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jsphweid commented on This website is for humans   localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f
lpribis · 12 days ago
I think the "soul" is coming from the fact that a human has worked, experimented, and tested with their physical senses a specific recipe until it tastes good. There is physical feedback involved. This is something an LLM cannot do. The LLM "recipe" is a statistical amalgamation of every ramen recipe in the training set.
jsphweid · 12 days ago
Or they just wrote down what their grandma used to do and changed how much salt they put in the water.

Or they read a few recipes and made their own statistical amalgamation and said "hey this seems to work" on the first try.

Or they're just making stuff up or scraping it and putting it on a website for ad money.

"Soul" not required.

Also does an LLM give the same recipe every time you ask? I'd wager you could change the context and get something a little more specialized.

jsphweid commented on This website is for humans   localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f
jsphweid · 12 days ago
> "Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without any of the credibility or soul. Magic."

Humans have soul and magic and AI doesn't? Citation needed. I can't stand language like this; it isn't compelling.

jsphweid commented on Introducing Gemma 3n   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/bundie
nsingh2 · 2 months ago
Whats are some use cases for these local small models, for individuals? Seems like for programming related work, the proprietary models are significantly better and that's all I really use LLMs for personally.

Though I can imagine a few commercial applications where something like this would be useful. Maybe in some sort of document processing pipeline.

jsphweid · 2 months ago
For me? Handling data like private voice memos, pictures, videos, calendar information, emails, some code etc. Stuff I wouldn't want to share on the internet / have a model potential slurp up and regurgitate as part of its memory when the data is invariably used in some future training process.
jsphweid commented on World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/mmarian
jsphweid · 3 months ago
I've always wondered, what fraction of the decline could be attributed to indoor pet dogs?

Ok, this is half humorous and half serious. But I'd wager that the answer is non-zero.

This is all just anecdotal, obviously, but I think childless humans with pet indoor dogs could have less of a desire to procreate for various reasons, but perhaps mainly because the instinctual thirst to care for a living thing is quinched to some extent when you have a pet indoor dog.

Obviously not every or most or even many. But perhaps _some_.

jsphweid commented on Curate your shell history   esham.io/2025/05/shell-hi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
jsphweid · 3 months ago
Where I work someone wrote a system to allow one to save every command they ever typed and make it available for searching via cli or web app. I opted in. It's probably one of the most useful tools I've ever used.
jsphweid commented on Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS   github.com/ossu/computer-... · Posted by u/saikatsg
iamleppert · 3 months ago
You can definitely make the self-taught path work. I'm proof of that and have been working in industry for over 20 years. However, what I will say is the following: there are certain companies and roles which you will never be able to access. These are often times the best roles, best companies, have the most money, etc. A degree isn't just the time spent studying and knowledge -- you can do that part yourself. What's more valuable is the network and access to the alumni network of others who will hire you into their company just because you went to the same school as them. It's a big club and you won't be in it if you decide to self-study. That's the cold, hard truth.

So what's left for someone self-taught with no degree? You are left with all the jobs the others don't want. You'll be flipping through the crazies, outright scams, poorly capitalized companies, or places that are already in a state of distress. VERY rarely you will find a real job that you can plan to stay at for any length of time. You WILL be paid less, and you're more likely to get taken advantage of. You will have a harder time getting multiple offers at once, because your overall demand is lower. So that erodes your position in the market and over time it will feel like you're on a completely different tract financially. You will need to work twice as hard, because finding a new job is much harder, even if you're good. You will constantly be doubted, by first yourself and imposter syndrome and next by those around you who have degrees. Make one mistake and the consequences are that much more dire.

It's better than nothing, but if you have the opportunity to go to school (I didn't), do it over the self-taught route.

jsphweid · 3 months ago
Which companies are you talking about?
jsphweid commented on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it   blog.greg.technology/2025... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
jsphweid · 3 months ago
Took 1-2 years before I went a single day without thinking about tinnitus after I gave it to myself playing drums. I was so happy to be smashing those punk drums in the first rehearsal of this band. I remember exclaiming afterwards to one of my bandmates, "Wow my ears are ringing! That was awesome!" He said, "Ya, mine have been ringing for 30 years." My heart immediately sank knowing what I had just done.

I spent a lot of days/months totally devastated about it. I remember reading this story about some woman in a scandinavian country who chose medical-assisted suicide because hers was so bad. I thought that was going to be my story. I thought it was inevitable.

But I met a lot of people who lived completely normal lives and described their tinnitus as so much worse than mine. I eventually got used to it. I wouldn't say the actual ringing is better or worse than it was. I have no idea how to measure it anyways. But life has gotten so much better. And I almost never think about it any more -- maybe once every few weeks I'll have the thought, "Oh ya, I have ringing in my ears" and a few seconds later I forget about it again. I think it gets better for most people, thankfully.

But it'd be cool to hear complete silence again.

jsphweid commented on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV   cnn.com/world/live-news/n... · Posted by u/saikatsg
4ggr0 · 4 months ago
Argentinia is in America, you know. Maybe not in North America or the US, but certainly in America.
jsphweid · 4 months ago
> In common English usage, America is a short-form name for the United States of America.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(disambiguation)

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