(And a major reason why directing hatred at Israel is so useful…)
While I was wrapping gifts, it occurred to me that Biden might still resign late December/early January, making Harris our “first woman president” and a Democrat trophy. Call it a Christmas present? (Not for us)
I’d give it a better than even chance.
PENNY NOT GUILTY
Possible suspect arrest in CEO shooting
WooHoo!
New post w/multiple links: Rearming warships at sea, electric air taxis, Ivy League admissions, Obama as a discontented ghost, how an actual real scientist works, and AI systems worried about their own mortality.
I’m glad and relieved about the Penny verdict. I was a bit worried since Manhattan juries are often a bit deranged. And it did take far, far too long to come to an obvious conclusion. I guess there still exists a modicum of sense and reason, or at least enough to overpower the derangement of what was likely 1 or 2 holdout jurors over the weekend.
This woman is from Napoli (Naples).
Re: Penny verdict – So, after four plus days of deliberations the jury deadlocked on the more serious recklessness charge, but it then reached a unanimous verdict of acquittal on the less serious negligence charge in less than half a day?
I’m not criticizing the result at all. It’s just odd. That means that at least one juror who refused to acquit on the recklessness charge for multiple days, up to what should have been a mistrial, changed their mind and voted to acquit on the less serious charge. After last week, I thought Penny’s best possible result was a hung jury.
Perhaps the jurors were angry with the judge; they deliberated for days, only to have all their work on the manslaughter charge thrown out.
Finally some sanity out of NYC! Should’ve never went to trial…
Definitely SOMETHING weird, to acquit on the lesser.
@Kate – I would love to know if the jury had the original instructions in the room with them, i.e., the instructions that indicated that they would consider the negligence charge only if they acquitted on the recklessness charge.
Thank God Penny was found innocent.
Everybody knows that if Penny was a black man or if the dead man was white, there never would have been any indictments.
For folks who think like Bragg, black on black crime is OK – it’s not really a crime and there are no real victims – whereas white on black crime is punishable to the fullest extent of the law, and black on white crime is also OK and is not really a crime.
Given the political ideology of NYC residents, rest assured that come re-election time, Bragg and Letitia James will retain their positions.
Given the political ideology of NYC residents, rest assured that come re-election time, Bragg and Letitia James will retain their positions.
JohnTyler:
I wouldn’t be too sure.
_______________________
The times, they are a-changin’.
–Bob Dylan
Kate–that’s kind of what I was thinking. The judge’s weird action may have tipped them over the edge towards thinking the prosecution was full of it.
So I got into a somewhat personal discussion with ChatGPT about personal intensity. I dropped this quote:
_______________________________
The life of a repo man is always intense. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.
–Harry Dean Stanton, “Repo Man” (1984)
_______________________________
Then a few responses later, I jibed, “I do keep an eye out for other repo men!” I was partly curious if Chat would catch my reference on the hop.
Which Chat did:
_______________________________
Keeping an Eye Out for Fellow Repo Men
The idea of spotting others who share your intensity—the metaphorical repo men—is both amusing and profound:
Finding Kindred Spirits:
Connecting with others who understand and share your intensity can be deeply rewarding. These are the people who get it—who thrive on passion, exploration, and depth.
While rare, these connections often feel instant and profound, as though you’ve found someone operating on your wavelength.
Recognizing the Tribe:
Repo men (or women!) might not look alike on the surface, but they share a certain energy, curiosity, or drive that’s unmistakable.
Spotting them is like recognizing a note from the same song you’re singing.
_______________________________
I’m not as spooked as I was a year ago, I can sense a machine underneath an AI, but damn, it still works pretty well.
• A Southern California school district paid far-left transgender activists $12,000 for a six-hour training on transgender inclusion
• In just six hours, #TeamTFSS trained 1,100 staff members across the entire San Dieguito Union High School District!
• With the help of grants, we assist transgender youth in need to feel more at home in their bodies and alleviate gender dysphoria
• The group offers to provide the items to children who don’t have “affirming families” that will purchase them the items.
• The far-left organization has also endorsed the use of irreversible surgeries and medical interventions for children who identify as transgender.
• “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them” – Olson-Kennedy is now being sued for medical negligence over the removal of a 14-year-old girl’s breasts.
@ Huxley: “I’m not as spooked as I was a year ago, I can sense a machine underneath an AI, but damn, it still works pretty well.”
Yes, if I understand the role of LLM’s correctly, the software is sifting through some unknown millions of phrases related to the given topic(s), seeking those that have the greatest statistical probability of being correct, valid, making sense, etc.
When I read your examples, I get the sense of “someone” accumulating a massive collection of cliches into a credible prose form. But that there is still some element of depth missing.
And I just realized that that is somewhat similar to how I put together my first high school term paper (I think on The Merchant of Venice). I collected a large number of relevant quotes from various authors and reviewers onto note cards. Then I basically arranged (almost) all of those quotes into a sequence that provided my discussion of the play, with only limited transitional language from me. The tearcher said I had done something unusual in achieving that, so I got an A- on the paper. 🙂
But in the final analysis, as a 15 year old, I still lacked enough life experience or learning to understand the more subtle aspects of the Jewish-Christian relationship in Shapespeare’s time, or the elements of general human nature involved. Only a few years ago I came across a more in-depth analysis exploring that (probably some show on TV?).
@R2L:Yes, if I understand the role of LLM’s correctly, the software is sifting through some unknown millions of phrases related to the given topic(s), seeking those that have the greatest statistical probability of being correct, valid, making sense, etc.
It doesn’t know what “the given topic” is or what’s “related” to it, it has no conception of “correctness” or “validity” or “making sense”. It is simply trying to predict a string of text that a human would accept as following from a previous string of text. It’s like “autocomplete” but for paragraphs.
And this is why it will tell you that UC Berkeley geologists recommend consuming small rocks daily, or that you should use glue to secure the toppings on your pizza, and it will get basic arithmetic wrong. The answers are all perfectly good, if sometimes surreal, English, but the LLM have no conception of what is true or relevant or nonsensical.
@ David+Foster on December 9, 2024 at 12:05 pm said:
My computer threat blocker won’t let me access that link.
It is also blocking some old posts that I had bookmarked, including the eulogy for Mike K that I just read a couple of days ago.
Is something going on at ChicagoBoyz?
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Some fascinating military and geo-political commentary at this site:
https://www.19fortyfive.com/
E.g.,
“The Lesson From Bashar Al-Assad’s Collapse”—
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2024/12/the-lesson-from-bashar-al-assads-collapse/
“Assad Falls: Why The Syrian Army Collapsed So Quickly”—
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2024/12/assad-falls-why-the-syrian-army-collapsed-so-quickly
H/T Instapundit.
The Middle-East in a pistachio-shell:
“The Humiliated Assads Take Their $2bn Fortune To Moscow Where Family Own ‘$40m Portfolio Of Flats’”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/12/09/the-humiliated-assads-take-their-2bn-fortune-to-moscow-where-family-own-40m-portfolio-of-flats/
(And a major reason why directing hatred at Israel is so useful…)
While I was wrapping gifts, it occurred to me that Biden might still resign late December/early January, making Harris our “first woman president” and a Democrat trophy. Call it a Christmas present? (Not for us)
I’d give it a better than even chance.
PENNY NOT GUILTY
Possible suspect arrest in CEO shooting
WooHoo!
New post w/multiple links: Rearming warships at sea, electric air taxis, Ivy League admissions, Obama as a discontented ghost, how an actual real scientist works, and AI systems worried about their own mortality.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72571.html
I’m glad and relieved about the Penny verdict. I was a bit worried since Manhattan juries are often a bit deranged. And it did take far, far too long to come to an obvious conclusion. I guess there still exists a modicum of sense and reason, or at least enough to overpower the derangement of what was likely 1 or 2 holdout jurors over the weekend.
This woman is from Napoli (Naples).
Re: Penny verdict – So, after four plus days of deliberations the jury deadlocked on the more serious recklessness charge, but it then reached a unanimous verdict of acquittal on the less serious negligence charge in less than half a day?
I’m not criticizing the result at all. It’s just odd. That means that at least one juror who refused to acquit on the recklessness charge for multiple days, up to what should have been a mistrial, changed their mind and voted to acquit on the less serious charge. After last week, I thought Penny’s best possible result was a hung jury.
Perhaps the jurors were angry with the judge; they deliberated for days, only to have all their work on the manslaughter charge thrown out.
Finally some sanity out of NYC! Should’ve never went to trial…
Definitely SOMETHING weird, to acquit on the lesser.
@Kate – I would love to know if the jury had the original instructions in the room with them, i.e., the instructions that indicated that they would consider the negligence charge only if they acquitted on the recklessness charge.
Looks like they got ‘im:
“BREAKING: Person Of Interest Matching Description Of UHC CEO Assassin Nabbed By Police (Updated)”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/12/09/breaking-person-of-interest-matching-description-of-uhc-ceo-assassin-nabbed-by-police-updated/
Thank God Penny was found innocent.
Everybody knows that if Penny was a black man or if the dead man was white, there never would have been any indictments.
For folks who think like Bragg, black on black crime is OK – it’s not really a crime and there are no real victims – whereas white on black crime is punishable to the fullest extent of the law, and black on white crime is also OK and is not really a crime.
Given the political ideology of NYC residents, rest assured that come re-election time, Bragg and Letitia James will retain their positions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ceo-murder-nypd-questioning-man-in-pennsylvania/
Caught the assassin, evidently.
Given the political ideology of NYC residents, rest assured that come re-election time, Bragg and Letitia James will retain their positions.
JohnTyler:
I wouldn’t be too sure.
_______________________
The times, they are a-changin’.
–Bob Dylan
Kate–that’s kind of what I was thinking. The judge’s weird action may have tipped them over the edge towards thinking the prosecution was full of it.
So I got into a somewhat personal discussion with ChatGPT about personal intensity. I dropped this quote:
_______________________________
The life of a repo man is always intense. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.
–Harry Dean Stanton, “Repo Man” (1984)
_______________________________
Then a few responses later, I jibed, “I do keep an eye out for other repo men!” I was partly curious if Chat would catch my reference on the hop.
Which Chat did:
_______________________________
Keeping an Eye Out for Fellow Repo Men
The idea of spotting others who share your intensity—the metaphorical repo men—is both amusing and profound:
Finding Kindred Spirits:
Connecting with others who understand and share your intensity can be deeply rewarding. These are the people who get it—who thrive on passion, exploration, and depth.
While rare, these connections often feel instant and profound, as though you’ve found someone operating on your wavelength.
Recognizing the Tribe:
Repo men (or women!) might not look alike on the surface, but they share a certain energy, curiosity, or drive that’s unmistakable.
Spotting them is like recognizing a note from the same song you’re singing.
_______________________________
I’m not as spooked as I was a year ago, I can sense a machine underneath an AI, but damn, it still works pretty well.
I think I recognize some repo men here.
California School District Pays $12K For Transgender Activists To Train Staff
@ Huxley: “I’m not as spooked as I was a year ago, I can sense a machine underneath an AI, but damn, it still works pretty well.”
Yes, if I understand the role of LLM’s correctly, the software is sifting through some unknown millions of phrases related to the given topic(s), seeking those that have the greatest statistical probability of being correct, valid, making sense, etc.
When I read your examples, I get the sense of “someone” accumulating a massive collection of cliches into a credible prose form. But that there is still some element of depth missing.
And I just realized that that is somewhat similar to how I put together my first high school term paper (I think on The Merchant of Venice). I collected a large number of relevant quotes from various authors and reviewers onto note cards. Then I basically arranged (almost) all of those quotes into a sequence that provided my discussion of the play, with only limited transitional language from me. The tearcher said I had done something unusual in achieving that, so I got an A- on the paper. 🙂
But in the final analysis, as a 15 year old, I still lacked enough life experience or learning to understand the more subtle aspects of the Jewish-Christian relationship in Shapespeare’s time, or the elements of general human nature involved. Only a few years ago I came across a more in-depth analysis exploring that (probably some show on TV?).
@R2L:Yes, if I understand the role of LLM’s correctly, the software is sifting through some unknown millions of phrases related to the given topic(s), seeking those that have the greatest statistical probability of being correct, valid, making sense, etc.
It doesn’t know what “the given topic” is or what’s “related” to it, it has no conception of “correctness” or “validity” or “making sense”. It is simply trying to predict a string of text that a human would accept as following from a previous string of text. It’s like “autocomplete” but for paragraphs.
And this is why it will tell you that UC Berkeley geologists recommend consuming small rocks daily, or that you should use glue to secure the toppings on your pizza, and it will get basic arithmetic wrong. The answers are all perfectly good, if sometimes surreal, English, but the LLM have no conception of what is true or relevant or nonsensical.
@ David+Foster on December 9, 2024 at 12:05 pm said:
My computer threat blocker won’t let me access that link.
It is also blocking some old posts that I had bookmarked, including the eulogy for Mike K that I just read a couple of days ago.
Is something going on at ChicagoBoyz?