I still have all of mine as well, including my first: a samsung sph-n200.

That’s some advanced fuckin sarcasm right there

You’re not wrong so you get an upvote but in the context of this conversation you know people are not using LLM tools with preseeded entropy. Also kind of a moot point because the idea of using some consistent source of entropy in a calculator is competly nonsensical and unnecessary.

It happens. Not a big deal and frankly those are important things that we should all care about so I can’t say I disagree.

Take care of yourself. None of this is normal and thus you’re going to need more self care than normal. You are making a difference even just sharing the way this makes you feel. We’re all in this together and I can see you know that too.

No worries!

Oh I certainly don’t disagree with you. Yea my interpretation of what you were saying is that Caitlin was the ‘another’ dead American. Which is definitely true. Stay strong.

Lmao I use LLM powered tools in my work daily, I understand their limitations and stay within them so say what you will. I still think your comparison is dumb.

You’re not wrong but the point here is that it’s actually way more than one.

Your point is a false equivalence. Just because people said the same thing doesn’t mean a calculator and an LLM are equivalent in their accuracy as a tool.

You are implying that one must ensure the veracity of the output of a calculator in the same way that one must ensure the veracity of the output of an LLM and I’m saying no, that’s strictly not true. If it were than the only way you could use an LLM incorrectly would be to type your query incorrectly. With a calculator that metaphor holds up. With an LLM you could make no mistakes and still get incorrect output.

My point wasn’t that people don’t make mistakes they obviously do. My point is that calculators are deterministic machines; to clarify that means if they have the same input they will always have the same output. LLMs are not and do not. So no it’s not the same thing.

Your point has no bearing whatsoever on my statement. You could also misread a ruler but doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the ruler. Given I can reliably read a ruler, then I can ‘blindly trust’ it assuming it’s a well manufactured ruler. If you can’t that’s definitively a you problem.

Haha fair enough I guess I took first year to mean high school level physics but I took calculus in high school so that made sense to me.

Except calculators are based on reality and have deterministic and reliable results lol

Edit: holy crap I would never have guessed this statement would make people wanna argue with me. I’ve never felt that my job is secure from the next generation more than I do now.

Calculus was literally invented to describe physics. If you learn physics without learning basic derivative calculus along side it you’re only getting a part of the picture, so I’m guessing you derived something like y position in a 2 dimensional projectile motion problem cause that’s a fuckin classic. Sounds like you had a good physics teacher 👍

I mean if that’s true then that’s incredibly sad in itself as that would mean that not a single teacher in your past demonstrated a single thing you learned. You don’t need to be in a science field to do some basic chemistry or physics lab, I’m talking like even a baking soda volcano or a bowling ball vs feather drop test. You never participated in science fair? Or did the egg drop challenge? You never went on a field trip to look at some fossils or your local geology or wildlife? Did you ever watch an episode of Bill Nye?? I find your answer disingenuous and hard to believe frankly. If you truly have NEVER had any class at school that did anything to prove to you what you’re learning and only just told you, then you’re an example of perhaps the ultimate failure in education.

It’s numbers man don’t take it too seriously

Counter point: not necessarily. Example: I was born in the late 80s. I really grew up in the 90s and 2000s.

You never took a lab science course? Or wrote a proof in math?