portmanteur

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by portmanteur 4mo ago
In which ways, specifically? Or, which ways would you like to promote a discussion about?
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by portmanteur 4mo ago
It is not a stretch. Tolkien was a devout Catholic. The story has a wide variety of allegorical symbolism pointing to a profound Catholic faith. The ring is a metaphor for sin. In famous scene of Boromir’s death, in telling Aragorn he succu
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by portmanteur 4mo ago
“Filled with immigrants” will always be a subjective term. Does it need to be 100% immigrants to count as “filled”? 50%? 25%? Canadian residents, for example, as of 2021 [1], were 23% foreign-born, and further 2.5% non-permanent residents.
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by portmanteur 4mo ago
The Lord of the Rings is a fundamentally Catholic work, written in English, and one of the most popular works of literature of the past century. So it is not unusual for an English-speaking Pope to quote from it. Further, what shade would b
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by portmanteur 5mo ago
It’s not about “celebrating death”. It’s about promoting a culture of assassinations and political violence. Robert Muller died of natural causes.
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by portmanteur 5mo ago
I would want to know the LLM has a reliable and realistic World Model underneath all of the next token prediction. Whether I am building hardened engineering systems, or discussing cooking methods, or discussing sensitive health concerns, o
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by portmanteur 5mo ago
Given the explosion of open source released projects I've seen over the past six months, I believe developers are getting compensated by the tool they are building for themselves creating real value for them. I have a problem, I spend
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by portmanteur 5mo ago
Kamala Harris bragged about enforcing this law against parents in California. That’s the only way that I know that it’s an actual law that gets enforced because I had never heard of laws like this before, and I grew up in US public schools
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by portmanteur 7mo ago
Not sure what this is implying, but aspiring priests are required to have a Bachelor’s degree before entering Seminary, or it tacks at least two years onto a very rigorous six-year seminary program. The seminary program is on par with getti
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by portmanteur 2y ago
Perhaps use a small, fast LLM to maintain a rolling "disposition" state, and for each of perhaps a handful of dispositions, have a handful of bridging emotes/gestures. You can have the small LLM use the next-to-last/seco
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by portmanteur 2y ago
Have you considered giving your digital twin a jolly aspect? I've wondered if an AI video agent could be made to appear real time, despite a real processing latency, if the AI were to give a hearty laugh before all of its' respons
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by portmanteur 3y ago
A cutoff date of April 2023 means the AI also presumably has access to about a month's worth of blogs that have been written since GPT4 was released on March 14th. So perhaps a few "Best Practices" or "Prompt Engineering
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by portmanteur 3y ago
This article is so bereft of specific details that it could easily pass as a dystopian science fiction short story. Fortunately, it’s just marketing PR for a global logistics company.
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by portmanteur 3y ago
Besides large scale immigration, what changed in America? Complacency during peacetime?
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by portmanteur 3y ago
If you don't release a censored model for the casual observer to tinker with, you could end up with a model that says something embarrassing or problematic. Then the news media hype cycle would be all about how you're not a respon
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by portmanteur 3y ago
I can think of a few examples over the past 3-8 years where this would be a useful syndrome to have named and in the popular memory. Oh well, Stockholm Syndrome is catchier.
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by portmanteur 3y ago
Who chooses to stop at McDonald's instead of a fancy restaurant, just to save $5?
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by portmanteur 3y ago
Weren't they describing a Senate that was appointed by state legislators? They weren't describing what a government with Direct Election of Senators would look like. Or, if that's not what you're talking about, why not j
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by portmanteur 3y ago
Buzzfeed News _was_ tabloid journalism. They published demonstrably fake news, most notably the infamous Steele Dossier. Buzzfeed News claimed the document was "unverified," when in reality it was verifiably false. Every other maj
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by portmanteur 3y ago
My brother's rule for his kids regarding swearing and other NSFW words is: "You'll probably hear adults use these words from time to time, but you can't repeat these words until you start paying taxes."
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by portmanteur 4y ago
These sorts of charts are meaningless without being broken down by race. I did a quick search for "US Mortality Rate by Race" and I found CDC documents showing that African Americans have roughly 35% higher age-adjusted mortality
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by portmanteur 7y ago
Is this news or is this a blog post? I understand it's very informed, and I don't necessarily mind opinionated journalism, but this seems to be speculating as to the motives of the FBI. To me, this seems like only one very passion