Phoenix3875
@Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 1 week ago:
PKD has a novel in the same vein: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indefatigable_Frog
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
In theory, methods like nightshades are supposed to poison the work such that AI systems trained on them will have their performance degraded significantly.
- Comment on A popcorn bucket with 3 holes, to share with friends 3 weeks ago:
A rare shot showing sandworms forming a pattern known as OwO.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Spell out numbers under 10, but not when it’s divisible by three or five.
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Now don’t look at the lamp next to your sofa too closely.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 month ago:
And that’s why you don’t see cooking mouse no more.
- Comment on Gallileo 2 months ago:
…or does it?
- Young Einstein
- Comment on Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report 2 months ago:
The interviews revealed that data scientists sometimes get distracted by the latest developments in AI and implement them in their projects without looking at the value that it will deliver.
At least part of this is due to resume-oriented development.
- Comment on 😳😳😳 2 months ago:
You think adults are prettier?
- Comment on Blocked 🚫 2 months ago:
Well, it depends on your definition of truth and it could be the absolute truth by definition. A theorem is absolutely true in the same way that “a bachelor is an unmarried man” is categorically true.
- Comment on [discussion] DC (direct current) power network 2 months ago:
Sorry I wasn’t being clear. AC is used for connecting within areas of densely populated cities, e.g. British National Grid. If we are talking about really long distances (> hundreds of kilometers), HVDC is indeed preferred.
I was talking about a trend of some factories replacing AC from power grids (possibility generated in nearby cities) with DC from solar panels on their rooftops. So it’s a long distance compared to that.
- Comment on [discussion] DC (direct current) power network 2 months ago:
Power grids would mean long distance power transmission, so DC has an advantage. If the point of consumption is near the point of PV generation, AC can and is already being used.
I know factories with solar panels on their rooftops to cut down power bills and instead of converting to high voltage DC, a custom-built AC power system is used.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
The problem with these token activism is that it’s hollow in content. The intent might be good, but the action is almost pure virtue signalling.
Slavoj Zizek pointed out in multiple interviews that there’s a pervert self-reflectiveness in the self-censorship: privileged people “enjoyed” being guilty of their privilege, so it’s more about themselves rather than the people they claim to represent. “Sorry, but you were naive and unaware of people being racist when they use these words, so let me stop them and now you are protected (by me) in an inclusive atmosphere.”
A related radical freedom situation as an inverse to the above is that when friends get really close, even using racist slurs is treated as a representation of intimacy, rather than racism. In an ideal world, the context in the public discourse would be so strong that even racist words lose their racist meaning (“oh, so you are joking as well”) rather than the opposite (assuming there’s ubiquitous racism in the use of a word, even when there’s clearly none).
Another critique is that it presents itself as a substitute of real solutions. Instead of addressing real problems, it provides a simple “everyday” solution, very much similar to the recycling movement. Of course we need to recycle, but we should be aware that it’s not a substitute of radical real actions (e.g. stopping the big oil).
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Yeeter/Yeetee
- Comment on Helth 3 months ago:
You are literally designed to eat craps found on the ground.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 months ago:
I saw a streamer playing the demo and was looking forward to it. That being said, it’s too recent a game for a patient gamer like me! (Not really. I do buy new games :)
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
Comments on toilets from France, England, and Germany by Slaboj Zizek: youtube.com/watch?v=8mtZmBvat4k
Another good bit (not in the video) is that Zizek thinks that’s why Germans can endure great pain and sacrifices for an ideal…if you are strong enough to observe your shit for health reasons, there’s nothing you can’t do!
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
From my understanding, MV3 kills vital features of ad-blockers in that
- Some filtering rules do rely on the ability to read the content of the webpage, which can’t be migrated, per the FAQ linked in the article
- The declarative API means updating the rules means an update to the plugin itself, which might get delayed by the reviewing process, causing the blocker to lag behind the tracker. It might not be able to recover as quickly like in the recent YouTube catch-up round.
- Comment on There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. 3 months ago:
They are already invented: 😱 and 😱😱😱
- Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds 3 months ago:
The link to the study is just a “Paid Search Ad” page. Ouch for the professionalism of Forbes.
- Comment on Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome 3 months ago:
Let me introduce you to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
What Remains of Edith Finch, and The Unfinished Swan
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
They tried to build this abomination in London and it got shot down.
- Comment on Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket 4 months ago:
Basically it’s two people saying “Is it falling? Wouldn’t it explode? I’m recording it. Fuck the rocket is falling!”
From 5-8 seconds, the person seems to be saying争着争着中火大了, which doesn’t mean anything to me, but it may be something of the local dialect.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
It does say “yield and cost effectiveness” in the picture, so I’m not emphasizing on availability, but discussing just that.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
Why subsidized? A fair comparison would be subsidized home farming vs. subsidized industrial farming, or neither are subsidized.
The exact problem was discussed in Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, where he reached a very different and nuanced conclusion. You can have a read if you are truly interested.
- Comment on Is anyone still playing Command and Conquer Generals (+ Zero Hour)? 6 months ago:
There’s a Generals Evolution mod for Red Alert 3, which super-glues Generals to RA3 and it’s pretty great.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
The Chinese Great Firewall (GFW) has already been using machine learning to detect “illegal” traffics. The arms race is moving towards the Cyberpunk world where AIs are battling against an AI firewall.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 7 months ago:
Time for London’t.
- Comment on xkcd #2906: Earth 8 months ago: