Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 days ago:
From a programming pov, a definition of AI could be an algorithm or construct that can solve problems or perform tasks without the programmer specifically solving that problem or programming the steps of the task but rather building something that can figure it out on its own.
Though a lot of game AIs don’t fit that description.
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 1 week ago:
If universes were merging, how would snopes know anything about it?
What if snopes is under the control of big universe and is trying to hide the smaller universes that get merged into it??
- Comment on lik lik lik 1 week ago:
All cats are finely tuned stealth killing machines (though some are lazy). House cats are just optimized for rodent-sized prey, though they are still capable of putting up a decent fight against larger things. Though I’m curious if cats evolved to trigger “cute” recognition or if primates evolved to find things that include cats cute.
- Comment on Have you noticed 1 week ago:
When did you first start noticing these?
- Comment on Me after Komi can't communicate 1 week ago:
I think Reji is cooking something worthwhile
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(like I think the MC being undatable is the point of the series because who can blame anyone for being hesitant to date someone who freaks out any time they look or speak with them or who constantly just tries to be what he thinks she wants rather than taking his own initiative?),
but he just drags it out so much. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking based on fan theories I’ve read on reddit, since some of them are pretty good and might end up better than what Reji has in mind. Like he’s deliberately dragging out the chapters, there’s no doubt about that, but it’s hard to say if that’s also the point of the plot or if he’s just stretching out a good idea as much as possible.
I actually caught up on the infamous chapter 380, waited one week for 381, then decided I’m not doing this every week and put it on hold on comick.io with the intent of coming back in a year or so maybe to catch up on what happens in the next week or so after 381 lol.
The artwork is top tier so at least it’s nice to look at, even if Kazuya’s monologues are frustrating af to watch. Just take a deep breath and chill out dude (directed at Kazu, not you lol).
- Comment on Me after Komi can't communicate 1 week ago:
Try Rent a Girlfriend. You’ll probably die of old age or war before that one ends.
- Comment on What's the #1 most butthurt response you've had on here? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is only better than reddit in that it was designed to work around the fact that humans can be shitty, even if they were previously not shitty, so a platform that can spread authority around rather than consolidate it in the hands of a few will offer alternative options even if an admin or team of admins becomes shitty.
It means that Lemmy has the potential to be more extreme in any direction as much as it has the potential to be less extreme in any direction. No one can dictate what all of Lemmy is but anyone can dictate what small pieces of it are.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s an organ. You’re thinking of a musical instrument that uses piano-like keys to control airflow through pipes.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 3 weeks ago:
They want something like the Star Trek computer or one of Tony Stark’s AIs that were basically deus ex machinas for solving some hard problem behind the scenes. Then it can say “model solved” or they can show a test simulation where the ship doesn’t explode (or sometimes a test where it only has an 85% chance of exploding when it used to be 100%, at which point human intuition comes in and saves the day by suddenly being better than the AI again and threads that 15% needle or maybe abducts the captain to go have lizard babies with).
AIs that are smarter than us but for some reason don’t replace or even really join us (Vision being an exception to the 2nd, and Ultron trying to be an exception to the 1st).
- Comment on OK so which is it? 3 weeks ago:
Crocodiles
Do not swim! Here - Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 3 weeks ago:
That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).
Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 will have a bigger map and a silent protagonist, say devs 3 weeks ago:
I can understand it for the Cyclops. I love it in the first game but it’s a massive ship that needs a lot of space to maneuver, especially if creatures bumping into it can move it in ways it doesn’t normally steer while you’re driving it. Designing a game for the cyclops to get to the end means there needs to be a large path all the way to the end, or multiple large paths if you want to avoid that main path being linear.
Though on the other hand, they could put the cyclops in the game as a red herring where anyone who builds one ends up leaving it near the surface because it turns out to be impractical. I think it would fit the style of the game where you’re exploring an unknown area. Some resources could prove to be less useful than hoped for.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 weeks ago:
The higher the level of the course I was taking, the less test markers cared about the actual final answer. If you used the correct equations, simplifying the final answer to a faction rather than a decimal or leaving constants like pi and e in there was good enough for full marks.
Generally more accurate, too, because you’re not rounding the number but leaving it as the true value because 1/3 != 0.333333. It’s better to do it this way if there’s multiple steps, too, since you can gather or cancel out like terms if you leave them as variables instead of converting and rounding to some decimal.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 weeks ago:
Personally, once I realized the gamification wasn’t actually helping me learn the language, engaged or not, I started resenting it more than anything. The app cared more about my streak than I did and when I decided to deliberately let mine end, it would use freezes and shit to keep it going despite missed days. And then nag me to buy more freezes which it would just give me as rewards for doing a single lesson that day.
After that, all the gamification shit was annoying because it meant I had to sit through like 5 screens of “rewards” I didn’t give a shit about after each lesson.
The thing that made me dislike the gamification was the p2w mechanics of the timed challenges. “Oh you ran out of time, but you can buy an extension!” How the fuck is buying an extension going to help learn a language?
And from there I realized that the multiple choice form of the questions meant my test taking skills were carrying me as much as or more than any language skills I was developing. There’s only so many legal sentences you can build from a limited set of words and if they usually have only one verb option, it’s not going to help learn the different verbs.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 4 weeks ago:
Mostly loadwords from dwarvish.
- Comment on 7th century: "I, master of the runes(?) conceal here runes of power. Incessantly (plagued by) maleficence,(doomed to) insidious death (is) he who breaks this (monument)." 4 weeks ago:
I thought it was a heavy metal song! But it didn’t play anything and just started asking for bitcoin. Obviously my audio drivers need to be updated, please fix them so I can listen to the song.
Proceeds to ignore advice to not run it again and starts downloading it before IT leaves room.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 4 weeks ago:
And to expand on what the other commenter said, considering the logical side of it, those seeds seem very optimized to ride air currents around the entire hemisphere, especially when there’s a storm that can get them very high up.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 4 weeks ago:
If it’s a topic that has been heavily discussed on the internet or in literature, LLMs can have good conversations about it. Take it all with a grain of salt because it will regurgitate common bad arguments as well as good ones, but if you challenge it, you can get it to argue against its own previous statements.
It doesn’t handle things that are in flux very well. Or things that require very specific consistency. It’s a probabilistic model where it looks at existing tokens and predicts what the next one is most likely to be, so questions about specific versions of something might result in a response specific to that version or it might end up weighing other tokens more than the version or maybe even start treating it all like pseudocode, where descriptive language plays a bigger role than what specifically exists.
- Comment on Rip willy boy 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but is any of it going to be good? None of those titles inspire much curiosity for me, let alone excitement.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 5 weeks ago:
Except how do people generally get money from taking pills? Hint: it’s not often because they are happy with the results.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 5 weeks ago:
In the contract: obligation to flail your arms and legs widely for maximum distraction.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 5 weeks ago:
Or with cosmic rays, not sure anything would be opaque.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 month ago:
I’m one of the lucky ones with an 8086 that clearly saw the downgrade to 186.
AMD only just recently passed that with their 9000 series CPUs and Intel has only had better ones for a bit longer.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 1 month ago:
I hope they aren’t the hackers known as 4chan!
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 1 month ago:
I’m just saying that’s how I interpreted that bit. They thought it was a false positive because of that. For all I know, the earlier ones might have also been real malware or maybe it was all made up.
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 1 month ago:
I think they meant they were using malware detection tools that would often flag it because of the Chinese language issue and just assumed that’s what was up when it flagged it this time.
Kinda like the boy who cried wolf, they ignored it when there really was a wolf.
- Comment on It's bad man 1 month ago:
If it makes you feel any better, the age you are right now is the youngest you’ll ever be.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 1 month ago:
Though even in that case, the people in the class where the material wasn’t taught properly get a pass without necessarily understanding that material. On the one hand, it’s not fair for them to be punished for the prof’s mistake, but on the other hand, it’s not necessarily a good thing to give them credit for something they don’t know. It could hurt the credibility of the degree itself, similarly to the ones where you’ll get the diploma as long as you pay the bills.
People who hire the free pass people see they lack the skills despite having the paper saying they have them and stop hiring people with those credentials. It’s the same reason why cheating is dealt with so harshly.
The skills and knowledge are the whole point, not getting high marks or everything being fair. That said, it would be a difficult situation to deal with because being fair should still be a part of the equation, I just disagree about it being the most important part.
Another scenario for changing the rubric would be if the people running the course realized that something they thought was important for determining competence was actually trivial. This one could also be complex to handle fairly.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 month ago:
I have a feeling a bunch of them are invented by people with hoarding tendencies that aren’t at the point where they hoard literal garbage but might be close to that point but trying to justify keeping some things that are garbage-adjacent.
Like I get reusing and repurposing, but not when the “hack” is just more work for a solution that isn’t any better than the easier one.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 month ago:
I have a queue: one loaf at the front gets stored on the counter, the next two loaves are in the fridge (generally replenished from the store, so most bread goes through my place unfrozen), then any others in the freezer.
I toast most bread I eat and find the difference between kept in fridge and not is unnoticeable.
I do similar with hot dog and hamburger buns, though they don’t have a counter space due to being used less frequently.
Haven’t had to throw out moldy bread nearly as much since I started doing that.