Rachel Carvalho
@racheltostring.bsky.social
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"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds
September 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm.
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Next year is going to be big. Well, I personally don't think it'll be big, but if you ask the AI industry, here's the things that will happen by the end of 2026:
* According to the Financial Times, ...
www.wheresyoured.at
May 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm.
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
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LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
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i have something to admit that's been weighing heavy on my heart:
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
February 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i have something to admit that's been weighing heavy on my heart:
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
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People: What productivity software do you use?
Me:
Me:
December 7, 2024 at 4:19 PM
People: What productivity software do you use?
Me:
Me: