I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.

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Cake day: July 15th, 2025

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  • 🤚totally guilty there.

    I wish there was a way to mute or turn off replies, and I might post more. Sometimes / often I’ll want to post something but definitely do not want to be bombarded with the comments it would generate. Other times, I’ll like the community but not be involved enough in whatever hobby to post anything but still enjoy seeing other people’s work (e.g. HAM radio, sewing, etc).





  • Disclaimer: : All of my LLM experience is with local models in Ollama on extremely modest hardware (an old laptop with NVidia graphics) , so I can’t speak for the technical reasons the context window isn’t infinite or at least larger on the big player’s models. My understanding is that the context window is basically its short term memory. In humans, short term memory is also fairly limited in capacity. But unlike humans, the LLM can’t really see (or hold) the big picture in its mind.

    But yeah, all you said is correct. Expanding on that, if you try to get it to generate something long-form, such as a novel, it’s basically just generating infinite chapters using the previous chapter (or as much of the history fits into its context window) as reference for the next. This means, at minimum, it’s going to be full of plot holes and will never reach a conclusion unless explicitly directed to wrap things up. And, again, given the limited context window, the ending will be full of plot holes and essentially based only on the previous chapter or two.

    It’s funny because I recently found an old backup drive from high school with some half-written Jurassic Park fan fiction on it, so I tasked an LLM with fleshing it out, mostly for shits and giggles. The result is pure slop that seems like it’s building to something and ultimately goes nowhere. The other funny thing is that it reads almost exactly like a season of Camp Cretaceous / Chaos Theory (the animated kids JP series) and I now fully believe those are also LLM-generated.













  • In order and in character:

    1. [Chidi]: No, that would be highly unethical
    2. [Eleanor] Of course. How else would you do it?
    3. [Eleanor] Obviously they had it coming so no harm no foul.
    4. [Jason] Nah, Pill-Boi said it was fine.
    5. [Tahani] My heavens, no. I would never want to upset my friend Ray. Charles. Ray Charles was my friend.
    6. [Jason] In Jacksonville we’re legally required to.
    7. [Chidi] Given the ethical implications of restraining user freedom but also providing safety for the majority of people, we have to take into account several factors [ pulls out a blackboard, stomach ache intensifies ]…