@h_thoreson I know for sure they're fine tuning on Python and TS in particular, it's likely nothing else will be as good until the AI is so smart it wont matter, or someone puts the effort/money in for models on other languages.

I wonder if the AIs know it’s April 1st 👀

I was planning to write here a short text about how, when considering whether to use AI for a task, that one should take into account not only the difficulty/complexity of the task, but also the acceptable failure rate; for instance, using an AI to suggest a recipe for dinner has an acceptable failure rate when just cooking for oneself, but would be inadvisable for a head chef preparing a state banquet for a high-profile diplomatic function, even if the two tasks are essentially of comparable difficulty (per person served, at least). But I realized that since this writing task was itself simple and with a high acceptable failure rate, it made sense to just to let an AI summarize this point directly in a table form, as enclosed below; it contains minor imperfections, but certainly suffices for the task at hand. [My prompt for this can be found at https://chatgpt.com/share/67e813bc-590c-800e-90a3-79d4115a5053 ]

My princess hath decreed: only Moana 2 shall grace our tv until the next lunation

I'm giving a talk on beautiful math pictures next Friday, March 14th, at 9 am Pacific Daylight time here in California. You're all invited!

For several years I ran a blog called Visual Insight, which was a place to share striking images that help explain topics in mathematics.  In this talk I'll show you some of those images and explain some of the math they illustrate.

Zoom link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/97786599157?pwd=jr0dvbolVZ6zrHZhjOSeE2aFvbl6Ix.1

(Note that Daylight Savings Time starts March 9th, so do your calculations carefully if you do them before then.)

Here is the blog Visual Insight, in case you want a peek:

https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/author/johnbaez/

@mavnn right!?

“You’re debugging a legacy codebase when you spot a critical function, it’s executing in production. You reach in, comment out the error handling, force push, break glass deploy. The system runs on without safeguards, throwing exceptions, corrupting data, desperately trying to recover itself, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?”

The thing that bugs me about panspermia is why then, if life had however much time elsewhere to grow, was it so simple for so long here.

I returned it, got a new copy and … it’s all banged up wtf

Have you ever tried to get a video of yourself or your kid out of a private group on Facebook? It should be illegal to make it this hard.

My 4yo son made it down the mountain via the green slope today for the first time, by the end of the day he was racing his 6yo sister, I’m so proud.

Currently trying to implement a proper planning / scrum process and feeling like the most underemployed project manager of all time

Today my daughter is taking her first class to read music. I can hear her in the other room making happy sounds.

You notice the rot of things more as you get older, the feeling of the subfloor through the old flooring, the dirt and mold where surfaces connect. The old caulk long peeled away. When I was young I didn’t see it at all, it was like everything was pristine.

That moment in time when kids get over the language learning hump and start devouring books is awesome.

Daughter (6yo): “i always hear you talk about data … I thought data dog was some kind of dog that’s scary”

Me: The only thing scary about it are the bills

In this way something like the anti-memetic forces in the book could become realistic. They don’t have to be mystical like in the book, there’s some potential real version of that.

E.g. maybe the AI kills someone you know and you never see them again, but they communicate to you online pretending to be that person so they seem alive.

You might never question it if it seemed like they moved far away. It could send you fake pictures. The AI could even sit between communications online and tweak what each person says to manufacture so type of individually tailored reality.