jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 18 hours ago:
I wasn’t super thrilled about the idea myself, but with the ability to disable it I figured I’d give it a try.
Personally it’s a really cool feature that adds to the experience.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
While the amount of debt has been ever growing, it hasn’t relative to GDP. When it has grown, it’s grown primarily due to policies from Bush and Trump. Both of these president’s also passed massive tax breaks which is a significant contributing factor to the national debt.
At the end of the day, the national debt only matters if we can’t pay it. All the cuts being made to federal spending right now are more significant because they will slow down the economy and cause reverberations for years to come (public research and investment are multipliers for the economy in many ways).
As you call out, we should be taxing billionaires, which points to the larger economic concern right now for America - economic disparity.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
You’ve really bought into the propaganda there, besides Clinton our national debt has always been the “highest” every year. The most important factor is foreign vs domestically held debt, and that ratio hasn’t changed for the worse.
Obviously we have some spending concerns, but financially that’s not the primary concern for the US right now (and we wouldn’t be talking tax cuts if it was).
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 1 week ago:
It’s weird cause technically adaptive traffic patterns are trained using tools like reinforcement learning, which is technically AI, however it’s the broad term AI and not GenAI.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 1 week ago:
I mean that’s the same thing with AI generated content. It’s all trained on a wide range of real people, how do you know what’s generated isn’t depicting an underage person, which is why laws like this are really dangerous.
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 week ago:
Are you arguing for direct democracy? Cause I don’t even know how that would work.
- Comment on Hardcore gaming 1 week ago:
SteamOS is still the main OS. I’ve just got a microsd for dual booting. I feel like a ROG Ally would be a downgrade at that point.
- Comment on Hardcore gaming 1 week ago:
I did install windows on a microsd to play some online games with my steamdeck. It’s a so-so experience, but at least means you can literally play anything on the steamdeck.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to find out it was just a guy in a suit.
- Comment on The geography of generative AI’s workforce impacts will likely differ from those of previous technologies 2 weeks ago:
Working in the field I think there is two things AI will make an impact on:
- Going after low skill white collar work (basically further automation of semi-skilled labor)
- Being an excuse to undercut high-skill white collar labor wages.
However, I suspect we’ll get a lot of the issues we saw with “outsourcing” where the end result is businesses pursuing cheaper outputs without concern for quality.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
It already exists, but the sands of time Metroidvania “Lost Crowns” was surprisingly good.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, OP seemed more curious about the technical aspects than just the absurdity of the comment (since pretty much every business uses SQL) so hoped a more technical explanation might be appreciated.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 weeks ago:
Sure, basically any time you have a many-to-many relationship you’ll have to repeat keys multiple times. Think students taking courses. You’d have a students table and a courses table, but the relationship is many students take many courses. So you’d want a third table for lookups where each row is [student_id, course_id].
This stackoverflow post has a similar example with authors and books - stackoverflow.com/…/how-do-i-model-a-many-to-many…
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 weeks ago:
If SSNs are used as a primary key (a unique identifier for a row of data) then they’d have to be duplicated to be able to merge data together.
However, even if they aren’t using ssn as an identifier as it’s sensitive information. It’s not uncommon to repeat data either for speed/performance sake, simplicity in table design, it’s in a lookup table, or you have disconnected tables.
Having a value repeated doesn’t tell you anything about fraud risk, efficency, or really anything. Using it as the primary piece of evidence for a claim isn’t a strong arguement.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thats fair, it’s a bit nerve racking (especially right now with everything going on). If you’ve got a good interest rate on the account then you’re at least not loosing too much value, but the main reason to invest is that money looses value over time (due to things like inflation).
Not a fiduciary or anything like that, but double check your at least getting at least 3% on your savings accounts, otherwise you’re basically throwing money away.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
So what do you invest in then? It feels really hard to find any opportunities outside of the stock market.
- Comment on The Last of Us totally blew me away 3 weeks ago:
People dying at the start of a zombie apocalypse is standard fair at this point. Finding someone in a post apocalyptic world based only on their name years later in a world where everyone is just barely surviving was a bit ridiculous.
It felt a bit like the inverse of Game of Thrones (where it felt like anyone could die), the second part decided this person must die.
- Comment on The Last of Us totally blew me away 3 weeks ago:
I just couldn’t get into part 2 and dropped it after the Joel scene. It just felt so over the top in trying to be depressing and I didn’t feel like slogging through a game that would twist the narrative just for the shock value.
Part one had moments of “everything that can go wrong will go wrong”, but part 2 felt like it jumped the shark (which felt more validated after reading the synopsis online).
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 3 weeks ago:
I think the core takeaway is your shouldn’t outsource core capabilities. If the code is that critical to your bottomline, pay for quality (which usually means no contractors - local or not).
If you outsource to other developers or AI it means most likely they will care less and/or someone else can just as easily come along and do it too.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 3 weeks ago:
Maybe below what investors or OpenAI thinks, but I think I’d take it. Unless they’ve got more secrets up their sleeve I don’t seem them ever being worth that much.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right a out data formatting being an issue and something that really does cause vendor lockin.
I would just think content creators would still want archive/backup of the final products (the video itself). For example could you imagine if a movie just disappeared because Adobe or someone shutdown.
- Comment on DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all 3 weeks ago:
Longer!=Detailed
Generally what they’re calling out is that DeepSeek currently rambles more. With LLMs the challenge is how to get the right answer most sussinctly because each extra word is a lot of time/money.
That being said, I suspect that really it’s all roughly the same. We’ve been seeing this back and forth with LLMs for a while and DeepSeek, while using a different approach, doesn’t really break the mold.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 4 weeks ago:
I think most of the tools have a way to download content, the issue is no one does or has a system for their backups. Which is the risk with the cloud, you’re putting all your eggs in someone elses basket.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 4 weeks ago:
This was actually something I found interesting with the brief TikTok shutdown in the US. A lot of creators only had their content in the editing software owned by TikTok or the app itself, meaning they lost access to all of their content.
The biggest risk of cloud only setups is you don’t own it.
- Comment on Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode 4 weeks ago:
The asynchronous games were a lot of fun. www.mariowiki.com/Nintendo_Land had a couple of them, like one where everyone is in first person mode chasing the tablet player who has a top down view.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 4 weeks ago:
I mean using proprietary data has been an issue with models as long as I’ve worked in the space. It’s always been a mixture of open weights, open data, open architecture.
I admit that it became more obvious when images/videos/audio became more accessible, but from things like facial recognition to pose estimation have all used proprietary datasets to build the models.
So this isn’t a new issue, and from my perspective not an issue at all. We just need to acknowledge that not all elements of a model may be open.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 4 weeks ago:
I mean, you can have open source weights, training data, and code/model architecture. If you’ve done all three it’s an open model, otherwise you state open “component”. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Comment on Will online only "Device Activation" become the norm for every device in the future? / Will everything require an app in the future? 4 weeks ago:
If you want to limit consumer decisions to subscription vs no-subscriptions than sure, but subscriptions are just one element of the choices people have to make.
You also have issues like data privacy, ethical labor, maintainability, etc. Too many things for everyone to keep up with and effectively vote with their wallet.
- Comment on Will online only "Device Activation" become the norm for every device in the future? / Will everything require an app in the future? 4 weeks ago:
There are a couple of problems with this logic and it’s why regulations are critical to a functioning world.
- Frequently people need something today(ish) and don’t have the luxury to wait. Food is a great example, but depending on the person/entity most things can end up being urgent (like I need a laptop today for work/school)
- No one knows the ins/outs of every industry. While Lemmys more technical users can see the issues with so many accounta/subscriptions, that doesn’t mean the general public does.
Its certainly more nuanced than that, but that’s just a quick breakdown of the challenges of voting with your wallet.
- Comment on Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations. 4 weeks ago:
Some AI can do math, but LLMs and Neural Networks aren’t designed to do complex math, as all of their operations are (typically) based around addition. If it has enough pathways it can learn multiplication through sheer brute force, but only within the input space (hence the articles comments about 3 or 4 digit numbers).
At the end of the day, LLMs are for processing text. Multimodal models are generally converting audio/images to text so you have a common means of evaluation. However, none of that is concerned about logic, which is fundamental for math.