I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone. It's like a schoolhouse of little words, thousands of words. First you figure out what each one means by itself, the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop full of moonlight.
So I was reading a post that was supposed to be about testing different LLMs at chess…and the author keeps saying things like “I asked it for the next move, and if the first 20 responses were all illegal, I chose a legal move at random.”
My dude (gender-neutral), this means the model cannot play chess.
Just imagine applying this logic to any other kind of tech. “If I run the vacuum cleaner over the same cat hair 20 times and it still doesn’t get sucked up, I pick up the cat hair by hand and keep going. And look, I end up with a clean carpet! This proves how well the vacuum works!”
I mentioned all this on Mastodon/Bluesky, and added that what I really wanted to see was a breakdown of the kind of illegal moves LLMs try to make. Someone replied with a rec for GothamChess on Youtube. (I’ve watched a bunch of his LLM game videos now, they’re exactly what I was looking for, more on those later.)
The thing is, though: I was out at the time, I couldn’t stop to watch videos, so I just googled the guy on my phone. When I leave a tab open, it’s a reminder to check this out once I get home.
…And one of the top search results was a Reddit post with the summary, quote, “American Internatiol Master Levy Rozman, AKA “GothamChess” has just been charged with one count of first-degree murder.”
I was, uh, pretty alarmed by this. I clicked through, hoping to find out more about what happened.
So…what gives? Is Reddit putting AI-hallucinated summaries in the metadata of its own posts, or is Google using AI-hallucinated summaries to replace what the site gives it? Which executive signed off on this?
Edit: The line is apparently the title of a completely different (and joking!) Reddit post. Thanks to Gwen for spotting it! It’s not linked in the post above, or in any of the comments — apparently Reddit was showing it as a “Related Post” for Gwen, and for me, it isn’t even doing that.
So it’s not completely hallucinated text…it’s just pulled from a completely inappropriate part of the page. And then put at almost the top of the Google search results. Without linking back to the context that would show it’s a joke. Either it’s a normal algorithm, but for some reason it was programmed to pull summary text from random parts of the page…or it’s still an LLM, having the “you should eat several small rocks per day” problem.
Wish I knew which it was. And I’m still curious which of the companies is falling on their face, here.
+ Relootedhas a demo up! Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in an Africanfuturist heist game! I won't be able until I get home, but I've been super excited since I saw the trailer.
+ In Defense of Despair. We are also reading Aracelis Girmay’s “You Are Who I Love,” in which the speaker unfurls a list of people they love, people they want to see survive, people doing what those not committed to close and tender attention might call the daily tasks of living: a person stirring a pot of beans, a person selling roses out of a cart, a person crossing a border, a person carrying their brother home, a person singing Leonard Cohen to the snow. You, reader, do not personally know these people, but their motivations spark a familiar feeling—here is someone trying to survive in a world that can render a person unable to get out of bed. You, too, may love a person who cannot get out of bed, which is why you cherish the things that convey, I am trying to stitch together enough small moments to have a life for a little bit longer.
I have to admit that when all the hubbub of him being cast in Winter Soldier happened, I was entirely out of the loop. He didn't have much presence in my life growing up, despite me devouring movies. But it's been nice to read about his life since yesterday. I never knew about all his activism.
etaSneakers is a movie that's being mentioned a lot, I may seek that one out. Here's a writeup at PC Mag (makes sense, as it's about cyber security, I believe?)
.......and yes of course I'm already noodling about on a sequel. I was like 'no I am absolutely not doing an alternate S3, that would be way too much to take on' and not five minutes later my brain was rearranging its toybox going 'yeah but what would that look like though'
I'm even not bad at decluttering, so long as it's okay to literally throw everything out. (They'll sooner or later send another copy of that late bill, don't worry! And you can always order another birth certificate, probably.)
But I'm not so good at routine maintenance. Does anybody have any already set up daily/weekly/monthly/periodically checklists for various areas of the house that they can recommend?
+ No Man's Sky had an update adding customizable shared space ships, and now I'll have to jump back in. Anybody else here still play NMS from time to time? Farting around in a communal decorated base sounds like so much fun.
(I saw one ship shaped like Clippy lol)
+ Or if you'd rather base build and hang in a desert planet, Dune Awakening has a free demo weekend. I honestly didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but the environment is lovingly crafted, and the story surprisingly robust.
Sadly I don't have enough internet at sea to dl the update myself. I'm missing out on a stunning mural 😔
I'm on Europe Lynx / Sietch Yaracuwan, it's been fairly free from bothersome trolls. They've added a bunch more events and story characters as well, so I'm diving back in when I get home. In case somebody wants to buddy up for base building? I'll have to start almost from scratch because I suuure didn't put anything in the bank like I ought to have.
+ And Marvel Rivals is adding Angela!! I don't want to be interested in a hero shooter but HOT DAMN
Welp, that's some shite. Playstation has dumped Genshin Impact from the PS4. My console of preference. Sigh.
Not completely bad. I still have a shit ton of the game to play. I've barely worked on the Inuzuma main questline, for frame of reference. And despite being able to jump into a lot of main quest storylines for Natlan, I'm choosing to do them when I "unlock" them chronologically. So yeah, tbat's a lot of game still. This is what happens when you get carried away with side-quests.
I'm gonna miss the random requests for people to join my world. I always denied them, but I'm gonna miss them, lol.
At least until I start playing Genshin on my xbox one. Gotta do some rearranging before then and since that involves new furniture, that might take a bit.
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In non-Genshin talk, I need to get back to writing. It's been a long while and having a laptop again has inspired me again. I've been toying on a book idea, believe it or not. Actually, I've had several book ideas that I've been poking at over the past few years. Three of them serious - an urban fantasy YA story, a fantasy YA, and an urban fantasy crime series based on fairy tale characters (the first story has to do with Peter Pan). I'm especially enthusiastic about the last one, but I've actually put a bit of work into the other two.
As for fanfic, well, I'm finally consuming fanfic worthy media, lol. (Well, not "finally", just more of it.) Been playing Pokemon Sword and just got Sun. Made me miss my interests in writing/reading Pokemon crossover fics with Silent Hill or some kind of post-apocalyptic series. I'm glad as well to have new characters for my ongoing Pokemon/Hunger Games crossover fic (rather unfortunate for them, actually).
I'm looking forward to the new Harry Potter series, which is a fandom oldie fave. I will NOT be watching it on HBO when it comes out. I'm going to sail the seven seas for it and I recommend you all do the same.
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Also, been watching a lot of horror movies this year and I gotta say, it's been a hell of a good year for them. I can't say I have definitive horror movie fave of the year but the recent Weapons and Together had some great horror scenes in recent movies, imo. Ok, and I loved every moment of 28 Years Later, but that's completely biased as I'm a huge 28 Days/Weeks Later fan (and a huge fan of Alex Garland overall, tbh).
I'm rambling now. Feels good. =)
Current Music:idk, some horror movie on tv *shrug*
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“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
And they now expect the part in tomorrow, at which point we should be able to make an appointment to repair.
As I reiterated - but briefly, because the person making the call was not responsible for this situation - a delay in shipping is one thing, but lack of communication is something very different.
I sent them another voicemail and email saying that a delay in shipping or even ordering a part may be acceptable, understandable, or forgivable, but lack of communication is none of those things and if they don't get back to me with an ETA on this repair then they'll have to refund our deposit so we can call somebody else.
Either way, I know how I'm spending the next few hours (laundromat) and how I'm spending tomorrow morning (phone).
Um, hi! Accidentally slipped away from DW again, as one does when the brain decides it's time to visit slump-town. And then it's always tricky to pick back up! But I'm here, having been lured back by a friend request (❤️).
+ Currently working, yay!
+ Currently sick and voice-less, boo!
+ This is a double-shift as I swapped it around to attend my dad's wedding in November. It's in Thailand, and I'll be there a full month. I plan to get absolutely kneaded into oblivion, my body will be jelly by the end of it. Just good food, swimming, and massages.
+ If I can actually manage to Get The Thing Done at home, instead of avoiding and courting disaster, it's sure to be a relaxing time. So I need to get on that, Monday morning *stern glare at self*.
+ Started reading The Archive Undying. It dropped me face first into weirdness, and I'm loving the writing. All very much appreciated.
+ We're at the tail end of the general election here in Norway, and it's looking plausible we could get a RedGreen coalition! I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it could happen.
+ There's a new community for Community, and there's a Friday Five/intro post up, come hang.
+ Really enjoying Haley Williams' Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party and CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY. If you're looking for an absolute banger about grief, Lord, Let That Tesla Crash is at your service.
+ Working my way through Apple this trip, with Foundation being my weekly download. I'd say overall the weakest season of the three, but Demerzel is holding my interest.
+ Tonight should have a red full moon, so I'm hoping it won't be cloudy here.
“OpenAI announced new safety features will be soon coming to ChatGPT in an effort to better protect teens and others experiencing “acute distress.” The Onion shares a selection of those safeguards.“
A while back, YouTube shoved a trailer for KPOPPED onto my homepage and I was immediately intrigued because the thumbnail had Megan Thee Stallion and PSY posing together. Doctor Sister also mentioned the show to me a couple of weeks later (we're both casual Megan Thee Stallion fans).
According to Billboard, KPOPPED is going to pair different K-pop groups with Western artists and each K-pop group is tasked with reinterprating these Western artists’ most popular songs, turning them into a K-pop-esque track down to the flashy choreography.
Some of the performances are already up on Apple TV's official YouTube account and the speed at which I clicked the video for the ITZY and Spice Girls collab of "Wannabe" 😂
I was grinning throughout the entire performance and started bouncing in my seat once the drums started going hard at 2:04. As a 90s baby, I will always be fond of a lot of the Spice Girls' songs. I remember we had cassette tapes of Spice and Spiceworld, and a VHS of the Spice World movie. (And they're probably still around somewhere in the house!)
I jumped into the two other performances and was also grinning throughout both:
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