And they still have (at least) a bad reputation for not looking after vets.

In practice there really is no incentive to avoid stochastic or pseudorandom elements, so don’t hold your breath, haha. It’s a pretty academic question if you could theoretically train an LLM without any randomness.

Thanks for writing that up, I learned a few things.

Yes there is, especially given how vulnerable it will be to Trump messing with the border, and how it could theoretically carry on with a bit of help. That being said, relative to the amount it generates for the economy it does seem to have extra political pull, like OP said. Maybe because people prize manufacturing over services or natural resources.

I’ve never once heard the auto industry being a factor in western alienation. And I’ve written papers on the subject.

Really? Well, let me be a primary source for you: More than once, the auto industry has come up IRL in rural Alberta, and someone’s said “that’s an Ontario industry so the federal government cares about it”.

That’s not necessarily part of the historical origin of the alienation - if you’ve written papers you’ll actually know more about that than me - but it’s definitely folded in now. I remember one conversation where I actually won someone over to EVs a bit with the fact there’s lithium in old oil wells.

It’s not just you, it’s part of what feeds into the western province grievance thing.

Until the next person with a slightly different mental way of defining things comes along. Or just a future version of you.

It’s the first one, the ㅤU+3164 Hangul filler, to save everyone else a comment source+browser console+copy-paste+hex editor/search.

Uhh, that actually raises some questions about the definition of determinism. If the order in which it sees training material is generated by a single known seed, for example, does that count? What if it’s a really bad RNG algorithm, or literally just a complex but obvious pattern?

They are a black box, so in a sense the way they’re constructed might as well be totally random.

Maybe they mean relative to space.

How do you find the correct sites to buy whatever specific shit from?

Do you do any streaming? High seas for that, I guess?

I live on the Great Plains, you’re right, storms can be impressive as hell. I’ve seen more than one tornado, too.

I meant the giant lightning strike slowly propagating over a whole squall line. I don’t think you could see that except from space.

and cannot reliably replace work done by humans

See, that’s the crux of it for me. Something with stochastic elements could totally count as automation, but it has to actually replaces some manual work.

LLMs could be made deterministic, by the way. They just produce the nth best token sometimes instead of the 1st best for the sake of naturalness.

It’s 10% of the voting population. They really wanted their own separatist referendum to pass, so they did revise it downwards, but this one had already been submitted:

Since Lukaszuk’s petition was submitted before the signature threshold for citizen-initiated referendums to get to ballots was lowered to 177,000 in early July, his petition will need to collect around 294,000 signatures from eligible voters over a 90-day period.

Apparently writing “conservative” in the blank won’t count. I’m guessing that will take a noticeable bite out of his results just on it’s own.

Yeah, that sounds like a constitution thing. Maybe he’s butthurt enough he’d actually try it.

Wow. That would have been really cool to see from space. Either of them.

On the ground it probably wasn’t that different.

They don’t. What they’ve been doing for a while is pretty much burning economic furniture for heat and printing more money.

If this is true, I have to wonder if the budget guy writing it up believes any of it will actually happen.

That 20% thing is old now. Presumably, it kept going up when they stopped publishing it.

FORTRAN is godawful, I can only image what COBOL is like. They’re my counter to the people think languages essentially don’t matter. No guys, there has been progress over the eras.

Amazing. I guess I should have expected that in this thread I’d find something that would sound worth reading, and then be frustrated.