Verdx - Verdx

Wow, putting ravenous gnomes at the edge of trails as if it was the way a videogame told you not to get off the path would actually be a great idea. I cannot depend on my personal responsability to not go explore The Outlands on protected places.

(In my head they eat you gruesomly, but you directly appear on the nearest path point)

Even funnier, they are vegan

one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips being “ham-flavored, probably”

Saw this post some time ago as a screenshot elsewhere and I'm so glad I found it, it is sooo great, I want to continue living my life mcgyvering out of any situation until I have little people and I con teach them that😊

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

it's a beautiful bonding activity, but the "creative" fixes have turned our house into a quasihaunted escape room like contraption where everything works, but only in the wonkiest of ways. you need a huge block of iron to turn on the stove. the oven only works if a specific clock is plugged in. the bread machine has a huge wood block just stapled to it that has become foundational to its function. sometimes when you use the toaster the doorbell rings. and that's just the kitchen.

it's all fun and games until you have guests over and you have to lay out the rules of the house like it's a fucking board game. welcome to the beautiful guest room. don't pull out the couch yourself you need a screwdriver for that, and that metal rod makes the lamp work so don't move it. it also made me a terrifying roommate in college, because it makes me think i can fix anything with enough hubris and a drill. you want to call the landlord about a leaky faucet? as if. one time my dad made me install a new power socket because we ran our of extension cords

On this blog we are either:

Romantic, horny, or depressed. Hope this helps.

jesus fucking christ

Yeah, they fucked all modded versions, anyone knows any other way to get it free? :((

My modded Spotify isn't working anymore so I had to download my entire library -_-

Does anyone know a good app (Android) to automatically edit metadata of songs?

Any recommendations for Linux or Mac? (Or Windows if it can be ran through WINE)

ULTIMATE CATHOLIC TECHNIQUE

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

Yeah, try again and not be frustrated at first, of course, but when the podcast is mentioned, entrepeneurship comes to mind, and, just to remember it, you cant do the 100th podcast(or any entrepeneurial bullshit) if your rich parents haven't paid for the first 99