me to my students: LLMs are like your worst ex. They will LIE to you with the most serene, most confident face

one of my students, quietly: I hate that guy so much

I do love me some squid facts… Really any cephalopod facts.

I hate that. Where do I find the I-like-the-poster-and-I’m-commiserating-about-the-post-which-I-dislike emoji?

Did he actually think the war was a good idea? Or did he mean that for the be-awful-to-everyone party it was a clever move on their road to a fascism and totalitarianism?

Yeah, I have three kinds (spoiler, they all look exactly the same to me). One has been in full bloom for a week. One is just kicking off. And one hasn’t started.

Nice!
Down in Portland the goth irises are going strong too!

Same girl in 2009 when she was still a house princess. (Don’t worry if you can read the phone number on the tag. It’s not my number anymore.)

It takes a certain kind of balls to argue what Catholicism means to a Cardinal. Specifically the kind that rattle around inside an empty head.

The smooshing together of all these questions in the public understanding of AI is directly to the benefit of corpos pushing it. It *serves* them for us to consider AI == LLMs == Machine Learning == Neural Networks. The differences between these actually matter A LOT

And with that, the curse was lifted. I can stop doom scrolling now.

I never really thought about it, but it’s so obvious. There definitely should be a drain down there. I’m team Orin on this one.