hikaru755
@hikaru755@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 weeks ago:
Oh that would also make sense, yeah
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 4 weeks ago:
I suspect that’s deliberate to make someone that speaks English and doesn’t know German still get the correct impression of what it actually sounds like, rather than get the spelling right
- Comment on Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users 1 month ago:
Reading the article, it seems like it will actually be opt-in for everyone
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
The algorithm is actually tailored to find out if/when you fall asleep while watching videos, and then recommends longer videos in autoplay when it believes you are, because they’ll get to play you more ads and cash out more.
You might be misremembering / misinterpreting a little there. This behavior is not intentional, it’s just a side effect of how the algorithm currently works. Showing you longer videos doesn’t equate to showing you more ads. On the contrary, if you get loads of short videos you’ll have way more opportunities to see pre-roll ads, but with longer videos, you’re just to just the mid-roll spots in that video. So YouTube doesn’t really have an incentive to make it work like that, it’s just accidental.
Here’s the spiffing Brit video on this, which I think you might have gotten this idea from: youtu.be/8iOjeb5DTZI
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
It is an algorithm that searches a dataset and when it can’t find something it’ll provide convincing-looking gibberish instead.
This is very misleading. An LLM doesn’t have access to its training dataset in order to “search” it. Producing convincing looking gibberish is what it always does, that’s its only mode of operation. The key is that the gibberish that comes out of today’s models is so convincing that it actually becomes broadly useful.
That also means that no, not everything an LLM produces has to have been in its training dataset, they can absolutely output things that have never been said before. There’s even research showing that LLMs are capable of creating actual internal models of real world concepts, which suggests a deeper kind of understanding than what the “stochastic parrot” moniker wants you to believe.
LLMs do not make decisions.
What do you mean by “decisions”? LLMs constantly make decisions about which token comes next, that’s all they do really. And in doing so, on a higher, emergent level they can make any kind of decision that you ask them to, the only question is how good those decisions are going be, which in turn entirely depends on the training data, how good the model is, and how good your prompt is.
- Comment on See-Through Windows Make Clean Electricity From Raindrops 2 months ago:
That kind of window has been around for a long time already. Also, let me introduce you to window awnings
- Comment on Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users 3 months ago:
It still protects you from your passwords being compromised in any way except through a compromise of the password manager itself. Yes, it’s worse than keeping them separate, but it’s also still much better than not having 2fa at all.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Not that I disagree with you generally, but in the recent case, manual door release wouldn’t have helped, as it’s basically impossible to push open a car door against the water pressure outside a submerged car.
- Comment on What does getting "delisted" off Steam means for games I already own? 8 months ago:
Oh, that’s cool, thanks for the heads up!
- Comment on What does getting "delisted" off Steam means for games I already own? 8 months ago:
I don’t know about this case specifically, but I own Alan Wake on steam which has since been delisted because of music licenses running out. At least for that one, I still own the game on steam and can download, install and play it normally whenever I want, it’s just that people cannot buy it anymore through steam. If you’re lucky, it’s gonna be the same with the adult swim games.
- Comment on Why is the caret made, and why does it blink? 9 months ago:
“Caret” is also correct, and more specific, since “Cursor” can also mean the mouse cursor.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 10 months ago:
Wait but why is Valve involved at all, then? Not like it’s their fault that some people they have nothing to do with are building a game based on those APIs, so shouldn’t Nintendo approach the developers of the port directly instead?