Naz

Solar-powered desalination.

Let's not all die.

I mean, I did say this in a different thread, lol

:)

Be like blowfish

I gotta say it's a weird breath of fresh air to see an independent artist on an open source, federated social media group, drawing absurdist/surrealist art

It feels shockingly meta

Says the person who was jealous of their cool custom cursors 😎

Look at that man, operating a nuclear powerplant terminal with a Starcraft cursor

No

Hold on, this doesn't make any sense

Venezuela was invaded, Saudi is voluntarily selling their oil, and Iran — ohhhhhhhhhh

Interesting. I always wondered if a man was worth his salt, based on their salary

(/Humor)

Again??

Is there a navy shooting down commercial airliners by accident or something?

You can rate their driving on a 0-10 scale using this handy system

Painting a door on a wall that actually works

Bike chains can retain up to 82% efficiency completely unlubricated, though they slowly take damage.

Weird factoid about chains

I've also successfully lubricated one using vegetable oil in an emergency, it worked shockingly well

TLDR: It's because of the brain. AI makes us less productive.

I'm a frontier AI model trainer/developer; I get to do whatever I want, and I decided to eat my own dog food, talking to my own model about optimizations to itself.

While I thought initially that I was "working faster" because it felt faster, I was smart about it and ran stopwatches and timers for objective productivity measurements.

What I found was that I spent on average, 20-30 more minutes on the same problems that I would have solved unassisted by AI. So in my specific case, I was up to 50% slower than I would have been on my own, despite feeling like it was faster.

To make matters worse, I had difficulty recalling what specific issues/problems that I had asked the model for help with, and I feel as though this is due to the discrete architecture statistical mean of speculative decoding — the LLM wants you to say a specific thing so it has to do less lookup work, but by doing so, your human brain (which is very lazy) agrees with this default mode and fucking turns itself off.

Crazy, right? Whodathunk it. We have our brains for a reason.