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AI has sitzfleisch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#:~:text=He%20didn't%20have,was%20fantastic.%5B63%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rob
by bze12 3mo ago
AI has sitzfleisch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#:~:text=He%20didn't%20have,was%20fantastic.%5B63%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#:~:text=...
- ashleyn 3mo agoWow, what a great comparison. LLMs are great at reasoning but absolute dogshit at simple arithmetic. If there's a raw calculation involved I always tell it to use python to add it all up.
- enquirewithin 3mo agoThe abacus seems to date back around 4500 years. If your goal is to implement an absurd comment you can use this one next time: instruct your LLM to implement Conway’s Game of Life to implement an abacus. Because, you know, humans are notoriously poor at implementing the x86-64 instruction set in their minds. This is why God had to create Guido van Rossum. Arguably Mathematica would be a better fit, but there are those who frequent this corner of the Internet who rather not have to read anything that might cause them to think about Stephen Wolfram. So I won’t mention it.
- password4321 3mo agoMy browser doesn't do the fancy URL text selection... sitzfleisch: the ability to endure or carry on with an activity Something Oppenheimer did not have, apparently.
- wongarsu 3mo agoloaned from German, where it's originally a way to say buttocks, literally "sitting flesh". If you have more Sitzfleisch you can sit for longer. Both in the literal sense (a bigger butt makes sitting more comfortable) and in the figurative sense (having the mental ability to sit for longer, get more desk work done)
- glenstein 3mo agoFascinating crossover from literal to figurative that you find so often when you trace language back far enough.
- bryanrasmussen 3mo agoI think there is an IT bit of humor from about 1 decade+ back where the people who's proposals won out in meeting were the ones that could keep from needing to go to the bathroom longer.
- enquirewithin 3mo agoDon’t worry, the link provided by the GP did nothing to explain what was meant anyway.
- RGS1811 3mo agoThis is fantastic. Now I have a sophisticated-sounding german word for my attention deficit.
- spankibalt 3mo agoThere's also a less flattering reading of the word, where Sitzfleisch means having a "flat ass" (from sitting too much, e. g. Sitzfleischparade describing a group of flat-arsed people, or something like Sitzfleischmaxxer, and so on).
- cineticdaffodil 3mo ago[dead]
- enquirewithin 3mo agoAss-maxxing.
- zenNeko 3mo agoThis was such an interesting thing to learn
- nobodyandproud 3mo agoWe Americans call it grit.
- alex43578 3mo agoThe connotation of grit to me feels different. Grit is pushing through adversity, rather than just tedium.
- enquirewithin 3mo agoMaybe. Grit can be the courage to endure adversity. It can also be the resolve to endure tedium.
- cindyllm 3mo ago[dead]
- backtoyoujim 3mo agoThat's just life without a bidet.
- iamgopal 3mo agoin Gujarati its "Gand vagar no loto". ( Utensil with Round Ass ). I guess every language as its equivalent.
- matheusmoreira 3mo agoBrazilian portuguese has cu de ferro, which literally translates to iron ass, something one must of course have in order to apply themselves to scholarly activities.