L0rdMathias

@L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So the thing that doesn’t actually teach languages will now not teach even worse languages?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t run away unless it makes you stronger because of it. Once something has been gained, never yield it without a purpose or a strategy - even if that ends up being a bad decision it was at least yours to make.

  It is a difficult endeavor to gain new ground; it is nigh impossible to fully recover that which has been lost.

  After you have ceded all your land and yielded every advantage, where will you seek shelter and from what will you find strength?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IRS is an acronym which stands for Internal Revenue Service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did it! Fandom rebels defeated the looming threat of DEI.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “We did it!” The people exclaim, as it is revealed that their Tyrant died of old age having lived a long and satisfying life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you believe this stems from your personal perceptions and observations, the answer likely involves a paradigm shift that random people on the internet can’t realistically assist with beyond basic advice. Whenever I’m stuck on a problem and I don’t know where to go, a good place to start is collect more data and widen your research. Good luck o7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eye got chu fam

  My favorite part, is that ALL of the current AI companion products use subscriptions to LLM services instead of having built in models.

  Which means ifwhen the company stops paying their bill, or if the AI company goes under, your waifus goes kaput. Or more likely just restructuring because of a buyout. It’s already happened with a few companies -> big tech buys out the company then stops supporting the product line, that then customers get mad. IIRC, coincidentally HP is being sue for doing just that with some recent buyout right now lmao.

  The ante seems to get upped each time, and there exists at least one unstable lonely maniac that will not consider legal consequences to their actions when they are suddenly rugpulled out of their unhealthy addictive relationship, so there’s still room for the bubble to burst in an even more epic crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No! bUt ThEy HaVe Ur EmAiL!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man questioned in case of murdered health exec⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet is serious business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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'?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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'?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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.