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  1. 2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

    What is LLM?  Is it a type of AI?

    Large Language Model, which is the "new hotness" that most people refer to when they say "AI". It's the tech that underlies chatGPT and Gemini (Google) and Llama (Meta). It's incredibly compute and data intensive to produce a well-trained and usable foundational model like the big tech companies have, which have literally 70 billion parameters per inference (response to a query).

    The mathematics and tech that underlies LLMs is modeled after how the neurons in our brains work together to create context-rich associations between complex concepts. The end result feels like magic, but it's in actuality just a finely tuned mathematical equation 

     

    Edit: I shared this in another thread, but this is an excellent and deep explanation of what an LLM is and literally how it works

     

     

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  2. 3 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    We just switched to Lexis.  It is about half of what Westlaw charges.  And I use their AI as a starting point on legal research.  Like this morning I had a client ask if they as a LP under Delaware law could sue to force a buyout for oppressive conduct by the GP (and majority equity holder) when the LPA contains no provision.  Lexis AI got me the answer in 10 seconds.  And it was right.

    Lexis has done actual work on fine tuning models and keeping their knowledge bases fresh and up to date. They've been at this since before the advent of LLM's and genAI and actually have built a pretty solid product, whereas westlaw is just playing buzzwords and trying to retrofit something to keep up (on paper)

  3. On 5/15/2024 at 10:46 AM, Dbeasy said:

    I’m dead serious. I have the deck and CTJ and Sydney saw it. Even the funds requested are the same. 

     

    On 5/15/2024 at 12:16 PM, immamac said:

    what the actual fuck that's insane.

    In terms of LLM mechanics it actually makes a ton of sense the numbers are the same. Linguistically it was creating a very similar pitch to yours at similar financial scale, so it's pretty likely both your LLM and his were operating in the same feature-space, and those numbers are the most "likely" to be successful at that scale

  4. 3 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Is the hearing this morning the one where if Cannon fucks it up, she might get removed from the case?  I remember our resident lawyers speculating that one of the upcoming ones had the potential to be a big enough screw up to justify it.

    Aintnothingonnahappen.gif

     

    The justice system is made completely limp and feckless by trumpco. This will continue to be delayed until it is forgotten and below the fold

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  5. 2 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Starliner still waiting to get cleared for return trip.... two weeks extra.  Seeing as they will be attempting the first American crewed landing onto land I just can't imagine what is going through the 2 astronauts' heads at this point. Scheduled return is Wed 26th. (currently)

     

     

    I'd betcha a dollar they're not gonna be keen to fly Boeing once they're terrestrial again

  6. Spoiler

    I have a few thoughts:

    First off - Is anyone else getting Darth Bortles vibes off of Qimir (the alchemist dude who played Jason on The Good Place) like he knows more than he's letting on? Like he's the dude who killed the wookie and has been directing Mae this whole time?

    I suspect that the red lightsaber we see at the end of this episode is not the master, but the apprentice at work. And the apprentice is training up his own acolyte so that he can topple his master and become one himself.

    Or idk, maybe the show just has bad writing, but I think there's a really neat story unfolding still

  7. 22 minutes ago, troph said:

    first we pay for nothing, then we pay for no ads, then we pay for premium, then we get annoying AI added for free, then we pay for premium AI, then we pay for no AI. watch it - we will ultimately pay to NOT get a service from these assholes. you want a human and not a robot that pretends to be a human? yeah, sorry that's extra.

    I don't get starbucks very often, but several years ago I drove up to what I thought was "the fake voice" / automated order taker - fuck that, I drove off.

    I will move to an island and open a tiki bar and play Jimmy Buffett on a fucking repeating play list for the last 20 years of my life before I get drug into this hellscape.

    I'm "this" close to going to a dumb phone - I think texting is the only feature besides the old school phone call that I need on my phone. 

    Look do you want to increase shareholder value or not, you fuckin pinko

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Shakespeare’s “Dick the Butcher” should’ve included the bean counters in his little rant 425+ years ago.

    IMO the problem isn't that bean counters exist - we need budgeting and to know how much of what we have. It's that collectively, we have decided that financials are ALL that matters in any business decision. And that leads to the shortsighted decision making and enshittification that we all enjoy today and your great (great?) grandchildren will grow up thinking is normal

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  9. 3 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    My dad started deep space 9 tonight after we watched a couple episodes of TNG. The first episode of Deep Space 9 blew his fucking mind.

    And the 1st season is when the show is the the least locked in - by S3 or 4 they're really cooking with gas. It's surprising how many of their episodes are still pretty dang topical today

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  10. 3 hours ago, F250 said:

    The Jedi come off as weird religious dorks.

    I don't disagree with your post, but IMO, isn't the Jedi looking like weird dorks the point? We see their downfall in the prequels in part because of their hubris and insistence on relying on harrumph and traditions. 

    I am convinced that the Jedi party we see in ep3 did some unspeakable evil in the name of the Order, and that's at the heart of the story

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