Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 16 hours ago:
I will chortle a lot
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 6 days ago:
Clearly never played proball, a quake3 mod which was a fucking hoot and laid a lot of groundwork for Rocket League. Did hours of this at LAN parties
Soccer tournament for unreal was also excellent. Deathball for 2004 for was also brilliant. I’d love to see CoD or Fortnite do a modern fps take on the concept
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hey Dan, any chance of some more links, I can’t find anything about this package. And community isn’t a repo in archlinux land
- Comment on The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation 1 week ago:
Lolz, this is sure to endear users
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Blood Dragon. Best tutorial ever
- Comment on Pull request to begin to add ActivityPub support to the bluesly PDS 2 weeks ago:
This is big. Bluesky is getting lots of traction with normies who want off Twitter. Mastodon and pleroma and pixelfed all about to become much more discoverable
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 2 weeks ago:
I am whelmed. Never been the biggest mobile gamer, will skip
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 4 weeks ago:
Baba Yetu is also great
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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... 1 month 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 1 month ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Gears_of_War:_Ultimate_Edition
They have literally already done this job!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Mini vivas for every assignment, yaldi!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Jerboa, very Reddit is Fun like, on f-droid too!