After having recovered from an extremely bad strain of the flu virus, I switched on my work laptop only to be greeted by a couple of pages of emails. Think I'll phone my boss telling her I'm still sick and crawl back in to bed. 
What made me unhappy today ?
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Good luck, Rad Scribbler. 
Glad to hear you're feeling better. The flu is no fun at all.
Take it easy with the emails. You'll get there, I'm sure.
Glad to hear you're feeling better. The flu is no fun at all. Take it easy with the emails. You'll get there, I'm sure.
Thanks Rath.Good luck, Rad Scribbler.
Take it easy with the emails. You'll get there, I'm sure.
Called my somewhat reclusive kid brother to wish him a happy birthday. We had a nice conversation, but during it he mentioned that among his gifts was a bright red MAGA hat. I bit my tongue.
I hope that whoever gave the hat to your brother didn't know him very well.
Had a meeting with my core chefs and managers today to tell them I was leaving. It was rough. Lots of mixed emotions. I couldn't be happier but it's sad to be leaving some of the most talented people on the planet. That's not hyperbole either. Their list of awards and recognition is legion. I tell everyone, be the dumbest person in the room and focus your energy on actuating the talent. Gonna miss them.
Its unfortunate if the boss is the dumbest person in the room but doesn't realise it tho
Yup. That's the worse.
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You'll do great. Nervousness is simply anticipatory energy, revving you up to give your best presentation.
Unfortunately (IMHO), it was his kids, and he's glad to have it.
The flu is very bad this year, and even worse for the young with strong immune responses, a lot like the one in 1885-86.
Please don't picture your audience naked. You don't need the brain bleach on top of your nervousness.
You'll do just fine. *hug* Nervousness is simply your body's way of giving you extra energy. (You'll feel a bit tired afterwards, because your body is "borrowing" the extra energy to give you more ... so afterwards, you'll feel an "energy drain". Treat yourself to your favourite hot drink afterwards.
I recommend a hot chocolate with honey and cinnamon. Yum!) 
My laptop has 16 CPU cores, but I can't use all of them to compile code because I don't have enough memory (you need a certain amount per core). It would be helpful if I can compile faster so I looked into purchasing a 32GB kit.
It's super expensive now! It would cost me 100+ pounds to get one. Why? Because all those stupid AI data centers they are building are sucking up all the memory chips. So us humble citizens have to pay a lot if we want any.
AI was supposed to make our lives better. But it is making them worse. And if you've been keeping up with the news, there is a real chance that the whole AI thing is a giant bubble that will burst. If it does, the tech giants won't suffer. It's all of us that will.
My favourite part is how the tech giants can't actually pay for the absurd amounts of electricity those data centers require. Their solution? Pass the extra costs to everyday people. Yes, you read that right. Some people are paying more so Little Jimmy can cheat in his science class using ChatGPT.
The fact is, AI models are very power hungry. Needless to say, LLMs are not smart. They just run a very complex and highly advanced algorithm (which makes equally expensive computations underneath) to predict what the next word is. That's what they do at the end of the day. It isn't as if we actually emulated intelligence, let alone sentience. This technology is currently being praised as revolutionary. I am sure it will have its uses. But it might not live up to this crazy amount of hype.
In any case, it looks like I'm stuck with what I have for now.
It's super expensive now! It would cost me 100+ pounds to get one. Why? Because all those stupid AI data centers they are building are sucking up all the memory chips. So us humble citizens have to pay a lot if we want any.
AI was supposed to make our lives better. But it is making them worse. And if you've been keeping up with the news, there is a real chance that the whole AI thing is a giant bubble that will burst. If it does, the tech giants won't suffer. It's all of us that will.
My favourite part is how the tech giants can't actually pay for the absurd amounts of electricity those data centers require. Their solution? Pass the extra costs to everyday people. Yes, you read that right. Some people are paying more so Little Jimmy can cheat in his science class using ChatGPT.
The fact is, AI models are very power hungry. Needless to say, LLMs are not smart. They just run a very complex and highly advanced algorithm (which makes equally expensive computations underneath) to predict what the next word is. That's what they do at the end of the day. It isn't as if we actually emulated intelligence, let alone sentience. This technology is currently being praised as revolutionary. I am sure it will have its uses. But it might not live up to this crazy amount of hype.
In any case, it looks like I'm stuck with what I have for now.
I'm used to speaking in public, but if I had to use this trick, I'd visualize my audience in proper Victorian garb, likely from the 1870s, their best manners on show, with everyone sitting attentive and eager to hear what I had to say.Please don't picture your audience naked. You don't need the brain bleach on top of your nervousness.
You'll do just fine. *hug* Nervousness is simply your body's way of giving you extra energy. (You'll feel a bit tired afterwards, because your body is "borrowing" the extra energy to give you more ... so afterwards, you'll feel an "energy drain". Treat yourself to your favourite hot drink afterwards.
What gets me about this AI business is that so much of it is being used for entertainment purposes, while a whole lot of the productive aspects can be achieved more effectively (if not as quickly) by human beings actually using their brains.
I've used it a little to fill gaps between what I could do and what needed to be done (that is, changing the poses of the headshot photos I licensed for my cover, because I'm not artist enough to do it myself and I can't afford to pay anyone to do it for me). After that, I was feeding in descriptive passages in my book to see what the AI made of them. But I realized it wasn't improving my writing. I was just taking up energy to amuse myself, so I stopped.
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When I joined the high school forensics team, I imagined the audience as cows or watermelons.
I'd say that's a good decision. For starters, many AI models tend to praise you a lot more than they should. It's their default mode. I think they are trained to act that way because if people are praised, they are more likely to feel good and come back. That's why it's probably not particularly helpful to get feedback on your text from AI.
I mean, for starters, AI won't be reading your stories. It's real people that will.
There is also the problem of hallucinations. LLMs hallucinate frequently, but what they say is worded with such confidence, you tend to believe it. It speaks with such undeserved authority. And that happened to me today. I searched for a "RX 9060 XT" card on Google and their AI just casually said that its a hypothetical upcoming card. But it's been out for quite a while.
Google's AI has even less of an excuse to hallucinate because it has access to the sites Google just returned, which clearly showed it on shops.
It's so important to remember that LLMs can't "think". They just predict the next word. It's also important to remember that the companies that host them have considerable control over that next word.
I learned to speak in public by learning to sing. Once you've gone out there are belted out a few songs in full voice, a PowerPoint presentation or two no longer fazes you.
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