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I GOT THE JOB

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I've been binge watching Steven universe again, and I love their expressions in the series! :)

(Also Alice is here. Cuzz I love to draw her. 😋)

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Had an extremely promising interview yesterday, please pray I’m selected. It would help a lot!

Interviewing this week for jobs that are hopefully a lot less stressful. Please say a prayer for me to find something that will work for our family soon.

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Interviewing this week for jobs that are hopefully a lot less stressful. Please say a prayer for me to find something that will work for our family soon.

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will your original stuff be x reader? tbh it seems really cool!!

Thank you! Original stuff will just be regular 3rd person.

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What is the protagonist’s job? And what did she study?

Handprints protag didn't go to college if I remember correctly, she worked her way up at Sherman hardware incorporated as a corporate inventory manager. I wanted her to feel like an 'everyman,' but that's really hard when everyone has such a varied work and educational experience so it's really a background thing in the story.

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Chapter 18: Virtual Memory

Read Newest Chapter ─ Read First Chapter

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tfp design for ariel. design details under the cut.

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Do you use AI?

I do not.

Furthermore, I actually did spend time studying both generative AI models and machine learning in college so I had some foundation for this before it really hit the mainstream. Machine learning (statistics)? Useful actually, good for finding statistical patterns humans otherwise would not find. Also good for pattern recognition in images, such as examining cancerous patterns in CT-scans. It supplements human abilities but does not usurp them. Do note that some people use these terms interchangeably without knowing their meanings, make sure to understand the particular application someone is talking about before condemning it.

Generative AI (graph theory)? 1 billion times more silly and stupid than people realize. I have unfortunately had the privilege of explaining how something like chat GPT was made and functions to high level professional engineers who had not had the chance to study it and had to hear them go, '...that's it? surely there's something more-' 'no, this is really all it is doing.' 'really?' 'yes. really.'

The twelve thousand foot explanation is this: Chat GPT was likely created by taking a training set of nearly the entire clear net, likely the common crawl dataset, then creating correlations between frequently occurring three to four character strings (called tokens). So if my input is, 'how many states are in the united states?' and it happens to get that right, it's because the tokenization of my question returned the average token response of 'there are fifty states in the united states of America' (etc. usually chat gippity inserts a lot more 'polite' boilerplate in it's answers). It has no understanding, it doesn't even understand what individual words mean. It's all about frequency. Kyle Hill actually has a good video explaining this.

It's also worth noting that because the generative AI model cannot be 'programmed' or 'modified' after creation, moderation AI is used on the user request side and the AI response side to keep everything appropriate. So the flow looks like this:

User request -> moderation AI -> (if passes) send request to GPT model -> moderation AI to check output -> return appropriate output to user. (Source: chat gpt-4 system card, see section 4.1)

This moderation AI or filtering is how they do things like tell chat gpt to stop returning heinous lies about an individual, they simply told the filter 'reject inquiries with this individual's name' because there is no way to actually remove this from the GPT model itself. No one is able to pinpoint individual connections between tokens, so moderation must be on input and output.

The moderation model used here was likely what is called 'supervised' or 'labelled' learning, which means that some poor souls had to read an enormous corpus of inappropriate text and label it accordingly to help create a moderation AI.

There's a lot (LOT) more I could say but this post is getting long. I'm also not an 'expert' in this field, I just like to stay informed because of my technical role.

Basically, AI is unethical all the way down. Not to pick on open AI specifically, but this is how all the sausages get made in one way or another.

On a non technical note, my advice is this: Do not put yourself in a position to depend on generative AI for anything. It is the quickest way to atrophy your brain and your critical thinking and creative abilities. Reject it at every turn and do not take seriously any person who uses it for any professional or creative capacity. Wish them well, but don't take their advice.

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Fanfic will go on my ao3, originals will go on my wattpad. Links are in my bio. Nothing on wattpad yet.

Thank you for your patience, and thank you for reading.

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I better find another way...

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objective: find an active H.A.L.O. user

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you need to be more careful.

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The way you guys have been sending me many asks these past few days make me feel like a famous director haha, it’s been very fun. Thank you for your interest in my fic! Sorry I don’t say much. I hope you will stay tuned for the chapter releases and see your questions answered there!

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Ooooo and what would Post-handprint be like?

Can’t talk about it. 🙂‍↔️

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I made a small animatic based off @exileandtrust 's "Handprints" •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀

I love your fanfic sm! When I heard magnolia the fic crossed my mind and began thinking scenarios about it (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ YOUR FANFIC HAS ME ON CHOKEHOLD I SWEAR!

I hope you kiss the brick before throwing it to me okay thank you 🙏 I apologize if my Optimus looks off I'm not used to drawing bots in side view 🙏

Also this was when mc died* at the nemesis hehe

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All I ask is that I don't see Alice and the protagonist get into a major fight. I will be sad.

I hadn’t thought of that….