mindbleach

@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STRAIGHT 2 JAIL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas, they’re the universal spooky bird. They show up in fucking Avengers Endgame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦈🦈🦈⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  See similar review of ant emoji.

  “Firefox: that is a termite.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have no idea how much labor a washing machine saves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that any box folds clothes. If you mean folded such that they don’t wrinkle, I think you’re looking for a closet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ryedaft, founder of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Systems include plumbing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Protesters urged not to give pretext for what fuckers are already doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We automated plumbing. It’s called plumbing.

  Same deal for laundry, dishes, farming-- there’s so much stuff where human labor has been almost entirely eliminated, and people still bitch about the tiny remaining fraction. Ugh, you have to put the dishes in the box that effortlessly cleans them, and then take them out? That’s bullshit. Where’s my robot maid!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘We changed scope and it’s your problem’ does not parse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new SNW episode "What is Starfleet?" has problematic, even dangerous connotations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This kinda sounds like ‘Why did the creators make the sudden easy answer blatantly unbelievable? Are they stupid?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could Lucasarts not secure the rights for “Fistful?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite possibly, yes. But how much is “a lot?” A wide network acts like many permutations.

  Probing the space with small networks and brief training sounds faster, but that too is recreated in large networks. They’ll train for a bit, mark any weights near zero, reset, and zero those out.

  What training many small networks would be good for is experimentation. Super deep and narrow, just five big dumb layers, fewer steps with more heads, that kind of thing. Maybe get wild and ask a question besides “what’s the next symbol.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nevermind tearing a page out of your own copy of a book is not a copyright issue… at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Defragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a difference, besides SSDs tending to be plugged-in all the time? Maybe better firmware?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… an SD card?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure? Check.

  Where you jumped in is me, pointing out, repeatedly, that LLMs and IT have nothing to do with the actual article. Y’know, the doctors I keep mentioning? They’re not decorative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You literally did.

  “Concerning that the same is happening in medical even for the experts.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You’re making a faulty comparison. The thing in this article is exclusively for experts. Using it made them better doctors, but when they stopped using it, they were out-of-practice at the old way. Like any skill you stop exercising. Especially at an expert level. Your junior programmers incompetently trusting LLMs is not the same problem in any direction.

  This is genuinely important, because people are developing prejudice against an entire branch of computer science. This stupid headline pretends AI made cancer detection worse. Cancer’s kind of a big deal! Disguising the fact that detection rates improved with this tool, by fixating on how they got worse without it, may cost lives.

  A lot of people in this thread are theatrically advocating the importance of deep understanding of complex subjects, and then giving a kneejerk “fuckin’ AI, am I right?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonk.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bop it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some guy blogged that the smart ones move to advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neural networks becoming practical is world-changing. This lets us do crazy shit we have no idea how to program sensibly. Dead-reckoning with an accelerometer could be accurate to the inch. Chroma-key should rival professional rotoscoping. Any question with a bunch of data and a simple answer can be trained at some expense and then run on an absolute potato.

  So it’s downright bizarre that every single company is fixated on guessing the next word with transformers. Alternatives like text diffusion and mamba pop up and then disappear, without so much as a ‘so that didn’t work’ blog post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not talking about LLMs.

  These doctors didn’t ask ChatGPT “does this look like cancer.” We’re talking about domain-specific medical tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should urologists still train to detect diabetes by taste? We wouldn’t want the complexity of modern medicine to stunt their growth. These quacks can’t sniff piss with nearly the accuracy of Victorian doctors.

  When a tool gets good enough, not using it is irresponsible. Sawing lumber by hand is a waste of time. Farmers today can’t use scythes worth a damn. Programming in assembly is frivolous.

  At what point do we stop practicing without the tool? How big can the difference be, and still be totally optional? It’s not like these doctors lost or lacked the fundamentals. They’re just rusty at doing things the old way. If the new way is simply better, good, that’s progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Concerning that the same is happening in medical even for the experts.”

  It isn’t.

  Glad we cleared that up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tone policing, followed by essentialist insults. Zero self-awareness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay cool, that’s not what’s happening here.

  These aren’t “vibe doctors.” They’re trained oncologists and radiologists. They have the skill to do this without the new tool, but if they don’t practice it, that skill gets worse. Surprise.

  For comparison: can you code without a compiler? Are you practiced? It used to be fundamental. There must be e-mails lamenting that students rely on this newfangled high-level language called C. Those kids’ programs were surely slower… and ten times easier to write and debug. At some point, relying on a technology becomes much smarter than demonstrating you don’t need it.

  If doctors using this tool detect cancer more reliably, they’re better doctors. You would not pick someone old-fashioned to feel around and reckon about your lump, even if they were the best in the world at discerning tumors by feel. You’d get an MRI. And you’d want it looked-at by whatever process has the best detection rates. Human eyeballs might be in second place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit, it’s my analogy. And I made clear - the underlying skill still exists.

  These doctors can still spot cancer. They’re just rusty at eyeballing it, after several months using a tool that’s better than their eyeballs.

  X-rays probably made doctors worse at detecting tumors by feeling around for lumps. Do you want them to fixate on that skill in particular? Or would you prefer medical care that uses modern technology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not that kind of AI. It’s not an LLM trained on WebMD. You cannot reason about this domain-specific medical tool, based on your experience with ChatGPT.