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RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116030136026775832

This is one of the worst takes from LLM enthusiasts.

Compilers are deterministic, extremely well tested, made out of incredibly detailed specifications debated for months and properly formalized.

LLMs are random content generators with a whole lot of automatically trained heuristics. They can produce literally anything. Not a single person who built them can predict what the output will be for a given input.

Comparing both is a display of ignorance and dishonesty.

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Anthony Floyd Feb 4

@lazarus7 @anthonyfloyd Don't forget the current homeowners' god-given right to mountain views unsullied by glimpses of how the poors live.

Anthony Floyd Jan 3

I just non-ironically just blurted out "pants are for suckers".

cc: @lazarus7

Anthony Floyd Jan 2

RE: https://tinycities.net/@dirkhaun/115818963711885019

It's not just me! How weirdly comforting

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Anthony Floyd Jan 1

@IanAMartin Here's to a fresh new year, friend! It's not a clean slate but we will make of it what we can! We must ride bikes and take photos more often. Both of those things are known to combat existential dread. :)

Anthony Floyd Dec 21

Ben Zanin Dec 21

OK, if you're a huge nerd who spends Saturdays online too much I'm sure you've heard about the NIST NTP servers failing and being taken offline¹ ² ³.

If you're in Canada, please know that our own NRC offers stratum-2 time sources as a government-funded public service⁴ & monitored/auth'd stratum-1 services on a cost recovery basis⁵.

We can be proud of this.

¹: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115752907255467092

²: https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/115753138339762616

³: https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/

⁴: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/network-time-protocol-ntp

⁵: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/instrument-calibration-services/frequency-time-calibration-services

John Carlos Baez (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Ouch! The most accurate standard of time in the USA has gone down! Yup, a bunch of atomic clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado may have lost power - and just to be safe, NIST has stopped broadcasting the time. Luckily they have other atomic clocks... and if those fail, there are plenty elsewhere, so we won't permanently lose track of time. But what about right now? Anyone know the latest news? This report is from 7:28 am December 20th, presumably Mountain Standard Time: https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/ It's like someone took this "end times" business too literally.

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Anthony Floyd Dec 21

@lazarus7 At the start of the long dash following 10 seconds of silence, the time will be ...

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Anthony Floyd Dec 16

@IanAMartin Nope, I have no experience with "essential tremors" and he says he's already used a trackball in the past.

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Anthony Floyd Dec 12

@nigelsezyarr Definitely. It's one of a small number of word games I use in the morning to warm up the grey stuff :)

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Anthony Floyd Dec 5

@nigelsezyarr Jam first?

Oh my.

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