We have all these new video conferencing systems and not a single one that can finish a call and then put a big “END TRANSMISSION” on the screen with some kind of friendly but subtly ominous logo
Well well well, if it isn’t a priceless working NEC Multisync II picked up at an estate sale for $20
At last my ancient Colortran Prestige 2000 Plus has eyes again!
Modern alternatives to oval:
- Pill
- Roundrect
- Hexagon
- Yellow triangle at odd angle
- Purple gradient
- Hover
- Apple
Legit trying to think of a decent oval.
- Ford logo: Bleh
- Generic supermarket product labels in education filmstrips: Gag
- Standardized test multiple-choice bubbles: What? fuck off
- Frisbee, viewed at an angle: ACTUALLY A CIRCLE, DUMBASS
John Burwell aka deet shared 4 days ago
It astonishes me that people expected LLMs to be good at creating summaries. LLMs are good at transforms that have the same shape as ones that appear in their training data. They're fairly good, for example, at generating comments from code because code follows common structures and naming conventions that are mirrored in the comments (with totally different shapes of text).
In contrast, summarisation is tightly coupled to meaning. Summarisation is not just about making text shorter, it's about discarding things that don't contribute to the overall point and combining related things. This is a problem that requires understanding the material, because it's all about making value judgements.
So, it's totally unsurprising that the Australian study showed that it's useless. It's no surprise that both Microsoft and Apple's email summarisation tools discard the obvious phishing markers and summarise phishing scams as '{important thing happened}, click on this link' because they don't actually understand anything in the text that they're discarding, they just mark it as low entropy and discard it.
John Burwell aka deet shared 4 days ago
I mean it’s like, ew, this circle isn’t well
Honestly I’ve never trusted ovals
What I value converting in this space is consuming content in this space that speaks to this space and what’s being carved out in this space for creator bets in this space
It’s a go-forward value proposition play in this space
I’m glad we never got to find out whether all those nuclear missiles we had sitting around also had things like failing engines and helium leaks and weird sounds
Either we were much better at rockets back then, or we’ve actually been shit at it this whole time
And if I change “my” to “the”
It gets dirtier
I bit my cheek
Then I bit my tongue
Licking my cheek
Lookin at the news? Forget it, kid. Everyone looks at the news. The news can have whoever it wants, and it knows it. You don't have a chance
John Burwell aka deet shared a month ago
Insightful post by Hugh Howey, author of the Silo series. Title of the post, "Arriving Early with Assholes":
"We are blind to the fact that we could build different incentives and arrive at the same place just a little bit later while rewarding better behaved humans.
But nope. We’re in such a rush and have such a confused idea of how things are made, that we’d rather arrive early with assholes. And we only have ourselves to blame."
Web sites like this is what we have a “The Internet” for:
https://everycharacteractorbehindadeskinacoenbrothersfilm.com/film/the-hudsucker-proxy/at/00:06:36
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Legit checking things off my grocery shopping list on my Newton MessagePad 120.
Which apparently Siri still knows how to automatically capitalize.
And, yes, reporting it via my pocket supercomputer
Area man searches for cookie, remembers having eaten it already
Which was the puckish, maniacal mythological Greek god who went around putting articles about Steely Dan in people’s feeds, forcing them to listen to Pretzel Logic
The economy, a system for converting the labor of non-owning users into the convenience of non-using owners