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Prairie Lorax🌾
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Harm reduction, municipalism, and direct action. Build the world you want to live in.
Killing millions of ordinary people won't solve the climate crisis. The billionaires and their dogs in the government want diseases to spread to liquidate surplus labour. The economic engine that creates climate change already considers us surplus, it won't slow down without us.
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
You could use an LLM to sequentially go through all the steps of making an architectural drawing by prompting it separately for each function and predefining all the relationships. At that point though, you're writing CAD software that can fail instead of using deterministic algorithms that don't.
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So, in a situation like this, you can ask an LLM for an architectural drawing, but there's no equation for the dimensions of a room in the dataset. It's just "a line is probably here, and 1 to 4 of these 9 symbols is beside it every time a line is there."
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You can prompt an LLM to identify an equation in text and then feed that through an API to a calculator.

This is very different from what OP was pointing out though, that an LLM won't be able to go from "this is the pattern you prompted for" to executing the math in its output.
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Because you think the training set creates deterministic rules. It doesn't, it just biases the statistical model.

If 1+1=2 is given infinite statistical weight, it still doesn't understand that's an equation. It is not creating a regex. If you prompt it for 21+1 it will say =2.
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
They can't though.

A generalised artificial intelligence presumably could, but that doesn't exist. What we have are LLMs, which produce statistical slop.

Google Search can use regex to detect when you've put in a formula and open a calculator app, but that's a computer program.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
An equation does, but LLMs aren't using equations.

They are using statistics to guess. For most language prompts, the dataset is large enough that it guesses more or less correctly. LLMs can't do math, because there's no statistical distribution of how 2 and = align.
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Churchill, quite famously, gushed about Mussolini and supported fascism abroad. He opposed fascism in Britain only because he thought it was for weaker races, like Italians, who would fall to Bolshevism without fascism's intervention as they were too bestial for democracy.
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fucks
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
[Monkey paw curls]
July 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
That mural goes so fucking hard. Damn.
June 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Sarcastic? Canadian cops are the same as US cops. They use the same training manuals, follow the same FB groups, and have the same complete legal impunity when murdering civilians.

The RCMP was founded to end the Indian Question, and continues this genocidal legacy to this day.
May 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Sucks.
April 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This misunderstands both Jewish history (the Mizrahim and their long struggle for recognition, among others) and racism. Race is a classification enforced arbitrarily by the State. All races are ethnicities, typically flattened for convenience of discrimination.
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What exactly am I supposed to be apologising for?

That's cooked though.
March 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM