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Saturday was my birthday! And then I early-voted on Monday. Got myself a slice of cake from the Fancy Store to celebrate either/both.
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My family has watched through most of the MCU stuff over the past few years. Pretty sure my brother and I have both seen all of it, but the parents don't have as much deep fannish motivation -- Mom just likes to have seen/heard/read whatever big mainstream thing people are talking about (in general, not just nerd-culture stuff), while Dad likes specific characters (his favorite is Groot) and is happy to sleep through the rest.
They've taken their kids' advice on what to skip. Didn't watch either season of Loki, because "smug trickster villain who keeps appearing to die but somehow coming back" is Dad's least favorite character type. Didn't watch Secret Invasion, because, well, it's not good. Didn't watch the Deadpool movies, because gratuitous-sex-and-violence humor doesn't do it for either of them.
...but I guess the hype around Deadpool & Wolverine finally wore Mom down, because she went from "yeah, I probably won't like it" to "you're sure I wouldn't like them?" to "maybe I'll just get the first one from the library, and if I don't like it then I don't have to watch the rest."
(Her: "what's it rated R for? Violence, swearing, sex...?" Me + brother: "Yes.")
So I guess we'll see how that goes!
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In other family stuff, Dad has been dazzled by the AI hype train for a while, in the sense of "I haven't used it myself, but the demos I've seen sure are impressive." (A couple years ago he thought I should try selling my art as NFTs, so there's a pattern developing, here.)
At some point I made a conscious effort to stop trying to convince him about all the problems, and to just say "I'm not arguing with you about this until you've tried it to make it work for yourself."
...anyway, the other week he asked if I had heard about this technical thing with LLMs called "hallucinations."
Progress!
(Don't think I've used the exact word "hallucinations" -- I don't like it for LLMs, IMO it's misleading about how they work -- but whoo boy, don't even ask how many times, in how many contexts, I've explained "they make up random nonsense.")
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My family has watched through most of the MCU stuff over the past few years. Pretty sure my brother and I have both seen all of it, but the parents don't have as much deep fannish motivation -- Mom just likes to have seen/heard/read whatever big mainstream thing people are talking about (in general, not just nerd-culture stuff), while Dad likes specific characters (his favorite is Groot) and is happy to sleep through the rest.
They've taken their kids' advice on what to skip. Didn't watch either season of Loki, because "smug trickster villain who keeps appearing to die but somehow coming back" is Dad's least favorite character type. Didn't watch Secret Invasion, because, well, it's not good. Didn't watch the Deadpool movies, because gratuitous-sex-and-violence humor doesn't do it for either of them.
...but I guess the hype around Deadpool & Wolverine finally wore Mom down, because she went from "yeah, I probably won't like it" to "you're sure I wouldn't like them?" to "maybe I'll just get the first one from the library, and if I don't like it then I don't have to watch the rest."
(Her: "what's it rated R for? Violence, swearing, sex...?" Me + brother: "Yes.")
So I guess we'll see how that goes!
--
In other family stuff, Dad has been dazzled by the AI hype train for a while, in the sense of "I haven't used it myself, but the demos I've seen sure are impressive." (A couple years ago he thought I should try selling my art as NFTs, so there's a pattern developing, here.)
At some point I made a conscious effort to stop trying to convince him about all the problems, and to just say "I'm not arguing with you about this until you've tried it to make it work for yourself."
...anyway, the other week he asked if I had heard about this technical thing with LLMs called "hallucinations."
Progress!
(Don't think I've used the exact word "hallucinations" -- I don't like it for LLMs, IMO it's misleading about how they work -- but whoo boy, don't even ask how many times, in how many contexts, I've explained "they make up random nonsense.")
