wischi
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- Comment on Challenges accepted. 1 day ago:
The “may” carries a lot of weight so it probably depends. The way US law works is pretty weird IMHO and the reason for many of such waivers. “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”, “Contents may be hot”, etc.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 3 days ago:
Thank you. But are jellyfish really not that far off. Looks like a pretty huge step to me. Jellyfish look complex enough to not just magically reassemble if we grind them through a sieve.
I personally (but I’m not a biologists 🤣) definitely would consider a jellyfish an animal because different cells (at least ot very much looks like that) have different functions and thus throwing it in the meat grinder (even if individual cells are not damaged) I can’t imagine how ot could reassemble itself.
But a sponge seems so homogeneous it (I guess) almost doesn’t matter what goes where and that’s why it can reassemble. That why (I personally) wouldn’t think of that as an animal.
Are there other things that are technically animals that are that homogeneous?
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 3 days ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 3 days ago:
Honest question. How is that sponge an animal and how is “animal” defined? If we grind something through a sieve and it reassembles surely the lifeform can’t be to complicated.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 4 days ago:
Take your phone number. Now add/subtract 1. Those are your number neighbors.
- Comment on >:)> 1 week ago:
I’m not sure for that specific case, but in the general case there doesn’t need to be evolutionary pressure for change. If there is no pressure one way or the other random mutations can (and will over time) cause change without environmental reason (genetic drift).
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 1 week ago:
You comment just brings attention to the fact that you didn’t even look at the signature in the picture and look up the artist.
- Comment on fake keepass repo on github 1 week ago:
I used keepass since ages and about two years ago I switched to a self-hosted vaultwarden instance and I still think it was a great choice. So of you have a docker experience and a little VM lying around you could give vaultwarden/Bitwarden a try.
- Comment on WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages 3 weeks ago:
It’s not called Meta data by accident 🤣
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 3 weeks ago:
“Amazingly” fast for bio-chemistry, but insanely slow compared to electrical signals, chips and computers. But to be fair the energy usage really is almost magic.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 4 weeks ago:
But by that definition passing the Turing test might be the same as super human intelligence. There are things that humans can do, but computers can’t. But there is nothing a computer can do but still be slower than humans. That’s actually because our biological brains are insanely slow compared to computers. So once a computer is better or as accurate as a human it’s almost instantly superhuman at that task because of its speed. So if we have something that’s as smart as humans (which is practically implied because it’s indistinguishable) we would have super human intelligence, because it’s as smart as humans but (numbers made up) can do 10 days of cognitive human work in just 10 minutes.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 4 weeks ago:
AI isn’t even trained to mimic human social behavior. Current models are all trained by example so they produce output that would score high in their training process. We don’t even know (and it’s likely not even expressable in language) what their goals are but (anthropomorphised) are probably more like “Answer something that humans that designed and oversaw the training process would approve of”
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 4 weeks ago:
To be fair the Turing test is a moving goal post, because if you know that such systems exist you’d probe them differently. I’m pretty sure that even the first public GPT release would have fooled Alan Turing personally, so I think it’s fair to say that this systems passed the test at least since that point.
- Comment on Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost? 1 month ago:
Hetzner ❤️
- Comment on Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data 1 month ago:
JPEG does not support lossless compression. There was an extension to the standard in 1993 but most de/encoders don’t implement that and it never took off. With JPEG XL you get more bang for your buck and the same visual quality will get you a smaller file. There would be no more need for thumbnails because of improved progressive decoding.
- Comment on Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data 1 month ago:
It’s not just like jpeg with extra channels. It’s technically far superior, supports loss less compression, and the way the decompression works would make thumbnails obsolete. It can even recompress already existing jpeg even smaller without additional generation less. It’s hard to describe what a major step this format would be without getting very technical. A lot of operating systems and software already support is but the Google chrome team is practically preventing adoption because of company politics.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 months ago:
He is comparing himself to Caesar? Maybe someone should stab him to help him out.