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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean the "person" in the car, not the car itself.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or "I thought you guys might find this interesting"

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That kinda looks like... SCP-173.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this an issue of executive dysfunction? Putting the cart back is such a trivial task that I have a hard time attributing it to laziness. It doesn't sound like you're doing it on purpose to be a dick either. Do you find that you sometimes can't do other things that should also be trivially simple? Like getting up off the couch to grab something two feet away, or deciding that lunch is too complicated because you need to put it in the microwave? My partner and I have both gone through this for most of our lives and it really sucks, but it doesn't have to be that way.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if you don't, someone else will do it for you on your dime.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you feel a difference, then keep doing it. Scientific studies tell you how the sample population responds on average. If some people experience a positive effect and others get a negative effect, that can average out to look like there's no effect. In the end, what matters is how it affects you.

I can say with certainty that carbs before and during a workout helps prevent me from passing out. The effect is very obvious.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Before I started adblocking, I'd get "relevant" ads in that I can understand how someone of my age/gender might like it, but they're never things I'd purchase myself. I just want a mostly empty home with as little visual stimulation as possible, and buying more stuff doesn't help with that.

So yeah, I'm definitely saying "ads don't work for me", but it's probably only because these companies refuse to make ads targeted to people like me.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does one then answer the question “If you think elections don’t work, then why do you participate?” by a non-anarchist?

You've made plenty of good points throughout the article about the problems with the system. I don't see why that can't be your answer. There's no contradiction in acknowledging major problems and still exerting what little influence you do have.

But if they “work a little” for an anarchist, certainly they would work a lot for a non-anarchist.

How does that logic follow? Assuming you both have the same values and are trying to achieve the same thing, then a solution that works for one person will work just as well for another. The difference in opinions is on which solution will work, not on what you're trying to achieve.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All you really need for tasty roasted potatoes is salt, which you wouldn't be able to see. Paired with some garlic mayo ideally.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

mathematically “correct” sounding output

It's hard to say because that's a rather ambiguous way of describing it ("correct" could mean anything), but it is a valid way of describing its mechanisms.

"Correct" in the context of LLMs would be a token that is likely to follow the preceding sequence of tokens. In fact, it computes a probability for every possible token, then takes a random sample according to that distribution* to choose the next token, and it repeats that until some termination condition. This is what we call maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) in machine learning (ML). We're learning a distribution that makes the training data as likely as possible. MLE is indeed the basis of a lot of ML, but not all.

*~Oversimplification.~

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

A picture is worth a thousand words

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, interesting. I guess oat and coconut flour behave very differently from AP flour? My usual banana bread recipe has a higher dry to wet ingredients ratio than this and it doesn't get anywhere near dough consistency.

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