Actually, if I recall it was ultimately still slightly less than half (after the massive excess of California votes that don’t count came in). He still had the most votes of the candidates, but no candidate garnered more than half.
Which is really just splitting hairs on a technicality, ultimately 77 million people voted this way, and it would have still been a deep problem even if Harris had won the popular and electoral votes.
Whatever LLM you do for yourself or for stupid fluff data that no one needs but bureaucracy demands, sure. You inflict that output on me in ways that inconvenience me, then I’m going to be frustrated with you. If I wanted LLM output, then I could get it myself and likely tried before asking.
Well, it can help someone gain knowledge that is widespread knowledge to everyone else, but you have to constantly be wary that it will screw up harder than an old stackoverflow answer… It can deal with basic questions like “How do you combine an array of strings in language X?” I think an LLM can answer (of course, so too would 'I’m feeling lucky" google search).
I’ll try to see if the management is secretly as disinterested in the filler as I am and have had some success in “here’s a summary, you can let me sweat the details”. Occasionally I hit leadership that is so insecure they demand wall of text and I could understand resorting in LLM as wall of text generator if all other options have been exhausted.
Depends on if I am likely going to think I should read it or not.
I have some automation for some data fields that I know no one reads, that basically says “See general description” rather than trying to fill out the fields as directed. It’s a scenario where there’s like 4 subtly different “description” fields that are all mandatory and I just write up the description once and redirect everyone to the one field.
I’ll probably not read the summary you wrote of the report I also probably wouldn’t read, so I really don’t care about your use of LLM because that’s fine. You have a soul crushingly stupid job responsibility and I wish you well in your efforts to find better.
What I can’t stand are: Someone had something to convey that could have been a sentence, but had to make it “professionally” long and used an LLM to drag it out. This isn’t new, but it’s more common now thanks to LLM making it effortless.
Someone who refuses to answer “I don’t know” to a question, but act like they do know instead, particularly using LLMs to fake it nowadays. I could have asked the LLM myself if that would have worked. I’ve seen this exchange too much:
I assume it’s just the badly done cosmetics. Usually you associate that with someone trying to plaster over their age, it makes people seem older when they do that despite being young enough not to need to.
Well, when scruples superficially suggest a similar reaction as racist stereotypes, the racist stereotype can drag her to the right side of an issue.
Ironically, in Harley Quinn, Joker actually becomes mayor and he actually was a good mayor, much better than Trump as a president.
I was listening to another union leader talk on current situation and he transparently expressed how good the tariffs were that specifically applied to his specific industry but lamented how it was also impacting other goods making them unaffordable for the union members…
I suppose the question would be the alternative.
Note the devices actively discouraging offline save is a huge asset to schools, since kids screw up a lot, forget their devices and need loaners to get through a day and such. Extra bonus if the device can’t be too fun, to avoid them being overly used at home and get broken more.So Chromebook is desirable because they suck so much.
The good time to sell was December…
Suppose it’s now a “less bad” time than it’s probably going to get.
Well, it’s more than just smoothness. The AI segment looks like kind of random jiggling of the limbs. If anything attempting to inject smoothing probably would have made it look worse, like a jello man wobbling around more than dancing. The AI one seems pretty devoid of intent…
Now if an animator had created more keyframes to create the intent and delegated an AI model to animate smoothness more? Sure, though the animator I saw highlighted non-AI tools that could do the same, but generally at a greater quality, at least for cartoonish content.
Of course, the AI tools may lower the bar of effort for people that wouldn’t otherwise have the skill or effort to try, but at least in the animation of 2D content, it may lag a bit.
I watched a video talking about smoothing is actually not always better in animation.
Easy example, in an action scene smoothly and consistently animation of impossible action is just a blur. An animator is deciding to punctuate the scene by letting certain frames linger, or just generally reducing the frames for a certain type of scene.
Not saying anything about AI assisting in authoring that, but “smooth” is not always better.
Eh, I think if there’s significant room for conspiracy theory bullshit around his death I would be too concerned how that might be weaponized. So I am very much hoping nothing even potentially suspicious kills him off.
Yeah, a way to play both sides of pushing for a harsh sentence whole you use a puppet to drive empathy…
Should have been a slam dunk without the video.
They are down significantly harder than the S&P 500, despite logically being in a market that shouldn’t be as vulnerable to things like tariffs.
I do all my video editing in emacs
The environmental causes are availability of options we crave but are still not forced into, so individual responsibility is absolutely a thing.
I was obese and it sucked but I got down to a healthy weight, and keeping it off kind of still sucks but it doesn’t take a lot of time or money, in fact it’s generally cheaper.
Fast food is constantly highlighted as an impossibly unhealthy reality, the nicer places cost more and take too much time. Except you can choose passable choices in fast food.
If you can freely pick, there are fast food places that offer salads with maybe some grilled chicken, which can be healthy unless you opt to drown it in ranch.
But let’s say you are in a group and they pick a restaurant without an option like salad. Just asking for water instead of a big sugary drink gets you so much closer to healthy. Skip the fries, skip the mayo, get a smaller burger. All these things are cheaper and friendlier to a reasonable caloric budget.
It sucks because it means eating to feeling “ok” while skipping the most awesome foods and rarely getting to feel just utterly full, but that was just life when people had healthier weight.
Similarly on activity. It does suck that work has people sedentary, but our idle pursuits are similar. When I was a kid, TV was stuck on a schedule and video games were only so engaging, so we would get bored and want to do something. Maybe it was walk amongst some trees to see if anytime interesting was around. Maybe do something with a ball. Nowadays we can get endless engagement from streaming, video games, and Internet. So tempting to just be on the couch. We can still choose those more active things, but we don’t want to.
Note all this awesome stuff is still great in moderation. I just went full on gorging at a restaurant a week ago on pretty much whatever I wanted. The thing is this is maybe like once every 2 or 3 weeks, not daily like we really want to.