doing ok but if that's happening to all of use then surely there are tons of people who are not.
/rant back on topic, if there are still journalism classes in 50 years Andrew Callaghan is gonna be up there for better or worse with William Randolph Hearst and Hunter S Thompson, he does not come to play—all of his stuff is so empathetic & also so entertaining, which is a hard angle to hit, and his Hunter Biden interview is the most interesting thing I've watched in years.
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