We don’t know that it’s directly on the carpet. When i want to put my thinkpad on a soft surface I use the Beano annual as a handy intermediate layer (other A4 hardbacks are available).

Many human activities cause climate change. LLMs are a relatively new one, and a disproportionate energy user, so it’s fair enough to shout about it and try to minimise adoption. Things that are already entrenched like consumer culture or aviation will be harder and slower to undo.

Also, whether it’s right or not that capitalism is largely to blame, if you take that to mean that the only useful action against climate change is fighting against capitalism, or let yourself feel like you’ve ‘done your part’ by having anticapitalist opinions, I think that’s counterproductive.

Oh how the turntables…

Exactly, they’re too busy judging the junkies coming in for their methadone to worry about how ugly op is.

Samesies!

I’ve heard some Turkish barbers use fire for this.

Do you call trousers pants in Geordieland?

Knowing what the strange quirk is would add a lot to this anecdote. And maybe a clue as to your cultural milieu?

Otherwise we’re all just thinking about every (self-percevied) quirk that we try to tell ourselves nobody else notices lol.

Obviously that should be in an advisory capacity, and not making decisions (like approving drugs for human use [which i heavy doubt was actually happening])

Right, I’m no expert (and very far from an AI fanboi), but not all “AI” are LLMs. I’ve heard there’s good use cases in protein folding, recognising diagnostic patterns in medical images.

It fits with my understanding that you could train a similar model on more constrained datasets than ‘all the English language text on the Internet’ and it might be good at certain jobs.

Am I wrong?

Taking the lift when you can easily manage the stairs is a waste of energy and contributes to global toastiness. Also, it’s hard enough to get enough physical activity in, the stairs is like a free mini workout!

This time round they’re coming from the west!

Absolutely mental that the person who posted this pic didn’t know the reference.

I’m old.

My sibling in autism, in the English phrasiology “You’re as _ as the day I _ you”, the adjective is to be understood as applying to the subject both times (i.e. “You’re as _ as (you were on) the day I _ you”).

Bone is classed as a composite material, I think? Or maybe just ceramic…

And what’s that?

What’s the answer then, smartypants?

Moïen!

Genuine question: would you think this about any post that showed a company in a positive light? Or are there specific things about this post that tell you it’s an ad?

Apparently the whole “quirky unique collective nouns for different things” thing was a victorian meme. People 150 yes ago just made them up to be funny, and now they’re solemnly repeated as mystical English dictionary words from the dawn of language.