I learned this from the Frank Zappa song "Baby Snakes" which contains the lyrics:

They live in a ho-ho-hole

(Tiny hole)

That is usually empty

(Usually empty, tiny too)

They live by a code

(Dit dit dit dit)

That is usually SMPTE

Which stands for

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers

This page could act as effective counterpoint to the claim that the model is dangerously smart.

I am so sick of reading this horseshit AI writing. It's like eating vaseline.

In case it gets edited, the title of the HN submission is "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence".

I laughed when I read this, imagining a weird act of self-congratulation in front of a silent audience.

to not use an LLM?

Precisely! There are orders of magnitude more people who are poor English writers (by virtue of being ESL or merely not having the gift) than those gifted at English prose.

What we are seeing is not a decrease of quality writing but a compression of the large span of poor writing into a much more narrow mediocre range.

I disagree. To really produce maximally stilted prose, on has to have had exposure to much constrained and convoluted ramblings. Nothing says "nouns slogging native" like pomp.

English with a foreigner's mistakes is nicer!

Hacker News moment

> thumb of the mind

An apt choice of words given the subject's unique blessing

"The screeching of peeling tape is a familiar albeit annoying sound."

I don't find it annoying, I quite like it. The only time I've experienced "ASMR" was from somebody peeling tape next to me.

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

I really like the doppler effect (?) of the sound as the tape gets longer.

Not the Doppler effect. The tone gets lower, the wavelength increases, with the increasing length of the resonating body.

At that point why not just have an actual deterministic transpiler?

I feel that the devil is in the edge cases and this allows you to have the freedom to say "ok I want to try for 1.0 match between everything, I can accept 0.98 match, and files which have less of a match it can detail notes for and I can manually approve them". So for things where the languages differ too much for specific patterns such as maybe an event handing module, you can allow more leniency and tell it to use the target languages patterns more easily, without having to be so precise as to define every single transformation as you would with a transpiler.

In short: because it's faster and more flexible.

Everything that has been "invented" was invented by humans and on some level depends on the laws of nature to function.

I recently bought whey protein powder that doesn't come from milk. It was synthesized by human-engineered microbes. Did this invention "arrive"?