I can sense that this frog isn’t bought into my adventure plan, but will move heaven and earth to drag my unconscious body out of the dungeon if needed.

This one has a very dynamic energy, but with a different vibe than the rest of the series.

It feels like it’s vibrating.

As our native resident announcer that “AI can get the hell off my lawn”, I enjoyed this article.

AI is making real strides today… Just like it has been since the 1950s.

We just had a delightful burst of usefulness from it.

The next such burst of new usefulness is due anytime between next year and 100 years from now. Probably in 2074. Hopefully sooner.

Edit: I’ll have to check if I have copy of the referenced book in my library. I recall enjoying it at some point.

Good point.

I don’t believe that you can use traditional algorithms to teach the car street driving, because there are to many different variations… Even if your autopilot is 99% correct and you drive 20000km a year, you still drive wrong 200km of it.

Exactly!

And this is why, if the problem is solveable, it must be solved by learning models shepherded by expert engineers. The LLMs can take care of the long boring stretches, freeing skilled engineer time to fine-tune an LLM algorithm hybrid for the tricky bits.

I’m inclined to believe the problem is solveable, but since I’m not selling anything, I’m allowed to say “if”. Heh.

Yeah. I gotta admit I laughed at Ellen’s (completely unrelatable) “relatable” jokes about being ultra wealthy.

I dunno if she counts for this request?

I guess she’s more conservative than many comedians, but I’m guessing her wife makes sure she still votes in favor of civil liberties like marriage rights.

Yeah. Current generation learning models can do impressive things in the hands of a skilled engineer, but Elon is leading a round of class warfare against skilled engineers right now.

Shareholders need to decide which they really want to bet on to win.

Makes sense. I’m not picky about which exact risks our entitled overconfident billionaires opt to take.

Also xmas trees are giant cocks. Yep. Huge phallic symbols.

Today I learned!

I’m going to enjoy Christmas trees even more with this knowledge. Thank you.

Though, when looking for a source for others to enjoy, it also turns out it’s complicated.

Edit: Caesar Borgia. Unsubstantiated…except by pretty much anyone who, you know, has a quick look at the various portraits of him.

The total lack of chip (or almost any other) manufacturing inside the United States isn’t great for anyone. We all felt it in 2020 during the chip shortage. I would rather see subsidies than a tariff.

Somehow they see him as more godly.

Well yeah. Jesus loves to “grab em by the pussy”, apparently.

I’ll admit I haven’t quite found that Bible verse…

Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.

To make it easier to see who out there is most invested in a Trump presidency:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/most-important-billionaires-backing-trumps-104802063.html

Others mention Chappelle here, and I want to just mention, I did watch his last special with an open mind, and I just want that hour back.

It was depressing on a couple of levels. But most importantly (for a comedian) I didn’t find it even a little bit funny.

I like a good bit of dark comedy, and tragedy plus time, and all that.

But Dave Chappelle should pay for a therapist in private, instead of wasting my time.

+1 for Bill Burr, who will mock anyone, pretty mercilessly.

Also, his cameo in Star Wars, after giving tons of shit to Star Wars fans, is an utter delight. (And made him a fan.)

The inflatable dinosaur carrying a kid costume and it’s variants are still great. I feel like I saw more amusing variants of it this year, but I don’t member the details.

I saw a couple kids wearing matching Jason costumes. I hope they had a great time jump scaring their friends with identical twin shenanigans.

There was a group all in matching striped prisoner outfits. I noticed they took care to walk in a line as if chained together.

There was a version of spider-man I need to look up on Marvel Unlimited. It looked like a mix of the Iron-Spider and one of Miles’ costumes. It looked great, and made me curious if Miles has an iron spider storyline yet.

Nice. I hope everyone took the time to make every dirty pun that the costume demands.

I mean, if anyone ever introduces the average shareholder to those executive decision desk toy spinners, the average CEO is fucked.

Sometimes I’m reminded that there’s always a chance that they go submarine diving or some such with another overconfident crony who thinks their skills got them where they are today.

That out of the way, FSD sucks, and it’s getting worse, not better.

It’s almost like they bet on the AI to teach the AI, rather than continuing to pay for skilled engineers.

Buckle up folks, we’re going to see a lot more of this, across every industry, before the lawsuits go into high gear and anything gets better.

Lol. Yep.

Anyone want to jump in and confidently vouch that Musk’s moral code won’t allow him to harvest human brains from living humans, shove them in a bottle, and use them as a fake AI in his fleet?