maniclucky
@maniclucky@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 2 days ago:
Actually, that part I’m not worried about. Jackbox is one of my friends go-to end of party games. It’s all through your phone and accommodates a good amount of people, slightly game dependent.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 weeks ago:
You’re right in that the goal is problem solving, you’re wrong that inability to code isn’t a problem.
AI can make a for loop and do common tasks but the moment you have something halfway novel to do, it has a habit of shitting itself and pretending that the feces is good code. And if you can’t read code, you can’t tell the shit from the stuff you want.
It may be able to do it in the future but it can’t yet
Source: data engineer who has fought his AI a time or two.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
An elegant way to make someone feel ashamed for using many smart words, ha-ha.
Unintentional I assure you.
I think it’s some social mechanism making them choose a brute force solution first.
I feel like it’s simpler than that. Ye olde “when all you have is a hammer, everything’s a nail”. Or in this case, when you’ve built the most complex hammer in history, you want everything to be a nail.
So I’d say commercially they already are successful.
Definitely. I’ll never write another cover letter. In their use-case, they’re solid.
but I haven’t even finished my BS yet
Currently working on my masters after being in industry for a decade. The paper is nice, but actually applying the knowledge is poorly taught (IMHO, YMMV) and being willing to learn independently has served me better than by BS in EE.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
I’m not against attempts at global artificial intelligence, just against one approach to it. Also no matter how we want to pretend it’s something general, we in fact want something thinking like a human.
Agreed. The techbros pretending that the stochastic parrots they’ve created are general AI annoys me to no end.
While not as academically cogent as your response (totally not feeling inferior at the moment), it has struck me that LLMs would make a fantastic input/output to a greater system analogous to the Wernicke/Broca areas of the brain. It seems like they’re trying to get a parrot to swim by having it do literally everything. I suppose the thing that sticks in my craw is the giveaway that they’ve promised that this one technique (more or less, I know it’s more complicated than that) can do literally everything a human can, which should be an entire parade of red flags to anyone with a drop of knowledge of data science or fraud. I know that it’s supposed to be a universal function appropriator hypothetically, but I think the gap between hypothesis and practice is very large and we’re dumping a lot of resources into filling in the canyon (chucking more data at the problem) when we could be building a bridge (creating specialized models that work together).
Now that I’ve used a whole lot of cheap metaphor on someone who causally dropped ‘syllogism’ into a conversation, I’m feeling like a freshmen in a grad level class. I’ll admit I’m nowhere near up to date on specific models and bleeding edge techniques.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
Ooooooh. Ok that makes sense. Correct use of words, just was not connecting those dots.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
That response doesn’t make sense. Please clarify.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
We do that all the time. It’s kind of humanity’s thing. I can’t run 60mph, but my car sure can.
- Comment on I didn't ask for any of this. 4 weeks ago:
That third one is just cheating.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
The sentence structure is kinda wonky coming from English, but the vocab isn’t bad. There are tons of cognates.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 5 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree conceptually, but English has been the lingua franca for a long time now.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 5 weeks ago:
Close. It’s flea market.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 5 weeks ago:
It’s not that bad. It’s just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn’t have an issue with at least “Markt”. Not far from a cognate.
Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 2 months ago:
Bullets or paragraphs please. My brain hates all of this and won’t let me read it.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 2 months ago:
Pooped the onion? Honestly, I’ve only ever seen these kinds of stories as notTheOnion.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY XIV MOBILE – Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
I’d be shocked if that was possible. Though I wouldn’t hate being able to do crafting/gathering from my phone.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 6 months ago:
Heh, even AI can’t imagine that color being natural.
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 6 months ago:
In this case, nothing. High dose testosterone is a hormone, high is a hormone. Both are PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). Now, the difference between them is a bit more interesting.
Testosterone, the original steroid, makes you big by maximizing your existing muscles (super paraphrased, as is everything I’m about to say). It’s the one that gives you breasts and shrinks your balls (for those that have them).
Human growth hormone makes you big by inducing the creation of new muscle. As well as everything else. The stand outs being the heart, which you really don’t want to grow, and the intestines, which gave bodybuilders roidgut.
Like I said, very paraphrased, but that’s the gist of it. And doesn’t touch more advanced things like tren.
- Comment on Oh, the humanity! 6 months ago:
My satisfaction
- Comment on Automation 8 months ago:
They shouldn’t be plotted that way technically. The big 5 are independent traits so they should essentially be sliders, not linked like that.
That said, it’s way easier to see the points when you do that. Easy to miss when colors swap, for example, without the lines when you’ve been looking at this stuff for a few hours.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
This is my line for biting the bullet and switching to Linux. I hope gaming gets to where I want it to be (braindead easy for anyone with ‘actually’ on their lips)
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 10 months ago:
Absolutely. I’ll poke my head in there when there’s someone on insta who I’m curious to see if they get naked on Twitter. And that’s 100% of my interaction.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 10 months ago:
When I was taking classes on similar things, ‘human performance’ was generally defined as how well an expert in a given task performed.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 10 months ago:
Porn
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 10 months ago:
These. Also, random celebrity factoids (height, married, dead, etc), how long to get to some town you’ve never heard of, basic math that I’m too lazy to do myself.
Sometimes making it meow to confuse my cat.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 10 months ago:
I knew what it was, but I was panicked and unable to calm down before it passed. I was deeply affected by not being able to move anything. I imagine other personality/neuro types would handle it differently, but I did not care for it.
That said, I get being curious about experiencing something benign but possibly scary.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 10 months ago:
I’ve had this. No you don’t. It isn’t fun. Experiencing full body paralysis for a minute was a deeply unsettling and terrifying experience. I hated every second. Unless you’re prepared in some way, having the presence of mind to try to sleep again seems difficult.
I didn’t have a hallucination with that one though. I have that with a different parasomnia. I’ve had a hypnopompic (upon walking up) hallucination one time. That was freaky but only lasted a few seconds.
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 1 year ago:
I honestly don’t know why Americans accept their healthcare system.
We don’t have enough money to pay off our lawmakers compared to the healthcare industry’s bribes.
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 1 year ago:
Guy must have been talking about that then. This was one of my rare clear memories. I had no idea about it at the time till that guy asked.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 1 year ago:
Star Trek, unlike a lot of franchises, has a lot of allowance for taste while still being generally good. I think that’s part of its charm.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 1 year ago:
So many words shoved in my mouth. At no point did I say that people can’t do good things with minimal incentive. Though it’s either naive or disingenuous to pretend that some form of bartering didn’t exist before capital or would be suitable solution the modern problems.
Could that one person feed a city on his own? Or keep it clean? Or supply it power? Water? Maintain the infrastructure?
I wasn’t talking about individual achievements and technological leaps. I’m talking about the day to day necessities that a functioning society requires. A city like New York is not some simple thing. To make it possible for all those people to coexist, the effort and man power is staggering.
And a bunch of it sucks.
Garbage, sewage, paperwork. You name it, there’s some poor bastard that has to deal with it and doesn’t want to. In fact, there’s a shortage of power lineman (I may be out of date) that can stand as my example. Difficult job, risk of death, need a bunch of them. And you’re not going to find enough people passionate about power lines to fill the roster and that job is essential for modern lives.
Now, I’m not rushing to defend capitalism. Holy shit the crimes committed for the unholy dollar. No. I’m generally for socialist practices in any industry that should be a public work (education, utilities, healthcare, etc) and leave capitalism to the luxuries. But I’m getting off track.
I wasn’t defending capitalisms many crimes. I’m calling you out for being a child about what can be done about it. Ideals don’t pave roads, specific plans and actions do. So what are yours? This system sucks? I fucking know. What changes should be made short of a violent revolution that would almost certainly leave everyone in a worse place? We don’t have the luxury of sci-fi tech that can provide for our needs with trivial cost.
Example: taxing the fuck out of the rich, single player health care, investment in green energy, walkable cities, forbidding Congress from owning individual stocks. These things push the world in a better direction.
Next time you advocate for burning it all, try to remember that we live in the most peaceful time in all of human history.