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csmantle | 28 days ago

Methodology is one thing; I can't really agree that deploying an LLM to do sums is great. Almost as hilarious as asking "What's moon plus sun?"

But phenomenon is another thing. Apple's numerical APIs are producing inconsistent results on a minority of devices. This is something worth Apple's attention.

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JimboOmega|28 days ago

(This is a total digression, so apologies)

My mind instantly answered that with "bright", which is what you get when you combine the sun and moon radicals to make 明(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E)

Anyway, that question is not without reasonable answers. "Full Moon" might make sense too. No obvious deterministic answer, though, naturally.

awesome_dude|28 days ago

FTR the Full Moon was exactly 5 hours ago (It's not without humour that this conversation occurs on the day of the full moon :)

cgriswald|27 days ago

In the game Clair Obscur sun plus moon equals twilight.

CrispinS|28 days ago

> What's moon plus sun?

Eclipse, obviously.

christophilus|28 days ago

That’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.

geuis|28 days ago

Not obvious. Astronomers are actively looking for signatures of exomoons around exoplanets. So "sun plus moon" could mean that too.

jraph|28 days ago

Moon plus sun would be sun because the sun would be an absorbing element.

nkrisc|27 days ago

The set of celestial objects visible to the naked eye during the day.

IsTom|28 days ago

INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

idk1|28 days ago

As an aside, one of my very nice family members like tarot card reading, and I think you'd get an extremely different answer for - "What's moon plus sun?" - something like I would guess as they're opposites - "Mixed signals or insecurity get resolved by openness and real communication." - It's kind of fascinating, the range of answers to that question. As a couple of other people have mentioned, it could mean loads of things. I thought I'd add one in there.

I'll just add that if you think this advice applies to you, it's the - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

nonoesp|28 days ago

> What's moon plus sun?

"Monsoon," says ChatGPT.

embedding-shape|27 days ago

"moonsun" says JavaScript, 1-0 to JS I'd say.

layer8|27 days ago

> Almost as hilarious as asking "What's moon plus sun?"

It’s a reasonable Tarot question.

TimByte|27 days ago

The scary part isn't "LLMs doing sums." It's that the same deterministic model, same weights, same prompt, same OS, produces different floating-point tensors on different devices