benni
@benni@lemmy.world
- Comment on Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI 2 months ago:
In that case it actually makes sense because the main goal is to make an artificial entity appear intelligent to the player. This is not the same as calling all ML algorithms/models 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:
I’m kind of dissatisfied with the answers here. As soon as you talk about actually drawing a line in the real world, the distinction between rational and irrational numbers stops making sense. In other words, the distinction between rational and irrational numbers is a concept that describes numbers to an accuracy that is impossible to achieve in real life. So you cannot draw a line with a clearly irrational length, but neither can you draw a line with a clearly rational length. You can only define theoretical mathematical constructs which can then be classified as rational or irrational, if applicable.
More mathematically phrased: in real life, your line to which you assign the length L will always have an inaccuracy of size x>0. But for any real L, the interval (L-x;L+x) contains both an infinite number of rational and an infinite number of irrational numbers. Note that this is independent of how small the value of x is. This is why I said that the accuracy, at which the concept of rational and irrational numbers make sense, is impossible to achieve in real life.
So I think your confusion stems from mixing the lengths we assign to objects in the real world with the lengths we can accurately compute for mathematical objects that we have created in our minds using axioms and definitions.
- Comment on cycle or spiral? 5 months ago:
Too real
- Comment on Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine 6 months ago:
I see a lot of hate against the concept of doing one’s own research on the internet and it really bothers me. The problem is not doing one’s own research. The scientists that wrote this paper also did their own research. All scientists (should) do their own research. That’s inherent to science and that’s part of what got humanity this far. The problem is that some people lack the capabilities to properly assess information sources and draw correct conclusions from them. So these people end up with incorrect beliefs. Of course they could just “trust the experts” instead, but how are they supposed to know which experts to trust if they’re not good at assessing sources of information? Finding those experts is in itself a task that requires you to do your own research.
TL;DR: I think this hate on “doing your own research” is unjustified. People believing nonsense is a problem that is inescapable and inherent to humanity.
- Comment on Too Damn High... 6 months ago:
Of which sugars: Image
- Comment on WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL 6 months ago:
NOW I CAN SEE THE WALES LOOMING OUT OF THE DARK
- Comment on Can willpower be trained ? 7 months ago:
Is this not just a (mildly oversimplified) framing of what psychologists call ego depletion [1]? This appears to be a well-replicated finding. I don’t see any reason to call it “wildly incorrect”.
[1] The strength model of self-control. psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-18261-013
- Comment on Can willpower be trained ? 7 months ago:
This blog post summarizes the science nicely: …stanford.edu/…/a-conversation-about-the-science-… TL;DR: You can train your willpower. It does act like a limited resource. But most importantly, it is strongly affected by your sleep, nutrition and stress level.
I found that mindfulness meditation was helpful for me. Practically, you can achieve an effect that is similar to having strengthened willpower by organizing your life in such a way that you don’t encounter many temptations in the first place.
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 7 months ago:
It doesn’t feel like sexual harassment to them because it’s directed towards a straight male. Change the words to “stable girl” and everyone would call it creepy instead of funny (as they should, because it is). Don’t try to reason with these people, it will just needlessly make you angry.
- Comment on Do you think these guys should expand to the international market? 8 months ago:
It’s a “Büromöbel” (office furniture) company.
- Comment on Encountering mostly promotional articles in tech RSS feed 8 months ago:
Users be like “I’m encountering mostly promotional articles in my RSS feed”
My brother in christ, you curated the feed
- Comment on Philosophy meme 8 months ago:
Honest question: if a person living in the west in the 21st century thinks they should have the right to take people of a different race as their own personal slaves, do you think there is no basis to call this person immoral? The best we can do is say that this person is incompatible with the time and place they are in?