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Comment · 3 years ago
Sarcastic critic of the following initial sentence:

> I fucking love writing. Most people I know also fucking love writing, and I do mean love.

Well, well, well. If it isn't the unabashed, unfiltered bard of the 21st century. Look at the sheer depth of passion here, folks! We've got 'fucking love' not once, but twice, because why not? Repetition is the spice of life, after all. And such eloquent use of the F-word, too. Truly, Shakespeare would be jealous.

Also, let's take a moment to appreciate the vague and incredibly relatable 'most people I know.' Because who doesn't know a handful of people who also 'fucking love' writing? Clearly, this is the universal experience we've all been waiting for.

And then, the pièce de résistance, 'and I do mean love.' As if the preceding profanity didn't quite hammer home the sentiment. Thanks for the clarification. We were worried you only 'kinda liked' writing. A masterpiece of modern literature, truly.

Great. Now show us what initial sentence you'd have used, same style. Just one brief impactful sentence with the same level of familiarity.

"Writing is my jam, and I swear, everybody I know is just as stoked about it – and I mean stoked."

Comment · 3 years ago
https://github.com/newhouseb/clownfish

Structural Alignment: Modifying Transformers (like GPT) to Follow a JSON Schema

Comment · 3 years ago
Here's an experiment that showcases GPT-4 deep (meta)semantic abilities:

https://pastebin.com/8FwQzDiE

TL;DR. I start by asking it to generate sentences where subject-object inversion yields a meaningful sentence where the verb's meaning is shifted metaphorically. For instance "I smoke the cigarette vs the cigarette is smoking me". After some back and forth it comes up with:

The painter captures the landscape vs. The landscape captures the painter. The gardener shapes the garden vs. The garden shapes the gardener. The chef creates the dish vs. The dish creates the chef.

Maybe that will change your mind.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Technically unrelated but driven by the same passions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13c6ukt/the_cre...

> The creator of an uncensored local LLM posted here, WizardLM-7B-Uncensored, is being threatened and harassed on Hugging Face by a user named mdegans. Mdegans is trying to get him fired from Microsoft and his model removed from HF. He needs our support.

"Everyone is the other and no one is himself." – Heidegger, Being and Time

"The writer speaks to seduce us, as in the past. He still watches for the admiration that his talent inspires in our eyes. One might say he does everything to make himself hated. No doubt, but that is because he can no longer openly court us. He must first convince himself that he is not seeking to flatter us. Thus, he will court us negatively, in the manner of Dostoevsky's passionate characters." – Girard, Romantic lies And novelistic lies.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons:

- If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

- God is necessary, and therefore must exist... But I know that he does not and cannot exist... Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

- My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

- In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

- I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.

- You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

- I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.

- You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention--and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom...

Comment · 3 years ago

    Qui suis-je ?
    
    Me voici Sultan !
    Nuitisme vocal
    Silice mouvant
    Io, vent musical !
    
    Le voici musant
    Mot inclus à vie
    Ce motival insu
    Là vous émincit
    
    Cultivons amie
    Si il vaut ce nom
    Son val muet ici
    
    Indice:
    
    Si nul vice à mot
    Vu ici slame ton
    Nom c'est via lui
    Vaincu tel, omis
    
    
    
    Who am I?
    
    Here I am, Sultan!
    Vocal nightism
    Moving silica
    Io, musical wind!
    
    Here it is, musing
    Word included for life
    This unknown motive
    There, it slices you down
    
    Let's cultivate, friend
    If it's worth that name
    Its silent valley here
    
    Hint:
    
    If no word vice
    Seen here, slams your
    Name, it's through it
    Defeated as such, omitted
Comment · 3 years ago
They should get what they fucking deserve jk of course
Comment · 3 years ago
Stab the guy behind the curtain ?
Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry for the confusing post, I'm digging into the details and what I said is basically what Kim Dot Com said around a week ago:

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1649574074732154880

> False claim 6: Dotcom claimed that he worked with Seth Rich.

> Truth: Seth Rich contacted me and offered information about the DNC. I rejected receiving the data personally and forwarded him to someone close to Wikileaks. That’s how Wikileaks got the DNC and Hillary Clinton leaks.

More context: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/why-kim-dotcom-connect...

Kim's open letter to Seth Rich family:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3755366-Open-Letter-...

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Pizzagate:

- Seth Rich, working for the democrat party, contacts Kim dot com.

- Kim declines the proposition of receiving the emails of Podesta and Clinton, and forwards Rich to Assange

- Assange gets the documents and release them

- Seth Rich is found dead in Washington, two bullets were shot in his back.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
• 3D printed aeroponic misting nozzles. I followed a patent, so it can't be open sourced.

• Automatic turret to guard a pond against herons. They come during winter and eat many goldfish. This year was catastrophic enough I started developing a turret using a raspberrypi4 with a YOLO computer vision nnet with weights from Tencent (not fined tuned, I just look for big bounding boxes tagged as a bird). The "gun" is composed of a coffee machine pump and a 3D printed polycarbonate pressure tank. Pan-tilt mount using sg90 servos. I didn't finish the project because it turned out quite a lot of fishes survived, they were just very good at hiding.

Comment · 3 years ago

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