Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 3 days ago:
And it will fuck up around half of even the simple formulas. This is really bad, and the idiots in charge should feel bad. Excel basically runs the world and they are about to fuck it up
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 3 days ago:
LLMs lose context over a short session. They all have input limits. Very small input limits usually. Best it can probably do is suggest formulas for you based on your natural language, maybe some copy/paste. Which means it can beat a 9 year old, great news everyone! Or show a help article on pivot tables (which the help function already does!)
Excel is very simple to work with, hence its ubiquity. LLMs also get shit wrong about half the time, way more than half with difficult things ime. Meaning they cost experienced operators time, a few studies are showing this now with coding. And are expensive as fuck. And slow as fuck. And reduce capacity for learning. Meaning they actually cap what excel can achieve, as the user won’t grow at the same rate, renoving the one advantage excel actually has: the learning rate is phenomenal
The C-Suite which insisted on this integration is basically an subservient idiot themselves at this stage who doesn’t understand their product, their market fit, or their userbase. They should replace thenselves with an LLM
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 4 days ago:
LLMs can’t count. Can’t add. Can’t deal with actually large datasets
How is excel a good fit for vibe-coding?
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 days ago:
Nowhere close to any junior ime. Grads learn very quickly. Interns only job is to understand. Code academy career switchers understand requirements and will ask questions. Subservient AI does fuck all of any of those things
They are more akin to yet another Rapid Application Development wave imo. Go see how the previous iterations have done. Lots are still with us (rails ftw!). I’ll bet most will outlive LLMs
- Comment on Apple steps up war of words with European regulators 1 week ago:
Have you tried to have a smart phone outside of Apple or Android? They are clearly operating as a duopoly at this stage, they need tackled
- Comment on Replacing forests with solar a net positive, but neighbors bear an outsized burden, study finds 3 weeks ago:
What’s your guess? What could possibly elicit such a response to an article like this?
- Comment on Replacing forests with solar a net positive, but neighbors bear an outsized burden, study finds 3 weeks ago:
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Just fucking no
- Comment on Why are a lot of statues vandalised with traffic cones in Scotland? 4 weeks ago:
It started with the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow afaik. And the council would send someone up to take it off. And so a local would stick it back up. And so on. So mostly just a laugh, I don’t think anyone really had much to say about Wellington in the 20th Century. And it just kinda spread. Glasgow City Council don’t bother removing it these days, too much faff
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Anyone actually playing 7? I know of no one personally, and I’ve played them all religiously
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m gonna bet he’s not massively experienced and thus could be a bit nervous too. Airflow, hydration, you could go on top some more, try more positions, and most importantly, have plenty of fun!
- Comment on TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation 1 month ago:
How much will the fines cost vs paying these people I wonder? 200*25k is approximately £5m/annum. Come on £10m fine!
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 1 month ago:
I’m also not saying LLMs and Markov Chains don’t have a use. Just it’s a dead end towards general artifical intelligence
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X strikes tentative agreement to settle $500 million lawsuit over Twitter firings 1 month ago:
Don’t be so sure. Very little of his net worth will be liquid. Meaning giving up a big chunk of something
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 1 month ago:
They are basically just giant markov chains. Knock your heart out
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 1 month ago:
Prospect in the UK
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 1 month ago:
So as much as I dislike crypto, it is basically built to be enshitification proof. And hence a good fit for the fediverse. But I wouldn’t want to touch the crypto ecosystem with a ten foot pole, nevermind a lemmy/mastodon integration
Which leaves us at the behest of traditional payment processors, and they are all faceless conglomerates who care not for anyone. Meaning we’re fucked there too
Maybe we should instead not bring transactions to the fediverse
- Comment on Do I need the ISPs home router? 1 month ago:
You might be able to do mac address cloning for fiber ports, if you have openwrt or similar it usually offers it.
A firewall may not offer full routing and NAT though for ipv4 devices, or wifi if you need it, or ipv6, or many other features. I’ve also used a cable modem and stuck the router in the dmz which essentially makes it a passthrough device also in the past
Basically, play with it and good luck!
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 1 month ago:
Xonotic still has a few servers running and 385 players yesterday
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 month ago:
Me too. I don’t regret the Series X either, the SSD is great for online loading times and play
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 month ago:
SSDs - they are very nice. Series S is very affordable too if you aren’t a disc gamer
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 1 month ago:
$50 sounds a bargain for the amount of time this may take! Order today, you’ll be booting by the weekend
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 1 month ago:
Ooh, I’ve blown up some transistors in my time (crack!), but never seen one go bad. But it is quite old!
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 1 month ago:
It’ll be the caps. Best of luck! Even for the other parts it is worth a packet more
- Comment on Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ 2 months ago:
Doesn’t sound like a Labour government to me
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 2 months ago:
More facism from Trump. And he won the popular vote. Americans love facism
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 2 months ago:
Nah, most of the banks solved this years ago already
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 2 months ago:
Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Page ruined the internet for us. That’s who to blame
- Comment on Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts 2 months ago:
It encourages dog-piling essentially
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 2 months ago:
Because AI sucks at basically all tasks. And if I wanted the simple article I’d have visited the simple article. What you have done is denied entry to one of the most valuable resources ever created: wikipedia
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 2 months ago:
Thanks, I hate it