Cute story. This reminded me how in elementary school and middle school I used to draw pencil drawings of rollercoasters on my page to pass the time. Rollercoaster tycoon fan :)
Its missing the funniest signature. Back when Spain still had monarchy, King Ferdinand VII simply signed his signature “Yo el Rey” - literally “I, the king”.
Would've been, once. These days I assume bentcorner asked their favourite LLM to generate a poem parodying Ozymandias about once-popular youtube videos.
It doesn't feel like it at all (I'd never expect an LLM to say 'pfp' like that, or 'lossly[sic] compressed', ASCII instead of fancy quotes) but who knows at this point.
I may have gotten incredibly neurotic about online text since 2022.
I actually considered using an LLM but in my experience they "warp" the content too much for anything like this. The effort required to get them to retain what I would consider something to my taste would take longer than just writing the poem myself. (Although tbf it's been awhile since I've asked a LLM to do parody work, so I could be wrong)
Used to be, but they're very complicated to operate compared to more modern alternatives and have just gotten more and more bloated over the years. Also require a bunch of different applications for different parts of the stack in order to do the same basic stuff as e.g. Meilisearch, Manticore or Typesense.
Sure, I've managed both clusters and single node deployments in production until 2025 when I changed jobs. Elastic definitely does have its strengths, but they're increasingly enterprise-oriented and appear not to care a lot about open source deployments. At one point Elastic itself had a severe regression in an irreverible patch update (!?) which took weeks to fix, forcing us to recover from backup and recreate the index. The documentation is or has been ambigious and self-contradicting on a lot of points. The Debian Elastic Enterprise Search package upgrade script was incomplete, so there's a significant manual process for updating the index even for patch updates. The interfaces between the different components of the ELK stack are incoherent and there's literally a thousand ways to configure them. Default setups have changed a lot over the years, leading to incoherent documentation. You really need to be an expert at Elastic in order to run it well – or pay handsomely for the service. It's simply too complicated and costly for what it is, compared to more recent alternatives.
Cool idea. One thing the author might like: if you sign up to lastfm, it tracks all of your music plays. So you can go through the data and see what you were listening yo each month/week
It's annoying they don't allow migrating in a data dump from Spotify (they do, but everything is tagged as listened to on the day of import...). My Spotify account is 10 years old but I only discovered Last.fm ~ 6 months ago.
I recently stumbled across my lastfm login from late middle and early high school days. Talk about a blast from the past. This is a good idea, to keep the history going.
Finetuning is pretty much necessary for regression tasks. Also useful for classification since you can get the direct probabilities in case you want to do some thresholding.
From what i read, this post doesnt announce we’ve found some crazy extremophile unicellular microbe. Just that there is evidence to suggest they are there (due to the chemical makeup of soil/boreholes).
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