karlhigley

karlhigley, 7 days ago to random

A field where everything is delayed named something “prompt engineering” without a trace of irony

karlhigley, 16 days ago to random

“Why did Google spend billions recommending gasoline pasta?” is a real and legitimate question people have to ask these days ⛽️ 🍝 🫠

https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493422972172496

karlhigley, 21 days ago to random

C: “What?! What is an offset bread crumb? How can a crumb have a zig-zag?”

Me: “Noooo, offset bread knives”

C: “Ohhhhh, then your knuckles don’t hit the cutting board”

baldur, 23 days ago to random

Google translate between Icelandic and English has gone from 75% useful, 25% laughable nonsense to mostly unusable in the space of a year. You used to be able to use it effectively as a dictionary. Enter a single word and you'd get the most common dictionary translation

Now, half the time you'll just get nonsense.

recursive, 25 days ago to random

An unexpectedly pleasant result of teaching myself some abstract algebra and number theory is that I get to properly indulge my inner child, who is deeply resentful that anyone ever demanded that she believe something based on appeal to authority.

Despite being moved into "two years ahead of most kids" math starting around age 13, until I hit some theoretical computer science stuff in college, it was mostly practical technique and very little proof and hard for me to fake interest in.