<![CDATA[LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost]]>LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/1ff6e352-55f3-49f8-8234-593f920e4dfe/llms-are-absolutely-stumbling-over-shit-wolframalpha-was-able-to-fifteen-years-ago-for-a-fraction-of-the-costRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 10:04:28 GMTMon, 04 May 2026 20:52:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:49:08 GMT]]>@unlofl @tholindeth qalc parses that as (32 gram·barns) / (5 tonne·barns)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/users/artemist/statuses/116519688525516062https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.mildlyfunctional.gay/users/artemist/statuses/116519688525516062Tue, 05 May 2026 02:49:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:29:08 GMT]]>@unlofl @tholindeth Heeee!

Is there an open source equivalent for Wolfram Alpha yet? Seems like the kind of fun shit critters would totally build for the hell of it, but I don't know if anyone has, 'cause it's also probably terribly complicated.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.brightfur.net/users/IceWolf/statuses/116519609888937749https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.brightfur.net/users/IceWolf/statuses/116519609888937749Tue, 05 May 2026 02:29:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:26:20 GMT]]>@unlofl @tholindeth big @weirdunits energy

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116519598861834870https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116519598861834870Tue, 05 May 2026 02:26:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:26:19 GMT]]>@tholindeth @gsuberland it turns out computer programs with a deliberately-constructed ontology are Good, Actually

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/SnoopJ/statuses/116519598814078472https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/SnoopJ/statuses/116519598814078472Tue, 05 May 2026 02:26:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Mon, 04 May 2026 23:12:49 GMT]]>@diogenes @tholindeth and no one gets sick or dies if the mtg cards are wrong

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mouse.photos/users/SapphicGiraffic/statuses/116518837909702948https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mouse.photos/users/SapphicGiraffic/statuses/116518837909702948Mon, 04 May 2026 23:12:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Mon, 04 May 2026 23:08:11 GMT]]>@tholindeth And when wolfram alpha made mistakes, they were fun, and still usually technically correct!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/unlofl/statuses/116518819682525930https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/unlofl/statuses/116518819682525930Mon, 04 May 2026 23:08:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Mon, 04 May 2026 21:06:00 GMT]]>i feel like i was innoculated against llm hype because in like 2015 i spent a few hours laughing my ass off at the half-successful attempts to generate MTG cards and the absolutely unsuccessful experiment where they tried to do the same thing with a database of recipes and i was like oh, it works for MTG because nothing in that game refers anything outside of the symbols being manipulated

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518339269385028https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518339269385028Mon, 04 May 2026 21:06:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Mon, 04 May 2026 20:58:46 GMT]]>when you've promised investors that in a matter of months no one is going to need anything but a hammer, everything looks like a nail

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518310827900991https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518310827900991Mon, 04 May 2026 20:58:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Mon, 04 May 2026 20:57:35 GMT]]>even building robust indices of the texts ingested by an LLM would be a better use of computational resources. recreating information from them probabalistically is just such a dumbfuck idea.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518306130183904https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518306130183904Mon, 04 May 2026 20:57:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to LLMs are absolutely stumbling over shit WolframAlpha was able to fifteen years ago for a fraction of the cost on Mon, 04 May 2026 20:54:41 GMT]]>who would win

running convex optimization on a few hundred million tokens of scraped text

vs

a bare minimum amount of programatic effort to analyze common query phrases and connect them to the relevant databases

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518294732728901https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wizzzard.online/users/tholindeth/statuses/116518294732728901Mon, 04 May 2026 20:54:41 GMT