Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh nice, infinite pixel version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the PPE is for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks pretty much right to me. Though hydrogen is sitting on top of fluorine for some reason and there appears to be a box in hydrogen’s normal spot, but maybe it’s to emphasize the chemical similarities between hydrogen and that column as well as the column it’s usually shown in. The numbers are hard to read and I didn’t look anything up to verify, but they look correct from what I can see, if a bit less clear than most for how the actinium and lanthanum series fit in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy chart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Friction heat from tidal forces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy chart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is lots of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because it was pretty much the Netflix of video games. Pay a subscription and you get access to a collection of games.

  When it was 5.99 it was a no brainer. I think I cancelled mine around 13.99, though not because of the price but because I always forgot it existed and it tied me to windows. Switched to Linux and cancelling was a part of that transition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy chart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The moon is slowly migrating away from the earth into higher orbits (due to the earth spinning faster than the Moon’s orbit), eventually it could escape with a gravity assist from Mars or Venus. It’ll have tidal consequences for Earth, but not like catastrophic (though I suspect it might allow the earth’s core to cool a bit faster, which could be the beginning of the end of life on earth).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it were the case, how would one prove it or even show evidence for it? And similar question for if it isn’t the case, how would you disprove or show evidence against it? I’m not even sure how one would prove that cats have a concept of species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the reasons I won’t consider traveling to the US because I think how any of those work out is going to depend on the luck of how others involved are feeling in that moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nostalgia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the “AI slop” commenters as annoying as the “that didn’t happen/everyone clapped/albert einstein handed you a $100 bill” ones. Their contribution is shittier than what they are commenting on even when they are correct, but it’s not rare to see a comment like that followed by the dumbest logic as to why they think that’s the case (especially on reddit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Things get more violent. Wind tries to find the path of least resistance, though as a fluid, so it’s taking all paths in proportion to how much resistance it has (just like electricity). If you increase the absolute resistance in one area, it reduces the relative resistance everywhere else, so you end up with increased airflow everywhere else and a reduction where you added resistance. Which means more wind outside of the turbine’s path (because it’s going to equalize that pressure differential one way or another). More flow through the same volume means higher speeds and forces (think like turning up the pressure on a tap).

  But wind turbines don’t have a constant effect on wind resistance; it depends on how fast it’s spinning or how fast the wind is moving. When the wind slows, the resistance goes down, and when resistance goes down, wind speed increases. So you end up with an oscillating effect where the wind goes through cycles of strengthening, losing more energy to the turbines and weakening, which means the turbines take less energy, and the winds strengthen again. Though you’d need to be taking a significant amount of that energy to see an extreme effect like this.

  Apparently taking more than 53.9% of the total wind energy in an area is enough to slow the wind to a stop (again, a violent, turbulent, oscillating stop, not a gentle end of wind).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing, I don’t think you’re giving LLMs poisoned data, you’re just giving them data. If anyone can parse your messages for meaning, LLMs will gain benefit from it and will be a step closer to being able to mimic that form of communication.

  I don’t think you can truly poison data for LLMs while also having a useful conversation. Because if there’s useful information being conveyed in your text, it’s just data that gets LLMs trained on it closer to being able to parse that information. I think only nonsense communication will be effective in actually making the LLMs worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you be sued for defaming virtual K-pop stars? South Korea court says yes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo is Japanese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s GPT 5-mini:

  What is going on with the following text, I can’t understand it!
  <pasted the comment above>

  Output:
  This text uses archaic letter forms (þ = thorn, representing “th”) and some nonstandard spellings; read with modern equivalents and cleaned punctuation:

  “Yeah, the mechanics are entirely different. The spider is providing structural support, is extruding filament not under tension, then provides tension while attaching the filament so the result is under tension when connected. Then the support structure (El Spidré) moves to the next extrusion point. It’s not simply squirting a web into place; there’s a lot of manipulation of the extruded material and connection points going on all at once.”

  Summary of the meaning, briefly:

  • The spider first creates a filament without stretching it.
  • While attaching that filament it applies tension so the final strand is taut.
  • The support structure (nicknamed “El Spidré”) shifts to the next spot to repeat the process.
  • The process involves active handling and tensioning, not just passively releasing silk.

  A 1:1 text replacement is something LLMs are very good at handling and a waste of time and effort to target with an attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering LLMs handle translation, synonyms, and homonyms pretty well, I don’t think replacing a letter combination with a different symbol is going to cause much confusion. I bet chatGPT right now will understand that text perfectly fine and will present it with or without the dumb symbols when asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TPM is more about securing data from PC owners rather than for them. Since it’s there anyways, it is used to support bitlocker, but the reason they are pushing it so much is because it might (depending on whether it actually is secure) be able to allow content providers to allow users to view their content without needing to give them access to copy or edit it.

  And there isn’t any guarantee that the uses that do benefit the user’s security don’t have some backdoor for approved crackers to get in. Like doesn’t the MS account store a copy of the recovery key for bitlocker? Which is nice for when the user needs it, but also comes in handy if MS wants to grant access to anyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some arcades were actually a bit more manipulative than that in that they’d get harder depending on how long it was since you last put a quarter in.

  Mortal Kombat was one. I noticed this pattern on the snes version of MK3 (can’t remember if it was ultimate or not that I had): I’d easily win one fight, then get demolished by the next fighter. Then continue and that same fighter would be easy, only for the next one after that to be much more difficult. I didn’t have to put quarters into my snes but they just used the same tuning from the arcade machines.

  Eventually when I played that game, I was spending much more time on the space invaders minigame lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if the CEO of target decides he really doesn’t like a popular shirt and is able to force everyone to only shop at target, then he can come a lot closer to snuffing out the existence of that shirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If There’s No AGI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they are horrible at problem solving and creativity. They are based on word association from training purely on text. The technical singularity will need to innovate on its own so that it can improve the hardware it runs on and its software.

  Even though github copilot has impressed me by implementing a 3 file Python script from scratch to finish such that I barely wrote any code, I had to hold its hand the entire way and give it very specific instructions about every function as we added the pieces one by one to build it up. And even then, it would get parts I failed to specify completely wrong and initially implemented things in a very inefficient way.

  There are fundamental things that the technical singularity needs that today’s LLMs lack entirely. I think the changes that would be required to get there will also change them from LLMs into something else. The training is a part of it, but fundamentally, LLMs are massive word association engines. Words (or vectors translated to and from words) are their entire world and they can only describe things with those words because it was trained on other people doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If There’s No AGI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t hate AI or LLMs. As much as it might mess up civilization as we know it, I’d like to see the technological singularity during my lifetime, though I think the fixation on LLMs will do more to delay than realize that.

  I just think that there’s a lot of people fooled by their conversational capability into thinking they are more than what they are and using the fact that these models are massive with billions or trillions of weighs that the data is encoded into and no one understands how they work to the point of being able to definitively say “this is why it suggested glue as a pizza topping” to put whether or not it approaches AGI in a grey zone.

  I’ll agree though that it was maybe too much to say they don’t have knowledge. “Having knowledge” is a pretty abstract and hard to define thing itself, though I’m also not sure it directly translates to having intelligence (which is also poorly defined tbf). Like one could argue that encyclopedias have knowledge, but they don’t have intelligence. And I’d argue that LLMs are more akin to encyclopedias than how we operate (though maybe more like a chatbot dictionairy that pretends to be an encyclopedia).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If There’s No AGI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling the errors “hallucinations” is kinda misleading because it implies there’s regular real knowledge but false stuff gets mixed in. That’s not how LLMs work.

  LLMs are purely about word associations to other words. It’s just massive enough that it can add a lot of context to those associations and seem conversational about almost any topic, but it has no depth to any of it. Where it seems like it does is just because the contexts of its training got very specific, which is bound to happen when it’s trained on every online conversation its owners (or rather people hired by people hired by its owners) could get their hands on.

  All it does is, given the set of tokens provided and already predicted, plus a bit of randomness, what is the most likely token to come next, then repeat until it predicts an “end” token.

  Earlier on when using LLMs, I’d ask it about how it did things or why it would fail at certain things. ChatGPT would answer, but only because it was trained on text that explained what it could and couldn’t do. Its capabilities don’t actually include any self-reflection or self-understanding, or any understanding at all. The text it was trained on doesn’t even have to reflect how it really works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked images of soon to be released Cyber Plane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those aren’t pens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure where 1440p would land, but after using one for a while, I was going to upgrade my monitor to 4k but realized I’m not disappointed with my current resolution at all and instead opted for a 1440p ultrawide and haven’t regretted it at all.

  My TV is 4k, but I have no intention of even seriously looking at anything 8k.

  Screen specs seem like a mostly solved problem. Would be great if focus could shift to efficiency improvements instead of adding more unnecessary power. Actually, boot time could be way better, too (ie get rid of the smart shit running on a weak processor, emphasis on the first part).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe you get gravel in the same sense that someone could own Jupiter or a star. “You now own all the gravel in that quary!” But it doesn’t inform the workers of that fact, or the officials who still rely on whatever paperwork was filled out by the agents of the guy who paid them to ensure the quary belongs to his corporation’s corporation. The whole idea of ownership is pretty abstract in the first place.

  Could be that every pill just means that, under the jurisdiction of the entity who made the pills, you are legally allowed to do what the pills claim, though you need to figure out the rest from there, and people from other jurisdictions are able to disagree even if you do figure out the how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless he was as skilled in robotics and engineering as a fish was at climbing trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a “replace the pin in the grenade before the time runs out” alarm clock. Then, if you sleep in anyways, it won’t be your problem anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought you were going to say it was a BBQ sauce spiced with Carolina Reapers. In which case, avoid using heavy amounts in groin area and sleep with goggles on. Maybe even tie your hands up so you don’t scratch anywhere in your sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good for plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve wondered if it was because the air vibrations that sound is help knock dust loose from the plant, which helps gasses get in and out as well as more light.

  Heavy metal probably has the most vibration going on out of all genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey you should have some pride in your dad, being able to keep going longer than a movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Guessing you mean in a similar vein to the connection between various degrees and food service jobs?

  Personally, I’ve been able to avoid IT jobs so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Computer science is not IT. IT is about knowing how to use, deploy, and administer existing software solutions, along with a bit of light development to get things to work together when they aren’t necessarily directly compatible.

  CS is about creating software solutions and understanding how the pieces fit together (at a low level), as well as how to evaluate algorithms and approach problem solving.

  It’s not even coding, though coding is obviously involved. For a coding class, they’ll teach you the language and give problems to help learn that language. For CS classes, they might not care what language you use, or they might tell you to use specific ones and expect you to learn it on your own time. The languages are just tools through which you learn the CS concepts.

  An IT professional might know about kernel features and how they relate to overall performance. A coder might be aware that there is a kernel doing OS stuff under the hood. A computer scientist might know the specifics of various parts of what a kernel does and how one is implemented, perhaps they’ve even implemented one themselves for a class (I have, though I was personally interested in that kind of thing and it was for a class notorious for being difficult, so most grads didn’t).