For example if you print from an app, a little popup in the menubar appears that looks like that island nonsense from the phone (I have an old 13 w/o this island, so I am guessing this is where it comes from, but what else could it be.)

Yes! I've been asking myself this a lot lately - "who tested this sh*t?"

Note how they use a term "distillation". Like that isn't what they've been doing this whole time lol.

"I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."

n/t

When I was 19 I had a job at a wheel foundry. Was a union job and paid very well, but you had to do exactly as you were told by your supervisor. We would have 7 am to 7 pm shifts 5 days week during peak season, and occasionally called in for a Sat. We were not allow to sit down during floor time (I was an inspector) - you had to walk up & down rows of lathes machining wheels and take random measurements. You could only sit during breaks. if you got caught sitting it was a big deal, written up by supervisor etc. Plus we had to wear steel-toed boots in the foundry, so you can only guess how much your feet hurt when you got off shift! Absolutely brutal but I did make a lot of money that summer.

All I need to know about my own fitness is how I'm taking the stairs up:

Mini-jog up? then I'm feeling pretty good.

Avoiding them or taking elevator? I'm feeling sickly or exhausted because of bad sleep.

ai.com = pets.com.

Twain was right history rhymes.

Those are lyrics from Estimated Prophet, right? (apologies to all the dead fans out there)

I was reading posts on this story and thinking how out of touch I am having never heard of any of these stories. Then you mentioned "Way of Kings" and I realized that I read that book! A friend gave me a copy a few years ago.

Did you mean that last sentence to say "without" vs. "with"? Otherwise, I follow what you are saying.

Thank you, link is very helpful.

LLM's rely upon previous use of language. Words can have multiple meanings of course but we have context to sort it out. But images? what is the basic unit of it? How does the AI recombine these image sub-components to something new? anybody know?

No AI will make mistakes like real musicians or artists. People don't realize how important little mistakes and small errors are in performance. Figure this out and you will dominate over the AI with perfect takes but in totally unnatural way

do not push that tip screen my direction ever again.