Kichae
@Kichae@lemmy.ca
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
Honestly the most impressive part of LLMs is the tokenizer that breaks down the request, not the predictive text button masher that comes up with the response.
Yes, exactly! It’s ability to parse the input is incredible. It’s the thing that has that “wow” factor, and it feels downright magical.
Unfortunately, that also makes people intuitively trust its output.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
It “knows” as in it has access to the information and the ability to provide the right info for the right context.
It doesn’t, though, any more than you have access to the information in a pile of 10 million shredded documents.
- Comment on [SciShow] The Solar System is Beige 4 weeks ago:
Hey now, Venus has plenty of features! There’s that cloud, and that other cloud, and some clouds over there, and…
- Comment on Total Solar Eclipse - From 30 Years to 3 Minutes & 20 Seconds 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, my photography issues were similar, re: unfamiliar context. I’m still puzzled as to why the quicksetting menu works totally differently when using it in mirrorless mode. But oh well. There’s always… 2044??? Oh, crap.
I admit, other than a better lens with a tighter view, the bits of equipment I really wished I’d invested in were a tracking motor and a shutter remote. I paid zero attention to my camera during totality, but I still had this nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that I should check my centering, and I didn’t need that.
- Comment on Total Solar Eclipse - From 30 Years to 3 Minutes & 20 Seconds 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t plan to view the eclipse over Potato World, but arriving at the hotel and discovering that it was next door did seem like a sign from the universe.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
Ot depends on which colours you mean.
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
Pictures turned out ok! I should have done a dry run for my totality setup, as I wanted to do some bracketed exposures and assumed my DSLR would let me do that the same way in live display mode as it does in optical viewfinder mode, and it… didn’t. But the pictures I did get are a reasonable, if insufficient facsimile of the experience.
As for the real deal… I’ll have to update everyone once I’ve processed it. It was clear as crystal, and a perfect day. I was totally unprepared in every way that mattered. I don’t yet have words.
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
That’s how I viewed 2017! Went outside on my lunch break to watch the bananas on the sidewalk while everyone around me went about seemingly totally unaware of what was going on right above and below them
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
He is! Though I’m not sure how anyone has anything left in the tank after the eclipse for a talk, even from him
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
False alarm. They just have an inflatable planetarium set up inside. No potato displays at all :(
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
So, apparently Potato World is actually open today, unannounced. So, just this once,
everybody livesI really can have it all - Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need glasses during totality, if you happen to be in its path. If you’re not, actully looking at the sun is the least interesting part of a pretty eh event, anyway.
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
Right??!?
And it’s a pretty big place, all things considered. But it’s seemingly only open from September to mid-October.
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
You’ve had Potato World all this time, and you didn’t share it with your neighbours??!?
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that it’s still a surreal experience even when overcast. Though, that’s what I had to believe to actually book the hotel room and days off work as somene living on the north-atlantic coast.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 45 comments
- Comment on I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade 2 months ago:
Ooo, is it made by the people I work for? Because this story sounds incredibly familiar to me.
- Comment on Bluesky Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters 2 months ago:
Federated means you shoulder the cost of hosting the bits users care about, while they harvest all the value in what you post!
- Comment on What normies see when someone posts here claiming Disco isn't canon 2 months ago:
This is a hot take out of, like, 1979. The general public hasn’t had this relationship to Trek in a long ass time.
- Comment on Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible 2 months ago:
The Misskey forks are definitely the best UX as an end user I’ve tested out. And I found them easier to set up than Lemmy. But I also found that they caused frequent CPU spikes on my VPS.
I’m not sure if Mastodon does that or not, as I didn’t try running it, but I didn’t have the same experience with Akkoma or Friendica.
That said, I found Icefish’s implementation of the Mastodon API a godsend for mobile use.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 5 months ago:
The person one responds to isn’t always the audience for the response.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 5 months ago:
Leaving harmful public opinions unchallenged presents the illusion of widespread agreement.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 5 months ago:
The thing is, what a politically engaged person thinks of as “politics” and what a disengaged one does probably has limited overlap. People probably aren’t bringing the Tories or the Republicans up in a D&D community, but bring up race portrayal or representation for disabled people and watch the sparks fly.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 5 months ago:
Also that – thanks in large part to movements like the Arab Spring using Twitter to organize and publicize – it became the go-to social media for reporters. The news -> celebrity -> news cycle closes itself nicely there, making it very difficult for either group to go anywhere else.
- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 5 months ago:
I would say it’s basic pattern recognition.
- Comment on Please don't let this be Gene's legacy. 5 months ago:
I don’t remember much about the show, but I do remember there was a distinct tone shift in, I want to say, season 2 that made me go from “skeptical but willing” to “WTF is this bullshit?”
- Comment on If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless? 5 months ago:
The algorithms are the same. The models are different, being trained on a smaller data set.
- Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. 5 months ago:
Some of my main communities didn’t take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It’s wild.
I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
Someday.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 5 months ago:
It was ruined long before he touched it
It just made it worse faster