@glyph Did you quote post something?

[ezarowny@file-explorers.club]

@glyph I haven’t dug too deep into the individual bugs yet but Firefox now gives me more grief at work than Safari and that’s saying something.

[bitprophet@social.coop]

@glyph later, a new Mind is born which names itself Even Less Gravitas Than An LLM

[lmorchard@masto.hackers.town]

@bitprophet @glyph LCU L'il Language Muddle

[matt@toot.cafe]

@glyph You just made me want to read Excession. So far the only Culture novel I've read all the way through is The Player of Games. (I read part of Consider Phlebas roughly 12 years ago, but lost interest about halfway through.)

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@matt they’re all surprisingly different and so it’s hard to have a scalar ranking but I think Excession might be my favorite?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@matt be aware that "but backwards" is doing a *ton* of heavy lifting here, this is a joke intended for those who have already read it :)

[phildini@wandering.shop]

@glyph this is 17776 inventing hyper football again

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@glyph YEEEAHHHHH

fwiw i try ty every six months and i find it to be neither faster, more more comprehensive, nor more correct. It’s almost as bad as pyre.

Even ruff seems to have stalled, like
DOC linting is still experimental

Am I paranoid? Is the upcoming AI implosion going to suck in any Python package with a Rust backend?

[genehack@dementedandsadbut.social]

@glyph :golfclap:

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@ubernostrum

[blotosmetek@circumstances.run]

@ubernostrum @glyph ehm… sorry to rain on your parade pun, but the prime numbers guy was Eratosthenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes – Demosthenes was famous for his speeches, not for mathematics.

[lauerhahn@sfba.social]

@glyph There are even more layers!

My wife is a union Carpenter. Her main work for the last few years has been on teams of highly skilled construction workers building and rebuilding clean rooms to house the machines that are involved in chip making. Now she has a job building a new facility for a company that makes the machines - a project that takes hundreds of people (not to make the machines, just to construct the new facility).

Yup, it's turtles all the way down.

[joelle@social.joelle.us]

@glyph @mcc

But we'd never do that. We're too busy bringing back coal power.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@joelle @mcc as a wise man once said, "chaos is a ladder"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@joelle @glyph I think if I shared my opinions on the United States of America it would just be distracting at this moment.

[joelle@social.joelle.us]

@mcc @glyph

I likely share those opinions.

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@glyph Worth noting - these machines also depend on some rather recent physics to even be plausible. So, there's also a layer of physics, material science, etc. academics at mostly universities, scattered across the world, mostly funded by public spending on sciences, to even get to the point the engineers could try to build something that works at all on this scale.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@miss_rodent yeah the video is partially a story about that part of the process, or at least a window into it. apropos of the point in my linked thread, even if LLMs could do this kind of reasoning (they can't) we are a thousand years and dozens of general breakthroughs away from a context window large enough to even hold the required prerequisites to start reasoning out these problems even in just the AI tech itself

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@glyph Oh, yeah, LLMs are ... idk, this hype wave jsut makes me think of ELIZA (1966 simulated therapist), really.
With about the same chance of achieving sapience.

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@glyph Complete with ELIZA effect....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

This just feels like one of the dumbest 'those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it' situations I've been alive for.