Lmaydev
@Lmaydev@programming.dev
- Comment on Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google 4 months ago:
We did this for a friend’s birthday at uni. There were about 20 of us. Great night haha
I used to love texting these numbers when drunk.
- Comment on Questionable methods. 5 months ago:
I’ve seen them. Also up the road at Herculaneum the dock buildings are full of skeletons all huddled together.
It’s really haunting.
- Comment on Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway 5 months ago:
Only if you do it per mile. Not if you do it as gallons burned.
Also 0/1 isn’t infinity it’s undefined.
- Comment on Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway 5 months ago:
I doubt they leave the engines and even if they did leave them idling it’s better than flying
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
I didn’t say LLM. AI has existed since the 50s/60s. Fuzzy matching is an AI technique.
- Comment on Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway 5 months ago:
Grounding planes is probably one of the most effective ways a person can cut emissions.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
They do it much better than anything you can hard code currently.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
That is indeed a poor use. Searching traditionally first and falling back to it would make way more sense.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
Google’s algorithm has pretty much always used AI techniques.
It doesn’t have to be a synonym. That’s just an example.
Typing diabetes and getting medical services as a result wouldn’t be possible with that technique unless you had a database of every disease to search.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
No it’s not.
Fuzzy matching is a search technique that uses a set of fuzzy rules to compare two strings. The fuzzy rules allow for some degree of similarity, which makes the search process more efficient.
That allows for mis typing etc. it doesn’t allow context based searching at all.
Also it is an AI technique itself.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
Honestly I feel people are using them completely wrong.
Their real power is their ability to understand language and context.
Turning natural language input into commands that can be executed by a traditional software system is a huge deal.
Microsoft released an AI powered auto complete text box and it’s genius.
Currently you have to type an exact text match in an auto complete box. So if you type cats but the item is called pets you’ll get no results. Now the ai can find context based matches in the auto complete list.
This is their real power.
Also they’re amazing at generating non factual based things. Stories, poems etc.
- Comment on The discourse 6 months ago:
I’ve seen would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a random man somewhere in there.
- Comment on London protesters block transfer of asylum seekers to Bibby Stockholm 6 months ago:
This behaviour is intimidatory and aggressive.
They sat in front of a bus for Christ sake.
- Comment on Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased 6 months ago:
It says they also have to refund customers. So it’s 100k on top of what they made selling them.
Should still be higher imo. It’s a pretty dangerous thing to do during a pandemic.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 6 months ago:
Tbf they genuinely do.
They’ve invested heavily in Linux and one of its major contributors. I think they were in the top 5 of contributors.
They realised years ago the Linux desktop isn’t going to take off with the average user. So there’s no need to compete directly.
Azure actually runs on their own custom distribution of Linux.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 6 months ago:
I use 10 at home and 11 at work and I can’t say I’ve really noticed a difference tbh. Apart from the start menu I guess.
Feels similar to what people said about 7 and 10.
- Comment on Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system 6 months ago:
The state of the mental health system in the UK is absolutely disgusting.
If people could actually access help I’m certain less would be off work.
- Comment on When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend. 6 months ago:
This is where it all began en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron
- Comment on Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI 6 months ago:
That is by any definition AI.
- Comment on MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI 7 months ago:
Interesting.
- Comment on MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI 7 months ago:
Just FYI it’s not a LLM.
- Comment on Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination 7 months ago:
Yeah imagine movies or theatre shows costing money to see. Crazyness.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 7 months ago:
I know you do buddy.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 7 months ago:
That’s because it’s a language processor not a calculator. As I said you’re using it wrong.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 7 months ago:
It’s intended to show case its ability to generate text. How people use it is up to them.
As I said it’s great for learning as it’s very accurate when summarising articles / docs. It even sources it so you can read up more if needed.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 7 months ago:
Then you’re using it wrong.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 8 months ago:
There’s no need to mention their race right? Unless it was a racially motivated attack, which I don’t remember coming up.
- Comment on mycology 8 months ago:
That’s just a long way of saying the same thing. Not as catchy imo.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 8 months ago:
As a developer I use it mainly for learning.
What used to be a Google followed by skimming a few articles or docs pages is now a question.
It pulls the specific info I need, sources it and allows follow up questions.
As for code I don’t trust it beyond snippets I can use as a base.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Firstly the safety net it provides.
Then it all comes down to how much you are taxed back and the threshold. Most high earners wouldn’t notice it. And they would have had the payment until they started earning high.
You or your partner could stay at home with the children, your kids would get money, you can get sick without worrying about money, it helps everyone.
High earners already pay higher taxes.
If your argument against it is “what about selfish rich people” then I would say fuck em.