My grandfather didn't die in Korea so that people could fight online like this.
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This is peak my phone is fighting for its life energy π
I pretty sure magic is involved
Redditor failed the litmus test for misandrists
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.
Plain stupid
We've learned rather a lot since then.
I can do (some of) the maths, but I definitely can't explain why any of it is like that, or how it works.
I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.
People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain "everybody does it this way, I guess it works" are there in scientific research.
Itβs called the heuristic method and those doing it know the limitations. Whereas LLMs will just confidently put out garbage claiming it true.
Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.
Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.
The different domain though. LLM hallucinations may lead to catastrophe, while assuming infinite mass of an electron in absence of electromagnetic field is neat
Calculations will happily tell you that an acutely toxic drug is the best way to cure cancer.
The reason why that does not lead to catastrophe is that there are many checks and safety nets in place in order not to blindly trust any result.
The exact same approach can be applied to an LLM.
Which is ironic because everyone has, at least once, been asked "but how does it work?" and have answered "dunno, but it does"
We all end up looking at cats in boxes pictures on the internet whenever we start to try to understand oh wow this cat is funny.
I like watching it in action. I don't know what the hell is going on, but it gives me a strange kind of peace, and if you stare at it long enough, you trick yourself into thinking that it makes some kind of sense.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
We know, but it's getting a bit cringe now
good bot
Such a warrior!
It's hard to explain quantum mechanics when you don't understand them.
I understand them! They perform oil changes on the quantum
They're so good they fix your car on the quantum level!
Thats the joke!
It's hard to explain quantum mechanics even when you understand them.
Thereβs an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of βright now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.β
If they're lucky they might understand kubernetes though.
Or as the professionals call it, k8s
It's a superposition of knowledge and ignorance.
The more you know the less you know
Damn Heisenberg
Congratulations, youβve successfully explained quantum mechanics.
Sometimes I get the sense that I have a clear picture of quantum mechanics. But when I look closer, it gets all blurry.
This isn't even a joke, it's literally true in quantum mechanics.
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