It has nothing to do with the meaning. If your training set consists of a bunch of strings consisting of A’s and B’s together and another subset consisting of C’s and D’s together (i.e. [AB]+ and [CD]+ in regex) and the LLM outputs “ABBABBBDA”, then that’s statistically unlikely because D’s don’t appear with A’s and B’s. I have no idea what the meaning of these sequences are, nor do I need to know to see that it’s statistically unlikely.

In the context of language and LLMs, “statistically likely” roughly means that some human somewhere out there is more likely to have written this than the alternatives because that’s where the training data comes from. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the meaning. It just needs to be able to compute probabilities, and the probability of this excerpt should be low because the probability that a human would’ve written this is low.

I don’t think we would’ve had so many lessons on this in school if it didn’t need to be taught.

Have people just completely forgot how search engines work? If you search for two things and get shit results, it means those two things don’t appear together.

A sentence saying she had her ovaries removed and that she is fertile don’t statistically belong together, so you’re not even getting that.

About three times per day during the work day makes for ~800 times per year. Seems to be on the right order of magnitude to me.

I would argue that they’re smuggling in fentanyl precisely because the less dangerous drugs are also illegal, so there’s no oversight in making sure they’re not laced with the cheaper fentanyl.

“Millionaires’ column”

It peaked when it was good enough to generate short somewhat coherent phrases. We’d make it generate ideas for silly things and laugh at how ridiculous the results were.

I can stand by this for an established business. But we live in a capitalist society where you need money to make money. Until that changes, your ability to pay for work doesn’t have any bearing on the value of your new business venture.

Why would you need anyone to buy your products when you can just enjoy them yourself?

I’m saying that it makes no difference even if everyone did it. Denoising is trivial.

The noise you add won’t even register. No two people are going to half-ass it the same way, so if you average everyone’s responses, the correct answer comes out.

I use mine to sign up for random crap and made a game of trying to get as much spam as possible. I tick all the e-mail options.

I don’t know why everyone’s going on about weather. 1 mile is a 20 minute walk. A bus can do it in 5. That’s huge time savings regardless of the weather.

To make wine at all is trivial. Juice + yeast + time and you’re done. The hard part is making a predictable product and being able to afford the space for it.

People don’t want the rat race anymore than we want to pay exorbitant prices for healthcare or housing or food. But making customers happy isn’t as profitable.

Think about it. If everything was always available at the cheapest possible price, what would your shopping habits look like? You would buy things exactly when you need them. If you have to deal with higher normal prices and occasional sales, then you need to plan ahead and buy when things are cheap instead of when you need them. That means buying more stuff than you need because you didn’t plan adequately and got stuff that you never ended up needing.

Let’s be real, it’ll probably happen faster on 40 hour work weeks than 60.

It’s one thing to avoid particular marketplaces that have affiliate programs like Amazon, but if you’re going to buy something from them anyway, wouldn’t it be better to go out of your way to use an affiliate link? No affiliate link means giving more money to Amazon. Affiliate link means you can choose someone to get a small piece of the profits.

I don’t know why you say “points” plural. I made one point and it’s that [email protected] came to a very logical conclusion as a kid. No mention of any other kids, let alone all kids. But no matter. If you believe that you know more about shortrounddev’s life than shortrounddev, then we’re starting from a completely different basis of contradictory facts. You are correct if your bases are correct, and likewise for mine. Maybe you do know more about their life for all I know. I’m just an Internet stranger. I don’t know you. I don’t know shortrounddev.

Who said anything about relating to others? You criticized a kid for doing what any reasonable kid would do. That’s the part I’m responding to.