ALostInquirer

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I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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ALostInquirer , to Technology in 20 Years of Blogging on my own website

I had been publishing articles on my own website since 2003, but I did that mostly manually by writing whole HTML pages.

Huh, so literally raw html? I know it's not too difficult, but I have wondered occasionally how many small websites may have been written that way.

ALostInquirer OP , to No Stupid Questions in What would the IRL (in real life) of "real life"/offline life be?

Appreciate the reply! It's a cool way to view it in individual terms. I was thinking in more social terms, however, which I've been a little fascinated to find seems to be a little atypical from the replies so far.

ALostInquirer OP , to No Stupid Questions in What would the IRL (in real life) of "real life"/offline life be?

This does seem to come closer to what I was wondering about when I originally posted, good eye!

ALostInquirer OP , to No Stupid Questions in What would the IRL (in real life) of "real life"/offline life be?

OP asks the real life equivalent of being AFK which, assuming you’re normally regularly online, only really corresponds to being high or sleeping.

The funny thing is, it didn't occur to me how vague my question was until after I posted and started seeing the replies. That's made it more fun tbh, and interesting as in this context (online vs. in real life) I've not really thought of being online in such individualistic terms as this and some other replies suggest.

ALostInquirer OP , to Ask Lemmy in Given the resources to accomplish it, what wildly impractical project would you finally pursue?

Is there something mystical to this?

ALostInquirer , to memes in Every time I hear news from the tech industry lately

If shareholders and executives are demanding so much money, shouldn't they be the optimal target for cuts to maximize profitability of the business? 🤔

ALostInquirer OP , to Software recommendations in What are some user friendly LAN text messengers for mobile/PC?

Oh hey, going there reminded me at some point I'd found this and bookmarked it but haven't tried it yet, so thanks for the reminder! I should finally give it a try.

ALostInquirer , to No Stupid Questions in How do you search for honest product recommendations?

While Lemmy doesn't have enough people for each product category yet, have you checked out the community !buyitforlife?

There's also !recommendations for broader discussion, but it's not gained much traction yet.

ALostInquirer OP , to Ask Lemmy in Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams?

Anyways. I know you probably wanted a story that was more interesting than depressing, but that’s just one that really stuck with me from that point in my life there. I don’t think that’s a normal experience for a Night Auditor to have, so I wouldn’t take my experience as a reason to dissuade anyone from taking the position, but you asked for a story, and so you got one.

Even a depressing story is interesting in its own way, so I appreciate it all the same! I can see why the experience stuck with you, it's a rough situation to find oneself in for almost all involved

ALostInquirer OP , to Ask Lemmy in Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams?

Any odd stories from that job?

ALostInquirer , to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Fun part is, that article cites a paper mentioning misgivings with the terminology: AI Hallucinations: A Misnomer Worth Clarifying. So at the very least I'm not alone on this.

ALostInquirer , to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Yeah, on further thought and as I mention in other replies, my thoughts on this are shifting toward the real bug of this being how it's marketed in many cases (as a digital assistant/research aid) and in turn used, or attempted to be used (as it's marketed).

ALostInquirer , to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

perception

This is the problem I take with this, there's no perception in this software. It's faulty, misapplied software when one tries to employ it for generating reliable, factual summaries and responses.

ALostInquirer , to Technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

It's not a bad article, honestly, I'm just tired of journalists and academics echoing the language of businesses and their marketing. "Hallucinations" aren't accurate for this form of AI. These are sophisticated generative text tools, and in my opinion lack any qualities that justify all this fluff terminology personifying them.

Also frankly, I think students have one of the better applications for large-language model AIs than many adults, even those trying to deploy them. Students are using them to do their homework, to generate their papers, exactly one of the basic points of them. Too many adults are acting like these tools should be used in their present form as research aids, but the entire generative basis of them undermines their reliability for this. It's trying to use the wrong tool for the job.

You don't want any of the generative capacities of a large-language model AI for research help, you'd instead want whatever text-processing it may be able to do to assemble and provide accurate output.

ALostInquirer OP , to No Stupid Questions in Why don't more filtering systems enable sorting by least viewed/visited, including for older pages/material?

While largely true, I was also thinking of filtering/sorting systems within specific sites (e.g. stores/archives/etc.) as well, which may result in similar junk results but fewer than with a search engine.

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