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What does an error in a CV look like, to you?

Saw one of those big highways vehicle with a huge “keep left” sign on the back. As we were driving behind it, the arrow swung around to point straight down. Me and my partner talk about it to this day. (We don’t have much going on)

I’m not really here to tell you why you should care - you’re free to care about whatever you want to care about. But to explain why other people might care, it’s because it can do things a Google search can’t do. Google search can’t copy-edit your CV or cover letter. Google search can’t synthesise a bunch of different Stackoverflow answers and fit them to the exact scenario you’re talking about. LLMs can and do.

And those are two examples where the cost of an error is low: if your CV comes out with made up shit in it, you can just read through it and check (but you may not have the ability to re-write it better). If the code example doesn’t work, you’re going to run it and check anyway. (It may have a subtle bug, but so can Stackoverflow answers, and that never stopped people from using them)

Non-deterministic software is fine and we’ve been using it for ages. It’s usable when:

• The base error rate is low enough
• Accuracy is not important
• The outcome is cheap to verify by some other means

That rules out several applications of current LLMs, but it rules in several others.

It’s about 10x more power intensive than a Google search. It’s not trivial, but it doesn’t take megawatts to power a single person’s query.

I tend to agree.

No, “most” can in principal be answered objectively. “Most games that a particular person plays” depends on the person, but that’s not relevant when talking about why there aren’t more PC-first gamepads, the topic of discussion.

But because the system prompt is part of the context, it figures into the estimation of the most likely next token. So in general putting this kind of stuff in the system prompt does change how well it works.

What matters is the outcome, not how it is achieved.

And is the outcome good? Eh, sometimes.

Sharing your bed with a kid who isn’t your offspring: weird and creepy, but not immoral or illegal. But apparently enough for some people to convict MJ.

Will they work properly on Linux? Will they work on a GOG game without installing Steam? Will they work on an alternative console or handheld?

If not then that sucks, and that is what they’re being criticised for. Why should anyone STFU about that? It seems like a serious flaw.

As far as I understand, the original Steam Controller presented as an un-useful pair of HID devices by default, and someone wrote a 3rd-party open source driver for it. So, a similar poorly-supported situation to other hardware that the F/OSS community consistently and rightfully criticises.

Woohoo!

How d’ya figure that one out?

What are you trying to say? Valve gets a free pass because SteamOS is based on Linux? How d’ya figure that one out?

It makes sense for Valve trying to create a walled-garden ecosystem of the kind we all rightfully shit on Nintendo for creating. It does not make sense for the consumer.

If it needs to present a KB+M device for OS navigation, it can fucking well do so at the same time as presenting a game controller device and having a way, using its many inputs, to switch between the two. Then it would work on everything that works on Windows and Proton. Then it would work on XBox, and any console that works with standard USB HID devices.

I see

Your question seems unrelated to the fraud they want to stop?

Not yet…