Brad Westness

Garbage day, time to take a huge whiff of the inside of my bin. If anybody put anything stinky in there I'm gonna be so mad

Yeah I mean I'm just ragging on Wrigley for having bad visibility in addition to the fans being bad at judging hits

field view from wrigley section 213

weird how people can't tell where fly balls are going to land

And if you're on the field level you can't see anything in the air because the overhang from the upper deck is so low

Still raises the question of why you'd be using an LLM to do those kinds of operations in the slowest, most computationally expensive Rube Goldberg way imaginable, but at least it could come up with a right answer instead of making up a guy called Bobson Dugnutt

If it recognizes that you're asking for a fact like "how many Rs are in the word strawberry," or "who played for the 1983 Baltimore Orioles," it could run it through an actual token counting algorithm, or look it up on baseball reference, instead of just generating some plausible sounding text

I think the way a lot of these will continue to improve going forward is not by improving the actual LLM text generation per se, but rather by recognizing more and more situations where the user is acting for a fact and dumping out of "LLM mode" to run it through a deterministic algorithm instead

how many kitchens do you have? trying to gauge which direction it's off in

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Specifically the one I wrote last April where I proposed exactly this type of thing

Nice, reminds me of a blog post

Apple's biggest UI contribution was hiding everything behind non-discoverable gesture based shit you just have to know about

I was so mad that he didn't do the home run derby that year

Yeah like Stanton clearly wanted to do the entire series and it was really important to him

It's not a perfect movie but it's gorgeous to look at and it would've been cool to see them continue adapting the books, alas

"John Carter" sounds like a generic actioner starring 2007-era The Rock

John Carter, which I maintain would've done way better if they'd simply kept the title of the book: A PRINCESS OF MARS

Kinda crazy that a show that got cancelled after six episodes somehow managed to spawn three movies and now a legacy sequel/reboot

Naked Gun was funny, go see comedies in the theater so they keep making them imo

Yeah I mean as I said I like his stuff, I just get the sense that he's the kind of centrist who is just a Republican in a trenchcoat and thinks that like, Obama and George W Bush were equally bad

The completed the sweep without Miz or Chourio or Hoskins and on a day when most of the bullpen was unavailable

Good to see Murph let Hall ride for multiple innings instead of panicking and making Uribe throw on the fifth consecutive day or whatever when they tied it up

ESPN win probability chart

Rookie of the Year Isaac Collins

Kinda feels like "you can easily afford to help people who desperately need it" should be incentive enough, but then again I'm just a humble non-billionaire

Ortiz is back

Brewers smartly dropping one at home to evade the sign stealing allegations

Let's be fair here, they will also be deporting US citizens who "look foreign"

If this keeps being called a ball it's gonna be a long day

It's basically like saying "hey you're good at creative writing, but how about if instead of that your job now is being a copyeditor for writing people had an LLM generate"

This is a big problem with how they're being used currently, basically they're stealing the fun part of the job (problem solving and writing greenfield code) and making it so the entire job is instead the difficult and un-fun part (reading and debugging code you didn't write)