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  • Correct spelling is the fundamental component of words, without words there is no vocabulary. Without understanding words, LLMs have absolutely no understanding of vocabulary. They can certainly spew out things they’ve tokenized and weighted from ingested inputs though - like when people trick it into believing false definitions through simply repeating them as correct and thereby manipulating (or poisoning) the weighting. ChatGPT and other LLMs regularly fail to interpret common parts of vocabulary - eg idioms, word spellings, action-reaction consequences in a sentence. They’re fancy autocomplete, filled with stolen (and occasionally licensed) data.

    Sure seems like the problem isn’t me or the other guy ‘dont know how to use LLMs’, but rather that they keep getting sold as something they’re not.

    Congrats though, you just used a 100 billion dollar machine array to more or less output the exact content of a Wikipedia article - you really proved your point that it’s very good when you know what to ask it, and us plebs are just dumb at questions, or something 👍 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platitude


  • The ongoing shitfuckery by the US in forcing their corporations to hand over sovereign-nation data hosted in other nations datacenters (CLOUD Act), amongst many of their present stupidities, is fucking amazing for IT sovereignty and open source.

    I couldn’t have convinced the organizations and businesses I worked with in the past to move to more than a few niche open source products for tiny userbases, which I made sure they donated to. To suggest moving to a solution outside of the Garner Magic Quadrant for that particular business need / role for anything larger than dozen users was just “objectively illogical”, I couldn’t have put forth a winning business case proposal in 100 years.

    But now they’re doing it out of spite to the US government and finally seeing the light.

    There’s a lot of bad things going on in the world, but this… this is great.



  • Claude is AMAZING. The future is now! Its actually very hard to trip it up with complex trick questions like “Spell ‘blueberry’” nowadays. Check out what it said when I asked it just now what tomorrow’s date is (I even gave this doctorate degree-level intellect a clue that it’s in 2026).

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    I asked it to show its reasoning so I could help it to understand my complex query, and got this very insightful reasoning process.

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    Reasoning…

    Wearegiven:“Whatdateof2026isittomorrow?“Note:Thecurrentyearis2023,sotheuserisaskingaboutafuturedaterelativetoanunknown"today"in2026.However,withoutknowingthecurrentdate(in2026)wecannotcompute"tomorrow”.Thus,wemustclarifythattheanswerdependsonthecurrentdate.Butnote:Theusermightbeaskingthisquestiononaspecificday,sowecanassumethatthe"today"inthequestionisthedaywhenthequestionisbeingasked?However,thequestionisabout2026,whichisinthefuture.Sincewedon’thaveaspecificreferencedatein2026,wecannotgiveaspecificanswer.Therefore,thethoughtprocessshouldleadtoaresponsethatexplainsthedependencyandperhapsprovidesawaytocomputeitifthecurrentdatewereknown.Let’sbreakdown:1.Thequestion:“Whatdateof2026isittomorrow?”-Thisimpliesthattomorrowisadayintheyear2026.2.However,thecurrentdate(the"today"fromwhichwearecountingtomorrow)isnotprovided.Withoutknowingtoday’sdatein2026,wecannotdeterminetomorrow’sdate.3.Possibilities:a)Iftheuserisaskingthisquestionin2026,thenwecouldusethecurrentdate.Butthecurrentyearis2023,sowearenotin2026.b)Theusermightbeaskinghypothetically,butwithoutareference,wecannotcompute.4.Therefore,theanswermustbeconditionalonknowingthecurrentdate.5.Wecanprovideageneralmethod:-Tomorrow’sdatein2026isonedayafterthecurrentdate(whichmustbein2026).-Forexample,iftodayisJanuary1,2026,thentomorrowisJanuary2,2026.6.Butnote:Thequestionsays"dateof2026”,soweareonlyconcernedwithdatesintheyear2026.IftodayisDecember31,2026,thentomorrowwouldbeJanuary1,2027,whichisnotin2026.Sothequestionimpliesthattomorrowmustalsobein2026.7.Therefore,theanswerisonlydefinedfordatesin2026fromJanuary1toDecember30(becauseonDecember31,tomorrowwouldbein2027).SowemustalsonotethatifthecurrentdateisDecember31,2026,thentomorrowisnotin2026.8.Approachfortheresponse:-Explainthatwithoutknowingthecurrentdatein2026,wecannotgiveaspecificanswer.-Providethegeneralrule:tomorrow’sdateisthenextdayinthecalendarafterthecurrentdate.-NotethatthecurrentdatemustbebetweenJanuary1,2026andDecember30,2026fortomorrowtoalsobein2026.-Iftheuserhasaspecificcurrentdateinmind,theycanprovideitandwecancompute.9.However,notethattheusermightbeaskingthisonaparticularday(say,thedaytheyareaskingthequestion)butin2026?Thatdoesn’tmakesensebecausewearein2023.Sowemustclarifythatwearein2023and2026isinthefuture.10.Alternativeinterpretation:Theusermightbeaskingforthedateoftomorrowintheyear2026,meaningiftodayisthesamedayoftheyearin2026asitisnowin2023?Butthatisnotastandardinterpretationandthequestiondoesnotspecify.11.Conclusion:Thequestionisambiguouswithoutareferencepoint.Wemustaskforthecurrentdatein2026orexplainthatweneedthatinformation.Butnote:Theusermightbeaskingthisquestiononaspecificday(say,June15,2023)andwanttoknowwhatdateitwouldbetomorrowin2026?Thatis,thesamedayoftheyear?However,thequestiondoesnotspecifythat.Let’sre-read:"Whatdateof2026isittomorrow?“Thisisambiguous.Itcouldmean:OptionA:“Iftodayissomedayin2026,whatdateistomorrow(in2026)?”->requiresknowingtodayin2026.OptionB:“Whatistomorrow’sdate(in2023)andthenwhatwouldthatsamedaybein2026?”->butthatwouldbethesamedayoftheyear,buttheyearchanges.However,thequestionsays"dateof2026”,soOptionBwouldnotbeadatein2026iftomorrowin2023isin2023.Forexample

    I pressed ‘Stop’ because I’m pretty sure the poor guy was in a logic loop, and I didn’t want to heat up the oceans any further with my diabolically-complex line of query.





  • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldMy Linux distro tierlist
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    There’s the Linux Mint main distro build off Ubuntu and a separate Linux Mint Debian distro build directly from Deb.

    Specificity is useful, especially in the context that you said “Mint is built on Debian so it’s stable as fuck” - well actually, not directly. It’s built on Ubuntu, which a lot of people complain has a more bloat and thus less stability than Debian.

    Personally I’ve not had issues with any of the three, they’re all good, but there are differences. Mint includes a number of packages that Debian does not (PPAs, Snap, Wayland infegration), because it’s inherited them all from Ubuntu. Mint is 64-bit whereas Debian supports 32/64 and other architectures, because again… Mint (standard) is based on Ubuntu, which is 64-bit only.