Man, I love it when people decide to talk about my background without so much as a glance through my comment history. Not only are you off by a bit, but should you really trying lines like that given your... Uh... Very high degree of involvement with the topic historically? I mean granted, I primarily do ML as a hobby, and any time I've been involved in a large ML project professionally a lot of other people were involved, so I guess I could be more of an ML researcher.

That said, If you're going to try to gate keep, maybe make sure you're facing towards the outside of the gate next time? Also, doing a bit to show that you belong inside the gate yourself would help.

Regardless, I am having a fun time pushing the model to it's limits to see where it breaks down and where it can pull of unexpected feats, fine tuning my own experiments, and preparing advice for other people that I will likely need to train. Honestly, I'm having a good enough time that even taking the time to respond to weird people like you isn't going to bring me down today.

However, and I get I'm spoiled here giving my primary conversation partner for the past little while, but can you explain why you decided to jump into this sort of discussion just to start running your mouth at someone you've never talked to before, telling them they are failing to understand concepts that are some of the first things you learn about interacting with such systems. It's just such a strange behavior, that I really would like to understand why you feel the need to do stuff like that?

Otherwise, thank you for your advice. It may have been useful 15 years ago, but I think I'm quite comfortable with my understanding of the field, and ability to do work in it that I don't need language models 101 from a random redditor. Thanks for the attempt though.