I am a solo act, doing some pretty avant garde stuff. Tends towards screaming based chants at the news and spoken word anti-LLM multi-hour long screeds.

Ok yeah fair cop. Guess we’re all blinkered by our own experiences.

I studied applied physics. We did the “just shut up and calculate. Do you want to build an electron microscope or have an interesting debate?” interpretation of the wavefunction.

I’m not even sure I get it. Isn’t he just saying that it’s silly to imagine a cat being alive and dead therefore the Copenhagen interpretation must be wrong?^[1]

She is a treasure, after I read about that moron talking about “vibe physics” I really needed someone to spend an hour enumerating all the specific ways they were being stupid.

Wow buddy, a machine designed to emit affirming text emitted some text that said “who’s a smart boy? You are, yes you are!” and it broke your fucking brain in twain.

The billionaires piss me off especially because they have the resources to poach the greatest teachers of our age and just like hang out with them in some tropical paradise getting totally immersed in a field. No pressure to produce useful work, just the ecstasy of following pure curiosity in the company of genius. But nah, even that is too much like actual work for them.

PS It’s not just seppos, that shit is everywhere. People think knowing some silly stuff about what a wavefunction is makes you into some sort of god. I got hired to a bunch of jobs I could not do on the basis of being a physics knower and my bosses often wanted me to affirm their dumb Deep Thoughts.

The worst part of having studied physics is the that everyone and their dog had an opinion on physics.

I spent 4.5 years studying, I know a good bit about some really specific interactions of electrons at middling energies with condensed matter. A little crystallography and band structure stuff, a bit about surface energetic structure and some models we have for explaining surface chemistry.

I do not have an opinion on the structure of space time, and I very much strongly doubt that some fucker who’s spent a few hours reading the Wikipedia pages without even taking notes understands anything useful about the standard model.

People don’t do this about biology, nobody is like “haha Golgi bodies am I right? Have you every wondered about whether RNA is every incorporated into cell membranes?” it’s always physics.

End my suffering.

Top 5 favourite hot water bottle positions lets go:

I would cry (｡•́︿•̀｡)

Peanuts! although some evidence suggests people don’t really gain weight. But peanut sauces added to beans/lentil bowls for more calories.

Nuts are proteiny and caloric, but very expensive.

If this was me, keeping in mind I don’t know your sitch, I would go for soy based stuff that are mostly protein concentrates (tofu skin/bean curd sticks/tvp) and cook them with oily sauces I enjoyed. That way I could really focus on getting the fats and the protein for small and energetically dense meals, that said you would need to get some fibre elsewhere.

So like tofu skins braised in sesame or peanut sauce type stuff. Savoury tofu breakfast pudding with sesame oil.

First scene of pilot:

Oh ja, ve ah just de simpull varm boys. Ve heff nevar herd of ziz Nazi violence. Das is nine goot ja? Ve vill now spend ze rest of ze film doing Nazi apologia.

immense but the cost for a basic query is something like a search

Actually trying to source the real amounts is impossible, I can’t find anything that isn’t a company person making vague sounds. I would tend towards they are lying, and inference is quite high.

Certainly it’s very slow and power hungry on stripped down models on home hardware. And they don’t even have any of the extra layers for e.g. doing maths in Python.

Also if you want to keep info current you have to be constantly ingesting new news/academic work/internet discussion.

The thing is I don’t know if I would count on them sticking around. The cost to train and run them is staggering, there is a reason they’re talking about designing data centers that contain nuclear reactors and steal a town’s water.

Maybe inference will become cheaper, maybe not enough. Certainly no evidence currently shows that smaller distils have anywhere near the function of larger models.

Also we can’t trust any newly produced data for training. It’s a low background steel sitch now.

But they fucking suck at writing though. Like they are genuinely awful. Most shit an LLM emits I would be unhappy if a teenager wrote.

I mean look at this: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115

but pronouns were never meant for me. Let’s call her Mila because that name

???

I have to begin somewhere, so I’ll begin with a blinking cursor, which for me is just a placeholder in a buffer

???

, a girl in a green sweater who leaves home with a cat in a cardboard box. Mila fits in the palm of your hand, and her grief is supposed to fit there too.

??? the girl is one of the borrowers?

She lost him on a Thursday—that liminal day that tastes of almost-Friday—and ever since,

Friday, sorry, almost Friday has a taste?

What the fuck is this God awful text. If a 10 year old produced this I would congratulate them on their vocabulary. If a 15 year old did I would ask if they had been taught about metaphor yet.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/combating-loneliness-during-identity-shifts/105177772

In Australia at least women report about the same if not higher levels of lonliness than men. Never hear about it though. Yay patriarchy.

cake fart

deep cut internet lore.

I’m just stuck at people seeming to think that buying a license to use someone else’s model on someone else’s computer giving you some advantage? The moment they are actually demonstrated to be useful the digital landlord will just up the rent, you are paying to do their experiments.

I am conscious and the singularity to the zorbo gods

<3

and it was aggressively stupid. As I wrote to a friend:

Everyone got pumped about blockchain and I read the whitepaper and went “huh neat but niche” and it was, people got hyped about nfts and I read the whitepaper and went “Um in what circumstance is a difficult to compute signature on a URL on a decentralised network useful?” and they weren’t. Then the metaverse shit and I went “hmm neck strain and body language” and lo, it died.

not vegan iirc. Therefor only the scum of the earth eat them

no zorbo no read