One of the greatest things anyone has ever said to me was to explain that when you randomly decide to pick up a rock it’s because the rock has decided it wants to travel. It gives me joy to ponder.

Me trying to explain to my sister’s cat that I have to go home for dinner after I drop something off at their house

Taehyung: I want to do a winter song for Army!

PD: Oh, like Winter Bear? Gentle, soothing ballad?

TH: Hm, not exactly. More like evoking a movie? A Christmas movie?

PD: Ah, a romance, got it got it

TH: Sort of! The Shining was a Christmas movie right?

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

Coolest couple in the neighborhood. Photo from my collection, 1937.

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