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Tim's Motorbike Rides
@timsrides.bsky.social
Out of Brisbane, Australia, I organise small-group motorcycle rides... long day rides full of fun, adventure, great people and good food, and road trips along amazing roads to iconic destinations across eastern Australia. https://www.youtube.com/@timsrides
You're arguing against a position I've never taken.
June 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
At least on that we can agree 🙂
June 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Yeah… LLMs don't assign truth values… they learn statistical correlations from massive text data. “Patterns of meaning” emerge from co-occurrence and context. Transformers use an attention mechanism to model these complex relationships between words, creating a structured (but not grounded) output.
June 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
On your first point... absolutely agree there needs to be a wider understanding of the limitations of LLMs, but that should involve an accurate and up-to-date explanation of how they work (and it also doesn't change the fact they can be incredibly useful). No arguments at all on your other points. 🙂
June 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but the simple answer is: because that's how they're trained. 🙂
June 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
That's an oversimplification... we're well beyond that now. While pre-training involves large-scale web data (which can include a mix of "good" and "bad" info), the data is filtered and weighed, and post-training reinforcement learning and fine-tuning pushes models towards more accurate response.
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Close, but an oversimplification. LLMs aren't trained on random data... they model factual knowledge and can retrieve it with a high (and continually improving) degree of accuracy. It's true they lack actual "understanding", but they match patterns of meaning, not just words.
June 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I had planned to bling my bike up, but typically for me I left it too late 😢.

But I'll be wearing this t-shirt!
June 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Hey what about Brisbane @astrokatie.com! 🙂
June 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Damn... so close 🙂

Went hunting... this is the photo I was thinking of, taken by ISS astronaut Alexander Gerst... he's tagged it as the Amazon, but it's actually the Juruá...
Amazon River
These photos give an idea of why the legendary Amazon River has fascinated so many explorers. / Diese Fotos vermitteln einen Eindruck davon, warum der Amazonas so viele Entdecker fasziniert hat. ESA-...
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June 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Ah, yep, familiar with Procreate. Nice!
June 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
IIRC, the second photo is the Juruá River, a tributary of the Amazon River? 🙂
June 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
That's pretty neat. How'd you create it? Programmatically, or by hand?
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
So... that'd be a no, then? 🙂
June 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I was happy to help Filippo out and annotate the beautiful still of his image (non-annotated version sent to @apod.shinyakato.dev as I really think it is worthy).

You could do so much science communication from this one image:

- galaxies (plural!)
- aurora
- stellar evolution
- nearest system

🔭🧪
June 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Even without the stunning colour mapping used in the Hubble or James Webb images, the Pillars are still bloody awesome 🙂. Thanks for sharing!
June 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hey send enough and surely at least some of them won't blow up 🙂
May 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM