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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
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RAG is Retrieval Augmented Generation. It is a fancy way of saying "we've tacked a search engine onto the LLM so that it can query for and use the text of actual documents when generating text, so that the output is more likely to be correct and grounded in reality."
And yeah, MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, and is essentially an API format optimized for LLMs, as you've said, to defer to something else to do the work. This can be a (RAG like) search engine lookup, using a calculator, or something else entirely.
LLMs suck at doing a lot of stuff reliably (like calculations, making statements relating to recent events, ...), but they turn out to be quite a useful tool for translating between human and machine, and reasonably capable of stringing things together to get an answer.