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Search for anything mechanically car related and the results are terrible or wrong.

Do you have a concrete example I can reproduce? I searched for things like how to change the filter of X make and model and it seems correct, not sure if that's what you meant.

I'm not the person you replied to but I'm wondering which Google AI product you are referring to that you use for search which is so excellent that you need someone to find for you an example of it failing?

I think Google has several ai products with search features?

Which one in your experience "seems correct"?

I'm fascinated because I've never found any LLM to be particularly error free at search.


Google.com with the AI overview or whatever they call it now. It seems to source web page information for grounding so it's reasonably correct and doesn't hallucinate recently at least.

I played around with it and its better than it used to be but if you ask it something like

"Whats the name of the third book in the peripheral trilogy going to be" it just regurgitates some dumb reddit comment by someone who seems to be making things up.

There's no actual title that has been announced and the reddit post was not a reasonable bit of speculation.

The problem with these LLMs is they rarely say "the search results were not credible no response can be provided."


These days, Google AI overviews regularly add a qualifier to the effect of "... according to this comment on Reddit <link>"

That's basically a UX trick to entirely sidestep being held accountable for the results, but seems sufficient to notify the user about the provenance of the answer to adjust their grains of salt.


This is going to sound nuts, but I've noticed comments lately with multiple misspellings that seem intentional - it's almost like they're trying to signal that they're human, rather than LLM written. I've started to think it makes them even more likely to be LLM written than not.


Main-fucking-stream LLMs also do not swear, which is nowadays a signal of humanity.


I just had Alexa give me a "Well, no shit" response to something I said to it yesterday. They've added personalities.


Just tried it:

$ claude

> say fuck

● fuck


I found this video pretty interesting, it talks about why Iran is going after its neighbors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0


This guy is a well known conspiracy theorist. He's a high school teacher, not a university professor as "Professor Jiang" indicates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Xueqin

Some discussion on reddit about him: https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/1rnnq6p/though...


Breaking Bad may be fictional, but I don't think "high school teacher" is as discrediting as you think.


But is it true his video "The Iran Trap" predicted the current war with Iran? Seems like a smart guy, regardless of whether he's a high school teacher or not.


This is like getting info from Grokipedia. This guy is a crank.


Literally (explicitly) a holocaust denier.

https://youtu.be/o2Nq--qU9Kc?si=DDs_73ZrEPs5UGK9&t=3684

No credentials whatsoever - IIRC a Bachelor's degree in English, but definitely not a professorship.


Over confidence and linear explanations. I am not impressed.


Yes, he's informational but a bit conspiratorial. These people are valid points of interest - it's worth entertaining facts and perspectives that are not well highlighted in the media. Even though they are usually kind of wrong.

The truth is nobody is really fully in charge, there are competing interests everywhere, Trump is making the decisions but even he changes his mind very frequently and objectives are not clear.

It's really hard to understand intentions when decisions have to be made in a reactive manner as well.

Rubio indicated 'we had to attack, because Israel was going to go first, and we were going to lose the element of surprise'. While that is an absurd and crazy reason to 'go to war' - it's actually a very rational tactic for 'when to start' as 'first mover advantage' is enormous in conflict. You can see how 'the most powerful entity on earth' is moved by events beyond it's control.

It's almost better to describe these situations in terms of all of the factions capabilities, influence, power, motivations than it is to say 'this is why it's happening'.

Once conflicts start, they have a way of perpetuating themselves in a 'circularly reactive' way, it fuels itself as both sides have difficulty standing down.


Single core is close to M4, even.


This is one of those shows I've had in the rolling background rewatch queue for years, I love it and I try to recommend it to as many people as possible. Flawed, yes, but still special.


I like how in the fourth season, the computer props are literally just cardboard boxes.

I like literally love it, not ironically, it makes it more like a stage play.

Feel like the flaws are what makes it special. I don't want Kubrick for a tv show about BBS'


Holding option while hovering gives you more placement / sizing options too. If you click and drag a top bar to the right or left it'll snap to the right or left half of the screen. Dragging it to the top or double clicking will snap it to full size. Dragging to corners will snap to quarter.


The GPUs going into data centers aren't the kind that can just be reused by putting them into a consumer PC and playing some video games, most don't even have video output ports and put out FPS similar to cheap integrated GPUs.


And the big ones don't even have typical PCIe sockets, they are useless outside of behemoth rackmount servers requiring massive power and cooling capacity that even well-equipped homelabs would have trouble providing!


Don’t underestimate a homelaber’s intention to cosplay as a sysadmin or ability to set their house on fire ;)

I wonder if people will come up with ways to repurpose those data center cards.


I agree, this was a great read.


New speedbumps were installed in a school zone near my housing complex recently, we're a heavy Waymo area and I watched one of them launch itself over one without slowing down.


They installed one of those near my friends house. There's a couple mechanic shops in the vicinity used it for diagnosis while driving exactly the posted speed limit. It lasted about a month until the people who complained it into existence complained it out of existence.


They're going in alphabetical order: A - Alchemist B - Battlemage C - Celestial (Future gen) D - Druid (Future gen)


Hey we complained about all the numbers in their product names. Getting names from the D&D PHB is… actually very cool, no complaints.


Yes, I understand that. I'm saying it doesn't read as easily IMO as (modern) NVIDIA/AMD model numbers. Most numbers I deal with are base-10, not base-36.


The naming scheme they are using is easier to parse for me so all in the eye of the beholder.


On other hand considering Geforce is 3rd loop of base 10 maybe it is not so bad... Radeon is on other hand a pure absolute mess... Going back same 20 years.

I kinda like the idea of Intel.


You aren’t using excel or sheets I see?


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