The DEI and CRT comments are especially telling. This is a person who allowed herself to believe comforting lies - to accept as fact that a societal scapegoat is the source of her woes. ESPECIALLY the comment about critical race theory, which as I understand was never taught in anything below college courses.
The only thing that changes is the data that is passed to the LLM, which for each iteration includes the last token that the LLM itself generated. So yes, sort of. The LLM itself doesn’t change state; just the data that is fed into it.
It’s also non-deterministic insofar as similar inputs will not necessarily give similar outputs. The only way to actually predict its output is to use the exact same input - and then you only get identical token probability lists on the other end. Every LLM chatbot, by default, will then make a random selection based on those probabilities. It can be set to always pick the most probable token, but this can cause problems.
It also has the benefit of being able to show metrics and diagnostics right there without having to connect it to another device.
…The Planck constant is a set distance. It’s being used here to define other things as a constant. The very article on the kilogram states outright that SI units’ foundation is three constants: “a specific transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, the speed of light, and the Planck constant.”
Vacuum permeability is how much electric currents affect magnetic fields in a vacuum. As in, when there are no other interferences. It is not variable. The speed of light when there is no interference is not ‘affected by’ vacuum permability any more than a cartesian graph is ‘affected by’ the set of real numbers. Vacuum permeability describes vacuum, it doesn’t define it. Same goes for permittivity.
You ARE correct about the kilogram no longer being a number of specific atoms, though.
The two constants - the speed at which light moves, and the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of cesium - can be combined to define every measurement of time, length, and velocity. They are the constants by which everything else is defined.
Throw in mass, which is easy - a certain number of atoms of a specific element will also have a universally constant mass. Combine it with the other two constants and you have force, energy, and work, and voila, you can describe nearly everything in classic physics.
If you’re running it in a prebuilt container, as long as it works it shouldn’t matter and you don’t need to care.
Of course, when your database gets corrupted after Nextcloud updates because you had an app running that isn’t supported in the new version, it will suddenly matter a lot.
Except don’t actually do that, because posting a picture of your ballot invalidates it.