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  • In Poland we have this anecdote explaining traditions.

    Whenever I make boiled pork knuckle I cut it in half, because that’s how my Mom taught me. I didn’t know the reason, so I asked her about it: “Oh, I do it because that’s what your Granny did. It’s tradition.”. I went to Granny and asked the same: “Your Great grandmother did so, and so I do too. It’s tradition”.

    I went to GG, and her answer was “I had a small pot”. That’s what tradition is.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_fear_of_crime

    Women fear is reverse correlated to likelihood of it happening (lower chance = more feared)

    Some studies suggest a fucked up reasoning behind it: “if rape is rare, then they [women] feel more disgust to victims of the rape than if it was common”.

    Some scholars tie that reverse correlation to perceived lowering of social standing and attractiveness (as in the victims of crime stand out negatively compared to other gals). (Tbh this makes more sense).

    (And other reasons but those two are most likely to have people click on the Wiki article to read more)











  • Out of the food you mentioned only Beef Wellington and English Breakfast/Ulster Fry/ are uniquely British.

    Everything else is either not a dish (fried sausage and potatoes definitely is not a dish you philistine :P) or not distinct enough.

    Pork pies, fish and chips, roast, shepherds pie - it is eaten in Britain, but is not unique to them, as was historically eaten across the whole Europe (I mean it is fish and chips, it didn’t need “inventing”).






  • A debugger will always interfere with the processes you are looking at, hence making debugging of multithreading-related errors a game of whack-a-mole.

    It’s a very pleasant debugging experience when you can easily switch threads, have them log what happened first, check the variables in the thread at the moment in time it was hit (vs now), etc. etc.




  • Huh? That is the literal opposite of what I said. Like, diametrically opposite.

    The system summarizes and hashes docs. The model can only answer from those summaries in that mode. There’s no semantic retrieval step.

    No, that’s exactly what you wrote.

    Now, with this change

    SUMM -> human reviews

    That would be fixed, but will work only for small KBs, as otherwise the summary would be exhaustive.

    Case in point: assume a Person model with 3-7 facts per Person. Assume small 3000 size set of Persons. How would the SUMM of work? Do you expect a human to verify that SUMM? How are you going to converse with your system to get the data from that KB Person set? Because to me that sounds like case C, only works for small KBs.

    Again: the proposition is not “the model will never hallucinate.”. It’s “it can’t silently propagate hallucinations without a human explicitly allowing it to, and when it does, you trace it back to source version”.

    Fair. Except that you are still left with the original problem of you don’t know WHEN the information is incorrect if you missed it at SUMM time.