o7___o7

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 18 hours ago

The Dominic Cummings we have at home

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

We need something like Bare-faced Messiah, but with fedoras. People will stick with a bizzare, complex story with lots of moving parts as long as it's told well.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How would you first approach explaining this shit past “it can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong”?

This is the question of the moment, isn't it?

I have no answers, but i can say thanks for being a light in the dumbness.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

OpenNutrition -- ~~a dataset~~ an LLM that allows you to play "vibe nutritionist"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569190

First response is good quality:

This is not a dataset. This is an insult to the very idea of data. This is the most anti-scientific post I have ever seen voted to the top of HN. Truth about the world is not derived from three LLMs stacked on top of each other in a trenchcoat.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Financial Times agrees with this analysis

https://archive.is/6JGEI

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Those tariff rates, and especially the targets, were 100% pooped out by grok.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lots of politics outlets have been linking his recent work. He's done a great job documenting the consequences (and gravity) of the ongoing grant apocalypse for the AAAS journal Science. I've loved him for years for being the FOOF guy.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

OK hear me out: they make a new season of Hell Girl, but she only gets people who use gen ai

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

On the bright side, Derek Lowe has also escaped containment, which is nice

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Turns out that they can only stack shit so high before it falls back to earth

 

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John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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