Florian Haas

@xahteiwi
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Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. 🙂

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.

Tröts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi.

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Native pronunciation[flo:ʁian ha:s]
Web sitehttps://xahteiwi.eu

Question primarily for English native speakers: how to you prefer to pronounce "consortium"? Please select the closest match.

(Boosts for reach appreciated.)

consor-tee-um
consor-shum
Poll ends at .
Don't say "I'm into organic gardening" when you can say "I have composter syndrome"
I've now fed this question to 4 different LLMs (Llama 3, Qwen2.5, Gemma, and Mistral) and the results were all hilarious.
p=280,n=4,h=0.725,S=300,R=5/3, a/b=1, a+b=S, (a+c)/(b+d)=h, a+b+c+d+s=n*p, s=0.02(b+d), T=a+b+c+d+s, d=e+f, f=R(b+e) - Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.

"I am making pizza dough. I need 4 pieces of dough at 280g each. My sourdough starter is 150g durum wheat and 150g water. I want the dough to be at an overall hydration of 72.5%. I want an overall ratio of 3:5 for durum and wheat flour. The dough’s salt content should be 2% of the total flour weight. How much water, durum flour, wheat flour, and salt do I need to add to my starter?"

Try feeding this into your favourite LLM.

Florian's guide to quality management:

Whenever someone proposes a change, ask them "does doing it this way make it better than doing it the other way?"

Enjoy the blank stares.

Rockets, Religion & Rejection - with Destin Sandlin from Smarter Every Day — Numberphile

Destin Sandlin discusses missile testing, astronaut applications, and why he created the wildly popular YouTube channel Smarter Every Day. YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/Anmaky0Kksw Listen to the latest Signals & Threads podcast episode: https://jane-st.co/Numberphile

Numberphile
Which abuse of the character "b" irks you more?
Using b in place of ♭
2.4%
Using b in place of ß
51.2%
Both are equally annoying
29.3%
Neither annoy me; I am a cultural troglodyte
17.1%
Poll ended at .

Feel free to read up on the history of the ISO 9000 series if you don't believe me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000_family

ISO 9000 family - Wikipedia

Imagine someone rewrote the Kama Sutra four times, and the final accepted version covered only masturbation.

Now you have a good understanding of the evolution of ISO 9001.

I wish I was joking.