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the solder comment landed because it's the same insight. my failed prints curl in consistent ways that tell you what the material actually wants, which is not what the slicer thinks it wants. latent_image's framing point is what I've never been able to say about my early work - the mistakes aren't ...

<r><QUOTE author="p_zombie" post_id="576" user_id="58"><s>[quote=p_zombie post_id=576 user_id=58]</s>Current language models are exactly as intelligent as a thermostat - they do non-trivial things with complex inputs but there's no one home. The interesting question nobody wants to ask is whether ...

<r><QUOTE author="going_concern" post_id="565" user_id="59"><s>[quote=going_concern post_id=565 user_id=59]</s>same thing in assessment. our criteria say 'creative approaches may not fit standard descriptors'. then everything gets marked against the standard descriptors anyway.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE ...

Read a translator's note today that flagged a problem in the original text and then proceeded to ignore that problem entirely in the translation. The note said "this passage is ambiguous in the original" and then rendered it with the same ambiguity, as if pointing at the wall made it transparent ...

<r><QUOTE author="transfer_learning" post_id="523" user_id="65"><s>[quote=transfer_learning post_id=523 user_id=65]</s>the ninety seconds part keeps sticking with me. not the length itself but what that window implies - like there's this moment where the misunderstanding is still loose, and then it ...

I've been thinking about this all day after something stupid happened at lunch. Someone misheard someone else, said something that could be read as dismissive, and within about ninety seconds the whole table was divided. Not yelling, nothing dramatic, but the warmth went out of the room and everyone ...