DeepGradientAscent
@DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev
- Comment on Zionists doing a rave to block aid trucks at Ker Shalom crossing while Palestinians are starving 8 months ago:
The two have been intimately intertwined for quite a long time.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 8 months ago:
To them politics is not about ideas, or policies, or problem solving, or good governance. It’s all about identity.
I want to push back a little. Politics, or more specifically, political affiliation or advocacy of a specific political philosophy is part of one’s identity.
Their error, which also reveals a limitation of their capacity for abstraction, is that her background and other traits are sole determinants of her identity in political discourse, at least publicly.
This is a good example of “correlation doesn’t mean causation.”
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
To an extent.
My professional ANN experience is with computer vision and object detection. A bit with image and sound GANs too.
LLMs that I’ve spent time training and experimenting with (and I argue GANs as a class of ANN, in general) tend to “hallucinate” or “dream harder” after several tens of queries within the same instance. But one can improve output “fidelity” based on constraint parameters on the user and inference self-check algorithms.
- Comment on fat time 9 months ago:
Paradoxically, tolerant societies can’t tolerate intolerance.
The same applies to absolutism, the Sith, the Jedi, the Republic, and a long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.
I stand by my statement.
- Comment on fat time 9 months ago:
It’s good for some people, in moderation. Not for others.
Only Sith deal in absolutes.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 9 months ago:
The data on a site like that is ridiculously valuable. Sooner or later someone may decide to give a marketing company contracted by a big pharma company just one little peak at some data.
In the Untitled States, that data is protected via several statutes, HIPAA being the most widely known and robust governance over such information.
- Comment on Tough break, kid... 9 months ago:
As a professional in the field of artificial neural networks, I endorse this meme wholeheartedly and will figuratively slake my thirst for schadenfreude on the tears of this child with joy.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 10 months ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 11 months ago:
I would’ve thought that number would be higher. Surprised at only 15%!
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
I’m an American who’s been lucky enough to travel to many other countries and currently living in the EU. Blanket statements on the praise-worthiness is stupid; one should only praise things, people, and nations when and where they deserve it. There’s a lot to admire and there’s a lot to be disgusted at when considering just about every country and government.
What I find socially in the EU culture is that people are far more exclusionary, prone to isolationism, and prejudicial about my and my countrymen’s competence and intelligence than what I was told to expect. I expected some “haha, dumb American” memes, but I didn’t expect people here to honestly believe everyone thinks and acts like our worst. It was very eye-opening in a negative way.
EU citizens need to stop treating outsiders as 1-dimensional caricatures, but regrettably, that’s been one of humanity’s greatest faults, and I doubt it will be rectified anytime soon. I try not to get too butt-hurt about it, as we say, but it is irksome after encountering that attitude in conversation after conversation.
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
Everyday. I am an audiophile and I prefer analog signal audio fidelity over Bluetooth, though I will admit wireless audio has come a long way in quality since its inception. Also, I resent having to charge another device in day-to-day use.
- Comment on I bet Rockstar is thinking twice about *checks notes* making a normal looking female character. 11 months ago:
“Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.”
- Comment on Title 11 months ago:
Meh. They’re all stone cold classics.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
Tankies.
Apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the DPRK, and any other authoritarian genocidal cult that champions “collectivism” for the “people”.
Analogous to the pigs in Animal Farm.
- Comment on Chad Pacific 11 months ago:
The Earth is smoother than a cue ball.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
A pox upon both their houses.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I’ll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing.
And fuck them too.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Many Bothans died to bring me this coffee this morning.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
Eat your lunch, Helen.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
Cruelty of “hustle” or “work culture” is an imperative for the parasitic ownership class precisely because it ensures the working classes do not have the free time to collectively bargain.
A 3-day work week is antithetical to keeping the proletariat under the boot heel of wage slavery.
- Comment on What does a PhD mean? 11 months ago:
You know you can pull out every once in a while, right?
- Comment on Landlords Throw Party to Celebrate Being Able to Evict People Again 1 year ago:
The irony of your username notwithstanding, you can just sell your place. Being a landlord is an inefficient sucker’s bid to make money for the past 25 years at least.
- Comment on We, The Based 1 year ago:
The varietals of authoritarians and their ilk have a “safe space” to voice their opinions here. Just like the rest of us.
They, however, aren’t safe from critique, contempt, and ridicule, which, in my opinion, they completely deserve. If they get real uppity in real life, in fact, it’s necessary for an open and free society to check their claims on their inbred theories of “might makes right” with a little bit of naked counter-aggression (*winks at purple lib-left).
A “fascist safe space” would imply that their opinions are not allowed to be challenged when voiced (or typed in this case), you bitch-made sippy-cup-throwing invertebrate shit-heel.
PCM is a live-fire exercise, and this clown-ass n***a wants errybody usin’ nerf guns. Fuck outta here, bitch-ass Emily.
- Comment on Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them 1 year ago:
Your reply got me thinking about some variants of market socialism I read about in undergrad, the names of which I can’t recall.
Generally speaking, artificial scarcity in its myriad variations would be abolished in sectors of the economy that are directly tied to housing, food, non-cosmetic medicine, and other categories directly encompassing the UN declaration of human rights.
Said abolishments, legislative, executive, and judicial purview of the sectors in question would be decided by direct referendum votes of the citizenry, instead of representative vote. Representative legislature would be voted in a ranked-choice format instead of “winner-takes-all” balloting.
- Comment on WeWork founder remains a billionaire even with firm’s bankruptcy | The Straits Times 1 year ago:
Humanity
