What is teaspoons?

aiweirdness:

aiweirdness:

I’m training a neural network to generate cookbook recipes. It looks at a bunch of recipes and has to figure out completely from scratch - no knowledge of what English words even are - how to start generating more recipes like them.

It has to start by figuring out which words are used in recipes. Here in a very early iteration, you can see the first somewhat intelligible word beginning to condense out of the network:

4  caam pruce 6 ½ Su ; cer
1 teaspoop
sabter fraze er intve
1 lep wonuu
s cap ter
3 tl spome. 2 teappoon terting peves, caare teatasing sad
ond le heed an ted pabe un Mlse; blacoins d cut ond ma eroy phispuz bambed
1 . teas, &

It’s trying SO hard to spell teaspoon.  Teaspoop. It’s hilarious.  It gets it right every once in a while, apparently by sheer luck, but mostly it’s: 

ceaspoong,  chappoon,  conspean, deespoon,  seaspooned,   ceaspoon,  tearpoon,  teasoon,  tertlespoon,  teatpoon,  teasposaslestoy,  ndospoon,  tuastoon,  tbappoon,  tabapoon,  spouns,  teappome,  Geaspoon, leappoon, teampoon, tubrespoon…

It reeallly wants to learn to spell teaspoon. There are a lot of almost-teaspoons beginning with c… maybe it’s a mixture of teaspoon and cup.  There are a few others that might be a tablespoon attempt.

Up next:
pupper, corm, bukter, cabbes, choped, vingr…

reblogging as note to myself: teaspoop

aiweirdness:

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal, that’s how you get math packages and stuff but

2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but

3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So

4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

aiweirdness:

people have noticed that large language models get better at stuff like math and coding if the models have to spend time showing their work. apparently it can get excessive.

the prompt was “hi”

ALT

the eventual output was “Hi there! How can I assist you today?”

source

elbiotipo:

elbiotipo:

Fun fact: in Europe, charcoal makers or colliers were considered somewhat of an odd job. While not rejected outright, despite the very specialized skill set and knowledge needed to do charcoal kilns, they seem not to be highly considered. Charcoal making needs constant attention and is often a solitary job next to sources of wood like forests, so colliers were considered solitary men, the German word Köhlerglaube (“collier’s faith”) means a person with blind faith on something, because colliers often didn’t have time to go to church to learn what they believed in, they just did.

This solitary lifestyle and connection to the forest, at least in Scandinavian folklore, seems to make colliers a favorite ‘target’ of forest spirits such as the Hulders or Huldras. Hulders are described as beautiful women (sometimes men, huldrekall) with a hidden non-human trait, like a hollow back or a fox or cow’s tails. Colliers who left gifts for them and were kind were repaid by the Hulders tending to their kilns.

Yes, I do have an encyclopedic knowledge about historical legends of fox or wolf girls. No, this doesn’t say anything at all about myself.

coquette-baguette:

me when i listen to a playlist full of peak songs: ok one more peak song and ill go do stuff. ok. ok no i cant skip this one. ok . ok this is the Imagining song i cant. how is it 2am

coquette-baguette:

coquette-baguette:

me when i listen to a playlist full of peak songs: ok one more peak song and ill go do stuff. ok. ok no i cant skip this one. ok . ok this is the Imagining song i cant. how is it 2am

wow so this is the one to break containment a bit.

who are you people

buraitusan:

jackalpants:

THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you’d like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

ALT

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you’re fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don’t name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you’re disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

Transgender Pride Flag Badge

I’m not in the UK, but this is relevant anyway.

berdyayeva:

i’m so pro-divorce that i forget myself sometimes. a guy on the elevator was telling me unprompted about how he got divorced on friday and apparently “nice congrats” was not the correct reaction

charyou-tree:

mindblowingscience:

Scientists develop antivenom that neutralizes the neurotoxins of 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journal Cell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.

Continue Reading.

Ok, that’s fucking wild.

This guy Tim Friede wasn’t any kind of researcher or doctor. He was just a snake collector who thought it would be cool to try and become immune to snake venom by injecting small amounts and working up. For 18 goddamn years. He nearly died at least once.

Later, actual scientists heard about him and realized that since he survived his blood must be full of antibodies that neutralize many kinds of snake venoms. Using a sample of his blood they were able to develop an antibody cocktail that seems to be effective against many types of tropical snake bites, a sort of universal antivenom.

Absolute mad lad benefiting humanity.

tinyideastuff:

She turned the apartment into an escape room

tinyideastuff:

Eva is dating too many people

tinyideastuff:

funny-tik-toks:

we made this video, it’s called ‘chore chart’ :)

tinyideastuff:

Guided meditation

tinyideastuff:

Cheating

tinyideastuff:

Robo Chef

tinyideastuff:

What did he do last night?

tinyideastuff:

This guy won’t leave

blintzestein:

frogatz:

NEVER STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH YOUR OCS 🫵

NEVER STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH OTHER PEOPLES OCS 🫵

tinyideastuff:

He got bit by a rat

tinyideastuff:

tasty-tiktoks:

we made this video, we are a sketch group called tiny idea :)

segamascott:

bogmonstergirl:

snowing-in-cyberspace:

helpeverythingiscats:

everyday-cutephoto:

lhts bh smhthrd bh mhmh

lesbiantomservo:

tequitoclown:

I’m fucking dying at this page someone shared on Bluesky.

Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

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mrkintonine:

Cover up slut😡

im-mender:

psychic plural Russian girl asking permission to mind meld: can you give me headmate

her Australian roommate, immediately tying up her hair: I thought you would never ask

tallymali:

using chatgpt as a therapist is loserrrrrr behaviour!!! get a tumblr and use it to publicly trauma dump so u can receive anons that wanna eat your mentally ill butthole

oasis-nadrama:

electricpurrs:

he’s like a patron saint to me

That’s so important.

memingursa:

You know the thing about having basic human empathy, respect for other cultures, and caring about the environment as an American it makes you fucking hate your government as you listen and realize the damage your country has done to everyone. “You American hating leftist.” Dawg we are like factually the greatest evil on earth right now. If you wrote an evil empire with America’s current foreign and domestic policy in fiction it’d be called grimdark and ridiculous.

schizochroal:

charyou-tree:

cat-witch:

last-tarrasque:

cat-witch:

last-tarrasque:

emeraldmemoir:

memecucker:

porn addiction is similar to IQ in that it doesnt exist but if you wanna incorporate the ideas into your fetishes go for it

No wonder everyone’s addicted to porn yall be telling yourselves the problem doesn’t even exist!

No, the thing that can creates a huge dopamine rush in the brain and is super easy to access can’t possibly by addictive, what are you talking about!

this is a textual form of the image with the gmail pill

If you have something to contribute, please do. If you want to insult me without contributing anything, please kindly leave.

you’re obviously a dopamine addicted debaiter trying to get your replying kick, goon elsewhere

Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too

Porn ‘Addiction’ Isn’t Really Addiction, Neuroscientists Say

Sex addiction isn’t recognised by science. So, why are people still being diagnosed?

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/pornography

From the last article:

“There’s a tremendous treatment industry that needs this to be a disease — a thing they can charge people to treat,” Prause says.
But promoting certain therapies may be ill-advised. “You can harm patients by using treatment models that aren’t research-supported,” Prause says.

“Porn Addiction” isn’t a real thing. Medical research has repeatedly tried and failed to define such a syndrome. The only people who do are “spiritual healing” quacks and people who want to send their kids to conversion therapy “reform camps”.

Y'all are repeating far-right purity-culture sex shaming propaganda.

I’m so tired of having this debate over and over.

It’s somewhat missed in this discussion, but treating something that they consider an “immoral bad habit” as equivalent to physiological dependency to a substance is kind of gross, because it means that they are also saying that people who have chemical dependencies are morally deficient.

This belief, that drug addiction is associated with moral deficiency is not only a source of a lot of the prejudice and oppression that face recreational drug users and any other groups that can be associated with drug-use, but has also lead to a rejection of actually effective interventions and treatments in favor of ineffective, moralistic ones (i.e. 12-step programs)

elodieunderglass:

escuerzoresucitado:

Thank you so much @mugwomps !

ashyslashyy:

wokeuplaughing:

your edible is never going to kick in because you’re a bad person

nudityandnerdery:

theconcealedweapon:

Also? A memo from the Department of Justice doesn’t mean shit. That’s not a law. That’s not a legal precedent. It’s just telling you how they’re going to ignore your rights without any legal standing to do so. It’s gonna get someone killed when ICE decides they’re going to force their way into a house one day and the person inside decides to use their legal rights to defend themselves. And then the fascists will want to use that to further escalate.

sony-official:

ashyslashyy:

look at the tumblr comments i beg yall please

t00thpasteface:

cell bio professor closed out today’s lecture on free-radical oxidation in mitochondria and programmed cell death by saying “you’ve probably all seen those commercials for fruit juice that says it’s got antioxidants, which are said to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or at least slow it down. well, they don’t work. this is an inevitable fact of life— this process that lets us live is also the thing that kills us, and it’s why all of us will die someday. there’s no escaping that. it’s been with us since the dawn of eukaryotic cells; our pact with mitochondria is to the death. anyway, enjoy the rest of your friday, and remember, exam four is next week!”

aokozaki:

aokozaki:

“Rationalism” is up there with “Objectivism” in terms of “definitionally funny things to call your own belief system”.

“Yeah man I’ve been doing some thinking and philosophy and I’ve come up with a framework called Being Right”

xenosagaepisodeone:

with due respect business insider I think that millennial fandom moms have been this site’s strongest warriors for the past 15+ years

wrenchswango:

wrenchswango:

always great to hear my boss say “we’re living through the collapse of the american library system” while I’m at my american library system job

anyway if you hadn’t heard the current administration is trying to entirely defund and dissolve the IMLS which provides libraries with funding, especially useful for rural libraries and very small systems that don’t have access to private funding to keep them afloat. This will absolutely devastate many many libraries across the country.

If you want to learn more and find out how you can help, check out the ALA website here: https://www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targeting-imls

FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS

scarf-it-box:

lux-in-the-night:

This what not what i was expected from the comments-

newtid:

ALT

in spirit i am a 7th grade boy

leupagus:

shrinkthisviolet:

mysteryteacup:

westiec:

livingmeatloaf:

dreamwatch:

How am I only just learning this!?

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Wait

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IT WORKS

Is this new???? I’ve been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham…

helpful info for those who need it

ALT

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

#Rebloging to save a life#reader you are unfuckable (h/t auntieclimactic)

leupagus:

shrinkthisviolet:

mysteryteacup:

westiec:

livingmeatloaf:

dreamwatch:

How am I only just learning this!?

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Wait

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IT WORKS

Is this new???? I’ve been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham…

helpful info for those who need it

ALT

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

#Rebloging to save a life#reader you are unfuckable (h/t auntieclimactic)

leupagus:

shrinkthisviolet:

mysteryteacup:

westiec:

livingmeatloaf:

dreamwatch:

How am I only just learning this!?

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Wait

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IT WORKS

Is this new???? I’ve been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham…

helpful info for those who need it

ALT

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

#Rebloging to save a life#reader you are unfuckable (h/t auntieclimactic)

leupagus:

shrinkthisviolet:

mysteryteacup:

westiec:

livingmeatloaf:

dreamwatch:

How am I only just learning this!?

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Wait

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IT WORKS

Is this new???? I’ve been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham…

helpful info for those who need it

ALT

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

#Rebloging to save a life#reader you are unfuckable (h/t auntieclimactic)

homunculus-argument:

The problem with trying to tell people “the more you hurry me, the longer this is going to take” is that an outside observer has no way to tell the difference between “I take any request to do something as a personal challenge to do the opposite out of spite, because I consider any expectation to accommodate your needs as a personal insult and beneath me uwu” and “the more pressure you put on me, the more stressed I am going to be, and the more anxious I am the more mistakes I will make, and I will have to go even slower in order to avoid them or keep trying to get it right over and over again so the only thing that makes the difference between us getting there in time or us both being late because I’m sitting on the floor crying is 100% your choice to either keep doing that or stop doing that.”

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3729:

beginnings don’t matter. everyone knows REAL readers start from the end and work backwards

gr8writingtips:

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3721:

just keep putting words on a page and eventually you’ll have twelve of them. maybe sixteen. or if you’re really lucky, twenty-two

#this is a fucking poem #twelve is the 12th word sixteen the sixteenth and twenty-two…

finally someone noticed

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3730:

you can describe something as being like something else by using emojis! i think this writing technique is known as a ‘smily’