Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fictional 1 day ago:
Technically a second is an arbitrary measure of a proprty cesium133. Now, anyways
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 days ago:
Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:
String.replace(“þ”,“th”)
It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.
How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.
Specifically regarding communication:
Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.
I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.
For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.
So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.
Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.
That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.
Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 4 days ago:
Oh for sure Thief 2. Used to scribble down guard routes/timings on areas I’d have to traverse multiple times.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 4 days ago:
Underrated mechanic was the map.
Just a scrawled paper that you could write your own notes on.
Oh, also rope arrows. Fantastic level design to make them compelling but sane.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 5 days ago:
At one point it was possible to download every reddit comment ever. I think it was around 10 years ago I had a copy of that. I can’t remember if it was from reddit directly or from some third party with scrapers. I recall the dataset being free… but it might have been free for me because I had an academic justification? Really don’t recall.
Anyways, point being that you’re delusional if you think anything you post online ever goes away. Secondly, you can be much less than palentir and have “deleted reddit account comments”. Anyone can get them.
- Comment on We always take for granted that everyone's perspective on life is the same as ours 6 days ago:
r/nothingeverhappens
- Comment on yo: sup? 6 days ago:
And don’t call me Shirley.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 weeks ago:
Oh wowza, good on you for sharing that! Super interesting and I feel a bunch of what you said right to the bottom of my soul.
I really appreciate the share as well because it’s PRETTY rare to get to talk to someone with an inkling of such a bizarre life event, how it changes you, and how you grapple with (and hopefully conclude in some way on) uncomfortable questions about the nature of life and identity.
I’d always felt comfortable with where I landed on this… but I’m finding myself surprised by the relief that someone else resolved these questions in the same way I have. I didn’t think I needed… I dunno, validation? Validation that my conclusions were reasonable? Maybe I just never thought I’d get the opportunity to exchange with someone who I trusted actually understood. Not sure, either way, I feel validated and I never thought there would be a mechanism for me to feel that about this topic, and it’s a welcome surprise and I appreciate it, so thank you.
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 2 weeks ago:
Keeping anything at any temperature different than whatever it’s interacting with takes energy. Hot or cold.
- Comment on I Quit 2 weeks ago:
I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 weeks ago:
I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.
Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.
Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”
Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?
Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.
- Comment on minor inconvenience 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if it was Microsoft or my org but I was asked several times to stop using “bummer burt” in all my comms
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 weeks ago:
A crazy number of devs weren’t even using EXISTING code assistant tooling.
Enterprise grade IDEs already had tons of tooling to generate classes and perform refactoring in a sane and algorithmic way. In a way that was deterministic.
So many use cases people have tried to sell me on (boilerplate handling) and im like “you have that now and don’t even use it!”.
I think there is probably a way to use llms to try and extract intention and then call real dependable tools to actually perform the actions. This cult of purity where the llm must actually be generating the tokens themselves… why?
I’m all for coding tools. I love them. They have to actually work though. Paradigm is completely wrong right now. I don’t need it to “appear” good, i need it to BE good.
- Comment on What Are Ya'll Playing? 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure if you played mp2 in an empty sealed room for 14 hours straight you’d somehow come out reeking of whisky and cigarettes.
- Comment on I asked ChatGPT to summarize Voyager and this is what it made 4 weeks ago:
No like a multipanel shitpost using a meme template skewering the general plot of star trek voyager where the humor is based on a reductive interpretation of the general premise
I just burned down like the Amazon to get the most worthless posts ever.
I’m sure if I hand fed it what I wanted, it could have generated ops image… but im pretty skeptical it produced that image without a relatively detailed prompt
- Comment on I asked ChatGPT to summarize Voyager and this is what it made 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking more like a shitpost.
- Comment on I asked ChatGPT to summarize Voyager and this is what it made 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What Are Ya'll Playing? 4 weeks ago:
3 was great on it’s own merits as a game, but the noise elements were ratched way down compared to the first and second.
Max Payne 2 was… I dunno… damn well perfect for what it was supposed to be in the era it was developed with the technology of the time.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 4 weeks ago:
Strongly agree.
And honestly… as much as possible build your network IRL. Neighbors, co-workers (yes, don’t let capitalism convince you you must drop your humanity), etc.
Truth is, you probably won’t have perfect alignment with them… but they’re real. They and you are flawed, but real.
Online communities have thier place… but they’re not at all a replacement. It’s so easy to gravitate to people who think exactly like you online, but it dulls your ability to operate IRL.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
Statistical distributions suck, especially when we want a clear-cut cause-and-effect silver bullet. My only sister has two autistic sons, and my wife and I were 7 years older than she was when we had our son and he isn’t autistic (as far as we can tell thus far).
As a brother and uncle, I have incredible empathy for the desire and frustration to just get a clear answer on this. It’s not like lead or asbestos or thaledimide or radiation.
Best we’ve got is a confluence of factors, not the least being family history knowing full well how bad diagnosis has been historically.
It’s so incredibly predatory to dump the science in the trash and just say “it was Tylenol all along”.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
It’s probably more than just better diagnosis.
“Advanced Parental Age” has a significant body of work behind it, and people are having kids quite a bit older than they used to, because… you know… gestures broadly at how fucked up the world is
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I did a wyze cam 3 yesterday too lol.
So far so good!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
If this does what it says it’ll do, this is ABSOLUTELY the answer
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 5 weeks ago:
If you’re going to do a “courtroom” TNG episode, no way it’s Devils Due… The Drumhead all day long.
- Comment on His message touched me. I feel no empathy 1 month ago:
Empathy doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your position. It just means you can RP as someone well enough to come away with an understanding from that person’s perspective.
You can be empathetic and once the exercise is over, still not budge in terms of your original assessment.
Empathy is dangerous to fascists. Everything they’re doing unravels if a population is good at it. It’s why they hate it so much. Don’t toss them a free W.
- Comment on slam dunkle 1 month ago:
Why’s James cryin’?
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 1 month ago:
I think your notion of charitable apathy probably only comes across as condescending if in your explanation you make it sound like you’ve never been (or would never be) in a position to receive that treatment from others.
I feel like a few words tossed in to clarify that would probably help people avoid a gut reaction about your ideas.
People might also be getting hung up on the idea of treating someone like a child. I had my kids a little later in life, and I treat my toddlers like adults. What do I do when an adult is crying? I sit with them and comfort them. What do I do if I see an adult about to step in dog shit? Yell to them to tell them a warning to watch their feet. What do I do if an adult tells me they’re hungry? I help them get food. What do I do if adult tells me they want to play with hot wheels with me? I say yes.
Maybe I fundamentally don’t understand how others conceptualize treating a child. I think that term is super loaded. Like the word “savory”. You can ask 10 people what the phrase/word means and you’ll get 10 confident and incompatible answers.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 1 month ago:
I did that once, and it was really jarring for people to see.
People have gotten completely desensitized to names like “ForceU2swllow” or “xXx_daRk_pRo_MLG_xXx”. A regular name, your actual name IS the most unhinged shit.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 1 month ago:
James
- Comment on Metal 1 month ago:
Metal
