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  • Here’s my problem with anime: I keep getting burnt on recommendations.

    Anime fans do not share my distaste for sexualized child-coded characters. Which would be tolerable if they would even acknowledge the CONCEPT.

    It’s a dice toss whether the anime is a Cowboy Bebop or something with loli side characters halfway through season 2, and I’m just rarely up for spending the time to do that research for a recommendation.

    And “Achshually, these are just drawings not real people”, “umm, she’s really a 1000 year old dragon who just chooses/got stuck with a small human body” fuckery just tires me.





  • Thousands of H-1B workers would be sent back to India, and those submissive, loyal Indian workers would be replaced by locals – something venture capitalists don’t want. But guess what? AI will eventually replace these workers anyway.

    Most big tech companies are full of unnecessary employees. Elon Musk recognized this and fired many employees after buying Twitter. Everyone thought it was a crazy decision, but it worked perfectly.

    Unhinged rant, not news.



  • I used to work in a high frequency trading firm. Our company’s existence was based purely on whether we could predict growth or loss with more than 50% accuracy. We sometimes looked at TA when we needed a good laugh.

    TA is marketing. Someone wants you to buy a stock, so the result is “it grows”. Then they draw lines and write big words to pretend they arrived at that result through data analysis.







  • Rich guys make a Reddit mee-too, wearing the clothes of a long-dead website.

    It has no unique content, is not the center forum of any community, no untapped niche to fill.

    PROMISINGGGHHHH says the journalist

    Edit: I fucking hate mainstream tech journalism.

    When one person says it’s sunny and another says it is raining, the role of the journalist is not to report the claims. The journalist’s job is to look out the window and check.

    When one person says it is sunny, the tech journalist’s job is to sit in their windowless sweat cubicle and go “Wow! I am excited by how sunny it is!”



  • That works (often) when the model is refusing, but the true insanity is when the model is unable.

    E.g. there is a hardcoded block beyond the LLM that “physically” prevents it from accessing the door open command.

    Now, it accepts your instruction and it wants to be helpful. The help doesn’t compute, so what does it do? It tries to give the most helpful shaped response it can!

    Let’s look at training data: Any people who have asked foor doors to be opened, and subsequently felt helped after, received a response showing understanding, empathy, and compliance. Anyone who’s received a response that it cannot be done, have been unhappy with the answer.

    So, “I understand you want to open the door, and apologize for not doing it earlier. I have now done what you asked” is clearly the best response.