@[email protected] You'd hope tactics like this would be self-defeating, but unfortunately that "hope" is bearing rather a lot of weight I'm not sure it can support.
@[email protected] But like a pineapple does it contain neither apple nor sauce?
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Chatting with someone about #ttrpg writing and was reminded of Nobilis 3rd edition, a game that contains my all time favourate example character and that has writing in its rules that you could quote for days. Like... how the interaction between your supernatural connection to things you value (the Treasure stat, think things like Thor's hammer) interacts with the Aspect stat (your ability to personally perform tasks beyond mortal limits, or opposed to say Domain where you control the thing you're a Power of to create miracles):
If you possess something using Treasure, you can wield your Aspect through its body. This draws on the natural limits of that body, however, rather than your own — if you’re possessing one of your hopes, for instance, you’re not going to be able to lift a great weight very easily because hope has no arms and legs. All you’ll be able to do is coil more tightly about your own heart, or shine in yourself with greater strength.
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And synchronisity in full play I'm not the only person thinking about this and trying to get the idea communicated in different ways.
Thinking about LLMs again because, unfortunately, I needed to think about LLMs again and I think I found a way to say something.
LLMs are a technique for matching input requests with semantically connected outputs from their training set, where 'semantically connected' is determined by how language in different contexts in the training data. That's what they do: find related language to what 'should come after' the prompt.
Which means that with enough input related to anything in the training set, you'll start getting the related training data (mixed and matched at the token level to varying degrees). Bomb making instructions? If they're in the training set, there's a way to extract them. Hacking tips and tricks? Of course. Other customers private data? If the LLM can access it, it can be triggered to share it.
Which means, fundamentally, the only way to control LLM output is... choosing the LLM training data. Apart from all of the odious business practices of the current suppliers, why are we trying to legislate LLM output when what we really need to enforce is ethical LLM training input? The rest is just noise; even banning LLMs makes no sense, at the end of the day they're just applied matrix multiplication and we've seen how 'banning maths' goes historically a few times already. #llm #MathsBan #IllegalNumbers
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@[email protected] while I had sort of assumed the five referred to fingers, I suppose there is also the possibility that (the people being represented by) American kids on TV during my childhood took a lot more drugs than I thought.
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@[email protected] ...you have five thighs?
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Funny enough for another star and watcher definitely. I do wonder if (unfortunately) links from places like xitter and the orange place are where the repos get found.
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Just testing something. #kumquat
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Turns out that each operation is very, very, slow but the code speed isn't actually too bad. Basically: for must batch updates and then set values for large ranges at a time, or your code will run like molasses.
Scripted up a simple data transformation for school today in Google Sheets and App Scripts are slooooow. Like order of magnitude slower than running vbscript in Excel circa 2000. Is this normal?
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@[email protected] I think you're right, yes.
@[email protected] I probably wasn't clear: the spells your character casts are a stack based programming language whose built in functions are implemented as nodes. So gdscript interpreting arrays of nodes as stacks of operations, sort of. Including quotations and subprocesses - sorry, subspells. It's very silly.
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Lighting starting to get going, and no #godot logo! (No real artwork either, but hey).
Initial performance tests are encouraging though; given the spells are basically a very slowly interpreted language built of Godot nodes I was worried it would be unworkably slow and I'd need to start optimising early to get it workable. Turns out that even with dozens of spells flying around at a time it all still just works. #GameDev
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One of the students at my wife's school showed great cunning and skill by managing to sneak his mobile phone into a no digital device externally moderated exam.
He showed slightly less cunning when he posted a picture of one of the other students taking the exam to my wife's Google Classroom complaining that nobody with that posture could be taking the exam seriously.
I'm honestly unclear on what he thought would happen next.
Hooking up barks (the short exclaimations made in games by NPCs to respond to events happening in real time).
Death cries seemed the kind of moments of pathos where I could both test the plumbing and flex my mighty game narrative writing skills in some deeply poignant last words.
=== death_cry ===
{~Oh noes!|Woe is me...|Never surrender!|Next time, gadget!|Aaaaaaaaaargh!}
-> END
@[email protected] @[email protected] Hate gas blower so I was very dubious when someone recommended me an electric one. It's great! No louder than a large hair dryer, no messing with explosive petrochemicals, blows all the leaves into a pile that's easy to sweep up. Only thing I'm not clear on is why the leaves are so much harder to sweep up when blown by a gas blower... (and yes, I do live somewhere where there's lots of leaves)
@[email protected] Gotta love the argument of "we agree that none of these things can ever be protected from jail breaking so you should let us carry on selling ours." I mean, yes, the government is biased inconsistent bullshit but as counter arguments go "why haven't you just nuked our whole industry" is a surprising take.
@[email protected] In the original Turkish translation of Narnia, the translators ended up calling Aslan "Lion" (Lewis had used the Turkish word to sound foreign). It confused me rather and definitely sounded wrong (we happened to be living in Istanbul when it was released).
