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- Comment on 4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an arrowhead from a brutal attack 1 day ago:
According to preliminary research, he used to be an adventurer like you, then he took an arrow to the rib.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 day ago:
When you consider all the refinement through reinforcement learning managed by labelers and domain experts, it is indeed a simulation of the intelligence of those labelers.
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 1 day ago:
Where do you draw the line for intelligence? Why would the capacity to auto complete tokens based on learned probabilities not qualify as intelligence?
This capacity may be part of human intelligence too. - Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 3 days ago:
Why do they keep a name referring to a pseudo-science then?
It is as if astrophysicists were using the name Doctor of Astrology and then claiming they are not the same as the astrology pseudoscience. Why would they do use this name then?
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 3 days ago:
I don’t understand why an MD would want any association with the pseudoscience that osteopathy is. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathy Marketing I guess.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 1 week ago:
Does this induce a current?
- Comment on If you live in the EU or UK, don't forget to sign the Stop Killing Games petition! 1 week ago:
Depending on the country no ID number may be necessary. Not required for France.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
It is still getting hugged, I guess people are rushing to add their names now that it is a won battle.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
I have been using Deezer because it was local for me, France. At the beginning you could upload your own collection to share with others, it was fun. Now it’s basically the same as the others, I think it pays artists a little bit more than Spotify. Also just learned that is now majorly owned by some US investment fund. 🫠
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
You receive: Windows 95 theme on Xubuntu.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
Reverse Saruman, the money he donated turned him white.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 weeks ago:
I was surprised so I did the computation just to resolve the disk of Betelgeuse at 550 nm, and I found a telescope of 2.8 m, that’s definitely already doable. We already have 8 m in one piece and 10 m segmented, JWST is 6.5 m segmented. The ELT is planned to be 39 m for 2028. So this star is closer and bigger than I thought.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 4 weeks ago:
It would be the size of the telescope’s diffraction artifacts probably. Meaning the shape you see on the picture is not related to the size of the star but only to the physical limits of the optical instrument. This diffraction pattern is proportional to the color your looking at and inversely proportional to the size of the telescope primary mirror. The bigger the telescope primary mirror, the smaller the diffraction pattern and the more chance you have that this artifact will not completely hide the object you are looking at. I didn’t do the math, but I guess to image the actual disk of Betelgeuse, the size of the telescope you need is probably still science fiction, even with interferometry.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As you can see, I said “reputation”. I hate how little they innovate while still selling at premium, but similar to Disney, it is enough for the casual mass.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The fact that the Nintendos are locked down, family friendly and with a reputation of good production quality (similar to Disney), are also important points for non-nerdy parents and casual gamers who don’t want to navigate the ocean of PC gaming and its risks.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 5 weeks ago:
The first step toward meaningful change begins with us. We must abandon our craving for glossy (and therefore glassy) devices, and instead embrace hardware that may not be as immediately pleasing to the eye (as it is the case with e.g. Fairphones or the PinePhone), but is built to be slightly more durable, somewhat repairable, and capable of outlasting even today’s limited commitments to software updates.
Fairphone and PinePhone being only mentioned anecdotally for being pleasing to the eye, and I guess not as sturdy as the author wants, is quite weird for an article about reducing fragility and improving repairability.
- Comment on Is it really doom scrolling if it's just true? 5 weeks ago:
I take the expression more as a warning to control it so it does not impact my mental health too much. Getting (properly) informed is good, but if I get so depressed that I can’t act positively on the system anymore or I make it worse for me and others, then it becomes counter-productive.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
Also starting to spread on the cheapest plans of streaming services like Prime and Netflix.
- Comment on Is this "artist" on spotify AI generated? 1 month ago:
- Urban Driftwood by Yasmin Williams, light acoustic guitars
- A Plane Over Woods by The Vernon Spring, chill contemporary piano
- Tall Tales by Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, melancholic electronica
- Lamomali by -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Fatoumata Diawara, French chanson mixed with traditional Malian music
- Comment on Klarna’s AI replaced 700 workers — Now the fintech CEO wants humans back after $40B fall 1 month ago:
There’s actually a lot of human intervention in the mix. Data labelers for source data, also domain experts who will rectify answers after a first layer of training, some layers of prompts to improve common answers. Without those domain experts, the LLM would never have the nice looking answers we are getting. I think the human intervention is going to increase to counter the AI pollution in the data sources. But it may not be economically viable anymore eventually.
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 1 month ago:
I also tried 1 long after release and couldn’t get over the clunky ness and how much studying it requires to play. But I really enjoyed the 2, I even replayed it to see the other side of the story after the big branching, which is something I almost never do with games.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The only trustworthy solution is for your son to date some distant little cousin of Trump. Then he’ll get an Ivy League diploma for free and maybe some government position.
- Comment on >:)> 1 month ago:
It’s Falkand now.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 month ago:
That’s actually funny.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 2 months ago:
If there’s one thing Japan loves, it is economical competition. There are like 40 different ways to pay at a shop, it’s absurd.
Image - Comment on Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break 2 months ago:
Obviously not great if it’s punitive, but if it introduces new creative gameplay or story branching, it could be cool.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
Don’t Let Me Down, Just Don’t Start Now
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 2 months ago:
I don’t think it will happen. Imgur used to be well supported by reddit because it was created for redditors. But since then they have done their own things, making the host function less convenient and they are not a reliable long term image storage anymore.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 2 months ago:
I think it doesn’t display because the commenter used the “album” url: imgur.com/a/XRjTyIm.
The direct mp4 link to the underlying video works better. Image - Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 2 months ago:
What does Okular do that Firefox doesn’t? I’ve used it on some distros because it was the default but I don’t know the advantage compared to using my existing browser.
