benni

@benni@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love ternary for assigning to constants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you've ever wondered how many poptarts you can stack on a borzoi, it's at least 8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1D and 2D are just mathematical abstractions.

  So are all dimensions. The number of dimensions is just an attribute of a vector space, and vector spaces are just models we humans define to describe natural phenomenona. You can claim that some of these models are more useful than others. But at no point does it make sense to claim that a model “exists” or not. There would be no meaning to such a statement, it would contain no information. Not wrong, just nonsensical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what kinds of allegations you’re trying to insinuate here. This isn’t about me anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s irrelevant. But if someone leaves it, someone else will have to take it, is what I’m saying. Like in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what do you think happens to all the shit you leave around? Someone’s gotta take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube comment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if memes aren't better than TikTok for your brain?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The well-documented symptoms of various mental illnesses are a clear sign for needing help. Believing that psychologists, or at least those psychologists one has access to, don’t have the competence to help is no such symptom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if memes aren't better than TikTok for your brain?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually agree that they have similar effects if consumed similarly. Avoiding the mass consumption of short-form, attention-grabbing content is a great choice when you notice a decline in your ability to focus. I’ve occasionally done the same thing in my life, sometimes even cutting internet usage more radically than that, and it always created strongly noticeable improvements (or rather noticeable returns to my more natural state of mind).

  That being said, I still browse lemmy memes and think it’s somewhat different from similar media for several reasons (these are broad generalizations, of course there are exceptions):

  • Memes are more honest as they’re mainly aimed at making you laugh, and you can easily verify yourself whether you found them funny or not. Short-form videos will often contain stories, advice, or information, the value or danger of which you cannot verify so easily.
  • At least if you’re looking in the right communities, memes are from the community members itself, not some slop by some influencer trying to get clicks at any price.
  • I can browse through top of the day of my lemmy meme communities in a relatively short amount of time, get some enjoyment out of it, and then just move on with my life. I don’t think there is an equivalent platform for short videos. They want to keep you scrolling endlessly.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High Quality Offline Music - マリウス⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, the songs Lateralus and Reflection are both from the Lateralus album.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if this is relevant for your case, but make sure you’re also blocking subdomains of the specified domains. Adguard for example allows doing that easily via regex-like rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High Quality Offline Music - マリウス⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LATERALUS SPOTTED!! SPIRAL OUT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  from Skywind

  Thank you for your service 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He didnt calculate with that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Deeply obscure reference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like you said, society’s version of morality. So it can be a very important distinction because your own version of morality might differ. Not being aware of this distinction is dangerous because it stops people from developing their own moral compass. This own morality is more firm and can be relied on in the absence of shame, or even when society encourages behavior one finds immoral.

  I’m even gonna go on a wilder speculation here and claim that one of the driving factors behind humanity’s worst atrocities was that large portions of society who had the potential in them for a firm morality rooted in empathy and love never developed this potential.

  On a less import note, not being aware of this distinction can breed a lot of resentment and unhappiness, if someone is constantly compelled to follow rules that they, deep down, consider to be bullshit.

  Of course that doesn’t mean I encourage people to just disregard society’s version of morality and lightly assume that they know better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein puts my morality into perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you really feeling guilty about not tipping because of the moral implications, or do you just feel socially shamed? Important distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing personal information freely and willingly with anonymous strangers online very security oriented⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still remember?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some Audi, it was quite nice and new and the instructor would pet it and whisper to it every time I stalled the engine during lessons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes a lot of sense. Lying and manipulation are done specifically to achieve goals. A defining characteristic of morals is that you’re supposed to follow them even if it’s neutral or disadvantageous for you. If someone follows “morals” to achieve a personal goal, they’re not actually following morals, they’re just acting in a way that incidentally looks moral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea. For me it’s a “you recognize it when you see it” kinda thing. Normally I’m in favor of just measuring things with a clearly defined test or benchmark, but it is in the nature of large neural networks that they can be great at scoring on any desired benchmark while failing to be good at the underlying ability that the benchmark was supposed to test (overfitting). I know this sounds like a lazy answer, but it’s a very difficult question to define something based around generalizing and reacting to new challenges.

  But whether LLMs do have “actual intelligence” or not was not my point. You can definitely make a case for claiming they do, even though I would disagree with that. My point was that calling them AIs instead of LLMs bypasses the entire discussion on their alleged intelligence as if it wasn’t up for debate. Which is misleading, especially to the general public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true that the word has always been used loosely, but there was no issue with it because nobody believed what was called AI to have actual intelligence. Now this is no longer the case, and so it becomes important to be more clear with our words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should start by not following this marketing speak. The sentence “AI isn’t intelligent” makes no sense. What we mean is “LLMs aren’t intelligent”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s exactly what I meant.

• What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send bulb n plugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read it in this song’s rhythm lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to watch more Elfenlied, but I doubt it’s gonna happen. Maybe I should just read the Manga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are rumors about a spiritual successor to SEL named Despera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sierpinski triangle programs by 5 AI models⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not pretty, but you can print one in a single line of python:

  print(*[“”.join("  " if i & j else “MM” for j in range(64)) for i in range(64)], sep=“\n”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, what the fisting enthusiast said. It’ll be fine.