paraplu

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[–] paraplu@piefed.social 1 points 22 hours ago

Always oatmeal raisin. A lot of the other options you present seem too sweet without introducing any more complex flavors or new textures.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

My mom does bulgur wheat and it does a pretty good job at the texture. I prefer to do canned chickpeas run through a food processor just until roughly chopped, or use a potato masher. Readd the drained liquid after. Both work great, but I'd rather have more beans than wheat in my diet.

Every time I make chili it's a toss up for what recipe I use. Meat or no meat, chili powder or dried chilis. There are a lot of great ways to make it and it's hard to stay put.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Same. I won't ask for someone to not put it on in the burger, but I'm not going near the any fries that have seen ketchup.

As a kid I definitely liked it. As an adult, it's way too sweet.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago

But wages haven't mixed to match. I'd be very surprised if pipe fitters are making anything close to 175k.

100k and up is still frequently thought of as being a well paying job.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

To clarify, this is about LLMs and generative image creation. Other applications and technology are probably generally outside the scope of this community.

There are lots of other technologies that would've once been called AI, until we figured out how to do them. These are all fine.

There are a handful of problems these two specific technologies share which do not look like they're likely to be solved sufficiently anytime soon:

  • LLMs are predicting the next word that fits. If the answer to a given problem isn't prevalent enough in the data, or some of randomness inherent in the system makes a wrong answer fit the specific phrasing better, you may get an inaccurate result. These may be difficult to detect and make these technologies difficult to use safely for practical applications where being right, being safe, or simply not wasting the time of those around you are important things.
  • Providence of the training materials. It's matching patterns found in existing works. That's part of how you get realistic results, but it also restricts creation of truly novel works. Even if you can get around that, there's still:
  • A misunderstanding of what art is, and why we engage with it. Part of what makes art valuable is that it's a window into another human's brain. This is a conflict we've run into before with technologies like cameras, but there's still intentionality in shot choice, and the camera acting in predictable ways that allow the machine to disappear from the end result. This lack of the core of what makes art valuable makes creative applications nonviable for the moment.
  • These are being pushed into varying aspects of our lives by the hype of how close they look to solving real world problems. But until these issues are fixed, none of the products that are being pushed will really address the needs that they're supposed to or are ready for production environments. There absolutely are exciting developments, but they're kind of happening off to the side in much more specialized areas, like the geometry solver from Google. If these things were still confined to R&D, I bet communities like this wouldn't exist. Maybe all the hype and funding will help uncover enough similar applications quick enough to make it all worth it, but I very much doubt it.

There are more issues like rate of improvement appearing to taper off extremely hard, power consumption of training destabilizing local electrical grids and worsening droughts, AI related companies having overinflated market caps and making up too large a chunk of the stock market which risks another financial crisis, AI psychosis, our educational system not being set up to deal with students having easy access to plausible looking work without mental exertion or learning on their part, and probably others that I'm forgetting at the moment.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

There aren't tortillas in the house, there are materials for making them. The husband's lockdown hobby was making tortillas.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

There isn't a good word that signifies just the citrus that look and taste more or less like oranges.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sorry, I should've realized that could read as ambiguous or nonsense.

To rephrase: Navel oranges are the worst variety of fruits that taste approximately like an orange.

At least where I'm from orange on it's own can mean either navel orange, or any similar fruit like tangerine, mandarin, or clementine.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a friend insist carrots must be peeled, and that the peels are inedible.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I once gave a coworker a bit of prosciutto. She told me it was spicy.

Overall, this may also be related to a persistent refusal to distinguish between spicy and spices.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Oranges are the worst kind of orange. They taste quite good, but if I need to use tools to eat it, I want something at least as good as a grapefruit.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

The linked page is just the new additions to the list. If you go to the full list of recommended extensions that's where uBlock Origin is at the top.

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