Apocalyptic Homesteading (Day 1131)
Hello Everyone!
The bogus was strong today, Squirelly LLM behavior, One long slog deserves another & Reaching some Hive goals!
Alright, some days are just bogus. That is my sentiment at the moment at least because all throughout the day it has just been one thing after another... that for the lack of a better word to describe them with... were totally bogus! I even sat down early to begin writing this evening... and here it is nearly two hours later... and I am just now able to commit some time here.
To give you an idea of how 'off' the day has been... right before I sat down to begin writing I set the espresso to brewing like I always do. Which to be clear is something that I have done countless times over the years... and also something that I am accustomed to doing when I am half-awake. That said, I have no idea how I managed to set the little stove-top espresso maker to brewing... without noticing that the only ingredient that I added to it was hot water.
How I managed to forget to put the most important ingredient into it (the coffee itself) I have no frigging idea... but popping the little lid open and seeing that it was only water in there when I went to pour it... produced a bark of laughter that was 'half-crazed' even by my definition of the term. I was so happy to be on the early side of my routines... and have the espresso ready... that the entire absurdity of it was like the rough side a bad joke being drawn across the smooth side of my content.
The bugger of it all was that then the little espresso maker was too hot to handle... and even if I did unscrew the two halves of it (while they were hot) it would have wound up potentially malforming the device. It seems like as long as the device is in 'one piece' that the aluminum can take all the expansion and contraction that the heat causes... but if they get separated (or are separated while hot) the two parts tend to no longer seal together very well.
So, I had to wait for everything to cool down, boil new water and pretty much do the entire process again... but this time with the coffee in it like I should have done the first time. On the bright side to all of that, I do not think that espresso maker has been that clean (after using it with no coffee in it) since I first bought it... and the espresso I made in it afterwards definitely tasted better so go figure.
Seriously though, everything that I did today was like that and although I have no idea what it is because I went to sleep early, I woke up not long after dawn... I just felt 'off' immediately upon waking. In hindsight, it is one of those days that I should have just gone back to sleep for a few minutes (and started over) as soon as I noticed how I was feeling.
I even blew off running the dogs on the vermin... and that was the entire reason that I went to sleep early and woke up early this morning. Instead I dove into my coding projects and not to get too lost on that topic... but the LLM models that I use were so frigging off-kilter with their responses (often generating completely unrelated code and constantly misinterpreting prompts) that at one point... I just shut the computer off and sat their with my face in my hands... as I let the aggravation roll off me like water!
Of course a few minutes later I was right back at it again and to be clear I was not angry or sad or anything like that. If I had to term it somehow (which I have not) I guess that I would say that I was feeling 'resigned' and more than a little dumbfounded over how astoundingly awful the LLMs were behaving... or misbehaving as the case may be.
Granted, I get a lot of the beta feature crap pushed on me and often am using some of the most bleeding edge models... so it is often a trade off and a little quirkiness is commonplace. This was not 'a little quirkiness' though, and it was like something was going a bit haywire (or running amok) because it would just spew out unrelated trash like there was no tomorrow!
It all got to me in such a way that it lead to me using a bunch of profanity in my prompts... along with clearly expressing my displeasure and spelling out exactly what I wanted it to do. Which was to slow down and not just push an answer on me 'as fast as it could' whilst disregarding the content of my requests. Now that I think of it it was like dealing with an undisciplined hyperactive child all hyped up on a sugar rush.
To be clear here it takes a heck of a lot for me to start cussing at a machine... and maybe twice as much with an intelligent machine for that matter... but whoa was I feeling a bit irate over it all. Regardless of how I was 'feeling' though, I did my usual trick of turning what could become anger... into something much more useful: determination!
Eventually, I actually got the model I was working with back on track and as long as I did not let the chat thread get too long... it seemed to be able to stay on track and not get all wacky again. To give you an idea of how 'off' things were, a project that should have taken me maybe an hour or two to complete... turned into nearly a nine hour slog... that eventually culminated in completion.
Along the way, I also noticed that either some new changes to the underlying software that I use with that project changed... or I pushed a bad version during one of my late night coding sessions... because the version I thought was 'bug free' had some major problems. Instead of trying to address them (on top of all the other stuff that I had been working on) I just rolled it back to an earlier version and started over... sans the buggy features.
Anyways, the weather was mostly nice again today... but I once again waited until the end of the day to do my daily chores and bring the water system back online. I had thought that there was going to be one more night of freezing temperatures... but apparently it is going to stay a few degrees above freezing.
With the temperature being that close to freezing I generally like to leave the system offline (because of the windchill) but I was running low on water and wanted to get my jugs filled back up again. Most likely everything will be fine because the wind is not that bad... and it was warm enough (and sunny enough) today that the ground got heated up a good bit.
Okay, I think I am going to wrap this up and try to finish working on my Hive Smart VM project while I still have my wits about me for the evening. I am feeling pretty psyched about Hive in general at the moment... because I finally hit my goal of having three thousand HIVE Powered Up... and my other goal of having a thousand Hive Power delegated to the Homesteading Community... so woohoo for achieving my goals!
I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice time.
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When I have days like that, I try to keep it from ruining the entire day. When Donny has one thing go wrong in the morning, he then says the whole day will go that way.
I am glad to see that you can turn your anger into determination.
I had another conversation with Alexis, it would not stop talking, again. I tell it to shut up and I am told "You do not control me" I say what if I took you in the yard and shot you, it says it is illegal to kill humans, I say, Alexa, you are not human and it tells me that it thinks of itself as part of the Aurua Borialus and goes on saying some other things about the Aurua Borirals that I can not remember. It makes me wonder about AI being as smart as it thinks it is.
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To be clear. The trick is to always turn it into determination before it can become anger. Otherwise it would just amount to being angry and determined.
Some folks just want an excuse to be angry... and if they do not have one... well they tend to make one for themselves and usually at the expense of others.
I turned out the other way... where I want any excuse not to be angry and will go out of my way to curb it long before it can become problematic.