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  • Among the tested models, GPT-4 Turbo ranked highest with 46% accuracy, while Llama-3.1-8B scored the lowest at 33.6%.

    “The main takeaway from this study is that LLMs, while impressive, still lack the depth of understanding required for advanced history,” said del Rio-Chanona. “They’re great for basic facts, but when it comes to more nuanced, PhD-level historical inquiry, they’re not yet up to the task.”

    I’m sorry, you fucking what? How about you test the world’s population in PhD level history and see if you get a 46%? Are you fucking kidding me? You’re telling me this machine is half accurate on PhD history and you’re tryna act like that doesn’t just make your entire history department fucking useless? At most, you have 5 years until it’s better at the job than actual humans trained for it, because it’s already better than the public at large.


  • Skates@feddit.nltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldbLuEmAGa
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    4 days ago

    It isn’t needed because lemmy is literally full of the type of idiots who will never understand not sucking democrat dick doesn’t mean you’re automatically gobbling the conservatives, so they don’t let a simple thing like sarcasm cloud their godlike omniscient knowledge of society. Your /s is not needed like a cherry wouldn’t need to be placed on top of an ice-cream in order for the lemmy flies to wait for it to be eaten and shat out in order to pounce on the feces and gorge themselves. They would do it anyway, it’s in their nature.




  • I actually thought about this a while ago. Surely there are many hated people in the world, but some world leaders take the cake. I would pay to piss on Putin’s grave for example. So… Why isn’t there a business opportunity here? Buy the graveyard holding them, sell tickets to piss on Putin/Trump/Kimjong/Xi/whoever. You can make it into a holiday - 1000 euro for a weekend in a Moscow hotel, you visit the Kremlin, you piss on Putin’s grave, you go home with a shirt that says “I literally pissed on Putin and all I got was this lousy Polonium-engraved t-shirt”. I almost bought pissonputinsgrave.com when I thought about this, but I lack the funds to actually buy their graveyards.

    Surely there’s something here for our society, right? We’re all tired of oppression at the hands of a few power-hungry old fucks and are just waiting for them to die so that we can finally release our common prostate. Or is it just me and you that would love the satisfaction of defiling the corpses of these cunt dictators?


  • “Why did you pull me over?”

    “Sir, we’re here because your house was robbed.”

    Fake af. When your house is robbed, you can go fuck yourself - your shit is gone unless you’ve got GPS trackers in it. Here’s a more likely scenario:

    “Why did you pull me over?”

    “4 years ago you filed a report that your house was robbed. This is now becoming a problem, as people have noticed we do nothing for society, and your report is adding to that statistic. Would you like to close it, or shall we go ahead and process that broken taillight?”

    “what broken taillight?”

    “down on the ground! I said down!” <sounds of gunshots hitting car, sounds of body hitting steering wheel, sounds of prolonged honking, sounds of thin blue line erections, sounds of coke being sprinkled, sounds of policeman breaking taillight>




  • Skates@feddit.nltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldVicariously Offended
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    13 days ago

    Lots of fabrication in this story

    I mean, that was the point. Previous poster imagined a world. I imagined another one.

    As for the Asian kid - one grain of rice at a time. Boiling water in a lot of tiny containers. It ended up being surprisingly efficient, save for a mild case of carpal tunnel syndrome.


  • Skates@feddit.nltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldVicariously Offended
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    I was hoping to see this higher up. It’s not everyday that truth hits you like a ton of bricks, and this needed to be said.

    When I was 16 I lived in a small village. It had the charm of country life, but it also had some off-putting characters. Harry, the town butcher, was an extremely right-wind, religious conservative, and a racist. Sarah, the priest’s mistress, never had kids and couldn’t stand them. And then there was Leah. She was Sarah’s sister’s daughter and I had a huge crush on her, except I didn’t even know it at the time because I wasn’t aware a girl could feel that way about another girl.

    Anyway, I could write for hours about small town life, about how my friends were the only thing that got me through the day, about how I fell in love and out of love within the same date because the other person was telling me how they rescued a cat just to drop the other shoe - they rescued it from a black couple. I could tell you about racism and classism, about religion and how it turned the entire village against my parents, I could tell you about the time a young Asian child was forced to boil rice for the whole village because “it’s in his blood”, how his mother wanted to fight it but ended up cheering for the crowd that locked him in old mister Miller’s house for the night with just 20 bags of rice and a pair of drum sticks to serve as chopsticks. I could tell you about the Mexican family who once removed all their clothes and set them on a rope to dry in the town square and proceeded to sunbathe because they didn’t understand why people were saying their backs were wet. I could tell you about the Eastern European mobster who cut off two of my grandma’s fingers when she couldn’t pay for some cocaine, or the British “explorer” who came in and wanted to buy the town and put his name everywhere but he could only pay with some pictures of an old lady. Or I could tell you about when the Arab family moved next door so we all slept in shifts in my house because my parents were afraid of terrorists, until Harry the butcher carved “Mohammed” into a pig and left it on their lawn.

    I know racism, I lived it all my life. So I could sit here and say a lot of things, but I think the previous poster has demonstrated well enough how you can just sit there and imagine shit and post it on the internet and all of a sudden it becomes true.



  • The only thing I’ve tried that actually works: apps like Sleep Cycle.

    The app tracks your sleep, but that’s secondary for you. What you want out of it is the alarm part. You give it an interval of time when you want to wake up, and it’ll do it based on which sleep stage you’re in.

    The idea is simple - you have different stages of sleep. Sometimes you’re in deep sleep, sometimes in REM (rapid eye movement), sometimes in light sleep - there may be others, idm. You want to wake up from light sleep, that’s when you feel the most fresh. Waking up from deep sleep you’re all groggy and still half asleep. So the app determines when you’re in the lightest sleep, and it plays an alarm gradually, so that you’re not just scared awake.

    You can read more here: https://www.sleepcycle.com/features/smart-alarm-clock/

    The thing is, this feature is actually not why I got the app. I wanted to track my sleep, I didn’t really care about how I woke up. But I honestly just found it easier to wake up with this, so now I recommend it.





  • Skates@feddit.nltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldFire ye wizards, says dragon
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    Me this morning on the phone with mage support: My carriage’s doors get stuck when messengers try to deliver me messages from the king.

    Mage support: I’m gonna need you to bring the carriage in.

    I go to the mage’s quarters.

    Me: Here’s the carriage, mage. Is this gonna take long or should I wait around?

    Mage: give me your crystal number and I’ll project astrally when we’re done.

    Minutes later.

    Mage, appearing on my crystal: have your doors ever opened for messengers from the king?

    Me: nah, ever since I got the carriage it’s been closed doors. It works for other messengers though. Just not messengers from the king.

    Mage: yeah, we’re gonna need to recreate the carriage from scratch for security reasons.

    Motherfucker if your fix for the laptop’s inability to connect to wifi is to format the thing, you’re not IT, you’re a script kiddie. My bad - you’re not a mage, you’re a peasant selling counterfeit potions.


  • Skates@feddit.nltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldCleaning
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    Every week you gotta:

    • dust all rooms
    • vacuum all rooms
    • mop rooms without carpet
    • cook multiple times depending on how you get organized
    • clean kitchen after each cooking session
    • do the dishes
    • laundry multiple times
    • grocery shop
    • iron clothes
    • clean the bathroom
    • take out the trash multiple times

    Every few weeks you gotta:

    • wash curtains
    • clean the stove
    • clean up that closet or drawer that’s full of stuff you don’t know where to put
    • whatever else I can’t think of right now

    Every few months you gotta:

    • defrost the freezer & clean the fridge
    • deep clean some areas
    • some other things probably

    Add a regular 8h job on top, add commitments (visit for someone’s birthday, go out with friends etc), add some hobbies (gaming? Rock climbing? Whatever floats your boat, it still takes time)…

    I would burn out faster doing all this shit than postponing my cleaning until someone visits. I try to weave in some chores between the essential stuff, but it always adds up and I need to spend a weekend catching up.