V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

CIDR 2025 is ongoing (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research). It's a very good conference in computer science, specifically database research (an equivalent of a journal for non-CS science). And they have a whole session on LLMs called "LLMs ARE THE NEW NO-SQL"

I didn't have time to read the papers yet, believe me I will, but the abstracts are spicy

We systematically develop benchmarks to study [the problem] and find that standard methods answer no more than 20% of queries correctly, confirming the need for further research in this area.

(Text2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG, Biswal et al.)

Hey guys and gals, I have a slightly different conclusion, maybe a baseline 20% correctness is a great reason to not invest a second more of research time into this nonsense? Jesus DB Christ.

I'd also like to shoutout CIDR for setting up a separate "DATABASES AND ML" session, which is an actual research direction with interesting results (e.g. query optimizers powered by an ML model achieving better results than conventional query optimizers). At least actual professionals are not conflating ML with LLMs.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What, no, a vocal AfD supporter is a nazi? No waaay

Surprised Pikachu, sarcastically surprised Kirk, etc.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

Imagine going on the Pilgrimage and all you bring back is an MBA and some motivational quotes, instant exile

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But also, wtf how are they expecting this to stay secret and there being no backlash?

No, they bet on it not mattering and they've been completely right thus far.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

That's just the plot of the next Fast&Furious, only they're grilling instead of picnicking

Furious Rex or something

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I said "basic management skills", like you might get to run a school board or something.

You're aiming for Secretary of Transportation? Your rail network better be fucking immaculate

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Could pain help test AI for sentience?

This question has far too many hypotheticals to even make sense as a question.

You might think that question has far too many hypotheticals to even make sense as a question.

Wow! That's exactly what I was thinking!

But there’s AI hype to propagate.

Ah, alas then

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

and it looks like a shared account, maybe with his kids or something,

The idea that his kids would like to spend time with him in any capacity, much less sharing an account with a 50 yo dude who has already proven can't build a character for shit is laughable at best

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

At least PoE builds are a real thing that exists

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

Hard to believe a game with that title could suck lol

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Every serious political candidate should prove they can build an 100 SPM (at least!) base in Factorio and keep it running for some time before I even consider putting them in office, that's just basic management skills

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

I never thought I'd say this but... don't slander category theory like that, compared to LLMs it's downright useful

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