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  • Yeah this has been my experience too. LLMs don’t handle project specific code styles too well either. Or when there are several ways of doing things.

    Actually, earlier today I was asking a mixtral 8x7b about some bash ideas. I kept getting suggestions to use find and sed commands which I find unreadable and inflexible for my evolving scripts. They are fine for some specific task need, but I’ll move to Python before I want to fuss with either.

    Anyways, I changed the starting prompt to something like ‘Common sense questions and answers with Richard Stallman’s AI assistant.’ The results were remarkable and interesting on many levels. From the way the answers always terminated without continuing with another question/answer, to a short footnote about the static nature of LLM learning and capabilities, along with much better quality responses in general, the LLM knew how to respond on a much higher level than normal in this specific context. I think it is the combination of Stallman’s AI background and bash scripting that are powerful momentum builders here. I tried it on a whim, but it paid dividends and is a keeper of a prompting strategy.

    Overall, the way my scripts are collecting relationships in the source code would probably result in a productive chunking strategy for a RAG agent. I don’t think an AI would be good at what I’m doing at this stage, but it could use that info. It might even be possible to integrate the scripts as a pseudo database in the LLM model loader code for further prompting.









  • We have no data for an Earth analog around a G-type star, like absolutely nothing. I highly doubt there is some universal life around such a star, but out of a sample size of 1, who could rule them out? Kepler was barely supposed to be able to survey at this resolution, but totally failed at that objective. They claimed success for politically criminal reasons, but go look at the actual data and you’ll see the random noise they cherry picked to make that claim and how they are massive outliers from the rest of the data. None of those data points are remotely scientifically relevant or taken seriously. No other survey to date has come close to an Earth like resolution.

    Researching for my book, there several G-type stars within 7 parsecs. I find them most interesting, but I do not believe complex life is likely anywhere in this galaxy at the present point in time.


  • There were some talks on Harvard’s CfA colloquium that went into the evidence for a prior generation of Jovian moons and that these were likely larger. I’ve long speculated that this event is by far the most likely to produce a Theia like object on a potential Earth collision course.

    Earth’s hotspots are from a paper this year on the mantle anomalies and ongoing research that correlates them. I watch a range of qualified academic sources with valid and current credentials. This is like my casual entertainment. I don’t care to argue, act like chimps in a zoo throwing party favors, their academic equivalent, or the bottom tier of Dante’s Reddit. You can find most of this through Anton Petrov and Fraser Cain in the last few years. Moat of these ideas are published and the rest are abstraction and speculation that fits the more broad strokes of what I have seen.

    I really don’t care who is right or wrong. I enjoy my abstractions in observation from the sidelines. I do not take sides except those that seem more compelling and place no value on tenure or those that appear to build blind careers on poor intuition that makes no sense outside of a narrow frame of reference.

    If you take offense at such a casual interest I apologize. Feel free to block me. I do the same to rudeness online as I do in public to my face.


  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldDo aliens exist in our planet?
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    The only remote chance is panspermia. There is absolutely no chance that complex life exists within 1 astronomical unit of Earth, or within a few parsecs for that matter.

    Simple life is likely common, but not complex. The most likely large filter for Earth, appears to be the Theia collision that lead to the moon’s formation, Earth’s hotspots, a likely source of nitrogen and water of the correct isotopes, and the vital plate tectonics that enable elemental cycles beyond anything seen on other terrestrial worlds.

    The real question is not what makes Earth unique; it is what makes Venus and Mars so similar, any why Earth is not an average intermediate. The obvious answer is Luna.








  • I saw the original post too, and thought it was mildly interesting objective research with intelligent perspective and dialog, like one of the few actually good posts.

    I’ve got two cats, and I would never consider doing this, but I’m not dumb enough to claim to be some expert with ontological godlike knowledge of feline nutrition like I just watched a musical or David Attenborough.

    I’m not here to bash on Rooki or gang up on them. All I have to say is that they had a negative impact on me in the past, and I find this post’s comments rather pathetic in many respects.

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with someone that should not be playing the face of public interaction admitting so and limiting engagement or moving on to find things that are a better fit. Some people have a harder time separating themselves from objective thinking. Like I can be super opinionated and hyperbolic, but if I act as a mod, I’m a totally different person. I strongly believe any visible mod is a bad mod. A good mod is an invisible janitor and a servant of the community. I’ve told other mods here and elsewhere, I won’t even take mod action if I am personally involved in an issue. I contact another mod to take care of the situation as they see fit. For me, that includes stepping down if they ask and I have no qualms about saying that openly and honestly. I’m only a mod to herd bots and defuse the situation. As a person, I can feel strongly and be vocal, but as an authority, I have an obligation to be conservative and step very lightly. Some people can’t speak quietly when they hold a big stick, but that is a requirement to lead well.


  • I’ve had similar with Rooki showing a distinct lack of depth and level headedness. I left here entirely for a month as a result of an interaction with them.

    Seeing how this post is playing out seems insane to me. People may not like some aspect of this idea, but when presented with evidence, the response here has been eye opening an almost evangelical fervor with many that seem wholly incapable of objective thinking. I have not seen a single person claim they have tried feeding a cat a vegan diet, or that it is a good idea. All that I’ve seen is people mentioning in abstract that this has been researched. Hell, many things in common foods are derived from petroleum. Go watch Nile Red. Anything can about be made into anything, insert drain cleaner to grape soda here. I have no interest in eating crickets, meal worms, or algae, but these are a thing too. When I’m confronted with something new, I set myself aside and do not cast my emotions into the fray like an ignorant foolish child.

    There is nothing special about murder diets. It is just organic chemistry. It may cost a fortune for someone to properly feed a cat, but I have no faith that the largely unregulated in practice pet food industry is much better or more ethical than someone doing proper scientific research. Mentioning the frontiers of science and causing a pitchfork mob like post shows I’m probably in the wrong kind of place here. I have far higher expectations for intellectual engagement than this disappointing display of biased and backwards ignorance.


  • Omit omitted omitting omits – omission –

    The * did my t go?

    I feel like we will change a lot for digital reasons, especially in coming centuries.

    lemmatization - in linguistics is the process of grouping together inflected forms of a word so they can be analyzed as a single item, identified by the word’s lemma, or dictionary form; (eg. walk [lemma], walks, walked, walking)

    Things like inflected forms and parts of speech that can not be coded easily really have no use in the future. Things like how a sentence can be “I am here.” but when I must change more than one word to say “He is here.” The am/is change is nonsense of no use. It is like a deep inner conflict with no solution; a prejudice or bias.