Catographic excellence
Maximising stakeholder value by stochastic shitposting
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Catographic excellence
Yeah, you corporofascist lot are.
I think you mean it's the first time that myopic, politically unaware techbros have experienced it.
While I'm here, I'd like to submit my own 'cat of yore'. Mia died of heart failure caused, I think, by a steroid the vet gave for her weakness/wobbliness at 16, following a vestibular disorder. They refused to accept any fault. Losing her broke my heart. Thank you for all your positive messaging.
Thank you for encouraging people to engage with doctors - my experiences are in the UK where cost isn't even a barrier. But the impact (on loved ones) of people becoming alienated from proper medical treatment terrorises me and I'm sure many others. I have nightmares about it daily.
The widely circulated medical horror stories experienced by women - whilst surely all valid in their own right - led to my own mother avoiding medical attention for both a (thankfully benign) growth on her own breast, but then also refusal to see a doctor for anything, including deepening dementia.
The FT has been consistently good on this stuff, the only outlet to really take coreweave seriously, had great reporting, probably my fav business outlet. The Altman oil piece by bryce elder is one of the most devastating things I've ever read www.ft.com/content/b180...
150 years ago, nobody expected everyone to be able to read and write. Maybe our aspirational ideas about universal literacy were ableist. Everyone is owed equal access to education, but perhaps a large number of people fall through education, get technical jobs, then dig damaging social defences?
I'm lucky: I was able to hire my own team, so I selected for the soft-skills I prioritise alongside the technical skills. But interacting with the wider org is hugely frictive because so few of them write anything down. Nevermind tech docs - I can't even get copies of annual/probation reviews!
Not to mention they're all reading ai summaries of their emails and asking copilot to write responses for them using said summary as a prompt. It's dire.
My company has an engineering cohort of over 800 which is huge for its type and industry. They're flocking to AI to 'do the boring bits' like 'write documentation' for them. They don't know how to communicate in written form and they're too embarrassed yet arrogant to admit it. It's beneath them.
I was programming from the age age of 13, got a law degree after my computer science degree, loved English literature and philosophy at school, and my career path went straight from engineering to architecture and only recently back to eng. My hot take: Most engineers are aggressively illiterate.
This is your chance to become the "menswear guy" of military history. Give us a thread 🙃
65% of Brits apparently don't recall or recognise this subhuman specimen
I can't recall a single point in the last twenty years when I didn't have at least four arch enemies so
This is unfathomably moronic given storage is passive and doesn't need cooling - unlike the monstrous AI models processing real-time video to verify your age.
Wait why is he coming here, I didn't even do anything wrong!
Correct answer: 'Cool, I know five billionaires paying no tax when they should, so unless you have another million provable examples I don't care'
He's too busy being impressed by his own impressionability.
Oh christ does the "Pro" mean you're actually giving these cunts money?
None of it is connected to anything, except the shareholders getting rich from gullible idiots impressed by next gen autocorrect.
Yeah so they probably just scraped every image they could from Google maps streetview to train it. Why are you impressed?
It's projection - they've spent their life subject to a twat exclusion filter and don't know any better.
Dude, please, it's Reform: the preferred nomenclature is a 'cuntalition'
5 Segments 1 Summary: Cunts
Sister of "I'm not arguing, I was just trying to understand" (but they're just hunched over in a corner)
"Reader, I married her" date outfit
If it pleases the court, I would like to argue that 'grate' is a significantly substantial improvement over 'goode' and therefore must be counted and charted separately.
And it will invent classes and methods immediately
... And those people became billionaires off the back of the concept? The LLM does not think. It's a few layers of rock we've managed to get to be very good at guessing the next word. It doesn't think or have emotions. In the 90s they made them get very good at guessing chess moves. That's all.
The issue with that is it reassures an entire industry of grifters (prompt engineers???) that they're providing value. Imagine if in 2002 there were people on every street corner who you could pay to utilise the predictive text function on your phone for you...
I don't like this line of gentle mockery even in jest because you're suggesting to the wider world that these stupid predictive text models can be swayed by emotive dialogue
But... that doesn't work? Yes, sometimes your insistent attempts at making the hallucinating rocks generate acceptable results will work, but by and large they all still hallucinate even basic library functions and then gaslight you about them.
And if you both live long enough these roles reverse again 😔
That's no attitude. No ability to purchase it *yet*.
Those grocery-delivery-people get younger every year.
If you weren't in America you could get sparkling water that doesn't have aluminium in it
I mean if tricking humans into thinking they're communicating with an equally intelligent entity is the benchmark for intelligence, cats and dogs got there millennia ago.
This discussion would be more interesting if your examples instead differed in height - the female gaze is 'tall, dark, and handsome' after all.
Looking at your post history you don't even seem like the kind of weird right-wing agitator I'd expect this from and indeed seem like a decent/balanced person. So why are you spreading disinfo on this topic?
This was literally announced on BBC Radio 2 news at 4, yesterday, right after it happened, because I heard it, and here is the article on the BBC News website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So why are you lying about the BBC and what's your actual agenda?
So even the notion of the regular Joe having "15 minutes of fame" (already now seconds) must be rejected for the sake of the oligarch class? Fuck outta here, man.
So about the Mr Terrific film.....
I'm not a doctor but you definitely have brain damage.
T-shirt worthy.
"Dark satanic mills" narrative applied to... Emissions reducing green energy 😒
-the seasoned alcoholic secretly serving hot toddies when you get in at 9.30 -exec/c-suite men make a beeline for graduates/interns -that one guy on your team who is so wasted you have to pay an uber danger money/vomit insurance to take him home... At 7pm
Love it, ordering both the dark and light versions, but I had to go Google it to find them - would be good to include the best shopping links that support the artist on posts like this. I found them here: aftermath-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
Could be worse?
We install 1 GW per day. It took one year in 2004. #CdnPoli #Solar
And I remember 20 years ago they were decrying renewables as too expensive and unreliable - which they still do today, after a 365x increase in productivity over only 20 years.
We should really all try harder to great every missive with "An email from X! I bet this is filled with delights!" The pervasive, sociopathic reliance on cynical and withering sarcasm as crutch has turned us all into bastards. Oppemheimer by email: we really are now all sons of bitches.
It isn't, you just start to crave 11. But at least when you wake up you still don't have kids!
I suppose really that the ultimate trick of the right is to convince you that everyone unfortunate enough to live near *them* is on *their* side.
Alright, fair play, I don't want to harass you or anything - as I said, respectfully you seem like a decent person so I don't want to quarrel. I perhaps read too much into the "Odd that some see misandry" as to suggest the original content/caption wasn't inherently sexist.
I can't at all see where you did - just you criticising people who saw the "misandry" (a term I hate, because it suggests patriarchal culture doesn't warrant hatred, but here is accurate) as "odd". But sure, if that's so, I retract my criticism.
Also I'm sorry to say, but from the rest of your account you seem like a really cool and accomplished person with exactly the kind of politics we (globally) need more of, but as author you should be better at interpreting subtext than this.
Yes, it's obvious she's bored out of her mind listening to an egoist ramble on about something - but the upper caption in the video is accusing ALL MEN of this behaviour. This isn't feminism, or equality. This is how monsters like Andrew Tate and Trump gain influence. No war but class war.
It's not "odd", the upper caption clearly says she is "literally every woman listening to a man talk". The inverse of this is a man falling asleep to a woman taking with a caption saying, for example, "literally every man listening to a woman". Of course it's gendered/sexist/misandrist/whatever.
I love it about as much as I love Cheapshow ♥️ It's a gripping, multi-layered horror novel, but the literary equivalent of Warioware - every time you turn the page it confronts you with new challenging devices and structures... A shame that to this day it remains the author's magnum opus.
Fundamentally, the fascists need to be permanently removed from any form of power or influence. Unfortunately, the left won't act against them until they, hopefully, overcome them in the next world war. And even then they won't go far enough, as they didn't before.
Bad news, they're going to vote for Farage. Again.
If you can't do it, none of us can
Once every nine weeks she chooses one of us.
Well maybe you should've thought about all that before you decided not to be born in the 80s?
To be fair, if you put ramen noodles on wheels they'd just slide off.
Sometimes when we're in our happy place we forget 🫠
Nevermind, I wrote this whilst in the bath and just remembered Nigel Farage etc
Derek have you considered the UK?
Looking at the thread he's some kind of Andrew Tate/alt-right/incel weirdo so whilst shit parenting is inevitably the root of the problem, it's not quite as pathetic as the title sounds.
More braindead attacks on WFH by a pointless boomer rag.
I think this is often a kind of deliberate self-deception as people try to trick themselves into believing that medicine is advancing so quickly they will never die.
You had me at two extra-thick dollops.
I'm sure they're just roommates
Absolutely - I just happened to have have memorised that specific example after arguing against 'inflation' yesterday 🙂
Comparing Castlevania Simon's Quest to the last Mario Kart, that number is 33x. Not to mention Nintendo don't discount their games over time.
Prediction: you have a calculation involving radians and they're twice the size of what they should be compared to
It's been a while since it required intelligence, artificial or otherwise.
Ignoring a big number going up faster than small number going up is not 'economic mastery'
I hope so!
And I was pointing out that inflation shouldn't overshadow every other metric, and given that (on one spot example) 33x as many people are buying these games, maybe using inflation to be an apologist for price increases is a braindead take.
This is a pretty braindead take when you consider the massive increase in the size of the consumerbase. Simon's quest sold maybe 2 million copies, Mario Kart 8 sold 67 million. Not to say prices can't or shouldn't go up, but don't isolate a single figure like inflation and generalise from it.
Every time I see someone admit/suggest that AI is better than them at interpreting or representing information, I want to shake some sense into them. The statistical word prediction models aren't thinking. If your best work can be out-guessed by probability, maybe, at least, keep that to yourself.
We're already there. I refuse to read summaries or use AI to write for me, but I'm already seeing senior colleagues (I.E. CXO level) get into misunderstandings via email I can only explain because one or both of them are using AI summaries/GenAI. The impact is they now want everything face to face!
I don't have much of a following but I found this to be an excellent read and want to signal boost it. Even though I felt 'seen' as a huge fan of Derren Brown who always took the time to explain how these cons work, but hadn't applied that critical eye to this topic. 🙂
Don't self-experiment with psychological hazards! I can't stress this enough! One of the reasons why I wrote the original LLMentalist post two years ago (softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...) was I wanted people to understand that chatbots and the like are a psychological hazard.
Yes, Freud's Madonna/whore complex, which also explains why these men both shame women for being sexual and spend nearly all their time obsessing about the fact nobody will have sex with them.
No, people used actual computers. The fact that people now can't understand phones weren't the default device even ten years ago is more telling than this.
Is there a non-Zuckerberg-owned link? Thanks for highlighting this though 🙂
Is there maybe a third way, using the Long Road Home approach to test out the concept and push the boundaries as an MVP, and incorporating what works into the fully developed approach? Also, admittedly it's rich for me to say it as a player/consumer, but which is more creatively satisfying for you?
Wishlisted also - maybe put the link in your bio so it's a bit easier to find? Looking forward to seeing more and wishing you the best of luck!
Don't know how this popped (😉) up on my feed but it's lovely. Following for more updates!
We were both wrong.... Struggling author 😅
Why not? Because you'd have to train and pay skilled workers who can communicate in other languages? Maybe do that at the expense of the richest 10%? Alternatively, why not stop your own citizens having children - after all, if they all have lots of kids, you won't be able to house and feed them.
Calling it now: Nazi spy
