Lots of sites are down right now, including lemmy.world. The Fediverse is pretty cool though, my instance isn’t using Cloudflare and is doing just fine

Flashbacks to 'nam

Probably the best traction you’re going to get is in !asklemmy@lemmy.world. There exist more specific communities as listed in the other comments, but they tend to be much smaller, or defunct.

Thanks! I appreciate hearing it

Thanks, updated. I pull the transcripts from the site that hosts the comics, and sometimes they’re wrong. I usually check that they’re right, but of course I forget to check when it’s wrong 😅

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

A few years ago, the Citizen-Journal in Columbus, Ohio, made a slight mistake regarding which Far Side caption went with which cartoon.

The caption for the “slug” cartoon, depicting a mass of slugs worshiping their “god” and chanting some nonsensical intonation, was repeated the following day with the “tree house” cartoon. Instead of the version shown in the upper left corner, what Columbus readers saw was the cartoon at left.

And how many letters did I have forwarded to me asking for an explanation? Don’t ask.

Primal Kitchen has some good ketchup, both “Unsweetened” and “A Tad Sweet” are normal levels of sweet. To the point where I’ve seen little kids that are used to the liquid sugar style exclaim “This ketchup tastes sour!” and refuse to eat it

Is brongo a joke or something you actually use? Never heard that term. I have used the terms linner or lupper, jokingly

The norm for me is breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with dinner being interchangeable with supper. I found out recently that the word supper derives from soup that you’d have at the end of the day right before bed, and in some places those are different meals. Some places also call whatever the biggest meal of the day is “dinner”, which might be eaten at noon, which is weird to me. Small breakfast in the morning, smaller meal at noon for lunch, and then bigger meal for supper/dinner in the evening is what I’m used to.

The title doesn’t capture the whole article, it talks about wiring up SAT solvers to LLMs and how that might help solve difficult math problems. The proofs will be difficult or impossible to understand as a human, but:

Heule argues that most mathematicians overvalue understanding and undervalue trust.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

After completing this cartoon, I realized one of the apes had to be sucking an empty glass onto his face (as I myself used to be quite good at), so it was necessary to start over.

Memes as tech support is the Lemmy way 🫡

If that doesn’t work, probably posting in !piefed_help@piefed.social would be a good first step

Good question for @rimu@piefed.social

Not really surprising that they’re good at analyzing language, since they are Large Language Models after all. Still neat to see, though. Here’s the most interesting bit:

In the phonology task, the group made up 30 new mini-languages, as Beguš called them, to find out whether the LLMs could correctly infer the phonological rules without any prior knowledge. Each language consisted of 40 made-up words. Here are some example words from one of the languages:

• θalp
• ʃebre
• ði̤zṳ
• ga̤rbo̤nda̤
• ʒi̤zṳðe̤jo

They then asked the language models to analyze the phonological processes of each language. For this language, o1 correctly wrote that “a vowel becomes a breathy vowel when it is immediately preceded by a consonant that is both voiced and an obstruent” — a sound formed by restricting airflow, like the “t” in “top.”

The languages were newly invented, so there’s no way that o1 could have been exposed to them during its training. “I was not expecting the results to be as strong or as impressive as they were,” Mortensen said.

I’ve also tried out various LLMs on daily puzzles that it couldn’t have been trained on, like Connections and it does a really good job. I don’t think that the end of humanity is nigh or anything dramatic like that, but IMO this invalidates people that really want to hate AI and claim has 0 intelligence.

Your wish is granted and it appears in a searing flash of light that leaves you permanently blinded.

The bonus panel mentions infinite gold created from nothing, so I think duplication is allowed. Each time the neighbor gets all of the fisherman’s money, the total amount of gold is magically doubled.

Yeah, the whole base game should be playable, modulo any bugs. I haven’t tried mods, but a lot (most?) of them should work, unless they’re mucking around with the engine itself.

The son achieves his dream of being an astronaut in the third panel and you think the dad is wrong, but the fourth panel shows that he’s an insurance astronaut of some sort, meaning his dad was right that he’d be limited to insurance careers for some reason. Not a particularly deep joke

If you like the any of the Elder Scrolls games and haven’t checked out OpenMW, it’s really impressive and worth checking out. They’ve talked about adding support for Oblivion/Skyrim too, which would be amazing.

Like in your mouth, or with a hairdryer, or something else?