EffortlessGrace

“Wouldst thou like the taste of buttah?”

I turned 43 a few weeks ago.

Sucks to suck, Heg-suck.

“I moved on, but for the favor, I need another 2 grand off.”

Are we just making up language rules as we go?

Yes, throughout history, in fact.

And to answer the meme’s question, it can have either definition based on the context of usage.

I’m an Indian by blood and an American by birth; let me tell ya:

Ain’t nobody hatin’ quite like family.

​"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

• Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders, 1721 C.E.

The <insertGroupCategoryHere>-war is a proxy for the only war that ever mattered: The Class War.

Natuurlijk niet.

Waarom zou ik, of wie dan ook, meer nodig hebben dan een standaard “welkom”?

As an American living in the Netherlands for 4 years now:

NO, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS. NO.

Wealthy Americans are selfish, planet destroying assholes.

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Yes, I’m well aware.

I still think the meme should have “White” in front of “Americans” in its caption.

Awakened to the historical and contemporary socio-economic and political realities surrounding colonialist and native populations’ ruling classes’ manipulation, subjugation, and exploitation of marginalized peoples who were and are deemed as the “others”.

I’m a citizen of the United States.

I speak 4, besides American English, at various levels of proficiency, but I’m an American-born son of immigrants who splits time between the US and EU (my wife is Dutch). I also enjoy linguistics and etymology.

Even though this is anecdotal, every daughter and son of an immigrant diaspora that I personally know, like me in the US, speaks multiple or at least 2 languages.

I argue this meme refers to an issue largely for Americans of European descent. Since a very young age, I noticed “white” people in America seem to be scared of “new” or “foreign” things. One of them is learning a language, trying to speak it in public with a native-speaker, and getting corrected for mistakes which will happen, including self-styled “leftists” and “liberals” (the American definition).

I categorize this specific phenomenon, this fear of embarrassment, as another facet or aspect of what some of my black colleagues back in the States refer to as “white fragility”.

Those people who look down on “Americans” should talk to more of us who aren’t of European descent. Perhaps, that may give some depth to your perception of us, or of what our capacity for a global perspective and living as part of a global community is.

I am a leftist. Islam most certainly does not “get a pass”.

I began my DNN career path researching cancerous tissue detection for medical diagnostic imaging which is a computer vision problem. I think it would surprise a lot of people how power efficient you can make DNNs (especially for inference) when it comes to other tasks besides predicting text or generating media. It pleases me greatly to see other peers in my field share my prognosis about language models compared to other DNN algorithms for different modalities.

Thanks for your input, reassurance, and well done in helping to create such an efficient system.

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Deep neural networks (a narrow subset of “AI” algorithms) are here to stay, and there are massive gains in other hard sciences that have been made with the nature of how they make predictions based on a corpus of training data.

Conversely, in my opinion, there is most definitely an economic bubble regarding LLM (a narrow subset of DNNs) purveyors due to the revolving investments vendors make into each other’s businesses to prop up the illusion that “line go brrrrr forever”.

Both things can be, and I argue, are true simultaneously.

Edit: Downvote me all you want. I work with DNNs for a living; it doesn’t take an “insider” or a financial analyst analyzing EBIDTAs to understand the frailty of the house of cards that the “LLM industry” sits upon right now. I say this as someone who self-hosts and uses llama.cpp and Open-WebUI nearly every day.

When did the Internet come to reflect society?

When it became ubiquitous to industrialized societies. 1995-ish, in my opinion.

Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net?

Absolutely.

Are we really that bad?

Without a doubt.

“The world is far better and worse than you can possibly imagine.”

“You may have me at ‘better’, Dr. Sattler, but you can’t hold a candle to me on ‘worse’.”

• Contact, by Dr. Carl Sagan