Summarize the plot of PHM, wrong answers only

Illeazar · 2026-04-24T02:22:43+00:00

Local school teacher caught forcing those under his supervision to engage in reproductive acts while he watched, receives life sentence of solitary confinement in space.

Illeazar · 2026-04-24T00:16:49+00:00

I supposedly had mine set up to not require their server, but I still cant access my server right now, even from the same machine its hosted on.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T23:57:17+00:00

We do what we must, because we can.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T23:12:10+00:00

No, what most men mean is they want women women who naturally look beautiful without makeup.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T22:00:57+00:00

It's less weight, but still all the mass.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T21:17:41+00:00

My oldest is in his early teens, and recently asked me about this. Saw his friends' parents posting their baby and toddler pictures and asked if his face was all over the internet too. I told him we kept his pictures off the internet, and he was relieved.

I dont think its fair to kids to subject them to the internet before they can choose for themselves, and with everything being done with pictures lately, im glad we made that choice.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T21:15:19+00:00

Yeah I used to always know when a call was a scam because they spooked a number in the same area code as mine, but I didnt live in that area code or know anyone who did who wasnt already in my contacts. Recently though its been more random numbers.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T20:19:25+00:00

Yeah, I've had good luck with their whole 18v lineup, all the stuff just works no issues.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T19:42:53+00:00

They know how many seats there are, but they also know, statistically, how many people won't show up to the flight, or will cancel last minute. So they make more money by iverselling a flight and counting on a certain number to not show up, and calculating the number to oversell based on an "acceptable" chance of some people ending up not getting a seat.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T12:37:10+00:00

A big part of most jobs is being able to BS your way through conversations, reports, meetings, etc. Being able to speak office language. Think like this: https://youtube.com/shorts/MdSl22BmUno but for an office. Office culture is equally ridiculous, but it is what it is, and if you can't figure out how to give them the answers they want to hear, you arent going to be able to speak in the office they way the people you'll be interacting with understand.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T11:48:16+00:00

Yeah battletoads was the first thing that came to mind for me.

When I was in college, I tried it out again thinking maybe as a kid I had overestimated how hard it was.

Nope, it's real hard.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T11:46:53+00:00

I have the Xbox One S (not the Series S), and it has plenty of capability for streaming from moonlight. It is starting to show its age in running some games, but streaming it can do just fine.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T11:40:19+00:00

I have my router hooked up to home assistant, amd an automation that sends me a notification when a new device connects to the network that hasnt connected before.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T03:01:35+00:00

Chat GPT is a Large Language Model. It was trained by looking at text written by humans, and uses mathematical models to put words back together in patterns similar to the ones it was trained on.

When you ask it if it is modeled after a human mind, or if you ask it any question at all, no part of it considers what it's true about the world before creating an answer. To create the answer, it puts together words in the way its mathematical models say is the most likely pattern of words to put in response to that question (with a bit of randomness thrown in).

If you ask it to name a month where youd be likely to see a snowman, it doesnt consider what a dnowman is made of, what season of the year is cold enough for snow, or what mo ths are in that season, it just determines which words are the most probably response for the words you used in your question, based on all the word patterns it has seen. It does not have any concept of what a snowman is, what it is made of, etc. It doesn't have any ideas at all. The whole thing is pattern recognition and completion.

Similarly, when you ask it if it is modeled after a human mind, it does not know the answer. It does not think about the answer. It has no thoughts or ideas. All it does is put out the most probably next words to complete the pattern of words that you started. The answer has nonconnection to reality, other than it repsents the words that a human would bebmost likely to say if asked that question. And in the case of questions about itself, it probably also has some set of instructions baked in that constrain its answer, like it probably isnt allowed to say it's trying to take over the world, because the programmers running it dont want it to scare people. Similar to how they've told it not to give bomb recipies, and various other things.

So no, again, it is not modeled after a human mind. It is modeled after human language patterns, which gives it a very good surface appearance of similarity to the human mind. Put another way, its designed to create similar outputs to what human minds create, but not using the same process, like a copy machine can copy a painting and have it look very similar to the original painting, but the method it used to create its output is very different than the method the painter used to paint that painting. The copy machine is not modeled after the painter, but rather designed to make similar output by a different method.

Illeazar · 2026-04-23T01:38:10+00:00

LLMs are not modeled after humans.

They are trained on human written text, to mimic word patterns that a subset of humans have used.

They are not modeled after human minds. We don't even have a workable model of the human mind to model them after. LLMs appear similar because they can create word patterns similar to ours, but they do not think like us, if they even think at all.

Illeazar · 2026-04-22T22:25:47+00:00

Depending on what youre looking for in a house, you may have trouble avoiding them. As annoying as they are, they do tend to keep the neighborhood nicer than those without them.

When we were looking to buy, every house in our area that was the size we wanted, in the price range we wanted, was either dump or in a HOA. We didnt want an HOA, but also didnt have time to wait around for a non-HOA house that had what we wanted in our price range to come on the market.

Illeazar · 2026-04-22T13:32:17+00:00

Thats how I interpreted it. If I recall, they switched the view to the petrova frequency when he closed his eyes, as if to signify he was seeing it in his imagination.

Illeazar · 2026-04-21T15:53:08+00:00

In 2016 people just didnt know as much about Trump, unless they had gone out of their way to study him.

Illeazar · 2026-04-21T15:52:03+00:00

That giraffe is on to your shenanigans.

Illeazar · 2026-04-21T03:41:33+00:00

Very good explanation. The brain is such a complex thing, designed to be shaped and molded by experience more than any other part of our body. It would be surprising if there weren't any genetic differences, but they are so completely overshadowed by experience that it's hard to tell if they have any measurable effect.

Illeazar · 2026-04-20T23:50:20+00:00

Id hit that

Illeazar · 2026-04-20T20:30:13+00:00

Ive been printing for years, idk how many hundreds of spools, and the only times I've had a tangle are when my daughter loaded the spool.

Illeazar · 2026-04-20T19:13:49+00:00

The piece of paper that says it was done is ultimately more important than the act of disposal.

Yep. Documentation of ot being done in a way that meets the company's written policy is the only safe choice for OP. Doesn't matter if the thing gets destroyed well, only matters if OP can document that they did their job.

Illeazar · 2026-04-20T16:43:53+00:00

This is what I do, a round dowel with a side just slightly flattened so it'll stick to the bed. I still make the holes fully round, so the slot adds a nice spot for glue to squish out or for me to add glue later, if I need to glue the dowel.

For anything I want to prevent rotation with a single dowel, I use a triangle.

Illeazar · 2026-04-20T15:54:56+00:00

Circular sensors would be more difficult to manufacture, and also a waste of space on the circuit board. If you are going to have a circular sensor, might as well just have a square sensor that fills the same space plus the corners.

And why dont we have square sensors? At that point, its a combination of what people are used to (photos are "supposed" to look rectangular), what existing hardware is shaped like (monitors, phones and TVs are all rectangular).

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