Memes as tech support is the Lemmy way 🫡

If that doesn’t work, probably posting in !piefed_help@piefed.social would be a good first step

Good question for @rimu@piefed.social

Not really surprising that they’re good at analyzing language, since they are Large Language Models after all. Still neat to see, though. Here’s the most interesting bit:

In the phonology task, the group made up 30 new mini-languages, as Beguš called them, to find out whether the LLMs could correctly infer the phonological rules without any prior knowledge. Each language consisted of 40 made-up words. Here are some example words from one of the languages:

• θalp
• ʃebre
• ði̤zṳ
• ga̤rbo̤nda̤
• ʒi̤zṳðe̤jo

They then asked the language models to analyze the phonological processes of each language. For this language, o1 correctly wrote that “a vowel becomes a breathy vowel when it is immediately preceded by a consonant that is both voiced and an obstruent” — a sound formed by restricting airflow, like the “t” in “top.”

The languages were newly invented, so there’s no way that o1 could have been exposed to them during its training. “I was not expecting the results to be as strong or as impressive as they were,” Mortensen said.

I’ve also tried out various LLMs on daily puzzles that it couldn’t have been trained on, like Connections and it does a really good job. I don’t think that the end of humanity is nigh or anything dramatic like that, but IMO this invalidates people that really want to hate AI and claim has 0 intelligence.

Your wish is granted and it appears in a searing flash of light that leaves you permanently blinded.

The bonus panel mentions infinite gold created from nothing, so I think duplication is allowed. Each time the neighbor gets all of the fisherman’s money, the total amount of gold is magically doubled.

Yeah, the whole base game should be playable, modulo any bugs. I haven’t tried mods, but a lot (most?) of them should work, unless they’re mucking around with the engine itself.

The son achieves his dream of being an astronaut in the third panel and you think the dad is wrong, but the fourth panel shows that he’s an insurance astronaut of some sort, meaning his dad was right that he’d be limited to insurance careers for some reason. Not a particularly deep joke

If you like the any of the Elder Scrolls games and haven’t checked out OpenMW, it’s really impressive and worth checking out. They’ve talked about adding support for Oblivion/Skyrim too, which would be amazing.

Like in your mouth, or with a hairdryer, or something else?

Do you rip the physical media yourself? What do you use for library management? I get my music from bandcamp and use beets to organize it all. Some of the more obscure music I’ve had to add to musicbrainz.org myself

At a slightly lower level, I’m excited about Servo. Activity died off for a bit but it’s gaining steam again. Still behind Ladybird progress-wise, but it will make a very strong foundation for a new web browser.

Clearly you’ve reached a higher stage of evolution

The takeaway:

Complexity is not a virtue.

Start simple. Add complexity only when you have proof you need it.

Out of the Tar Pit is a classic paper on this topic as well. It goes into a lot more depth, but can be summed up as:

Simplicity is Hard

OTOH, I feel like I should like Go because it’s “simple”, but it ends up pushing down on the waterbed of complexity only to have it pop up elsewhere. Kind of like how brainfuck is about as simple of a language as you can make, but there’s a reason it’s a toy language.

I’ve had several jobs with 401k’s, and I have one personal account that I roll 401k’s from old jobs into, in addition to whatever 401k account I have for my current job. It works pretty well. I keep contributing because Dollar cost averaging is basically always what you should do, even in the midst of financial crashes. It’s hard to not worry about hyperinflation and wonder if it’s worth it, though.

Yeah, bot posts are good IMO for things that are like once per day or less. More frequently and it can end up being spammy. OTOH, I’ve browsed all a few times and seen interesting posts from HN that I then went over and read, so there’s something to be said for that too. Maybe if there was a more nuanced option, like “don’t show me bot posts unless they’ve been upvoted by a non-bot” or something like that. Or maybe if bots reposting from elsewhere did that filtering beforehand, like top 10 per day or something

Great, approachable read about the history of manifolds. Similar to Boolean Algebra in that it was invented and nobody really knew what to do with it, and later proved to be enormously useful. Good reminder that trying to simplistically throw around “Why are we funding math/science/etc that isn’t useful!” isn’t good policy.

Yeah, I think that’s the joke he was going for. Other readings like deflated meaning “emotionally let down” don’t really work as well.

It’s also unusual that he pluralizes the first part, looks like that was more common at first, in the early 20th century:

https://www.sootoday.com/rooted/origin-of-phrase-trick-or-treat-in-print-traced-to-the-sault-6033664

According to Barry Popik, an American etymologist from New York who has been studying language for decades, the Sault is the first place to reference ‘tricks or treats’ in print anywhere in the world.

The citation comes from an edition of The Sault Daily Star on November 1, 1917, which detailed a brief story about local youngsters who were out celebrating Halloween the previous evening.

“Tricks or treats you could hear the gangs call out,” the article read.

Sounds like there was more regional variation early on and things were still in flux when this comic was made. The references I could find to “money or eats” were from the Midwest, so probably a variant that died out in favor of just “trick or treat”

Definitely a 3, warm drinks are great ☕

Edward is such a normal name for the Moomin universe. Makes it feel like their equivalent of “weird fantasy name”.

Also, we’ve seen that Moominpapa has some sort of blunderbuss type gun in a previous comic but apparently they need better gun control if Mymble is going around threatening people like that.