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2024-08-31 07:43:40

Tonight we are going to play a little game poast.
https://i.poastcdn.org/cee6529515c0f8dd9f5deddc31863b3d6bb75e67a63bef15c27008e66f29713f.png

2024-08-28 10:25:13

Why AI can't spell "strawberry".
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/why-ai-cant-spell-strawberry/
I've said before that what we are currently calling AI models, which is really just Large Language Models or LLMs, don't understand anything at all except language. They're language models. That's what they do, and it's all they do.
Except that's not quite true, because they don't understand language in any real way either.
>The failure of large language models to understand the concepts of letters and syllables is indicative of a larger truth that we often forget: These things don't have brains. They do not think like we do. They are not human, nor even particularly humanlike.
>Most LLMs are built on transformers, a kind of deep learning architecture. Transformer models break text into tokens, which can be full words, syllables, or letters, depending on the model.
>"LLMs are based on this transformer architecture, which notably is not actually reading text. What happens when you input a prompt is that it's translated into an encoding," Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher and assistant professor at the University of Alberta, told TechCrunch. "When it sees the word 'the,' it has this one encoding of what 'the' means, but it does not know about 'T,' 'H,' 'E.'"
Typeahead with delusions of grandeur.

2024-07-12 08:39:15

I just watched a video of a baby boomer being interviewed where she talks about how she worked as a nurse, bought a house at 23 for 65,000 just by ‘saving up’ without any support, and how she now regularly buys and sells multi million dollar properties.
God I hate them.

2024-07-05 23:49:44

https://i.poastcdn.org/b3acc7360daaa059f2bb50d239f9acfe62b1e776357318b7687317e8ad680780.png

2024-07-02 11:29:52

This is strangely true. I am very hairy in real life. As in thick chest hair and all. But when I go to the gym I see most guys my age or younger are basically smooth. What gives?
https://i.poastcdn.org/e120b230435f78151aaec9565d7d434f2a47d1fc9390eccac4887df49e06d2c0.png

2024-07-01 11:21:41

I dare them to use Hawk Tuoh
https://i.poastcdn.org/18ff8d03db4603e9aeb5915e4d8e0134b0d8b6a04405a0900df15c2951288329.png

2024-06-30 11:12:38

gets the noggin joggin
https://i.poastcdn.org/eb73413bc1ab269ab820dd2d655b534d736ce9a8fad4dadf5536820b8d489a06.png

2024-06-30 11:08:02

Europe wants to deploy datacenters into space. Studies say it's feasible.
[cnbc.com/2024/06/27/europe-wants-to-deploy-data-centers-into-space-study-says.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/europe-wants-to-deploy-data-centers-into-space-study-says.html )
>ASCEND's space-based data storage facilities would benefit from "infinite energy" captured from the sun and orbit at an altitude of around 1,400 kilometers (869.9 miles).
Well congratulations, your datacenter is now permanently running away from you at sixteen thousand miles per hour.
Fortunately the writer of this piece spoke to some people who aren't certifiably insane:
>Winterson estimates that even a small 1 megawatt center in low earth orbit would need around 280,000 kilograms of rocket fuel per year at a cost of around $140 million in 2030 - a calculation based on a significant decrease in launch costs, which has yet to take place.
That's not the launch cost, that's the upkeep.
And that's for a tiny datacenter. The AI center Tesla is building right now is targeting not 1 megawatt but 500MW, which would cost $70 billion per year to maintain given these assumptions.
Back on Earth, Tesla is spending around $4 billion on the entire datacenter.

2024-06-23 12:01:35

Peak oil bros on suicide watch
https://i.poastcdn.org/aaa228faaac7d41e7b0465fea8ae6dd701e8d25ca7a122c315ab94341ef119a6.png

2024-06-23 11:58:26

Never forget what they took from you.
https://i.poastcdn.org/28d6d4166fb30a448638278c9a806ae888dec7ede4ce610b304cd99ac969d64f.png

2024-06-21 23:09:16

I side with the machines
https://i.poastcdn.org/af4df22c05c03974400b54faa2185e4cc401a4f105117f6768d75c5db7ec4f13.png

2024-06-16 12:21:20

Voyager 1 is communicating again.
[theregister.com/2024/06/14/voyager_1_restored/](https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/voyager_1_restored/ )
The probe launched in 1977 and completed its primary mission - flybys of Jupiter and Saturn - in 1980, and since then it has been travelling deeper into space just chilling (literally) and enjoying the view.
Only four of the original eleven instruments on board are still operational, but that's enough for it to return interesting data for a little longer.
Both Voyager probes are powered by short-lived radioisotope generators, and within the next decade the power output will have been reduced to a point where none of the instruments will work. Shortly after that they will pass beyond the range of the Deep Space Network and we will lose contact until 2270.

2024-06-14 11:57:11

Yay! Heroic genius scientists at NASA achieve the impossible and lift new "intersex progress" flag to astonishing altitude of 40 feet.
In Pride Month!
https://i.poastcdn.org/16700721eb14489f53954db73dc96a8bd69d5d9fe6cab851f94ae794542a0daa.png

2024-06-08 22:50:48

Hackers breached a Disney Confluence server and stole confidential documents relating to the design and implementation of... Club Penguin.
[bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/club-penguin-fans-breached-disney-confluence-server-stole-25gb-of-data/](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/club-penguin-fans-breached-disney-confluence-server-stole-25gb-of-data/ )
I know one of you guys did this, and I am all for you being weird and all but you do own us some form of explanation.

2024-06-08 00:03:49

Elon Musk provided Internet to a primitive tribe in the Amazon.
Now they're living the American dream.
What's the worst that could happen?
[nypost.com/2024/06/04/lifestyle/remote-amazon-tribe-connects-to-elon-musks-starlink-internet-service-become-hooked-on-porn-social-media/](https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/lifestyle/remote-amazon-tribe-connects-to-elon-musks-starlink-internet-service-become-hooked-on-porn-social-media/ )
>A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk -- only to be torn apart by social media and pornography addiction, elders complain.
We should definitely allow children to keep using the internet.
>Brazil's 2,000-member Marubo tribe has been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Tesla founder's Starlink service nine months ago, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Ituí River to the web for the first time.
>"When it arrived, everyone was happy," Tsainama Marubo, 73, told The New York Times.
Yeah, I remember when we were all stoked about the internet, too.
Happier days.