just got a bunch of his friends to agree with him

You mean the International Astronomical Union? I mean at some point if every world-level expert on the topic is saying the same thing, then maybe you need to let go of what Miss Honey told you in first grade.

A few years later: “dang, they knew all along”

I can tolerate that, the one I can’t stand is Netflix shows where the ~dialogue is a mumbled quiet~ and random bits of foley try to blow my speakers out.

It makes it especially noticeable just how dodgy a lot of foley/sound editing work is, eg when someone throwing a punch and missing still goes WHOOSH at the same volume they use for gunshots. There’s YA shows now where even the camera panning gets a sound effect ffs

You don’t even need to reject the applicability of Gödel, because there’s no proof that our universe doesn’t include a bunch of undecidable things tucked away in the margins. Jupiter could be filled with complete nonsense for all we know.

Yeah, if you were to ask “do cisgender people like to be noticed?” people would assume you were being facetious.

First, there’s no “somehow magically” about it, the entire logic of the halting problem’s proof relies on being able to set up a contradiction. I’ll agree that returning undecidable doesn’t solve the problem as stated because the problem as stated only allows two responses.

My wider point is that the Halting problem as stated is a purely academic one that’s unlikely to ever cause a problem in any real world scenario. Indeed, the ability to say “I don’t know” to unsolvable questions is a hot topic of ongoing LLM research.

It’s easy to be dismissive because you’re talking from the frame of reference of current LLMs. The article is positing a universal truth about all possible technological advances in future LLMs.

Mathematically you might be able to prove I don’t always (and I’m not convinced of that even; I don’t think there is an inherent contradiction like the one used for the proof of Halting), but the bar for acceptable false positives is sufficiently low and the scenario is such an edge case of an edge case of an edge case, that anyone trying to use the whole principle to argue anything about real-world applications is grasping at straws.

The thing that always bothered me about the Halting Problem is that the proof of it is so thoroughly convoluted and easy to fix (simply add the ability to return “undecidable”) that it seems wanky to try applying it as part of a proof for any kind of real world problem.

(Edit: jfc, fuck me for trying to introduce any kind of technical discussion in a pile-on thread. I wasn’t even trying to cheerlead for LLMs, I just wanted to talk about comp sci)

If money is speech, what is a company “saying” when it donates to both parties?

Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.

Makes more sense for God to measure things in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynghanedd

That’s a good point about private practice. If you go directly from graduating to being in charge of a whole practice without having gone through the middle stage of building experience and seeing how practices are run, you’re probably not going to do a good job.

Dishwashers use less water than hand washing. Perhaps you were imagining that the entire dishwasher fills up with water like a clothes washer does?

Some people find the smell very strong. Something to do with receptors idk? I know someone with a banana allergy who can immediately tell if he’s entered a room with bananas in it from smell alone, even if they’re not peeled.

also, banana strings

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many critical vulnerabilities are currently unpatched in Windows 7?

How bad would running Windows 10 past support be exactly? Seems like most vulnerabilities should have been patched by now.

weirdest use of that meme format to date

also the irony of 145 IQ man tripping over his own grammar