It has nothing to do with the meaning. If your training set consists of a bunch of strings consisting of A’s and B’s together and another subset consisting of C’s and D’s together (i.e. [AB]+ and [CD]+ in regex) and the LLM outputs “ABBABBBDA”, then that’s statistically unlikely because D’s don’t appear with A’s and B’s. I have no idea what the meaning of these sequences are, nor do I need to know to see that it’s statistically unlikely.

In the context of language and LLMs, “statistically likely” roughly means that some human somewhere out there is more likely to have written this than the alternatives because that’s where the training data comes from. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the meaning. It just needs to be able to compute probabilities, and the probability of this excerpt should be low because the probability that a human would’ve written this is low.

I don’t think we would’ve had so many lessons on this in school if it didn’t need to be taught.

Have people just completely forgot how search engines work? If you search for two things and get shit results, it means those two things don’t appear together.

A sentence saying she had her ovaries removed and that she is fertile don’t statistically belong together, so you’re not even getting that.

It would be more effective to “snitch” on doctors who deny such care.

Productivity is how fast I’m moving towards my goal. Its end goal is to reach my goal.

Easy enough to write. But reading and maintaining? That’s the hard part.

I find it amazing how little space corn syrup takes up relative to how much is produced. It’s no wonder we use it in everything.

It’s the only time where it’s relevant to the conversation, no? Why would you bring it up anywhere else?

Milk first makes it possible to get the wrong ratio of cereal to milk because

1. the cereal floats and you have no idea how much you put in there
2. You can underestimate how much volume the cereal takes up and not leave enough room in your bowl

Ah, the age-old unpopularopinions dilemma. Do I upvote because I agree, or upvote because it is unpopular and I disagree?

The community I’m currently subscribed to for this: !hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

I like the one(s) that bring(s) in posts from Hacker News since they have a high likelihood of being interesting, and I like seeing what the people of Lemmy think of them. Other than that, I don’t think I’ve seen any others that add value to my Lemmy experience.

Do they also have a playlist for his cook time? I feel like it might be useful in the upcoming years.

So that must be what Spotify’s doing with all the data they’re collecting.

The cook time varies a lot based on how dry the pasta is, which depends on how old they are, how they’ve been stored, and the air humidity where they’re stored. It can vary as much as ±5min. Even on a conventional stovetop, it takes about 30s at most to come back to a boil after you drop in the pasta.

The best way to get perfectly cooked pasta is to regularly check on them.

I’m assuming you’re talking about the US leadership? Eminem has been putting out music critical of every (2) Republican president since getting big.

I can’t find the post you’re referring to. Can you link it?

That’s how it works in Canada. There’s a set amount given to the parent giving birth, then the rest can be split however you want.

For sure. I was suggesting we look at the stock market model as inspiration, not to copy it exactly. I don’t really know what the exact solution would look like. I haven’t thought through this as deeply as Pete probably would have.