Akuchimoya
@Akuchimoya@startrek.website
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
A little over a year ago, a guy tried to ask me out and I’m the process said a few dumb things in an attempt to impress me. The dumbest of them all was that he was planning to buy a Cybertruck as his next vehicle. By the time he’d said this, I’d already long made up my mind about this guy. Mind, this was the period of time when Elon was just an asshole and hadn’t gone full Nazi yet, but even then, this dude’s choice of vehicle told me I’d made the right choice.
Theseadays I wonder if that guy ever got his idiot truck, and, whether he did or not, if he’s changed his mind about it.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 weeks ago:
Librarians go to school to learn how to manage information, whether it is in book format or otherwise. (We tend to think of libraries as places with books because, for so much of human history, that’s how information was stored.)
They are not supposed to have more information in their heads, they are supposed to know how to find (source) information, catalogue and categorize it, identify good information from bad information, good information sources from bad ones, and teach others how to do so as well.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 weeks ago:
I had to tell a bunch of librarians that LLMs are literally language models made to mimic language patterns, and are not made to be factually correct. They understood it when I put it that way, but librarians are spread to be “information professionals”. If they, as a slightly better trained subset of the general public, don’t know that, the general public has no hope of knowing that.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 1 month ago:
The best use, for me, is asking ChatGPT to give me five (or however many) scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on a topic. Then I search for said articles by title and author name on my school library database.
It saves me so much time compared to doing a keyword search on said same database and reading a ton of abstracts to find a few articles. I can get to actually reading them and working on my assignment way faster.
AI is a great tool for people who use it properly.
- Comment on Master Replicas Reveals New Line of Star Trek Action Figures 2 months ago:
I’ve been waiting five years for Ruthie!
- Comment on Film Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31 2 months ago:
The movie ended up being what I expected from the trailer: a disappointment. This should have been a movie just about Georgiou, and a movie about Section 32 should have been something else a entirely.
The Hunger Games concept was kind of dumb, but I actually liked the San story. It gives Georgiou more depth and complexity, but it could have been a lot more. Unfortunately, it was just sandwiched in between an action-whodunnit with a lot of new characters (who were not adequately developed on their own rights) instead of being a drama with some action scenes, as a story like it should have been.
I love Michelle Yeoh, and I’ll watch her in anything, but this was a poorly written and directed movie that didn’t know what it should have been.
- Comment on Commander Charles “Gentlemen” Tucker III 2 months ago:
Trip was a complete gentleman… that time. He made no guarantees or warranties for future missions.
- Comment on TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book! 4 months ago:
How deeply disappointing. Yes, Nana will make money from sales, but it’s so clearly not about money. The idea of women viewing other women as competition is just another thing that keeps women down. This reflects so poorly on Sirtis, especially since she could have so much to say about how Troi’s character was treated and eventually became (a little) more than just feelings.
- Comment on Emmy Award Winner Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 5 months ago:
What I’d love is if her brother showed up with her too. (I love the rel-life connections.)