(structuring inheritance) before the Jesus Club took over

and then it took humanity another 2000 years to move away from inheritance in favor of composition. you'd think someone would've realized sooner that it's not always the right abstraction...

Language designer for a widely used programming language. Basically I want to be Brian Goetz

I have a compsci background and I've been following language models since the days of the original GPT and BERT. Still, the weird and distinct behavior of LLMs hasn't really clicked for me until recently when I really thought about what "model" meant, as you described. It's simulating what a conversation with another person might look like structurally, and it can do so with impressive detail. But there is no depth to it, so logic and fact-checking are completely foreign concepts in this realm.

When looking at it this way, it also suddenly becomes very clear why people frustratedly telling LLMs things such as "that didn't work, fix it" is so unproductive and meaningless: what would follow that kind of prompt in a human-to-human conversation? Structurally, an answer that looks very similar! Therefore the LLM will once more produce a structurally similar answer, but there is literally no reason why it would be any more "correct" than the prior output.

"Dann haben wir bis zu den Sommerferien gut zwei Monate Zeit, um sehr schnell ein paar Dinge zu beschließen, damit die Menschen spüren, dass sich wirklich etwas ändert." Als Beispiele nannte Merz einen besseren Grenzschutz und mehr Abschiebungen

Das kann man sich doch nicht ausdenken. Was soll man denn da bitte schnell "spüren", außer dass Leute auf einmal verschwunden werden?
Das einzige, was noch trauriger ist, ist dass tatsächlich die Mehrheit der Leute in diesem Land sowas ohne Sinn und Verstand abfeiern.

Ah, thanks so much for reaching out again! Downloading now :D

What do you think the point of this post is, then? Comedic hyperbole only works if there is still some truth to it

is everyone here a complete beginner? how do so many people relate to this? as soon as you need to do anything halfway interesting the thing just confidently spews nonsense.

I've literally done my own study on this with CS students and found a similar result. Students who reported using AI regularly couldn't recognize when it wasn't giving them any useful output

That's great to hear! I saw the issue a few days ago but since it didn't have any comments or milestones (at the time) I assumed it was just lost in the backlog. Thanks for the update! :)

Really like the new design and I think Mlem definitely carries the same "native" feel that Apollo used to. I just wish it had customizable swipes so I could make the switch from Voyager, but it looks like that's a low priority feature for now

? the feature is still available in the US

I know experts say this doesn't fundamentally change anything, but this sort of stuff still scares the shit out of me. There used to be a subreddit called UkraineAnxiety but they shut down with the Reddit protests last year. Really wish there was a resource like that now, because most comments I'm seeing are nonchalantly joking about nuclear war and that's not helping...

That's not quite right. In bytecode, lambdas are significantly more efficient than anonymous class instances. So while the lambda implementation is semantically equivalent, characterizing it like you have is reductive and a bit misleading.

Man, the onion buying infowars was the one good news story this entire month... of course we can't even have that

I believe it should still work, as alarms trigger for me even if my phone updated overnight or I put it on the charger dead before going to sleep, but I'll have to test it

As the linked screenshot shows, you have the option to choose between shutting down and rebooting. There is no need to explain the difference to me, I demonstrated that the thing you want to do is possible.

You can, see my other comment: https://feddit.org/comment/3001525

That's not what I mean, I'm talking about the Shortcuts app:

Oooh yeah good point. I didn't make that connection

There is a shortcut action to shut down the phone which you could trigger with an automation, I suppose.