“Why were there only one set of shoe prints?”

hard-coding every equation you need, not to mention all the other facts and relationships, gets intractable because of combinatorial explosion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combina...

Some people thought training LLMs on the whole internet would get around this, but it didn’t.

The main reason improved efficiency is being used on more tokens is that LLM error rates are currently too high for most use cases and commercial take up has stalled as a result. If the output is wrong 1 in 10 times, it being efficiently wrong isn’t a selling point.

What’s crazier is that there’s no testing or licensing regime they could reliably comply with. It’s a black box that regularly produces wrong answers and lies about them

One of the things I think the vibe coding stuff hasn't yet really come to terms with is junior developers and owners often think the key skill for developers is ability to write code, and principal developers know the /actual/ super power that distinguishes principals is their ability to debug.

I’m slowly rotating van

The big issue is that the big models aren’t reliable enough to do what they’re pitched for, so there’s not much appetite for compromise

But Ed, he had such a great track record with his *checks notes* mysterious orb that gave you crypto for eyeball scans

SMBC described my experience of E. E. Doc Smith pretty well: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/golden...

As opposed to the second author, who stuffs his body with horrible burritos

In addition to other things mentioned here, Suno and other AI music tools aren’t great at structuring songs. Listen for if they have a standard multiple verse-chorus structure. Many only manage a couple of verses or have uneven gaps between them

It does, though. Asking ChatGPT something and then checking its output with another source is more effort than going to the other source first. It has negative utility in this scenario.

College punting has the fun side game of “Spot the Australian Rules player”

Today.

Tariffs may make it a lot harder to get a decent meecrowahvay in the US

Government should support the dreams of Americans to get into their husband’s band by pretending to play the saxophone