Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
Baba Yetu is also great
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
Fair play to Microsoft here. Hopefully we see some pull requests from non-ms employees and a better wsl experience for us all
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
It is lemmy essentially. By far most communities, users, and a single point of failure in essence. That makes is quite good for getting it technically correct however, the best kind of correct
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Reddit took many years to build that reputation. And earned creepy badges along the way. I’m not saying the fediverse doesn’t need to do it, but let’s not be in a rush. We have technical challenges, and a lemmy.world, and a .ml problem before we’re ready for the big leagues
And being niche is fine for now, email was tiny for decades
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 3 weeks ago:
When the ends of our jeans looked all freyed and hemmed
- Comment on The Original Gears of War Is Being Remastered For PS5, Xbox & PC 3 weeks ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Gears_of_War:_Ultimate_Edition
They have literally already done this job!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
You’ve never had to reason in a test? Problem solve in a test? Design in a test? Sure, some tests are memory tests, but plenty aren’t
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 4 weeks ago:
Mini vivas for every assignment, yaldi!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 4 weeks ago:
Papers are being disrupted. Exams will become more relevant. Can’t use AI with only a pencil and paper
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my favourite ever laptop. Would love to see the netbook return. Cheap and cheerful. Chromebooks just not the same
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
For the most part, I agree. But YouTube is full of gold too. Lots of amateurs making content for themselves. And plenty of newspapers are high quality and worth your time to understand the current environment in which we operate. Don’t let them be your only source of news though, social media and newspapers are both guilty of creating information bubbles. Expand, be open, don’t be tribal.
Don’t use AI. Do your own thinking
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
Given your prompts, maybe you are good at discerning flaws and analysing your own arguments too
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia isn’t to be referenced for scientific papers, I’m sure we all agree there. But it does do almost exactly what you described. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe has some great further reading links. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology has some great reads too. And for the time short: simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology which also has Related Pages
I’m still yet to see how AI beats a search engine. And your example hasn’t convinced me either
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
I’m still sceptical, any chance you could share some prompts which illustrate this concept?
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
You search for topics and keywords on search engines. It’s a different skill. And from what I see, yields better results. If something is vague also, think quickly first and make it less vague. That goes for life!
And a tool which regurgitates rubbish in a verbose manner isn’t a tool. It’s a toy. Toy’s can spark your curiosity, but you don’t rely on them. Toy’s look pretty, and can teach you things. The lesson is that they aren’t a replacement for anything but lorem ipsum
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
You do know it can’t reason and literally makes shit up approximately 50% of the time? Be quicker to toss a coin!
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 4 weeks ago:
I prefer reading. Wikipedia is great. Duck duck go still gives pretty good results with the AI off. YouTube is filled with tutorials too. Cook books pre-AI are plentiful. There’s these things called newspapers that exist, they aren’t like they used to be but there is a choice of which to buy even.
I’ve no idea what a chatbot could help me with. And I think anybody who does need some help on things, could go learn about whatever they need in pretty short order if they wanted. And do a better job.
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 5 weeks ago:
CEOs are weird. DDG might be a privacy champion but it isn’t a for profit company. Meaning Weinberg wants to make bucks too. If Chrome is worth $50bn what does that make ddg worth? If Google get slapped with an anti-trust and forced to break up, who might benefit from the big bucks that might be floating around? And ever noticed how CEOs tend to fail up? Fluffing google is a nice advert for the next head of google search here.
Show me monetisation strategies, and hence value per user for the installed base if you want to claim that kinda figures imo
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 5 weeks ago:
And if you start fucking with them then they will all go to Google’s new browser. Just like the old one. Not all, but you get the picture. Chrome isn’t worth $50bn to anyone but Google
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 5 weeks ago:
Given the core of the product is open source (see chromium) I find it really hard to believe that the brand is worth that. Google could sell it for an amount and release Android Internet and it will do almost exactly the same thing. And users I suspect won’t care. Google needs broken up for sure, but the browser brand makes little sense to me being separate
- Comment on [Social Engineering] My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster. 5 weeks ago:
Great read. Hard to see how people could fall for these myself but some must or they wouldn’t still be operating. I’m more surprised they aren’t asking for bitcoin
- Comment on Lemmy specific Apps and Libraries 1 month ago:
Jerboa, very Reddit is Fun like, on f-droid too!
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
To get back on topic: I bet you pull your phone out at the urinal
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Old habits die hard. But the most teenager comment I have seen on lemmy needed a rebuttal
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Sure, loads of sewage. But it also had smaller settlements, less people, and human waste was recycled more in times gone by too. Far more water was far more drinkable even 150 years ago
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Lol, we definitely have had clean drinking water for far longer than we have had dirty drinking water, thank the industrial revolution for that. And try skipping a shower for a day - you’ll be fine. Soap also has a long history www.soaphistory.net/soap-history/ over 4000 years
So literally wrong on all three points. Perhaps you need to read more instead of doom scrolling and swapping nudes on your smartphone
- Comment on .world c/conservative is unmodded now too! Post all the things they hate! 3 months ago:
Where did the last mod go?
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 3 months ago:
Only getting rid of them next year I’m pretty sure. And initial problems of reliability but not these days. With phenomenal thermal efficiency from tiny engines
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 3 months ago:
Free to air. It’s how we all got hooked