Moobythegoldensock
@Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 5 days ago:
Not really, Raspberry Pi had that same issue with its 32 bit distros.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 1 month ago:
I’m personally a fan of his new site for twitter media: xvideos.com.
- Comment on There used to be a point were I was mostly too young to get the joke. Now I'm mostly too old to get the joke... 1 month ago:
If you’re over 12 years old you probably won’t last more than a minute.
- Comment on ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad 1 month ago:
What you described is exactly what an LLM is. I’m piloting one for work, and sometimes it is useful, while other times it makes up random shit.
- Comment on 💤💤 1 month ago:
Yes. His actual game type is “normal.”
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 month ago:
Yep, and even then it is very limited in when and where you can use it at this point.
Level 4 is the general use “high autonomy” vehicle, and while a few robotaxis and shuttles are able to do it, no regular car has it yet.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 2 months ago:
Yes, but having 2, 3, 4, 6 as factors is way better than having only 2 and 5. We’d be giving up one factor to add three.
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 2 months ago:
We need more Borts license plates!
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
The kids came up with the joke:
“Do you like fish sticks?” (Pronounced like “fish dicks”)
Then, when the person said yes, they’d call them a gay fish.
The joke becomes a meme on the show, but Kanye West doesn’t get it, despite having it explained to him. He thinks the joke is directed at him personally, and does actual scientific research to find out why people think he is a gay fish. At the end of the episode, he accepts his fate, and decides to live as a gay fish (complete with a catchy autotuned song.)
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
George Clooney was instrumental in getting the show made in the first place. He liked their second Christmas short so much that he made hundreds of copies and gave them to all his friends, which helped them pitch the show.
- Comment on Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media 3 months ago:
“Advertising, surveillance, virality, lock-in, monopolization”
Of course advertising will be used for all those things and probably already is.
- Comment on if 4^1*3 + 4^2*3 = (4^1 + 4^2)*3 ... 3 months ago:
So you’re asking how to factor 2x + 3x^2?
You can factor x: x(2 + 3x). Or in this example, 4(2 + 4*3).
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
You don’t have to be profitable to have a desirable stock, but usually there is some promise of future profitability (like Tesla for most of its history.)
Not sure what reddit has going for it, though.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
part of history
What every idiot who lost money on Gamestop said.
I might wheel it after it tanks, but probably not. My tax advisor always lectures me when I make money wheeling.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Remember the time when Millennials spent all their money on avocado toast and then killed the napkin industry?
These sorts of puff pieces are all just there to fill up space/content.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Depression is a symptom. Major depressive disorder is a disease.
- Comment on A Response to Nature's "Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses" 4 months ago:
We’re actually trained not to just use what the roomer wrote. The reason is that what the receptionist writes and roomer writes can be inaccurate, and inaccuracies can multiply each time they’re transcribed.
For example, the call center might write “pain in testicle,” and then the roomer might write “lump in left testicle for 2 weeks” and then the patient tells me the lump has been in the right testicle for 3-4 weeks. If we just all copied the original note, we might be working with the wrong symptoms or wrong location. And asking questions assuming the notes are 100% accurate can lead a patient into giving us inaccurate answers, which is a much lower risk if we ask open-ended questions and let you fill them in. We do read the roomer’s notes, but our documentation is much better if we are getting the information directly from you rather than playing telephone.
As for cutting people off, I can’t speak for your individual doctors, other than to say there is a certain personality type who will answer every question (even yes/no questions) with a 1-2 minute meandering answer. And if we have 20 questions to get through, we simply can’t ask every patient for the rest of the day to wait an extra 20-40 minutes just to avoid cutting people off. If your doctor is doing that even when you’re giving a 1 sentence answer, though, you may need to look for a new one.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 4 months ago:
Corporate tax rate is 21%, so by subtracting $80 million from their income they get a $16.8 million discount.
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 4 months ago:
I’ve never wondered if I’m dreaming while awake. So I’ve conditioned myself that if I’m wondering whether I’m in a dream, I’m in a dream.
Makes it easy to lucid dream.
- Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle? 4 months ago:
Ok, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.
- Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle? 4 months ago:
It is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.
- Comment on Which entertainment jobs are most likely to be disrupted by AI? New study has answers 4 months ago:
According to the study, the job tasks most likely to be impacted by AI in the film and TV industry are 3-D modeling, character and environment design, voice generation and cloning and compositing, followed by sound design, tools programming, script writing, animation and rigging, concept art/visual development and light/texture generation.
This was in a survey of industry leaders: the people likely to be making the decision of how many humans to hire vs. how much to rely on AI.
- Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle? 4 months ago:
Whoops, fixed.
- Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle? 4 months ago:
In the real world, you’re measuring with significant figures.
You draw a 1 cm line with a ruler. But it’s not really 1 cm. It’s 0.9998 cm, or 1.0001, or whatever. The accuracy will get better if you have a better ruler: if it goes down to mm you’ll be way more accurate than if you only measure in cm, and even better if you have a nm ruler and magnification to see where the lines are.
When you go to measure the hypotenuse, the math answer for a unit 1 side triangle is 1.414213562373095… . However, your ruler can’t measure that far. It might measure 1.4 cm, or 1.41, or maybe even 1.414, but you’d need a ruler with infinite resolution to get the math answer.
Let’s say your ruler can measure millimeters. You’d measure your sides as 1.000 cm, 1.000 cm, and 1.414 cm (the last digit is the visual estimate beyond the mm scoring.) Because that’s the best your ruler can measure in the real world.
- Comment on Is "If A then B" equal to "B if and only if A"? 5 months ago:
“If X is cat, then X is mammal” =?> “X is mammal if and only if X is cat”
Obviously doesn’t hold: “What if X doge?”
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
For generations, parents have been giving kids their old cars or buying a used beater so they can learn to drive.
We need to get a generation of parents giving kids their old laptops or buying a cheap one off eBay with a light linux distro to extend its life.
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
Yes. Pfizer and Moderna made mRNA vaccines. Johnson & Johnson and Oxford-AstraZeneca made DNA vaccines with an adenovirus vector. Novavax made a killed vaccine.
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
No. They are actually incredibly safe, much safer than the vaccines from last century. The big scandal from 1955, where an improperly killed polio vaccine gave polio to 40,000 kids, leaving 51 paralyzed and 5 dead, is literally impossible with mRNA vaccines.
As a doctor, I consider mRNA vaccines to be one of the most exciting developments in vaccine history. It has the potential to make vaccines something that a developer can encode, much like a programmer writing a computer program. The possible applications of this are insane.
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
J&J might be a bad example as it’s a DNA vaccine.
- Comment on New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 5 months ago:
Climate scientists: “The climate is fucked now! We needed to intervene 20 years ago. We must take emergency intervention!”
Government/industry: “We’ll get right on that in 10-15 years.@