Oh whoops I said characters I meant words. That’s what I get for posting the second I wake up.

Em dashes per word count is how the expert on linguistics article I read counted it so I’m gonna go ahead and trust the expert. It wouldn’t matter either way. If the LLM is using it like humans then the count would be the same.

I didn’t read the link but the text said “the person’s device doesn’t need to handle” the fan out, which means there’s a server somewhere. If it’s designed to avoid the pitfalls of self hosting then it’s centralized server tech.

So there’s a central failure point…

that AI doesn’t mean inherently awful and bad

it does when it's actively destroying the planet. There's no good use of AI. There's less bad uses since we're now in an era of AI generated cyber attacks, so people are using it to defend. But there's no good use. It's a horrendous technology that is destroying humanity with every use.

It's the same as a nuclear bomb. If the bomb was never used and we just knew how to make it, it wouldn't be that bad. But it was used, it killed hundreds of thousands of people, and no matter what happens in the future it's still horrific technology.

the books the LLM were trained on that used the most em dashes used like 1 every 200-500 characters. LLMs use em dashes at a rate of like 1 every 40-50 characters. It's not even CLOSE to human behavior.

you still probably don't use it nearly as much as LLMs do. It's every third sentence with an LLM, and those sentences will have 2 or 3 em dashes. . The average em dash use when it was at its peak was like 1 every 200-500 words from what I remember. With LLMs it's like 1 every 40 words.

Well did he just throw the bullets at them? Turns out words have meanings and can manipulate people to think one thing when they mean another.

This article says two completely different things “collided” and “passed too close”. Both are pretty bad, but one is clearly worse than the other.

all the same stuff? it's bsd under the hood. it literally functions just like linux. I run cachy on my desktop and while kde plasma is great, mac is fantastic as well. about the only thing better on linux is that I can game.

It definitely still can happen, especially with Duracells, even while they’re still in a sealed package in the store.

For the ones that want the actual numbers (not cherry-picked bullshit) here you go!

The only borough that has above 50% car usage is Staten Island. NYC as a whole is at 26.7% car usage. Queens has high car usage and yet Public transit is more than 10% higher.

You can easily get this data from NYC's data portal. https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/data-explorer/walking-driving-and-cycling/?id=2415&MeasureID=1304&GeoType=NTA&TimePeriodID=287&overlay=table

that's really good to know... our tv from the early 2010s is dying and we're gonna need one sooner rather than later, so it's good to know that there's an actual option that costs less than a commercial display.