khepri
@khepri@lemmy.world
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
They are useful for doing the kind of boilerplate boring stuff that any good dev should have largely optimized and automated already. If it’s 1) dead simple and 2) extremely common, then yeah an LLM can code for you, but ask yourself why you don’t have a time-saving solution for those common tasks already in place? As with anything LLM, it’s decent at replicating how humans in general have responded to a given problem, if the problem is not too complex and not too rare, and not much else.
- Comment on ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like to judge idiots too harshly, but if you bought a product marketed as an encrypted toilet camera you deserve whatever happens to you
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah this is the kind of shit you literally couldn’t put into a fictional movie because viewers would not buy that a first-world democracy would do that to their citizens. You’d need an intentionally over-the-top cartoonishly evil fictional entity like Vault-Tec to even approach a “Moron Corps” scenario in fiction…
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
And don’t forget Gomer Pyle.
- Comment on it's free psst 2 weeks ago:
Where I live I see mom and dad getting pulled over all the time for going 30 in a 25 on the way to drop Little Timmy off at preschool, so different everywhere I guess.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
Maybe he’s referring to the fact that McNamara, the architect of this and all-around terrible person, was an Elder in his Presbyterian church during the time he was also conceiving and running this program. IDK, that’s the first direct connection I could find. That, and a lot of this was under Kennedy, who was famously and publicly and proudly the first Catholic president. So I agree it’s not a great look for Kennedy in terms of his Catholicism being a major part of his identity, to have allowed his SecDef to run this program on “the least among us” if you will.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
Holy crap this is what Forrest Gump was about I never realized…
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 weeks ago:
Boy EA really hit rock bottom and just keep on a-diggin didn’t they.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
In highschool we used to just repeat large portions of the script of Grail to each other in place of actual human conversation. I can still trot out the whole “You there, old woman!” scene by memory when the moment calls for it.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
Or “like my dear Pa-Par” in some versions 🤣
- Comment on fawlty towers? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone trying to look serious or intellectual and Cleese just grinning like an idiot in the background love it
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 3 weeks ago:
You, sir, are obviously not thinking of the children /s
- Comment on Seems legit 3 weeks ago:
Wow, just popped it onto my very slow desktop and this little model rips haha. I really think tiny LLMs with a good LoRA on top are going to be a huge deal going forward
- Comment on Seems legit 3 weeks ago:
That’s so crazy that an LLM capable of doing anything at all can be that small! That’s leaves room for like an entire .avi episode of family guy at dvd resolution on there, which is the natural choice for the remaining space of course
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, these are really silly if you can use quotes or like place/person names. Like if my Dad named Had lived in a town called Had Had, and his favorite thing to say was “had had had”…it just becomes like stupid to say that’s some crazy example of a grammatical sentence even if it technically is.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol
- Comment on Seems legit 3 weeks ago:
Could you crunch an LLM into 700Mb that was still functional? Cause this looks like a fun thing to actually do as a joke.
- Comment on What if I told you that refusing to trade your life time for money is a good and respectable choice 3 weeks ago:
Considering the average salary of a neurosurgeon in the US is $565,882 to $988,473, and he did that for 10 years, I’d say it’s safer to say that trading your life really quickly for lots and lots of money and then fucking off to the mountains with a couple mil in the bank beats “good and respectable” any day.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 3 weeks ago:
I do feel like I have more authentic interactions on here. It’s hard not to see how much more heavily a huge platform like reddit is botted and astroturfed, and controlled by a handful of owners, mods and powerusers compared to the nascent fediverse. Not that we don’t have those things here too, I think Lemmy just hasn’t had a high enough profile, yet, to warrant much attention from the same bad actors who run vast portions of reddit, X, and facebook.
- Comment on Who wore it better? 3 weeks ago:
Second fun fact, they flatly refused to acknowledge the dresses entirely when asked over and over about them, just saying what a lovely night and event it was and all the stars are out etc. 🤣
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely everything requires assumptions, even our most objective and “laws of the universe” type observations rely on sets of axioms or first principles that must simply be accepted as true-though-unprovable if we are going to get anyplace at all even in math and the hard sciences let along philosophy or social sciences.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 3 weeks ago:
This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets “invented” one a decade or so. There’s just no way this is humanity’s very first crack at “washing machine but it does people” lol
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 3 weeks ago:
What’s spiking is everything needed to run a AI datacenter, in order. First they spiked the price of GPUs. the very instant that started to cool then DRAM spiked. Electricity itself might be next, and we’ll be on to water before too long.
- Comment on Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam? 3 weeks ago:
An actual picture, no, he proceeded Nicéphore Niépce by some years.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 4 weeks ago:
I read that as “War Snails” and was soooo excited for 0.25 seconds.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m just not getting the distinction between “The Fuhrer” literally redirecting to the Hitler page on Wikipedia, isn’t that Wikipedia saying those two terms are so synonymous that they don’t need separate pages?
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure Grokipedia is dumb as hell but so is this article, just look at the actual Wikipedia on Hitler, it says nearly word-for-word that exactly:
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 4 weeks ago:
Passing the same $300 billion dollars back and forth between 5 companies does not make a great quarter ya nob, everyone sees how close the game is to falling apart.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 4 weeks ago:
haha just imaging people shwoing off their collections, “here’s my Mr. Rogers chatbot, and Thomas Jefferson, and even Luffy from One Piece! And uh…oh yeah over here we have EpsteinGPT for when I, I mean for if, um…its for lulz ok?! Where are you going?!”
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 4 weeks ago:
I bet it would not be hard a 3d print a little ring with a twisty arrow that you could use to “save” your last handle placement, kinda a neat idea.
