Yea asbestos is no joke, however not every material containing asbestos is an immediate and incredibly dangerous health hazard (provided it’s just sitting there).

Some materials (like the asbestos equivalent of rockwool) continuously release asbestos particles in the air. That is indeed incredibly bad and dangerous and need to be removed asap. Other materials won’t release anything unless you are cutting them or drilling holes in them (and thus releasing particles) or if they are in an advanced state of decay (and thus releasing particles). These normally don’t constitute a health hazard but my understanding is that under certain conditions or given enough time that can change.

This might be the case here. If it was my home I’d definitely get a professional opinion sooner rather than later. Especially since asbestos could also have been used elsewhere in the house, in materials or places that pose a bigger threat to the occupants than the roof cover.

And before you had mail orders

I’m an introvert, both shy and socially anxious. Not the talkative type either. And I probably have ADHD, focusing on conversations, especially when it’s not a one on one discussion can be extremely hard for me.

My personal experience is that social interactions can be a nightmare but they can also be very rewarding, if only because it often takes my focus away from the demons in my head.

It really depends on what kind of social interaction, who I’m having them with and how often/how long.

If it generally answers correctly, have you tried asking it those questions?

My personal experience is that it’s generally accurate unless you ask it very specific questions about very specialized stuff. Of course, this is the sort of stuff that you couldn’t ask a random guy in the street; they’d probably have no idea what you are on about.

Go ask it questions about specific register bits for a specific microcontroller and I’ve found that it will generally be wrong.

On an another note, I don’t know if it’s still the case but there were people at one point saying that if you’d ask if it is better to walk or drive to the car wash 500 meters away from your house to go get your car washed, it would nearly systematically answer that it would be better to walk. Of course, this sort of prompt is fishing for a wrong answer, but it does show how “stupid” LLMs can be (and of course, we can be similarly stupid when asked questions that attempt to misdirect you).

It should be reminded that the problem regarding LLM accuracy is not only whether it’s more likely to get an answer correct than an average human being, but also the fact that people tend to view them as quite authoritative - after all, even if we know they can output incorrect facts, we also know that they’ve been trained in a more or less the whole of human knowledge. In comparison, we’re a lot more more critical of human sources - you’re not going to trust some random dude so much if you ask him a programming problem as he is unlikely to have any clue of what you are talking about.

In other words, it’s sort pointless to compare your LLM’s accuracy to a random dude on random questions because you wouldn’t go around asking a random dude for his input for most of these questions (or at least not without keeping in mind that said dude probably doesn’t know better than you). Instead you’d look for someone who knows his shit and ask him.

Not to mention that LLMs tend to be a lot more confidently incorrect which is more likely to give people the wrong idea.

Also, 90% percent accuracy might seem excellent, but it does mean that if you ask it 10 questions every day you will learn something wrong every day on average. If google ai search gets it wrong 5% of the time, it will present wrong information to users hundreds of thousands times a day. (all numbers out of my ass)

Also, accuracy errors can quickly start compounding when we’re talking agents. If the agent breaks down your prompt in 10 tasks and has a 10% chance to do each task wrong, it becomes highly probable that the agent will fail to do correctly what you have asked it to do.

Also, if your starting point is that humans often get things wrong, don’t forget that LLMs are trained on first and foremost on human output.

Which brings me to my last point. LLM’s can’t really be more accurate than their training data. If an LLM is generally correct about something it means that the people that have written or said whatever about it have been generally correct.

Lol.

I’m sure you guessed it by I meant slaves.

Apparently discoveries in the past few decades indicate that the people who built Giza pyramids were not actually workers.

Lehner’s excavation of the worker’s village paints a clear picture of the pyramid laborers, highlighting a higher quality of life than previously believed. The workers had access to high quality food, were given proper burials, and lived under an organized labor system, where workers contributed to various societal and construction functions of their own free will. This archaeological evidence directly opposes previous beliefs that the pyramids were the result of intensive slave labor. This misconception began with Greek Historian Herodotus, and was later popularized in pop cultural depictions of the building of the pyramids.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex

But yeah, I’d have a hard time believing there was no music or singing involved building those.

Another theory concerning how useless some higher ups are is that people keep getting promoted until they reach a position where they’re not doing such a good job anymore.

Oh… yea. Good joke 😆

With Chinese characters on one of the carriages?

Yes, and let’s also not count all the investments in infrastructure because you know… like training and staff it’s not a real cost that’s essential to the business.

Anyways, you wouldn’t happened to have heard that from Anthropocene or OpenAI?

Somehow we don’t have any actual indisputable numbers (I wonder why) but it is actually quite controversial and some of those who have done deep research on the subject are saying inference IS run at a loss and it might not get profitable ever.

https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e7d5?syn-25a6b1a6=1

I feel it depends a lot more on how many songs you’d be posting compared to the other activity in c/music.

I’d say post some in the main comm, and if you really want to share a boatload with of songs (like multiple everyday for the foreseeable future) create your own community and cross post a select few to the main category.

It might be nice to have a community a little broader than just Chinese music, like for non western music or maybe East Asian music.

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I think it’s a good idea. I’d certainly get that over a new 25 bucks digital meter.

If ever you get more serious about electronics and want/need to buy a good dmm, an analog meter can still be useful alongside it.

Elected US Politicians represent the political spectrum of electoral US politics? Wow, thanks for the insight.

The full spectrum on a left/right axis in a liberal democracy is actually not that subjective. It’s bordered on the left and right by people who actually reject the liberal democracy: the far left who want to overthrow the system to achieve better equality and conditions for the greater number, and the far right, who want to overthrow the system to achieve stronger privileges for the in-group they belong to.

Indeed, US politicians do not represent the full spectrum of ideas in between those extremes. The political spectrum of the US is what it is, sure, and that’s actually what this meme is all about.