jkf
2hr ago
Even when it does point you to the right thing, it is also showing you other things now -- in the deep(ish) past, if you put something in quotes it would only show results containing that string. Similarly (although I think this went away first), a search for -(thing you don't want to see) used to result in zero results containing that term -- now if you search for "used cars -chevy" it probably shows you fewer chevys than otherwise, but you are still going to see some. Particularly harmful when you are looking for something with one extremely common straightforward set of results (that you are not interested in) and an alternate niche interpretation. (the thing you want to find!)
AI influence seems to be making this a bit worse, I suspect since the "this is probably what he really wants" is more strongly weighted -- but it might be corpus frequency effects too I suppose.
jkf
3hr ago
Verbatim and minus have just meant "more/less of this please" to google for years now -- well before LLM influence. I'm not sure why exactly, but corporate policy seems to be that (even setting aside sponsored results) the algo knows what you want better than you do. And the algo is getting worse.
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Staircase goes at the back; perpendicular to the long axis of the house and either facing the entry or above the basement stairs. (which would then be facing the entry, probably behind a door)
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The traditional mudroom is behind the backdoor (which is probably on the side of a colonial); front doors are for guests, and you should be taking their coats for them and laying them on the bed in the spare room! However, you could build something like #2 or #4 here in which the exterior wall of the house (including the front door) is bumped out about 3 feet in some part of the porch area, the roof of which extends something like a further 3 three feet). This creates space for hangers inside the entry and funnels people into the living area; there's a nice spot for a closet if you have winter coats. (or just want to piss @ToaKraka off)
Like this:
(stairs are up here somewhere)
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Optional wall --> | | | (some other room here)
(nice place for hooks tho) | | |<--closet
___________ | |__|___________
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jkf
1d ago
There was somebody from the Yukon who came down with symptoms upon return and is quarantining IIRC!
jkf
4d ago
"anything that comes to your specified location on a 3T+ truck" to be clear; construction materials, cement, water hauling, stuff like that (plus freight I assume -- although I don't deal with that often). The installers/resellers of these things usually just roll it into the price at the consumer level. I think ferries may add a line on your ticket at times though?
jkf
5d ago
In the short term, I think we're going to see a lot of industries try to normalize a "fuel surcharge".
Assuming you're in the US, I'm surprised this isn't already a thing -- it's been normalized for all manner of things in Canada since... I wanna say 2008? The last time we had a big sudden spike, anyways.j
Amazon etc. probably won't do it because they don't need to -- they will just tell their supply chain to eat it, and it will.
jkf
10d ago
you just paid for one ad a year in the plumbers section.
Those ads were pretty expensive too though -- thousands a month for a decent sized (1/2 - 1/4 page) 'attractor' in the yellow pages IIRC.
jkf
10d ago
Out of curiosity, I disabled all user personalization, removed the NHS thing, removed Dase
Notably it seems to think that almost everyone might be Ilforte -- which is weird because he's got a pretty recognizable and unique style actually.
I'm guessing that corpus frequency is a big factor here -- have you tried posting less/shorter?
jkf
10d ago
you'd need training programs for, with like, budgets and performance evaluations.
"true, this dog won't hunt -- but he's very rapey..."
jkf
10d ago
If you can abolish one (presumably arguing that "bear" != "carry"!?), then there's no reason the next guy can't abolish the other on some similar pretext.
jkf
11d ago
I can't be arsed to do it, but it seems pretty trivial to plug whatever parameters you like into some simulation code and let it run a few million times? Some cases you will take one box but the alien predicted wrong and you get nothing; sometimes you take two and he was wrong and you get 1M + 1K. So long as he is mostly correct I don't see how the EV is not strongly driven by the cases where you pick the mystery box and get $1M -- no loss of free will required.
jkf
11d ago
If it's possible for someone to get away with two boxing and get both boxes, and you can put yourself in that scenario, then you can win by two boxing.
Let's put a number on it -- what successful prediction rate would Omega need to have for you to consider taking both boxes? Depends how badly you need a thousand bucks I guess?
jkf
12d ago
Too late for voting, too early for shooting -- we're at an awkward moment, but it will work itself out one way or another...
jkf
14d ago
I understand that that's the story -- I just don't believe it. (as with the earlier story that you are particularly likely to die a horrible death from sweeping out your cupboards without putting on a bunny suit first)
jkf
15d ago
It's been around since forever in western North America -- endemic in deer mice IIRC? This new one is a different strain I guess, but now that I think about it the mouse droppings thing was a very early nudge towards me being radicalized by public health morons.
"You need to be Extremely Concerned about cleaning up mouse poop in your cabin" -- which you and everyone else has been doing on a yearly basis since Time Immemorial, riiiight...
jkf
19d ago
No, it chooses the best one itself -- autonomous agents at your fingertips man.
jkf
19d ago
This argument smells like the old canard of LLMs not being able to do anything novel, not being able to do anything that they haven't seen before.
Well it's not -- LLMs are clearly useful systems, but it is equally clear that the way they accomplish things does not involve modelling the world.
LLMs don't make plans while evaluating tradeoffs and then do things to put those plans into action? I don't know how you can even believe that in May 2026. Have you never used a coding agent and had it plan a solution, seen it analyze different approaches with their respective tradeoffs, and seen it propose the option it thinks is best?
Using anthropomorphized language to describe something doesn't make it so. Does your car "analyze different approaches with their respective tradeoffs and implement the solution it thinks best" when you apply the anti-lock braking system?
jkf
19d ago
Twitter is not the world though -- maybe Twitter should actually run the experiment, with the consequence to being a losing Blue a permaban!
But seriously, Twitter has like half a billion MAU -- even if we accept the poll-takers as representative of Twitter, there are another several billion humans out there for many of whom "if you press this button you might die, if you press this one you won't" is a compelling case.
jkf
20d ago
It's unclear to me at which point even a human can be said to "model" chess.
Many humans of course do openings in a somewhat similar way; they memorize a bunch. The modelling comes in that a (competent) human will have memorized a number of opening variations, and will play into one that matches what he wants for the midgame; the LLM has essentially memorized a number of opening variations and then picks one using an element of randomness.
It's certainly possible to play good chess without memorizing openings; time constraints are the main reason to do so.
You can say: "Hmm, e4 -- he wants to dominate the centre with that pawn. I need to contest it; e5 would work -- or I could do it indirectly, like Nf6? But then he will just advance the pawn and threaten my knight; seems like a wasted move. Better stick with e5."
This takes much longer than "let's go for the Italian Game", but it's the kind of modelling that you need to do once beyond your memorized opening; LLMs don't do anything like that ever.
jkf
20d ago
I've driven from (southwest) Texas to Montana in a day; surely a motivated individual with a car could make it happen? Planes also exist, if one is not truly destitute.
jkf
20d ago
If the dumbest 40% of society are going to die, so am I if I vote with them. Am I missing something here?
Pretending to be retarded so I can be a part of a mass suicide doesn't seem like a great strategy; if it turns out to be actually so terrible (which I strongly doubt), I've certainly got personal options for dealing with a life-not-worth-living due to inadequate idiots in the world.
I'm showing my age perhaps, but I swear there was a time when double-clicking a word in windows selected just that word -- I understand that sometimes people would also want the trailing space, but now even if you drag-select, that gets helpfully added in many programs (eg. Word).
Clippy lives on as a sloppy ghost in the machine...
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