Collection of Lame Jokes

[jtbell]

I tried to climb up a tall tower in Paris, but Eiffel off.

That’s why my wife and I did the tour Montparnasse instead, when we were in Paris 30 years ago. We could stay safely inside. It also gives a good view of that other tower.

 

[berkeman]

My kids...

 

[jtbell]

"I hear old Macdonald's farm has been taken over by artificial intelligence."

"AI?"

"AI."

"Oh."

 

[DrClaude]

Al Obama
Al Asker
Harry Zoner
R. Ken Saw
Della Wear
Florrie Da
Georgia
Ida Ho
I. O'Wa
Ken Tucky
Louis Z. Ana
Mary Land
Mich Egan
Minnie Soter
Mrs. Hippy
Nev Ada
O. Hio
O. Clahomer
Penn Silvania
U. Ta
Virginia
Y. O'Ming

Cal E. Fornia

 

[dextercioby]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[topsquark]

Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don't have toetips, yet you can tiptoe but not tipfinger.

Have you actually tried to tipfinger?

-Dan

 

[nsaspook]

 

[jtbell]

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If that sign is on highway I-26 near Hendersonville NC, I drove past it this afternoon on my way home from a weekend trip.

And yes, there is a bat cave near Bat Cave NC. It's in a preserve, not open to the public, in order to protect the bats that live there. At least, that's the official story...

 

[Borg]

From SNL last weekend - A woman’s age is like a speed limit: ignore it unless you are in a school zone.

If only more people drove the way that they lie about their age.

 

[WWGD]

If that sign is on highway I-26 near Hendersonville NC, I drove past it this afternoon on my way home from a weekend trip.

And yes, there is a bat cave near Bat Cave NC. It's in a preserve, not open to the public, in order to protect the bats that live there. At least, that's the official story...

Do they have both aluminum and wood? A friend of mine had sn old one signed by Ted Williams, I think.

 

[berkeman]

 

[Orodruin]

 

[nsaspook]

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

Brisket smoker.
Beer cooler.
Electric space heater.

Hey Google, where's my $5m?

 

[jtbell]

And yes, there is a bat cave near Bat Cave NC.

There's even a Batmobile:

 

[phinds]

 

[phinds]

Walmart had to recall 50,000 wax paper milk containers from their stores so they could change the notice near the top from "open here" to "open at home".

 

[Borg]

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I filed mine electronically so I had to settle for sending them a data dump.

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[nsaspook]

Spoiler

https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-engineering-is-dead
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead
Long live AI prompt engineering

“It’s very easy to make a prototype,” Henley says. “It’s very hard to production-ize it.” Prompt engineering seems like a big piece of the puzzle when you’re building a prototype, Henley says, but many other considerations come into play when you’re making a commercial-grade product.

Challenges of making a commercial product include ensuring reliability—for example, failing gracefully when the model goes offline; adapting the model’s output to the appropriate format, since many use cases require outputs other than text; testing to make sure the AI assistant won’t do something harmful in even a small number of cases; and ensuring safety, privacy, and compliance. Testing and compliance are particularly difficult, Henley says, as traditional software-development testing strategies are maladapted for nondeterministic LLMs.

To fulfill these myriad tasks, many large companies are heralding a new job title: Large Language Model Operations, or LLMOps, which includes prompt engineering in its life cycle but also entails all the other tasks needed to deploy the product. Henley says LLMOps’ predecessors, machine learning operations (MLOps) engineers, are best positioned to take on these jobs.

 

[jtbell]

How did the shepherd feel after his flock ran away from him?

Sheepish.

 

[phinds]

How did the shepherd feel after his flock ran away from him?

Sheepish.

Shouldn't that be sheepless ?

 

[Borg]

In Seattle?

 

[jack action]

How did the shepherd feel after his flock ran away from him?

Sheepish.

Shouldn't that be sheepless ?

In Seattle?

I almost reacted to these jokes but ... bah!

 

[jtbell]

I'd prefer to be sheepless in Seattle. Wet wool, yuck.

 

[WWGD]