Well, that shorthand just made it into the lexicon

Then stand back up, and pee!

Government - great at research, terrible at generation. If you ask it to find and summarise laws and regulation, does a great job, quotes info, can even generate reasonable overviews with a handhold.

Ask it to generate anything that isn’t directly quoted in a specific doc and it goes WILD. Even with some solid training in prompt engineering, it makes you work for focused outputs unless you give it clear everything (data, prompt, target template, revision and scoring process). But once the workflow has been solidly validated a few times I’d rate it “usable”.

If I remember from my psych degree, it’s technically possible to get addicted to anything that dumps dopamine. Has to do with reward schedules and how much dopamine that reward gives (is the juice worth the squeeze)

So our beloved man’s best friend are just derived from the dumbest of the wolves?

This is the pet for me! Black fox, arctic fox, fennec fox and wiley (red) fox, I want them all

This is actually a pretty good use case: one off, inconsequential, wouldn’t exist outside the scenario (or would even be considered to ask an artist), and adds a massive amount to a small party.

I have a friend who defines his gaming existence by black flag. He’s bought it, multiple times on multiple consoles out of sheer love for the game.

Skull and bones came out, I expected that to define the next 6 months of my life. Not a peep. Mentioned it and he just shrugs and goes: they had something good, and ubisofted it (this is after they’ve lost all consumer goodwill). I can’t help but agree

I just finished it today and it truly is a grind. I’m a middling gamer at best, but that series has held my attention in a way few have in over 15 years. Persevere and it’s worth it, but you’ll absolutely throw down your controller in frustration more than once. Reminds me of the old Mario games for difficulty at times. Happy struggles!

Fun fact: Sable is French for sand. I feels that adds an amusing layer of… grittiness to your commentary. But also irony that they never fixed it

True, but clearly you’ve never slashed a chicken in Zelda. Unleashing hell’s fury is also pretty powerful

I love this post explicitly because it is so absurd. What!? 😂

Mmm not that I’m aware of. Different provinces have different ages of majority (ie. 19 in Ontario and BC, 18 in others), but I haven’t heard of no cigarettes until 21. Granted, haven’t been paying attention, that’s in the rear view 🫠

I recently completed a fairly complex implementation training in government for a team of non-technical users, including agents, agentic workflows, some RAG, and small-scale enterprise app deployments.

I find it a very cool technology, but it is dumb yet. When unbounded, AI does some cool stuff. But building for complex workflows, I find, has resulted in a mixed bag of results. Very specific functions, such as mining data patterns, it is not bad at. But add gray area and it kind of takes stabs in the dark, much like a badly defined Web search.

Even our technical teams sell it as a 10-20% increase in efficiency, not a firesale position replacement. And they’re mandated to adopt and distribute it as widely through govt as possible.

In short, I think this is a fair assessment lol AI may replace us one day, but the models are far too new yet

Only if you use it as a smart tv - I just never signed the user agreements, and now have a big TV with OLED. I switch to the source I want - off I go. Television can still just be television!

Slightly unrelated tirade:

Background in psychology here: Psychology and sociology are also terrifyingly hard fields to pin down. Any one human’s behavior can be wildly inconsistent within a given set of parameters, and ppl evolve across time. Cultural context and social expectations come into play at and individual level.

Add in individual sensitivities to authority, understanding of a request, general intelligence, and you get massively varied outcomes that may change as a person grows and changes.

Then, for sociology, pile on group pressures and tendencies, plus group think and group cultural context (I have no background in sociology).

I truly believe psychology and sociology are great fields of study, that yield light on human truths. That said, from a technical scientific perspective, I think it’s nigh impossible to measure their value the same way as you would for mathematics or physics. At least, without finding a way to apply those fields to psychology lol

Not to mention a true farming life is brutal. Those 4am wakeup calls aren’t optional, if you’re truly living off it. Tractor breaks down? Cow’s sick? Want lunch?

You fix it, you kill it, you make it.

Because the non-industrial scale profit margins on farming suck. So you don’t have the money to pay someone for many of the luxuries city folks enjoy. Do it for a year, and you either learn to love the struggle or you quit.

There are some amazing parts of farming. And the life can be incredible. But farmers are ridiculously tough for a reason.

Ageeed. If random burglar, dud cameras and the “secured by” lawn signs are plenty effective. The appearance of security is a sufficient deterrent for all but determined robbers, or those targeting you specifically (where a camera will not do anything for prevention anyway).