swlabr @ swlabr @awful.systems

Only Bayes Can Judge Me

---

Read more

Posts

36

Comments

1,736

Joined

2 yr. ago

Depends on the steakhouse. Take a shitty american chain steakhouse, for example; it could go either way. They might still try cater to vegetarians, because these chains are a volume business. But it also makes sense in that saturating your meal with beef makes sense for a shitty chain steakhouse.

For a fancier place concerned with taste, having beef on everything would desensitise you to that taste, and would probably kill the experience.

That tracks. CEOs are locked in a state of needing to justify their own existence. Being the one in charge of migrating to AI is the perfect reason. CEOs live and die by quarterly performance, but don’t have to answer to long term issues; janky code that resembles a demo is good enough to last until the CEO can laterally jump to the next ship.

Re: beef tallow fries. I tried some tonight. I liked them. They taste exactly as you’d expect: beefy. Is it worth fascism? Definitely not.

watched 3blue1brown videos at the gym

Ahh, getting brain gains while also getting your gain gains. Gotta gainmaxx

I would delete a field in a struct definition and it would suggest “hey, delete it down here too, in the constructor?” and I’d hit tab and it would go “now delete this setter down here too”, tab, “… and this getter”, tab, “… and it’s also mentioned here in this formatting function”, tab. Tab, tab, tab.

wtf? Refactor functionality exists. You don’t need an LLM for this. There are probably good vim plugins that will do this for you. Clearly this 15 year vim user is still a vim scrub (takes one to know one tbh).

I started following near, who was talking about Claude like a life companion. near used Claude in every possible situation: to research, to program, to weigh life options, to crack jokes.

Near needs to touch some fucking grass.

If nothing else, it’s a trap discussion. The only real answer is “they’re both fine.” Anyone who seriously argues that one is far superior to another probably needs therapy. Joke discussions are fine and signs of a healthy brain.

E: when I think vim, I think of bram moolenaar, may he rest in peace. When I think emacs, I think of richard stallman, who can go fuck himself with a rake.

Praise be to the timelines

ah, big insights into the world of AI. Where do you think we’ll land on AGI?

Now I want an anti-AI song parody called “A Guy Instead” to the tune of the Beatle’s “I’ll Cry Instead”

Thanks for looking into it. The idea of an ethical data set large enough to train an LLM is suspicious.

From the class guide:

We ask that students do not use laptops or phones in class. Research suggests that students who do so unwittingly spend much of the time surfing the internet leading to worse educational outcomes, and that taking notes by hand is much more effective. You may use laptops during class exercises, and you may also use a tablet to take notes.

lol

I think this sub might be satirical and that this post is under that umbrella, investigating!

E: post is tagged as humor

Core Strategy: We define the probability of victory, PvictoryP_{\text{victory}}Pvictory​, as: Pvictory=( C B A^{2+ℏ∂ΨP∂t)×(Nc⋅c2)P_{\text{victory}} = \left( C B A}2 + \hbar \frac{\partial \Psi_P}{\partial t} \right) \times (Nc \cdot c^2)Pvictory​=(CBA2+ℏ∂t∂ΨP​​)×(Nc⋅c2). (Someone told me this is "LateX"? I think you need to copy it to ChatGPT to see the equation.)

Yeah it’s time to delete LaTeX. We’re done. We don’t deserve it anymore

Yeah. They are like midbosses of this side of the internet.

100%. Nostalgia is a toxic impulse.

He was right wing, after all, not to mention a cultist. His heart didn’t have the capacity for such a compassionate solution, and that’s before it was collapsed by that homemade hand-cannon.

Without going into too much detail (because I am not well read on this and am likely to be wrong about a lot of it), one of the many issues that Abe addressed during his leadership was Japan's declining birthrate. There's a bit of a conspiracy amongst many people who consume Japanese popular culture (at a deep-ish level) that Abe pushed pronatalist themes in pop culture, as well as tropes like NEETs/hikikomori escaping their isolation from society and entering romantic relationships. This has become a huge meme, where any time a romantic development happens in a manga or anime, many people are quick to say things along the lines of "Abe would be proud".

E: From the knowyourmeme page on Abe:

Japan has seen a declining birthrate and population in recent years, which has been blamed on young people in Japan being uninterested in having sex. However, due to sexual content in many anime, including shows like Darling in the Franxx whose plots seem to encourage procreation, people have joked that Abe is using anime to encourage Japanese young people to have sex and start families. These are particularly popular on Tumblr. For example, Tumblr user justintaco posted a photoshopped image of Abe superimposed on a screenshot of Darling in the Franxx, gaining over 36,000 notes (shown below, left). User freyjaofthenorth made a similar post about the anime Conception, gaining over 2,900 notes (shown below, right). There is also a mock Tumblr for Shinzo Abe devoted to this joke.

shinzo abe but not assassinated yet

I tried being too vague to avoid giving the pronatalist couple more clout, and I guess the bit bombed.

Also: I fact checked myself and it turns out I committed the grave sin of posting old news.

Idk if I have the formulation right on this but I imagine it’s a combination of various things:

• Conservative nostalgia, concretely for fries themselves and abstractly for a fake, idealised version of the past.
• Crackpot health woo: beef tallow is “carnivore” and “caveman” diet-coded. It’s not a processed/GMO seed oil.
• Conspiracy by US Big Dairy to beef up their numbers.

I can’t speak for the taste. However, the fat used to fry fries does make a difference, as fat is a conveyance of flavour. Many fry recipes call for peanut oil, for example, while many people prefer using a neutral oil like canola to deep fry. I don’t think I know instinctively what the taste of beef tallow is like, but I imagine it’s just… beefy?

Notably different oils have different smoke points, meaning you can fry at higher temperatures for different textures. That’s why duck fat potatoes are a thing, for example.

Malcolm Gladwell famously has a podcast episode on the crusade against beef tallow, where he also replicates mcdonalds fries with beef tallow. But Gladwell is a chud, so fuck all that.

That couple have been in the white house to brief the president on their one thing ig