I wonder if the noise situation would still be apparent if the model trained only on Ghibli style anime drawings.

Well what have you come up with then?

I like it.

I like the idea but I must say it’s going to be hard to hold our noses and proclaim anything he does to be “noble” even for the sake of the joke.

Mac OS has always worked well enough. It’s much worse now in my opinion than it was since High Sierra but it’s still fine. Also, I fear it’d be quite difficult to get Linux working on an M2 MacBook Pro for dubious benefit to me.

If I was on a PC though, I’d definitely try Linux out, really don’t like Windows 11 and didn’t love Windows 10

I think in both cases that was already pretty well proven to be the case wasn’t it?

Imagine how crazy it would be as tech advanced through the ages and people create their own artificial sound and eventually realise that that sounds from the mysterious artifact from the future was playing music BACKWARDS and there’s discernible lyrics.

I haven’t really tried but I think if you were trying to use LLM generated text deceptively the model could probably do exactly as you describe already so long as you prompt it to do so clearly enough.

I don’t understand this in English. ‘Whole time’?

I do, but I sometimes wonder why I bother. In the Play store, the information is pretty frequently inaccurate. It used to be that absolutely everything was asking for every permission and collecting every form of data under the sun. These days I far more frequently see the claim that “this app doesn’t collect any data” only to discover that the app will have a website with a detailed privacy policy (for the app, not the site) outlining all the data they’re collecting that they theoretically aren’t collecting. I really don’t understand how that’s allowable but it surprised me.

Typically these days I try my best only to use things I can find on fdroid. Sounds like that’s about to no longer be an option next year though.

I thought I did, because people were saying he was the “change my mind” guy and I remembered him from some internet memes a looonng time ago. Turns out that wasn’t even Charlie’s thing, he just kind of adopted it and was known for that. So yeh, I thought I knew who he was and turns out he was even less significant.

The specific application in this instance was that it creates “progress notes”. Admittedly, as I have only the information from the article itself, having no background in this field myself, I can only make assumptions what those are like, but as the name implies it’s charting a client’s progress through therapy and would also imply to me a lot of summarising of information gleaned during sessions. I guess in as much as it also would necessarily have to create a transcript in doing this for you, I guess it also provides that too. This is portrayed as tedious and time consuming work by the creators of the service, who obviously have a vested interest in casting it in such light, but taken at its word, I would say in my opinion the advantage would be in automating some of the tedious and time consuming aspects of the job.

As I suspect you were driving at from the tenor of the question, there’s a lot of ways this could go wrong, in particular privacy concerns when this service is offered in the manner that it is here where it’s processed outside of the therapist’s own clinic by 3rd parties and information is shared with additional parties and used for many purposes with only the flimsy promise of “de-anonymisation” which appears to be hollow. It could also maybe affect how the therapy is conducted, making decisions about how to summarise this information that will influence what decisions a therapist makes and perhaps that therapist might have summarised it differently if doing the notes themselves, then again this all hinges upon how effective it is considered to be. If it can be evaluated and found to be generally good, then it seems tentatively like this could be a pretty helpful tool for a therapist. But in general, my comment was really more directed at what I feel like is a sad state of affairs across the board with recent tech advances including generative AI as applied in any aspect of life or work, that I think is often lost in these conversations where the technology really shows promise or is quite impressive but because of the manner of its development or the surveillance profit model, it’s basically tainted and ruined. I feel like I often come across commentary that fails to make the distinction between the negative aspects of how these techs have come about and are monetized and the tech itself where the latter is simply cast as inherently undesirable even when there’s clearly reason enough for people to find it appealing in the first place for it to end up in use.

You know, as with a lot of these tech advances that impinge upon privacy and put us at risk in the name of profit, the buy-in, the thing they’re offering in exchange, IS actually pretty worthwhile. This is extremely useful. It’s such a shame that all this cool Star Trek shit that I would have been giddy about as a kid has been realised, but at a sinister and often hidden cost.

Is there any way this can be done on local metal? Would it achieve the same level of accuracy and sophistication of the progress notes? Because if this can be offered to the therapists that wanted it enough in the first place that they either knowingly or unwittingly sacrificed their patient’s privacy for it, maybe they can be given an alternative.

Now use your simulation of Minecraft in Minecraft to build a computer to play Minecraft.

They’re even wearing little chef hats

Gee that’s a real removed ain’t it perplexity?

Those all sound good. Sorry that doesn’t help at all, but hey I’m rooting for you.

Could it be Bootleg?

I wanted to read more plot details to see how closely it matched your description but all the synopsis are a bit vague. I saw the TV show as a kid. Apparently there was a manga and an anime made from it as well. In this one they’re more specifically focussed upon chocolate than all confectionery generally but it sounds like that may have featured too.

That’s absolutely normal and expected. The illness is taking a toll on your body and it needs all it’s resources to fight it. Don’t take this as advice not to see a doctor if you were already going to because if you personally feel like something is wrong and out of the ordinary for you, then it’s better that you decide to go to a doctor even if you’re told that it is indeed normal for a cold because who knows if it’s not something worse or if “normal” for you is different. But in general, yes, for colds and most illnesses tiredness is very much to be expected, even to a pretty extreme degree.

Yeh it was a joke I definitely wouldn’t recommend that ANYWHERE! It’s just that the original advice to which I was responding, while actually probably quite sound, had this funny kind of old man “you kids should get outside” kind of feel to it that I was riffing off and taking to extreme for fun. I hoped the “get your hair cut” part of it would make that a bit more obvious like a grumpy dad in the 60s telling the longhairs to get off their lawn. I probably didn’t do enough to make this obvious and now it’s coming across as sincere. Woops.