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  • Wow… nice!
    Indeed, that reminds me of what I’ve learned of Indian cooking, a little bit. For example, I understand that sauteing seeds like cumin and coriander (getting back to cilantro, hah) in “ghee” (clarified butter) is a great / classic way to get the essential flavors of the seeds / ingredients in to the oil component, which can later be transferred towards something else that’s freshly cooked, like dal (lentils) or pollo.



  • And unless I’m quite mistaken, any specific correction one might possibly contribute to the LLM project in question (i.e. software hallucination), is generally-speaking, roundly & enthusiastically embraced and even celebrated by the LLM, then immediately and completely ignored.

    I.e., they’re not programmed to listen to our feedback in a meaningful, educational way, only to keep munching on the databases their doggie-daddies have sicced them upon.

    EDIT: that cynicism / critique aside, ChatGPT in particular has been hugely useful in my language-learning, and there’s no question to me that it’s improved a lot, just across the last few months. FWIW



  • Pardon the late reply, and wow, sounds interesting. As well as hugely practical. oO
    Thanks for the extensive reply!

    I wish I could say I understood this ‘bot’ stuff better. For example, it seems some instances allow the creation and auto-administration of bot accounts, but I don’t think mine does (lemm.ee). It sounds like for other instances, though, that’s something of a feature.

    To be clear-- the goal for my community would be to have a scheduled bot drip daily or semi-daily content, freeing me up to work on longer-form pieces.

    There was in fact a 3rd-party tool that worked exactly that way for a while, but it seems it eventually broke due to a key update by the Lemmy software.


  • I can totally understand that, especially when it comes to the early run. Congo and Blue Lotus, for example. One can also argue the later Indian, Latino, Native S. American, Slavic, and Arabic figures, and possibly more.

    Not saying I totally agree, but I can see an argument there.

    I –would– say in Hergé’s defense (and perhaps not unlike yourself) that he evolved over time from someone only familiar with the broad strokes and caricatures of other cultures, to someone who increasingly learned about them, and made a genuine effort to capture their spirit and subtleties. IIRC a couple of the biographies dig right in to this stuff, and even represent a point of pain and self-disappointment that G. Remi experienced.

    It’s also kind of strange, no? I mean, take Goscinny, or any number of classic BD writers, and you’ll find stereotypes and arguably racist caricatures all the hell over the place, and yet somehow (perhaps because of how hard Hergé tried to inject realism in to his work) we find the creator of Tintin more guilty in these matters, not to mention having to work under a cloud of being a NAZI collaborator for quite a few years…