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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Hi Claude! What are all the items in the song,"12 Days of Christmas"?

Okay, here is a summary of the items in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" without reproducing the full lyrics:

On the first day of Christmas, the singer receives 1 partridge in a pear tree. On the second day, the singer receives 2 turtle doves and 1 partridge in a pear tree. On the third day, the singer receives 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves, and 1 partridge in a pear tree. And so on, with the number of gifts increasing each day, up to 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids a-milking, 7 swans a-swimming, 6 geese a-laying, 5 gold rings, 4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves, and 1 partridge in a pear tree.

The full list includes a partridge in a pear tree, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, gold rings, geese, swans, maids, ladies, lords, pipers, and drummers.

I need a list of all the items and the quantities for each item.

Okay, here is the full list of items and quantities from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas":

12 Drummers Drumming 11 Pipers Piping 10 Lords a-Leaping 9 Ladies Dancing 8 Maids a-Milking 7 Swans a-Swimming 6 Geese a-Laying 5 Gold Rings 4 Calling Birds 3 French Hens 2 Turtle Doves 1 Partridge in a Pear Tree

Claude nails it again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

This is entirely correct actually. Number of items on day n = (13 - n)*n

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago

That's right though. Each day you get an increasing number of an item plus all the items from the previous days again.

Enjoy your birds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

gotta account for inflation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Hells yeah.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I swear AI chat bots were better in 2023 than they have been in 2024. It feels like they really shit the bed this year. Maybe I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Tbh I feel like it’s when they attached them to the internet and over burdened them with system prompts.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When will the AI slop end?

Most of common information is usually wrong. When programmers gaslight themselves into using it, the code is almost always wrong. Artists are all pissed, because both Nvidia and "Open"AI trained their data on hundreds of terabytes of stolen data too.

The only ones still satisfied with this, are the top 0.01% billionaires, who continue selling these products to companies, who in turn buy this only because of peer pressure

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I say this as someone in big tech, AI is pushed because it's an easy lie to keep big companies viewed as innovating to shareholders. I say this knowing that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon have contributed significantly to AI research in the last few years alongside the obvious contributions of OpenAI - the goal isn't groundbreaking AI work, but to act as a smoke-screen to show that nothing else has been delivered.

Google has lost ground in advertising, and is losing customers on many of their services. Amazon is losing ground in cloud computing and in retail. Apple has stagnated with recent poor releases. Microsoft has made ground in cloud, but has struggled in advertising, Xbox, Office, and Windows. They use GenAI to keep their stock price high, otherwise they'd drop like a sack of shit because shareholders would say "what the fuck have you even done in the last half a decade?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, the companies have a reputation to protect, but it's also just a standard hype-cycle. If you pay attention to tech history these things always go in cycles like this.

Whether the tech is actually useful or not doesn't actually matter. What matters is whether you can convince investors to fork over the cash with a shiny presentation.

The tech industry has basically habituated to surviving on selling us bullshit through hype cycles. I think it's become dependent on them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

This makes so much sense.

I always thought, surely their higher ups must know this is utter garbage?

They do but it's just to scam investors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Absolutely. We got so much crap from the markets and customers because "it's 2024 and you still don't have AI in your product". So we threw in an integration to a local LLM to please them and keep them from leaving to our inferior-in-every-other-way-but-have-AI competitors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

^^^^^ 🛎️ 🛎️ 🛎️ This! Anything but forever-growth is a failure, and the hype train must roll forward… even if the tracks it’s riding on are bubble gum and wishes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Very well said

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seriously. I cannot wait for the hype about these stochastic parrots to die.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stochastic parrots is an excellent phrase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Google fired a co-inventor of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru

Following her departure, Google held a forum to discuss experiences with racism at the company, and employees reported to NBC News that half of it was spent discrediting Gebru, which they took as the company making an example of her for speaking out. The forum was followed up with a group psychotherapy session for Google's Black employees with a licensed therapist, which the employees said was dismissive

It's a real fucking laugh. It seems Google's go to response to discrimination is to hire psychs to calm it's employees. Real cyberpunk corpo shit. "Let's fix your thinking."

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So... did I miss the cooking time on this recipe? 350 for how long? And this recipe serves how many??? What is happening right now?!?!!???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was always taught 350 for 2 hrs but will occasionally do 400 for 1.5 hrs if I'm in a hurry. Also I usually leave out the drummers, they get stuck in my food processor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I usually give away the golden rings as gifts. But drummers feed a lot of guests.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Damn, and I thought the original gift-giver in the song was already being totally unreasonable.

Can you imagine all the droppings their true love would have to clean up from all those birds?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago

Another classic example of a technically correct answer missing nuance and context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Natalie Cole's version of this does this at the end.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6duQOU1agBhIZy09WXam0e

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