Dreamcast: the first AI console.

It really was ahead on everything!

‘LLMs specifically won’t work.’

‘No, see, LLMs won’t work.’

Okay.

Right, should say deep neural networks. Perceptrons hit a brick wall because there’s some problems they cannot handle. Multi-layer networks stalled because nobody went ‘what if we just pretend there’s a gradient?’ until twenty-goddamn-twelve.

Broad applications will emerge and succeed. LLMs kinda-sorta-almost work for nearly anything. What current grifters have proven is that billions of dollars won’t overcome fundamental problems in network design. “What’s the next word?” is simply the wrong question, for a combination chatbot / editor / search engine / code generator / puzzle solver / chess engine / air fryer. But it’s obviously possible for one program to do all those things. (Assuming you place your frozen shrimp directly atop the video card.) Developing that program will closely resemble efforts to uplift LLMs. We’re just never gonna get there from LLMs specifically.

People have run LLMs on a Raspberry Pi.

The bubble is straining to burst because there’s not much difference between the high end and the low end.

Neural networks will inevitably be a big deal for a wide variety of industries.

LLMs are the wrong approach to basically all of them.

There’s five decades of what-ifs, waiting to be defictionalized, now that we can actually do neural networks. Training them became practical, and ‘just train more’ was proven effective. Immense scale is useful but not necessary.

But all hype has been forced into spicy autocomplete and a denoiser, and only the denoiser is doing the witchcraft people want.

Why are you even paying for it now, instead of doing it locally?

The legal battle over arbitrary exclusion is a difficult fight by innocent victims.

Not having backups is a confession by morons with nobody to blame but themselves.

These two things can coincide.

ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social:

Remember when Elon claimed to be a libertarian before literally joining the establishment Republicans? Libertarianism isn’t real. “Libertarians” bend the knee to conservatives and fascists so quickly it doesn’t matter what the ideology supposedly says.

C is dangerous like your uncle who drinks and smokes. Y’wanna make a weedwhacker-powered skateboard? Bitchin’! Nail that fucker on there good, she’ll be right. Get a bunch of C folks together and they’ll avoid all the stupid easy ways to kill somebody, in service to building something properly dangerous. They’ll raise the stakes from “accident” to “disaster.” Whether or not it works, it’s gonna blow people away.

C++ is dangerous like a quiet librarian who knows exactly which forbidden tomes you’re looking for. He and his… associates… will gladly share all the dark magic you know how to ask about. They’ll assure you that the power cosmic would never, without sufficient warning, pull someone inside-out. They don’t question why a loving god would allow the powers you crave. They will show you which runes to carve, and then, they will hand you the knife.

… while hanging from a cliff?

If punctuation isn’t on your keyboard then it can’t be that important. All dashes are the same.

I don’t even appreciate that Markdown turns double-dash into one long dash. The distinction in print is a twee relic of uptight style guides, and the minute gradations do not exist in handwritten text. If you intend it as a pause-please, put spaces around it, or it looks dumb. Like that.

Anyone prescriptivist about “begging the question” cannot be taken seriously about anything.

The canonical meaning is a sloppy mistranslation, and what everyone sensible intends and infers is a plain reading of those words in that order.

There’s places where a comma can cause psychic damage.

A calque.

AI tends to be distinct, because things move so fast that we’re exposing programmers’ stupid internal names.

What an obviously terrible name.

Well yeah, Perl is write-only. Larry Wall asked the monkey’s paw for a language that works on the first try. What’s onscreen are your raw brain patterns.

Thank god it runs like crap. Optimized C isn’t pretty, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at it more than once.

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Hmm.

Thirteen furries just had an aneurysm.