it’s really frustrating how you have to wait like, 2 weeks before you can drink milk after you buy it. i know you gotta wait for the date on the bottle but like why cant the store just sell the milk thats ready?
in junior year of highschool my art teacher would let our ceramics class play music of our choice off of her desktop. we usually used spotify or youtube but she did have one album downloaded on her computer. it was a halloween sound effects/ambience collection. i dont remember why she had it. there was a track on there called “burning screams” which was exactly what it sounds like. just a cacophony of screams alongside crackling fire. she only let us play it on very special occasions, and we would cheer and jump with joy every time. it was like a pizza party to us
when you open task maanager and the cpue is at like 89 percent and then it shoots down to a single digit its like. what the fuck are you hiding. what are you doing whuile my back is turned
“I once had ChatGPT insist that a particular composer wrote music for a game, even going so far as to list particular songs from the soundtrack that they were supposedly responsible for, and it helpfully provided hallucinatory citations when I asked for them (a broken link on the game publisher’s website and a link to Wikipedia, which did not in fact support its assertion either now or at any point in the article’s history). Nor could I find anywhere else on the internet where someone even mistakenly believed that that composer had worked on the game. ChatGPT lies not because it’s regurgitating falsehoods that it found on the internet - it lies because it invents new falsehoods on its own. It’s not just trained on stuff on the internet that’s wrong; it’s trained to be confidently wrong in general. It doesn’t know what facts are, it just knows how to produce things that are shaped like facts and shove them in fact-shaped holes. I personally wasted 30 minutes of my life fact-checking/“not believing everything it says”, when it confidently told me something surprising. My horizons were not broadened by exposing me to “different worldviews”. This was unequivocally a negative experience for me.”
I got someone to ask it about the difference between two grasses I know well, Festuca ovina and F. rubra, seeing as telling them apart was a vital part of my job, just to see what it was like. It took me a bit of thinking really hard to tell exactly how wrong it was, despite the fact I’m literally an expert in telling the difference between the two. It wasn’t just missing out on freely available information on reliably differentiating them, but it made up facts about one of the grasses that were just incorrect. E.g. saying F. rubra leaves were wider than those of F. ovina (true), but then saying they were up to 6mm wide (extremely not true, they max our around 1.5-2mm if we’re being generous). But it sounded so right that I had to spend several minutes picking apart what was incorrect and it turned out to be most of it.
StackOverflow similarly had issues when it was first released with people using it to generate answers that sounded like authoritative solutions but were, in fact, utter nonsense.
And that’s the issue, it can mimic the shape but it’s not intelligent. It’s not good at being right, it’s good at sounding right.
the most hilarious thing about this is that nobody over here understands our shitty measuring systems either.
Like we know what a pint is. Sure. And we know what a cup is and can probably estimate a tablespoon’s worth of something by eye.
But i promise you, if you ask a hundred americans how many tablespoons are in a pint? only seven of them are going to be able to give an answer, and four of those are going to be wrong
AND THE ABOVE GRAPHIC DOESN’T EVEN INCLUDE THE MOST FUCKED UP PART OF THE SYSTEM: OUNCES
See, there’s volume ounces and weight ounces and because variable density is a thing the ounces and ounces are almost never equal. Let me see if I can explain this simply
there are 8 ounces to a cup. So two cups is 16 ounces. And if you are weighing something, there are sixteen ounces to a pound, because all of our measurement systems are bullshit.
So if you measure out two cups of sugar and two cups of milk, you’ve got 16 ounces of each, but put them on a scale and 2 cups of sugar weighs 7.1 ounces and two cups of milk weighs 8.6 ounces.
totally logical system to implement on a national level, right?
so a recipe for, say, raison bread will read “add 20 ounces of raisons” or “add two ounces of butter” and you … just have to roll those dice
We’ve been losing power due to winter storms lately so my partner 3D printed me a tealight “to fill in for tumblr when you’re offline”
anyway this should be official merch imo
If you’re wondering why I will not leave this site and why I love it so much: after this went around, I got a message from Tumblr asking if they could make it official merch and then they did. It went live yesterday I think, and it’s even prettier and better than this original design (they definitely put work into it which was very exciting).
But I want to say something else. They asked for suggestions on where to get these made, and I gave them the names of a few mass production companies, but I also gave them the name of my small local guys. I didn’t expect them to go there, it’s probably more expensive to use a smaller local shop, but I know it would mean more to them. And I was immediately told they’d check in with them, and then that’s just what happened.
They went with my little guys.
So if you’re wondering about the price, it’s because Tumblr staff just… Listened and cared. They listened to the people who said they wanted one of these, and then they not only asked me but listened to the answer when I suggested supporting a business local to me. That’s invaluable to me.
![@FemboyPhysics tweeted: To my non-USA followers, that [sic] this is how we do volume.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ba4100310cbd6218a8b81da1a0d43c1b/ef936e07a1e6145d-57/s500x750/330f4375761660e8628fb31b2c0b98ee8f86cd6f.jpg)
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