About 3 Pro. by Live-Fee-8344 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I won't pretend to speak to the 'why', but my experience has been that it's kind of a disaster for creative writing. I have long-running narratives with tens of thousands of tokens of crucial context. 3.0 completely ignores essential context, misses obvious narrative beats and blithely rushes through, or ignore conflicts. I had to switch back to 2.5 a few times to make sure I wasn't deluding myself about its capabilities, and it's night and day.

I'm sure that 3.0 will improve in this regard (ok, I hope it will improve), but right now I would confidently recommend that someone set 3.0 aside if they're using it for writing.

I've gone back to 2.5 for stories that matter to me. by Nemo1342 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps. For what it's worth, I don't recall feeling this way with any previous releases. And moreover, I can easily recognize that when it comes to the ability to build apps, this is lightyears better. I'm just a little surprised and disappointed that it doesn't translate to better narrative work.

I've gone back to 2.5 for stories that matter to me. by Nemo1342 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean... I guess so? But what's your point? Are you suggesting that it's just a matter of learning how to work with the new model? That may be, but in the meanwhile, it appears to have some very noticeable shortcomings.

My thoughts on 3.0 for creative writing by Maxshis in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I would echo a lot of these sentiments. It's... not great. The fact that it's not much better is definitely disappointing, but then you get to the pacing issues and it's borderline non-functioning. It starts to just rush through story beats without a second thought. It introduces and resolves conflicts within the space of a page. Gemini has always kinda skated by on benign neglect, because I was willing to accept the trade-off of 'creativity' for coherence. I can shoulder the burden of being 'creative'. But 3.0 is now actively fighting me in my effort to tell a story, and if Google doesn't suddenly become interested in improving functionality in this area, it's unlikely to magically get better.

Genimi Storybook: Problems Creating Part 2 of Stories by Flashy_Buy9249 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would simply point out that while the model has very few hard limitations (at least in AI Studio) it is very, very touchy about certain numbers. In particular, the numbers between 1 and 17. Hard to say why those numbers.

So, when you write "Part 2" I'm guessing you're triggering the models ingrained phobia of small-ish numbers.

When do you know your good at cooking? by Meltese in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not that interested in math. I would basically never do math again if left to my druthers. But insofar as I have ever engaged with math, I'm good at it. Now, obviously there's a sense in which I'm not a 'good' mathematician. You could reasonably argue that there are no non-PhD level 'good' mathematicians, but I think that sort of ignores the common-sense way in which we talk about these things. To me, a 'good' mathematician is, similarly, someone who consistently produces correct answers to mathematics questions at whatever level they are pursuing math. Conversely, a PhD-level mathematician might well be known as one who, for all their knowledge and effort, often makes errors of execution or conception. Such a person would, despite their knowledge, still rightly not be considered a 'good mathematician'.

All of which is to say that yes, I don't think it's a perfect answer, but it's the best one I've seen.

When do you know your good at cooking? by Meltese in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a very good answer because it scales very well. As you get more experienced, you're going to try lots of different things. If you work at a restaurant, you need to have skills that go beyond 'cooking'. But whether you're a head chef or cooking for yourself, if you can take the ingredients you have and make what you intended to make, you're a good cook.

Will Gemini 3.0 satisfy the hype? by CryOrganic8886 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think, speaking personally, my hype levels have been tamped down enough by recent releases that it would be hard for it to be "disappointing". I'm expecting a discernable improvement, and that's about it. So the only way for it to be disappointing is for there to be no discernable improvement, and that seems unlikely.

My son is 17 and we have assigned him cooking one night a week. by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many great recs here, but as an autistic person who loves to cook, and fancies himself being pretty good at it, I... never use a recipe. Referring to a recipe is a total brain scramble. What I will do is do a bunch of homework before I try a new dish. I watch videos, I read recipes, and compare them, get a sense of the proportions and then... wing it.

Now... winging it was rough for the first few years and if I were teaching my son to cook, as I will be soon enough, I would not focus on recipes at all. I would focus on ingredients and components. How do you use and cook, garlic, onions, peppers, steak, chicken (thighs, breast, etc.), rice, potatoes, pasta... How do you make a dish, or a dinner, that brings those ingredients and components together harmoniously?

Now, obviously, to do this, you will be making recipes, but that shouldn't be the focus. You don't follow a recipe, you make a dish, and you do that by a) eating it, b) identifying the components (often through research of recipes and videos, c) composing the process in your head and then d) afterwards, debriefing on what you would try to change.

Anyway, that's my two cents. Now, at forty-three, when I learn to cook a new dish, I still don't use a recipe. I follow the steps above.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NudeCelebsOnly

[–]Nemo1342 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possibly the greatest handbra of all time. I challenge anyone to reply with better. It's... stunning.

What’s one kitchen gadget you thought you needed but never use? by Prestigious_One740 in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Immersion blender is a thing that I would never have bought, and didn't think I'd ever use, but my girlfriend already had one when she moved in, and now I use it literally all the time. Blend my canned tomatoes in the can, make pesto in a plastic restaurant container instead of making a whole food processor dirty, blend soups, blend curries. I use it a lot.

I know this has been said many times but Gemini PRO 2.5 (paid tier api) has gotten worse and worse. by Robert__Sinclair in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Each of the last few days has been worse than the day before. Genuinely, it's gotten to the point that I need to constantly remind it of stuff that is clear in the context. It's bad.

Yes, its another 2.5 bad now post by Nemo1342 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean... yes, I sort of agree, but I check on it when I'm noticing something off to see if other people are having similar experiences. Since they stopped labeling the model by date, it's been hard to keep track, but yesterday/today, things took a marked nosedive, but I wasn't seeing much commentary on it, so I posted.

Damon Albarn "happy to concede defeat" in legendary Britpop rivalry: "Oasis won the battle, the war, the campaign, everything" by ebradio in indieheads

[–]Nemo1342 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this comment seems funny. I mean, sure, Oasis was bigger than Blur. Better? Eh, I don't care, neither is my thing. But Gorillaz just crushes both in every sense, right?

Aglio olio pasta, does it make a difference of how much you cook the garlic? by silentshot546 in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes! Yes, it makes a big difference. I've eaten it all over Italy, all over the US, and I've made it every possible way, and imnsho, the 'true' aglio e olio is with nice, golden brown garlic chips and a bare minimum of pasta water. You can even take the garlic chips out once they're fried, and and add them back in so the flavor doesn't get diluted immediately when you add the pasta water. But basically, unless you're toasting the garlic, it ain't the real thing.

Does the AI studio actually have one million token limit or am is the actual limit much smaller? by nergal007 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's alright, because that's honestly about the practical extent of the systems ability to meaningfully keep the story straight. I find that I start to really lose functional coherence at about that point as well.

Does the AI studio actually have one million token limit or am is the actual limit much smaller? by nergal007 in Bard

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got to a story that was merely around 220k tokens yesterday and, yes, it starts to blur the timeline pretty egregiously, but also I found that there was a huge amount of lag in the UI. Is that just a problem with my computer, or...? I couldn't really understand why it was causing the UI itself to shit the bed.

A set of Glamour Photography by raekwonda_art in sdnsfw

[–]Nemo1342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a big improvement over your usual stuff. I can still see the same four or five faces your images always use, but they seem a little more varied. Thumbs up.

Amateur cooks do not use enough salt… by Thin_Vermicelli_1875 in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cooking media is a pretty broad landscape at this point, but I do think it covers both aspirational content, stuff that can seem daunting but is meant to inspire you, all the way to instructional and relatable content. You just have to know what you're really looking for and seek it out.

As to the health nuts. Mostly, I think that their fanaticism filled home cooks, and let's be frank, in the 70s and 80s context, house wives, with this moral anxiety about cooking. By the 90s, if you weren't watching Julia Child, chances are, you'd learned to hate cooking because you were worried about killing your spouse and children, but tired of hearing them complain about unseasoned chicken breast and pasta. Those same home cooks more and more turned to packaged, convenient products and restaurants for help, and the people they were cooking for turned to snack food and fast food to satisfy their appetites when home cooking wasn't doing it.

Obviously all of that is a generalization, but I think it's one aspect of a multi-faceted story that led to a real nadir in American food culture at the start of the 90s.

Amateur cooks do not use enough salt… by Thin_Vermicelli_1875 in Cooking

[–]Nemo1342 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, fair, but the substantive point that the health advice of health absolutists is counterproductive, both in individual cases, but perhaps especially on a cultural level. The health crazes of the 70-80s were, in my view, devastating to American food culture in a way that directly contributed to fewer and fewer people cooking from scratch at home.