A grangpa was cycling with a cart full of adorable dogs, instantly turning an ordinary road into the cutest traffic scene of the day. 🐶🚲
The fluffy passengers sat quietly as the grandpa pedaled through the city, drawing smiles from people nearby. Sometimes, the simplest moments bring the most joy. ❤️
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the ITZY girls gathered round for YEJI's birthday, and their party was both wholesome and chaotic
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Finally got around to watching Exit 8. This movie looked so up my alley: weird, indie, japan, a metaphor about purgatory, 90% RT score. But it just didn't land for some reason, the 'lesson' was too wholesome and heavy handed, characters were two dimensional and for some reason the main guy coughing all the time annoyed the crap out of me. A disappointing 2/10.
Hah judging by mentions overnight people seem to find the ghost analogy provocative. I swear I don't wake up just trying to come with new memes but to elaborate briefly why I thought it was a fun comparison:
1) It captures the idea that LLMs are purely digital artifacts that don't interact with the physical world (unlike animals, which are very embodied).
2) Ghosts are a kind of "echo" of the living, in this case a statistical distillation of humanity.
3) There is an air of mystery over both ghosts and LLMs, as in we don't fully understand what they are or how they work.
4) The process of training LLMs is a bit like summoning a ghost, i.e. a kind of elaborate computational ritual on a summoning platform of an exotic megastructure (GPU cluster). I've heard earlier references of LLM training as that of "summoning a demon" and it never sounded right because it implies and presupposes evil. Ghosts are a lot more neural entity just like LLMs, and may or may not be evil. For example, one of my favorite cartoons when I was a child was Casper the Friendly Ghost, clearly a friendly and wholesome entity. Same in Harry Potter, e.g. Nearly Headless Nick and such.
5) It is a nod to an earlier reference "ghost in the machine", in the context of Decartes' mind-body dualism, and of course later derived references, "Ghost in the shell" etc. As in the mind (ghost) that animates a body (machine).
Probably a few other things in the embedding space. Among the ways the analogy isn't great is that while ghosts may or may not be evil, they are almost always spooky, which feels too unfair. But anyway, I like that while no analogy is perfect, they let you pull in structure laterally from one domain to another as as a way of generating entropy and reaching unique thoughts.
The premise of the Ring of Fire books is the transportation of a modern West Virginia town to 17th century Europe, and I have been enjoying the alternate history quite a bit.
They aren’t for everyone; the first few chapters of book 3 revolve around an industrial accident in a petroleum refinery cobbled together from 17th century tech, which probably doesn’t meet the literature bar of many.
Beyond just fun, I find them wholesome. It is obviously about the power of technology, but also organization and ideals, and it points out pockets of high competence existing in every time and place.