Damus
myrmepropagandist · 23w
There is something very creepy about the way LLMs willy cheerfully give lists of "random" numbers. But they aren't random in frequency, and as my students pointed out "it's probably from some webpage ...
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The LLM is like a little box of computer horrors that we peer into from time to time.

I'm sorry but the whole interface is just so silly.

You ask for random numbers with sentences and it pretends to give them to you? What are we doooooing?
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Gaëtan Perrault · 23w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj I am reminded of a Doctor Who episode, where they realize they are in a simulation because they are incapable of generating truly random numbers. One scene has a whole bunch of scientist...
Francois Dion · 23w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj the first episode of Numb3rs covered the appearance of randomness vs true randomness. I would not have remember that but watched a bunch of episodes to serve as math concept inspiration ...