L0rdMathias
@L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess 1 day ago:
Your account is not your posts. Why would one assume that deleting the account would remove the posts? When a person stops speaking the things they said do not become unsaid. When they die their actions don’t retroactively undo themselves.
- Comment on "Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively? 2 days ago:
Any fantasy by nature must be greater than reality, therefore any reality check must involve some kind of reduction from more fantastic to less fantastic.
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 days ago:
Oh man I’ll try, but I can’t make any promises …
Modern particle physics breaks particles down into two groups: Dice that are weighted (bosons) and Dice that aren’t weighted but also aren’t fair (fermions).
Bosons always roll the same number, because they’re weighted.
Fermions always roll numbers, but we have no clue how many sides they have, or what numbers they can even roll because they change each time we roll them.
Classical Computers ignore this problem. They just count the number of dice they have, and are really really good at rolling precise amounts of dice and putting them into specific labelled jars. Their math works by carefully keeping these jars organized, and are limited by how quickly and accurately the CPU can organize amounts of dice.
It turns out if you roll a set of dice enough times, no matter what set of dice you use as long as they are random, you eventually wind up with a similar looking “standard distribution” of probabilities. Quantum computers let us zero out the dice to a fixed starting position, kind of like zeroing out a scale, and then we can use that to make calculations. This process is very sensitive and difficult and has a lot of scaling issues.
Enter Anti-Dice. Anti-Dice are the polar opposites of existing Dice. They are just like all the other particles but they have their numbers printed upside down, and their shapes are inverted.
A Majorana particle is a particle that takes this metaphor even Further BEYOND!!! It is a type of Fermion (dice that we can roll and will give us random numbers instead of the same number each time), but whenever we roll a Majorana particle it turns into its own Anti-Dice. This is a really cool concept that Microsoft is using here as a proof of concept to make a quantum computer that is easier to scale up, because now if we roll say a bunch of 6s and a bunch of -6s, we know it’s actually supposed to be the same number because of how Majorana particles are defined, and we can theoretically use this cheaper and easier method to scale up a quantum chip.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
Yes, they could remain private but they are attempting to go public. This action is a legal speedbump that they must now work really hard to maneuver around.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
This is corporate trolling. Open AI is trying to go public soon, and Elon did this to fuck with that.
Massive oversimplification but basically: In the United States, you are required to take the best offer when selling a company, unless you can argue in court that you had reasons not to sell to whomever placed the highest bid. Because of this offer, as open AI attempts to go public, they will have to either to be close to Elon’s bid, forced to sell to him, go to court and fight him ther, or be forced to remain private.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 1 month ago:
Yawn been there, done that. Let’s set our sights to the future of America, not on assimilating the losers.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 1 month ago:
No! bUt ThEy HaVe Ur EmAiL!!!
- Comment on Man questioned in case of murdered health exec 2 months ago:
He’s probably gonna need that 50k to help pay off his health insurance once people find who snitched. Another chump takes the bait.
- Comment on Suspect freed from custody over suicide capsule death in Switzerland 2 months ago:
Because laws care about intent. A person died as part of an experiment on the behalf of a for-profit corporation. The person was under extreme duress and constant pain - people under these conditions can be convinced to do things they wouldn’t normally do. The governments involved need to ensure that the person was not coerced into using the pod, because there was no pre-approval process and they can’t ask the deceased post mortem what their thoughts are.
- Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 3 months ago:
Investors have invested lots of money into these companies. This means in some form or another these companies have agreed to pay back these investors in some way. You can answer this by quite literally thinking of money like a river, and the motion of that river is what gives energy to businesses so they can do their things.
In a normal not-bubble market, there is a flow of cash that goes from investors, into the company, and then back out to investors so they can do other things with it.
In a bubble market a lot of cash is flowing into the company, but little or no cash is flowing out back to investors. There are two possible things that happen here, either the cash eventually starts flowing again and we’re all good back to normal after some stabilization period, or people stop pumping cash into the business and the dam breaks. All that money is lost, or all that potential business energy is lost, or some combination of the two no matter how you slice it it’s wasted effort.
To keep with the water metaphor the AI market is like a hose that’s wound up in a box we can’t see into. We’ve pumped a ton of water into this hose and haven’t seen anything come out the other end. There could be a leak somewhere, or maybe we don’t have enough water to even get through the hose and people will want to use their water for other things instead. One thing we do know is that we’ve devoted so much water to this operation that if something does go wrong it has to go wrong spectacularly.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 months ago:
What is with all these wall of text answers guys?
Twitter people like Twitter and Twitter man for making it. Twitter now not Twitter is now X and no more Twitter man. Twitter people not like TeslaSpace man. Twitter man make BlueSky.
No elephant needed to make this story work. Remember: twitter brain cannot handle too many characters.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 3 months ago:
Just teach them tic tac toe first.
- Comment on Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week 3 months ago:
Intel QA failing to audit third party suppliers properly is Intel’s fault.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 3 months ago:
Oh boy! I’m so excited to wait months for an update to a buggy mess for the update to simply adds a new texture for cans of beans and a new style of jeans.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 3 months ago:
Circles are good at math, but what to do if you not have circle shape? Easy, redefine problem until you have numbers that look like the numbers the circle shape uses. Now we can use circle math on and solve problems about non-circles!
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 months ago:
The internet is serious business.
- Comment on Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month 3 months ago:
They’re finally ending the official servers, releasing the source code, and allowing private servers?
- Comment on They're Bot's BAtman, thEres No ruLes about Bots 3 months ago:
TAS runs are often are less about the challenge of beating a game and more about displaying mastery in knowledge and understanding of the game’s code.
Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get it right off the bat, even just casually viewing them requires a fundamental understanding of how games and computers work.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 months ago:
Both answers are correct. 20 years divides into 5 sets of 4, but that’ would only be 5 elections if you started counting on an election year.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 months ago:
That’s less than 10% of the country’s life. Just because you didn’t exist before you were born does not mean that others did not.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 4 months ago:
“They found the smart TVs did not appear to upload any screenshots or audio data when streaming from Netflix or other third-party apps, mirroring YouTube content streamed on a separate phone or laptop or when sitting idle. But the smart TVs did upload snapshots when showing broadcasts from the TV antenna or content from an HDMI-connected device.”
The world is owned by a big club, and you’re not in it.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 4 months ago:
You can’t just go out and buy a perpetual license for any random thing you purchase.
- Comment on Just tri to watch this.... 4 months ago:
Q1: Assume the blue wind is blowing at an average rate of 12m/s, at a heading of due South. An angel with a mass of 3000kg is heading towards Tokyo and has a heading of 14 degrees north of due West. It has a maximums thrust of 400kps and is 2 miles from the city. How long can Shinji reasonably avoid getting in the robot, keeping the door to his heart shut, if we are to assume the angel has an attack range of 100m? What about an attack range of 300m? Assume the angel can destroy 4% of Tokyo per minute of it’s attack. A city survival rate of 70% is required.
Q2: Assume Shinji is too much of a bitch to get in the robot. A backup pilot is available on hand, but has suffered severe injuries. She will operate with a combat effectivness of 40%. A second backup is available, but needs to be imported from Germany. Which pilot would you choose in place of Shinji for the best chance of victory and why?
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 5 months ago:
Impossible to say. He certainly wouldn’t have been a real estate icon in the 80s and would probably not have been born a silver spoon trust fund baby.
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 5 months ago:
I agree with the sentiment, and understand completely what you’re trying to say. But I digress, because the lack of logic in this sorry excuse for an argument has to be dealt with.
So along with insulting me by assuming that I didn’t click on the link and was unable to figure out that In-N-Out was in the second position in that list, you are also trying to imply that the a burger place doesn’t belong on a list of 400 companies that are good to work for, simply because it’s a burger join. Simultaneously we must assume that being a burger joint is irrelevant, while ending the statement with the implication being that anyone can be a good employer if a lowly burger joint can figure it out.
Is the argument that a business built around the production and sale of hamburgers appearing on a list of good companies is a bad thing? Cuz that’s what the words say, it I don’t think that’s what you are trying to communicate.
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 5 months ago:
“Ur wrong lmao, source: because I felt it in my heart”
Are you actually willing to take that bet? That no employee hired within the past 5 years will ever make a comfortable salary working for the In-N-Out corporation? I want the cash value you are willing to lose for this claim written down before we proceed.
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 5 months ago:
Bro what?? In N Out burger is one of the best employers in the nation and are repeatedly recognized for their absurdly rare good treatment of employees. They’re one of the only businesses in that industry that focus on employee retention and career growth.
You really out here bashing the guy living his best life, making ends meet with minimal effort and maximum efficiency, under one of the best employers in the US, just because burger flipping “isn’t a skill and can teach nothing”.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 5 months ago:
It’s intentional damaging to sell the illusion. A near mint quality already opened and played cartridge from 20 years ago would be extremely suspicious.
- Comment on Harvard wouldn't lie 5 months ago:
THE BEST
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 5 months ago:
do nothing
Win
The gaben method works again