Tankie was first used for that kind of communist supporter who kept singing Russia's praises/defending Russia even when Russia was sent 5000 tanks to crush a popular uprising in Czechoslovakia (the "Prague Spring") on August 20, 1968. Some people just couldn't accept that a communist country could do something bad, so defended the action.

Nowadays, it's used to refer to those that are strongly supportive of Russia, completely ignoring the awful things they do. Often these days there's a lot of anti American bent to it. Like, anything anti America and American "imperialism" must be good - even blatant and awful Russian Imperialism.

These days they calmly explain how Ukraine just needs to come to the table and discuss peace (ignoring that Ukraine wouldn't exist if they did so) and blame America for the war in Ukraine for... well... they're America. The people who want war, or are causing the war, are those giving Ukraine weapons - not the country that is literally invading it.

Yeah, seriously looked at Reddit alternatives when I saw a post from a big sub about going dark and how they were considering moving to tildes - but then found it was invite only. Seems silly for a million+ sub to migrate somewhere invite only

Who could have predicted this!?!?? Why weren't we warned?

Does it not? It still does in my experience. Our company has these weird company wide meetings where they tell us how they're doing great, everything's great, but because growth isn't "double digit" due to inflation so there is a pay freeze. (I'd love even a less than double digit pay rise - even though that's still a pay cut with inflation).

Pretty much exactly what you are saying. Employees are grumbling, but don't want to get laid off and are uncertain about the job market.

13! That's crazy.

Yes definitely. Don't pander to his need for theatre. Mugshots and handcuffs are exactly what he wants. His own press team released their own mock mugshot last time. He'd absolutely love it.

Building a garage. Concrete pour went well, which is what I was stressing the most about. Not I'm just gradually laying blocks on evening and lunchtimes. It's exhausting doing a day's work then cooking, then spending hours building walls - but it's very rewarding seeing it slowly turn into a garage.

should say that I’m speaking in terms of epistemology and counterargument. I’d much rather you just acknowledge the obvious truth and move on rather than try further to contort the evidence to make Redditors not racist. Some arguments are fun, but this one is tedious.

Yeah, you're right, I agree with what you've said. It is a racist slur, regardless of the source.

I see a fair amount of jobs with it on LinkedIn here in the UK, though I haven't worked with it for a few years now it seems a popular language in enterprise.

My wife's grandmother went through chemo and was so happy when her hair grew back naturally curly and she never had to get a perm again. Was nice for something to make her happy after it all!

God, I don't miss exams every single year for 7 years straight

You can distil anything down to "just fancy X" by over simplifying.

As much as people like to say "it's a fancy autocomplete" it's getting *much *more general, and displaying more and more emergent properties like reasoning

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=yzkSU5zdwD

https://www.assemblyai.com/...

They are becoming more and more general. If you can't see that given all the pretty general tasks people have begun using them for...

I can see it from lemmy.world

Read openAI’s papers on chatGPT. They define it as a next token guesser and detail the exact hidden layer functions that accomplish this. It’s not an oversimplification, it’s what the creators of these AIs define their creations as.

I am aware how LLMs work. I wasn't denying it works through next token generation. My point is that saying it cannot accomplish anything general because it is predicting probability of the next token is dumb. And referring to it as a "fancy autocomplete" to justify that is over simplifying and overlooking it's capabilities.

Other properties may be there, but as you say they are emergent; emergent properties rely on two or more sources, if one goes away so do they.

What do you mean by this? What are your referring to as sources?

Yes, I think people are naive about how much humans base their creative work of things they have read/experienced when saying generative AI just copies what came before it. So is almost everything humans create.

A lot of entertainment is very derivative. Honestly, I wonder what kind of stuff will start happening in creative circles when generative AI content becomes ubiquitous.

Look at photography and how it affected the art world (arguably). Once perfectly reproducing images became possible art started exploring so much more than the technical aspect of how things looked. Impressionism, cubism, modernism, post modernism.

Being able to make a picture look like the subject lost almost all value, and art moved onto more abstract endeavours.

What will happen to writing when a "normal" book can be written in a day? What will happen to music when a celebrity singer can just be put into any song with the click of a button?

Building a garage so will be laying blocks. Takes bloody ages!

I love getting socks.

Grew up in Yorkshire where we will shorten anything but an "o" sound, which instead becomes very long. So scone rhymes "stone", with extra "o".

Slap bang in the blue area: https://brilliantmaps.com/scone-map/

After a while I just found it too stressfully destructive to keep watching!

I thought I was getting my head a little around federated nature of lemmy and now you go telling me this!

Should I re-post it to a non beehaw DIY community do you think?