Learn some of those phrases, and use them to have some fun. Don’t do it all the time though. Just mix and match in a tasteful way. You can also mess around with dialects. Just don’t overdo it, because it can get distasteful very easily.

Ideally, you would find the expressions you consider useful or interesting, and start using them occasionally. For example, the Aussie style “No worries” is pretty good IMO.

It’s a skill. You get better with practice.

I don’t see that as a problem. Every possibility co-exists, and every reality is equally real. Every moment and decision forks the universe in infinite ways, but you get to choose the one where you go.

You can save a drowning person, or let them die, but in the big picture, it won’t matter. That person will drown infinitely many ways anyway, but there are also infinitely many universes where they get saved. Don’t worry about the big picture. What matters, is how you act and how the world acts on you in this universe.

I think the idea of parallel universes solves time travel paradoxes in a pretty clean way.

Machine learning always felt like a very wasteful way to utilize data. Even with ridiculous quantities of it, and the results are still kinda meh. So just dump in even more data, and you get something that can work.

Ok, so it seems like the need to shorten messages is an English problem.

On the other hand, there are languages that use conjugations, prefixes and suffixes extensively, and that changes everything. Suddenly, you can just add a few letters to include the equivalent of a few words.

Haven’t seen a difference, but I also focus almost exclusively on the communities I’ve subscribed to. Checking the all or local feed has been annoying and useless since day one, so nothing has changed.

Sounds like the kind of thing that could get you a Darwin Award.

Please elaborate. What does the clean up process look like if you use no paper at all?

Something very similar is also true with humans. People just love to have answers even if they aren’t entirely reliable or even true. Having just some answer seems to be more appealing than not having any answers at all. Why do you think people had weird beliefs about stars, rainbows, thunder etc.

The way LLMs hallucinate is also a little weird. If you ask about quantum physics things, they actually can tell you that modern science doesn’t have a conclusive answer to your question. I guess that’s because other people have written articles about the very same question, and have pointed out that it’s still a topic of ongoing debate.

If you ask about robot waitresses used in a particular restaurant, it will happily give you the wrong answer. Obviously, there’s not much data about that restaurant, let alone any academic debate, so I guess that’s also reflected in the answer.

I prefer to think of vibe coding like the relationship some famous artists had with apprentices and assistants. The master artist tells the apprentice to take care of the simple and boring stuff, like background and less significant figures. Meanwhile the master artist would paint of all the parts that require actual skill and talent. Raphael and Rembrandt would be good examples of that sort of workflow.

Vibe coding works, but there are some serious caveats.

I’ve used LLMs for data visualization and found them helpful for simple tasks, but they will always make serious mistakes with more complex prompts. While they understand syntax and functions well, they usually produce errors that require manual debugging. Vibe coding with LLMs works best if you’re an expert in your project and could write all of the code yourself but just can’t be bothered. Prepare to spend some time fixing the bugs, but it should still be faster than writing all of it yourself.

If you’re not proficient in using a specific function the LLM generated, vibe coding becomes less effective because debugging can be time consuming. Relying on an LLM to troubleshoot its own code tends to lead to “fixes” that only spawn more errors. The key is to catch these situations early and avoid getting lured into any of the wild goose chases it offers.

A common dice has 6 possible outcomes. Unless it’s a special D6, it’s impossible to get a zero or some other value outside the usual range of 1-6.

Normally, each side has a probability of 1/6. If it’s a loaded dice, one value will have a higher probability, while the other sides will have a lower probability.

Let’s say you have two dice, you roll them, and hope to get 6 on both of them. It’s possible to get that on the first try, but it’s much more plausible that you have to roll them many times before that happens.

So, essentially they’ve been relying on rain water since day one.

If you look at the top 10 cities, all of them have a river, except Mexico City. That’s the real outlier. Large cities require lots of water, and that city is a really weird exception.

Maybe the ghost eventually turns into a faceless violent poltergeist that just wants to injure and murder everyone. Watching 200 years of history wreck your dreams can be hard to deal with.

Many years ago, I used to have huge phablet that I could only carry in the largest pockets of my jacket. It was also ridiculously thin, and made of glass, which made it very fragile. As a result, I was so worried about bending it or breaking it, that those ideas started to sneak into my dreams! Getting rid of it was a relief.

E=mc^2 should cover it, proper physicists can give you a better answer. Either way, it’s a big boom. Wolfram says, it’s about 90 PJ, which is firmly in the nuclear weapons territory.

If you press the universal terminal button, type in the command for spawning a black hole, set the mass to 1 kg, you get something very spicy. It’s so small, that it evaporates pretty much instantly, which means that all of that energy gets released as hawking radiation and the end result resembles an explosion.

Why would anyone use them when you can keep your opponents on their toes? Driving is essentially a full-contact sport, and you don’t win by playing it safe with turn signals. It’s all about the element of surprise!

Seriously though, some people see traffic in a really weird way. You can expect them to do the exact opposite of what you would do.