My New Favourite Idiom Is 画蛇添足 Basically Meaning To Ruin Something By Overdoing It

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Querer & vouloir

In most Romance languages, the verb meaning 'to want' comes from Popular Latin *volēre, such as French vouloir, Italian volere, and Catalan voler. However, in Spanish and Portuguese, it's querer - which not only means 'to want' but also 'to love': te quiero and quero-te. Querer stems from quaerere, a Latin verb meaning 'to ask; to seek to obtain', which is related to the English words question and to require. Click my new extra large graphic for more information on the evolutions of these words.

That's my boy Tardi. All he wanted was some privacy, which seems hard to get now, seeing as you found him in the vast expanse of a world he lives in.

Just a drop is enough…

Just a drop…

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The Wrong Turn

Guess who's back here? I had a bumpy ride but I made it eventually.

thank you doraemon <333

The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text. So when they are provided with a database of some sort, they use this, in one way or another, to make their responses more convincing. But they are not in any real way attempting to convey or transmit the information in the database. As Chirag Shah and Emily Bender put it: “Nothing in the design of language models (whose training task is to predict words given context) is actually designed to handle arithmetic, temporal reasoning, etc. To the extent that they sometimes get the right answer to such questions is only because they happened to synthesize relevant strings out of what was in their training data. No reasoning is involved […] Similarly, language models are prone to making stuff up […] because they are not designed to express some underlying set of information in natural language; they are only manipulating the form of language” (Shah & Bender, 2022). These models aren’t designed to transmit information, so we shouldn’t be too surprised when their assertions turn out to be false.

ChatGPT is bullshit

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]