LLMs don't learn, and aren't developed in a way that would cause them evolve stratagies. They are just patterns distilled from a data set, only optimized to better represent those patterns or do so more efficiently.

Whenever a company makes their whole image about something that has nothing to do with their actual business model, I immediately doubt the quality of their product or service. Especially if that image comes with an overtly political agenda. If their thing is something I like or care about, I'll consider the possibility that their quality might, maybe, be decent, but this particular company is one where I intend to let my assumption stand untested.

In this case the LLM "reacts" differently when it is being tested because that's what's in the training data. It can only follow the patterns in the training data. I remain convinced that without a new architecture entirely, awareness is impossible.

Much like reddit, people can just make communities on whatever topic, and they are largely open to anyone with an account on their server, or on any of the many servers connected to it. Someone on Perchance must have a community on lemmy.world that they are directing people to for discussion. I don't think there's any connection beyond that.

If that's a community name, the way to make a link that works for everyone would be
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Edit: Yep, that is a community for discussing Perchance. You can just stick with that, or see what else is around. We're still a lot smaller than reddit, and kind of fragmented by design, but there's still a lot of cool people discussing all sorts of things to be found around.

I mean, I assume it had the correct number of bits in it, it's just that all but the 3rd least significant bit were all 0s.

Howdy, neighbor!

I also often read the bridge column in the paper as a kid. Not out of any feeling of obligation, but because I enjoyed how surreal it felt to read. I've always loved jargon, even when it's so dense and so far out of my familiar contexts that it might as well be gibberish, as was always the case for me when people talk about bridge.

Accidental for the cops. The photographer and Lady Liberty there knew exactly what photo they were going for, and the cops predictably gave it to them.

Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath

Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn't happen often.

fuck you, Ted

And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?

Ooh! I have actually experimented with fire scaling myself. To some extent, a scaled down campfire can work, but at a different burn rate. I once made a tiny hearth and experimented for a while at making tiny fires in it. I found that within the range I was trying, a little scale model of a fire that worked well at full scale worked just as well at mini scale, just on a much faster time scale.

For example, if I had a human scale teepee style fire burning, say 1 to 2 inch diameter sticks at about 12 to 18 inches long, I'd need to toss another stick on it roughly every 1 to 5 minutes to maintain a nice blaze. Scaled down to sticks about 1/8th that size, I needed to feed it a stick every few seconds to maintain it. Much smaller and I wouldn't have been able to move my tweezers fast enough to keep it fed.

The interaction of different stick sizes also scales that way. If I was to add a couple of eight inch wide split wedges on that same human scale fire, then once those caught, I could slow down feeding the smaller sticks into it to about 1 every 10 minutes, and still keep the same flame size as long as the larger pieces last. Likewise on the same mini fire as above, I could add a few 1 inch wide split wedges, and slow down to feeding it a little stick every 10 seconds.

The size I was playing with could be considered, say, mouse sized. By the time you scaled down to ant sized, the time scale would be so exaggerated as to be meaningless to compare to human sized fires. This isn't taking into account any additional non-obvious factors that change how it behaves. So no, ant sized campfires are not possible. Mouse sized scale campfires are possible, but only if you tend them constantly and quickly.

Also, I didn't take any precise measurements, I was just making tiny fires to relax. All numbers above are just rough estimates from memory, so you can't really calculate how the scaling works from this, only that is sort of does work, within limits.

I clicked the link and read the whole thing. I still am not sure if this is sincere or satire. It's so out there that I kind of hope it is real, and that they find what they are looking for.

In no particular order:

• Mourn the loss of numerous family, friends, and acquaintances.
• Panic and prepare for the impending crash of my society's essential supply chains.
• Existential meltdown at the idea that billions of people can vanish overnight.

What a stupid fucking question.

And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.

No no, go ahead and brag a little. It makes both of us happier about our different life choices.

Felony false alarm or report under Texas Penal Code § 32.06 for saying she had heard reports of hospitalizations from drinking the water, but the police had not heard any such reports. She's now suing the city, the police chief, and one specific city council member. The mayor talked openly with the news about the water issues, but declined to make any comment on the arrest.

Follow up video: The DA did actually file charges, but a grand jury refused to indict, so the case is over. Another guy from out of town got arrested (on live stream) for holding a sign in front of the police station protesting the arrest. He was charged with a misdemeanor, but the judge dismissed it immediately.

Yeah, some fire departments are known for doing this. It's not about a shorter route for the hose, it's about sending a message.

Go ahead, no one will notice. No one will immortalize it on camera to be viewed across the internet. It'll be fine.

Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.

"S bren s beve"

Such words of wisdom.

Note that these are book ages shown on the movie characters. The movies omit the ~17 year time skip between Frodo's 33rd birthday and his flight from the Shire.