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  • An upscale but retro-themed gaming cafe would probably do well in a big enough city.

    Like, instead of selling only Red Bull (but do sell that too) sell quality espresso. Instead of just instant Ramen (but do sell that too), sell Japanese-restaurant style Ramen. Charge a fair price for that, heck overcharge for it. It’s a bit like a movie theatre, but you’re getting quality goods not just popcorn.

    You could also do well with the kinds of setups that most people can’t have at home because of space / time constraints. Like a proper VR setup with the space you actually need to take advantage of it. A Flight Sim cockpit with a good HOTAS setup. A racing setup with pedals and stick. Also, just simple stuff like couches in front of a big screen for playing console games together. Even people who have a couch, big TV and good console at home probably don’t get to have their pals over for gaming sessions much because they need to share the couch with spouses and kids.

    Also, have lockers on-site people can rent out to store consoles, peripherals, etc. So, someone can come in, rent out a “booth”, and go get their gear out of the locker if there are specialty things they want that aren’t provided by the cafe.


  • I do that, but the more complicated the meal, the less down time there is, and the more stuff there is you can’t clean up until the end.

    Also, if you use serving dishes, rather than just serve out of the pot / pan, that’s another thing to clean. It’s true that cleaning a pot or pan is normally a bit harder than a serving dish. But, IMO the extra bit to clean means it’s not worth it.

    It is a bit of a triumph when the only thing to clean after dinner is a single pot or pan though. And, pro-tip, you can make the pans easier to clean after dinner if you dump a bit of water in them as you’re sitting down to eat. Even 30 minutes is enough to turn the remains of a delicious sauce into sludge at the bottom of the pan. But, soaking while you eat makes it super quick to scrape it out afterwards.


  • On a related note:

    United States Department of Damage Control is a fictional construction company appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The company specializes in repairing the property damage caused by conflicts between superheroes and supervillains.[1] Three Damage Control limited series have been published.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damage_Control_(comics)

    Also note that the initials of “Damage Control” are “D.C.

    This goes part of the way to explain why people are willing to continue to live in NYC despite it being regularly attacked by supervillains, aliens, demons, etc. Though, I still think Philadelphia, Newark, Allentown and New Haven would probably be experiencing a lot of growth, seeing as they appear to be close to NYC and yet safe from the NYC chaos and danger.



  • Libraries are great, and skeletons reading books are fun, but biker vests are just goofy. There’s nothing “hard” about them.

    Oooooh, look at me. I mean it, please, look at me! I want your attention desperately. Look at my vest. I’m wearing leather (which is actually good protection against road rash when riding a motorcycle), but I’m leaving my arms bare, so that when inevitably I fall off my bike, my arms will get absolutely shredded by the asphalt, but my chest and back area will be less damaged. I want to wear some protective gear, but not actually effective protective gear. I’m in a club, with other boys, and I want everyone to know about my club! I’m a manly man!




  • Yes, thinking involves signals firing in your brain. But, not just any signals. Fire the wrong signals and someone’s having a seizure not thinking.

    Just because LLMs generate words doesn’t mean they’re thinking. Thinking involves reasoning and considering something. It involves processing information, storing memories, then bringing them up later as appropriate. We know LLMs aren’t doing that because we know what they are doing, and what they’re doing is simply generating the next word based on previous words.










  • merc@sh.itjust.workstoJust Post@lemmy.worldLLM hallucinations
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    They’re not even “stupid” though. It’s more like if you somehow trained a parrot with every book ever written and every web page ever created and then had it riff on things.

    But, even then, a parrot is a thinking being. It may not understand the words it’s using, but it understands emotion to some extent, it understands “conversation” to a certain extent – taking turns talking, etc. An LLM just predicts the word that should appear next statistically.

    An LLM is nothing more than an incredibly sophisticated computer model designed to generate words in a way that fools humans into thinking those words have meaning. It’s almost more like a lantern fish than a parrot.