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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 57m

wearing a turtleneck sweater with hoops and becoming more terrible in a girly way

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 3d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1h

great fiddle player. don't remember much else

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 17h

this is cool. makes me wonder how this kind of thing plays out with training a transformer instead of a dense MLP

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 19h

i think about this skeet a lot

JCorvinus @jcorvinus.bsky.social · 5d

Turns out when you direct the universal function approximator to predict the encoded outputs of human minds at the scale of 'the entire human corpus' the resulting network has to get mind-shaped internally to succeed well at the task

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 19h

the history of machine learning is wild. we started with statistical models of increasing sophistication and now everything is about the use and abuse of universal approximators

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 19h

there's probably going to be a field of science that's JUST about neural networks

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 19h

reminds me of arxiv.org/abs/2411.07191!

The Super Weight in Large Language Models

Recent works have shown a surprising result: a small fraction of Large Language Model (LLM) parameter outliers are disproportionately important to the quality of the model. LLMs contain billions of pa...

arxiv.org

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 19h

removing and replacing all of your nervous system with wiring might run you a fair amount

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 19h

the internet did not make me trans. i had to just take matters into my own hands and crossdress in search of revelatory clarity

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all of my business partners into the conference room today to poison them. I am dropping phials of deadly nightshade into each of their drinks and proposing a big business toast. I no longer want to be a businessman. I want to be a poison murderer. Busy morning!

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 21h

whenever cis people talk about the "harsh truth" of how trans people must be abandoned so they can win elections it's more about delighting in the harshness than in actually thinking about truth

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 22h

makes me wonder about the ability of LLMs to perform close readings of texts according to arbitrary criticism frameworks. hey chatgeepeetee do a marxist reading critique of this post i saw

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

differentiation, integration, and the third thing

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

that’s what capital vol 2 is about but no one read it

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

damn its crazy how we keep reinventing conspiratorial thinking to try to understand the world. wonder if there’s some Deeper Reason for it…..

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · Nov 8

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Trust Ape Options > Ape Settings > Connect With Apes

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

“the metaphysics of a slur” damn this is what analytic philosophy be doing to mfs huh

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

i think we should normalize reading our posts with silly voices on line

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

damn, its crazy that at the end of each episode of Dancing with the Stars they shoot an audience member in the head

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

sometimes people just launch into the in-group signalling language when talking about LLMs. "oh, you mean the plagiarism machine?" no. i don't mean that

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

i was gonna be critical of her because "hey let's all gang up on hailey about AI slurs" is something that i do not think serious people do. but now that I read the context, i am further critical because that is an extremely bad faith reading of what hailey is saying

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

hell yea

Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

it looks like he specifically used it for backgrounds, which makes sense. it's the background of a shmup. that's motel painting level stuff. who cares

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

damn ZUN was cooking here: "The most important thing is not to lose to AI. Naturally, entrusting the act of creation entirely to AI means losing to it. However, denying AI outright or rejecting it just because you dislike it is also a form of losing to AI."

Touhou Project creator explains why he used AI in new title, affirms negative stance towards generative AI - AUTOMATON WEST

Touhou Project creator ZUN talks about why he used AI-generated assets in the upcoming Touhou Kinjoukyou: Fossilized Wonders.

automaton-media.com

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