Mastodawn

"AI" users are like, "I know this is imprecise but as a convenience these transcriptions are better than nothing"

then 70 years from now we'll still be struggling to debunk these entirely hallucinated transcriptions of thousands of manuscripts that were pissed into the pool of human knowledge.

some things are worse than nothing. "signal-shaped noise" is worse than nothing.

th0ma5 14h ago

GentleMan Gef 22h ago

Atari demonstration center

#Atari #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

th0ma5 1d ago

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Mark Reid 1d ago

@spacelizard @rossgrady

✅ I’ve listened to software that I’ve written to cassette tape

th0ma5 1d ago

Stefan Bohacek 3d ago

I have argued this point in the past, as I'm sure many others, but it's nice to have a term for this concept: hobbyless behavior.

https://www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii/810110535568949248/the-germans-really-cooked-making-hobbyless

#hobbyless #hobbylos #HobbylessBehavior #HobbylosesVerhalten

th0ma5 1d ago

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mcc 1d ago

AI is not a "tool". It is the users of AI who are tools HEYOOOOOOOOOO

th0ma5 1d ago

✧✦Catherine✦✧1d ago

i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original

the "ideal" (their choice of words) case is 64.2%

edit: this got popular without me really intending to, so here's why i'm reading research: i want a semantic style transfer tool that can automatically format a patch "the same as the rest of the file / rest of codebase is formatted" without the rigidity involved in black or rustfmt that i find so hostile to my workflow that i refuse to use them. obviously, i want a tool that generates semantically equivalent code 100.0% of time (ignoring source locations or reading from __file__)