Lugonu actually started as a goddess, before being turned into a genderless abomination. I think I’ve seen the devs use it/it’s pronouns.

Yup. The panic buttons are nice, the easier rune is nice, and back when there was Ak there was a cheap blink+blink other ability. That character used a distortion-branded demon whip to great effect as well, IIRC. Happy playing!

Sorry, “jawed fish” is used a lot in when talking about the epochs where tetrapods hadn’t evolved yet - growing the first jaws was a pretty big landmark. That’s my bad. Ray-finned is pretty clear, though, and doesn’t include anything I can think of that’s unexpected.

Close enough for a layperson, but for a biologist they probably should use Gnathostomata when that’s what they’re talking about.

They absolutely do use casual terms as well as the technical names when talking to each other - I’ve been a fly on that wall. They tend not to get confused about their own subject. However, when they have to get into more specifics than “that’s a squat lobster” yeah, they have to go back to the jargon.

I mean, some of the taxanomic divisions do have common names as well - jawed fish and ray-finned fish might come up in that conversation. And don’t forget some of the formal names and roots are Greek as well.

What kind of whale is that? “It’s a whale whale… you know the original whale… the proper whale… the right whale.” There’s actually a paragraph in Moby Dick about this.

Was that the weird chapter that was just a biology lesson, but was also completely wrong?

Lol, I still died half way up my one orb run, so you’re further than me. I save scummed right before Zot:5 and did get it on my second try, but that doesn’t count.

It was a gnoll abyssal knight IIRC. What about you?

Or there’s fish and we are one, or there’s fish but hagfish, dogfish and lungfish are something else.

I guess we could return to medieval and say it’s based on shape not taxonomy, too, so whales would be fish.

TBF it had been a long standing problem for roughly a half century before this. Specifically birds were the thing researchers tried to identify first, which is probably the reference here.

Do you have the Orb yet?

You’re the first I’ve heard say that in a long time.

In the rest of the world, even the West, the picture is more dire. Americans tend to avoid hiring non-Americans, and had early mover advantage on computers and the internet.

Another good reason to never let the company’s project become your project.

Not OP, but good to know.

I’m guessing that was bait, lol.

Edit: Wait, was the logo similar? It was before my time.

It’s a useless fiction for hiring, but highly effective for getting money from the dumber investors.

I mean, just because they post an ad for a rocket surgeon doesn’t mean they find one. At least in the US, compsci professionals do not have any trouble finding work.

Really, OP might have had the hot one with “unnecessary imports sitting around is fine”.

The duality of Programmer Humor: You get posts complaining about bloat, and posts complaining about this.

You can devise a task it couldn’t have seen in the training data, I mean. Building a comprehensive argument out of them requires a lot more work and time.

You don’t even have access to the “thinking” side of the LLM.

Obviously, that goes for the natural intelligences too, so it’s not really a fair thing to require.

SpellGPT is an archdemon, and it’s pronounced as written, not as an acronym.

Presumably it has money, sex and power as bait instead of on-demand musical fanfics and light conversation, because fiction isn’t that dumb.

I think vibe casting would be when you summon an imp for a few minutes with instructions to work on the big spell, summon another imp and tell it to do the same.

Likely to produce a much more literal development hell.

The thing being, it’s kind of an inflexible blackbox technology, and that’s easier said than done. In one fell swoop we’ve gotten all that soft, fuzzy common sense stuff that people were chasing for decades inside a computer, but it’s ironically still beyond our reach to fully use.

From here, I either expect that steady progress will be made in finding more clever and constrained ways of using the raw neural net output, or we’re back to an AI winter. I suppose it’s possible a new architecture and/or training scheme will come along, but it doesn’t seem imminent.

Is there a chance that’s right around the time the code no longer fits into the LLMs input window of tokens? The basic technology doesn’t actually have a long term memory of any kind (at least outside of the training phase).