Does it matter to the humans interacting with the LLM whether incorrect information is the result of a bug or an intentional lie? (Keep in mind that the majority of these people are non-technical and don’t understand that All Software Has Bugs.)

Probably sashimi (sliced raw fish) on a bed of shredded daikon radish. Being raw makes it more transparent than a cooked slice of similar thickness. Wikipedia’s page on sashimi has a picture of a plate of fugu sashimi that is, if anything, sliced even finer than what our chef is displaying.

If the bail system is broken, part of the reason is that we don’t have enough facilities to house individuals accused of violent crimes who are awaiting trial. There are two ways to fix this: clear the backlog by appointing more judges, thus freeing up some space, or build more jails.

The current Premier hasn’t made a real attempt to do either. He’s just whining because he’s butt-hurt that people don’t agree with him about the value of bike lanes.

(No, I didn’t vote for him. Yes, I did vote in the recent provincial election.)

Hmm. Sitting in the middle of the table strikes me as a tad unprofessional, but given his age he’s probably still learning the job.

Well, their parents aren’t generally married, so, technically . . .

He was a candidate to head the party at one time, but they decided on Singh instead. Now he’s too tired to try again. But I do wonder about the parallel universe where things turned out the other way around.

Then I sort of steeled my resolve and dove into one that I dropped after a couple of episodes about a year ago, because I could see it was going to be a rough ride, and at the time I wasn’t ready to invest as much energy and attention as it was going to demand - Noein: Mou Hitori no Kimi e. I’m about 2/3 of the way through the 24 episode run, and it has been very dense and dramatic, and very good. It’s a sort of Evangelion knock-off insofar as it’s in part a complex and vague science fiction/superpower war allegory on coming of age, but without the religious claptrap - it’s instead all built around quantum physics and multiverse theory. The only real downside to it is that the animation is frankly terrible - an awful combination of cheap fuzzy hand drawn and cheap low poly CGI. But the characters and the story make it worth it.

In all fairness, Noein is ~20 years old. The animation was pretty much state-of-the-art at the time, and I remember it drawing praise from a couple of the more jaded members of the Usenet anime crowd. It just hasn’t aged as well as some less-ambitious shows of the same era.

Finally sorted out what I will and will not be watching this season.

Dropped:

• I’m the Evil Lord of a Galactic Empire: Unappealing protag who decides he deserves revenge on everyone in existence because of two people.

• Shin Samurai-den Yaiba: Although I found the Detective-Conan-mangaka-draws-Dragonball artwork style amusing, the story really didn’t grab me.

• Dinner-Table Detective: One of the characters really rubbed me the wrong way. .

Barely made it:

• Yami Healer: The first episode was really awful with its 10+ minutes of continuous harem fluff (made worse because I had no reason to care about the characters), and if people hadn’t posted here that the second was much better, this would have ended up in the “dropped” bin.

• Your Forma: Dropping the first story arc from the source material, which would presumably have explained more of the background, really wasn’t the best choice here, but we’ll see where it goes.

Dude, apparently unlike you, I remember Usenet, which uses precisely the sort of system you’re describing, in its heyday. That means I’ve also seen discussion groups implode because they couldn’t get rid of a single bad actor. Killfiles alone aren’t enough, even when combined with community naming-and-shaming. Someone always lacks self-restraint and engages. That encourages the bad actor(s). They post more, often using multiple sockpuppets to get around people’s killfiles and flood out legitimate discussion. Newcomers to the group see masses of bad actor spam and fail to stick around. The lack of new blood kills the group.

Self-moderation simply doesn’t work. Yes, bad moderation happens and I’ve seen plenty of examples. But no overarching moderation is also the kiss of death.

I’m reasonably sure that the gryphon wouldn’t have fit inside the dojo. He would have remembered that. We can also be reasonably sure that (by his own admission) anyone older than him except the smith wasn’t his student either, so not his parents or the adventurer’s guild head. Anyone else, all bets are off, though.

Anyone who thinks you can have both absolutely no restraint on speech and an environment that isn’t a cesspit hasn’t seen what humans do in an environment that has absolutely no restraint on speech. Constructive discourse requires that there be someone to moderate and throw out the trolls, the spammers, and that guy who, wherever he goes, preaches about the effect of weather conditions inside the hollow earth on the lizardmen who select US presidential candidates.

The charter and some other items of historical significance belong in a museum. Items of Indigenous origin should be offered back to their tribes of origin if possible. They can auction the Barbie dolls, though.

Because modest returns don’t attract investment, so whoever set it up would have to fund the startup out of pocket and never go public or sell the company off. Not quite impossible, but very unlikely (unless the world changes and investors start getting more sensible about profits).

Only 30%? Or are you assuming that the remaining 70% would be so revolted at the idea that they wouldn’t buy it?

Well, eventually it would—when they reach a number of lanes equal to the total population of the metropolitan area, plus one, so that all residents can be on the road at the same time, driving abreast. Of course, the last few lanes will have to be built on top of James Bay, but you can’t have everything.

The recent Fugukan. One episode of (highly predictable) grimdark followed by (highly predictable) wall-to-wall harem fluff, and even on the rare occasions when it got marginally serious again, it was never on the level of the first episode.

Pretty bad show, even by the standards of forgettable fantasy light novel adaptations. If you haven’t seen it, don’t bother.

I think the equivalent in Canada would be an order-in-council, which is reserved for the GG rather than the PM (and therefore is normally never used). Technically, the US President’s function in government is most similar to the GG’s in Canada, but for historical reasons the duty of being the public face of Canada to outsiders has landed on the PM here even though the PM is not really our head of state.

Huh. I thought there were fewer romcoms than usual on this list. Then I went back and checked, and discovered that that’s because there are fewer romcoms than usual airing this season.

All technically true, but how many man-hours would it take to calculate the set of holes necessary to print each layer of a non-trivial object (say, a Benchy) without electronic assistance? I’m sure it could be done, but most people couldn’t do it in a practical timeframe. Taking presliced gcode and translating it via an automatic or even a manual system should be doable, but you still need a computer to slice the model into gcode.

Jacquard looms are a whole other crottle of greeps. Each warp position gets either raised or lowered, so it’s in essence a binary model rather than full analog—conceptually much simpler than this printer, whose punch language is going to have to include slots for longer motor moves. I’d guess that, in the old days, Jacquard patterns were set up for manual punching by drawing up a diagram (which would look like a piece of black-and-white pixel art) and transferring the information one row at a time to the punch. That doesn’t seem like it would work for this printer.

Maybe part of the job of these specific officers is outreach, and they think staging a silly photo contributes to that. Or they could be waiting for something/someone else, and thought this was more interesting than just standing around talking about the weather. Or maybe they were indeed doing this after or before work, or while not on the clock for other reasons. Truth is, you don’t know any more than I do. And to be honest? Even if they had no excuse, how much pay do you really think they would have collected in the five minutes it took them to stage the shot?

(Sorry, but it annoys me when people expect perfect efficiency from others. Hardly anyone is actually doing work every single second when they’re at work, and if you are, I’d advise you to ease off before you burn out. That applies to cops as well as everyone else.)