is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"
like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?
colonise the light cone by exploring latent space
Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don't understand it.
Breaking free from the butthole
is this the best thing i've ever read?
i am an android user, but in the us not having an iphone can be tedious, so i set up openbubbles
did y'all know that apple lets its users create emojis with "AI" and these things come through as images to non-iphones?
thought i was past the "apple users incidentally harass non-apple users through imessage" thing, but this shit makes me want to just tell everyone that i will only answer messages on signal messenger
Thank you for the expression of sympathy. The good news is I actually love computer science, it fucking rules.
Also, I recorded this professor screaming at me and have documented all the plagiarism. I am waiting to officially leave the university to file a formal complaint. He may not get in any real trouble (universities will always go to bat for abusive researchers as long as they bring in grant money), but news will get out eventually.
So when I see people using LLMs to create things instead of doing it themselves, I can’t relate. Why do that when you can get the pleasure from doing it yourself? I guess if making money is the primary motivating factor, then it makes sense. But for me it is totally self-defeating.
I have a theory (similar to that "it's been vibe coding all along" post) that it's a combination of wishful thinking, lack of knowledge of real science, and a lack of any liberal arts skills, that altogether produces this farce.
I think it's a good explanation for "the code has been battle tested because it's so old and widely used, if it had bugs/security issues, we would have discovered them by now", as well as the widespread "we invented a tech solution that is just a worse engineering solution". Looking at you, chain of self-driving cars.
The reason I do CS is because a professor of computer science lied to me about the kind of work I'd be doing to get me to enroll in the CS PhD program instead of math. Guy later physically threatened me in his office and plagiarized my work, but I'm not sure if this reflects poorly on computer scientists, academics, or CS professors.
Anyway I have a chip on my shoulder.
the students in my cs department are overwhelmingly promptfondlers and even my strong students are doing the "qualified praise" thing.
fuck me why did i go into computer science
i thought it was pretty funny <3
thinking about how often code will be like
[-1] * len(array) # -1 is a place holder because I don't know the vocabulary term "sentinel value"
and justified because "it just needs to work"
and now we have professional vibe coders
i bought some bullshit from amazon and left a ~~somewhat~~ pretty mean review because debugging it was super frustrating
the seller reached out and offered a refund, so i told them basically "no, it's ok, just address the concerns in my review. let me update my review to be less mean-spirited
i was pretty frustrated setting it up but it mostly works fine"
then they sent a message that had the "llm vibe", and the rest of the conversation went
are all promptfondlers this fucking dumb?