Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

• pirat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I want a free cookie emoji!

  I didn’t ask an LLM, no, I asked Wikipedia:

  The mean month-length in the Gregorian calendar is 30.436875 days.

  So,

  1041 ÷ 30.436875 ≈ 34 months and…

  0.2019343313 × 30.436875 ≈ 6 days and…

  0.146249999987 × 24 ≈ 3 hours and…

  0.509999999688 × 60 ≈ 30 minutes and…

  0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 35 seconds and…

  0.9999988768 × 1000 ≈ 999 milliseconds and

  0.9999988768 × 1000000 ≈ 999999 nanoseconds

  34m 6d 3h 30m 35s 999ms 999999 ns

  Or we could just say 36s…

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    🍪

    You got as far as nanoseconds so here’s a cupcake for extra credit too 🧁

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    • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you, you really didn’t have to. That cupcake is truly the icing and it’s almost too much! I’ll give you this giant egg of unknown origin: 🥚 in return, as long as you promise to use it for baking and making some more of those cupcakes for whoever else needs or deserves one within the next few days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and 999999 bananoseconds 🍌

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• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rough estimate using 30 days as average month would be ~35 months (1050 = 35×30). The average month is a tad longer than 30 days, but I don’t know exactly how much. Without a calculator, I’d guess the total result is closer to 34.5. Just using my own brain, this is as far as I get.

  Now, adding a calculator to my toolset, the average month is 365.2425 d / 12 m = 30.4377 d/m. The total result comes out to about 34.2, so I overestimated a little.

  Also, the total time is 1041.66… which would be more correctly rounded to 1042, but has negligible impact on the redult.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    🍪

    Pirate gave me an egg, so I baked a cake emoji as well. Have a slice for getting it so close without even using a calculator 🍰

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hope your weekend is as awesome as you are

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• olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I swear the companies hard code solutions for weird edge cases so their investors are followed into believing that their LLMs are getting smarter.

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• pirat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You forgot doing the years, which is a bit trickier if we take into account the leap years.

  According to the Gregorian calendar, every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s divisible by 100 – except those divisible by 400 which are leap years anyway. Hence, the average length of one year (over 400 years) must be:

  365 + 1⁄4 − 1⁄100 + 1⁄400 = 365.2425 days

  So,

  1041 / 365.2425 ≈ 2.85 years

  Or 2 years and…

  0.850161194275 × 365.2425 ≈ 310 days and…

  0.514999999987 × 24 ≈ 12 hours and…

  0.359999999688 × 60 ≈ 21 minutes and…

  0.59999998128 × 60 ≈ 36 seconds

  1041 days is just about 2y 310d 12h 21m 36s

  Wtf, how did we go from 1041 whole days to fractions of a day? Damn leap years!

  Had we not been accounting for them, we would have had 2 years and…

  0.852054794521 × 365 = 311.000000000165 days

  Or simply 2y 311d if we just ignore that tiny rounding error or use fewer decimals.

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  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Engineers be like…

    1041/365 =2,852

    .852*365=310.980

    Thus 2 y 311 d. Or really, fuck it 3 y

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    • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or really, fuck it 3 y

      Seems about right! But really, it often seems pretty useful to me, since it removes a lot of unnecessary information thoughout a content feed or thread, though I usually still want to be able to see the exact date and time when tapping or hovering over the value for further context.

      The lemmy app on my phone does basic calculator functions.

      Which client and how?

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