OmegaSunkey
@OmegaSunkey@ani.social
- Comment on Bag of words, have mercy on us 11 hours ago:
The thing I see LLMs more useful for is searching.
Imagine asking a robot where a book with certain contents is. I wish for that instead of a robot that does my homework, because I suck a little with searching.
I also saw them useful for science: putting all selected, finetuned scientific articles and papers into an LLM to see what it can do on a specific scientific field. So imagine my surprise seeing this is only doable for private associations, since there is nothing “good” on the public web.
- Comment on Bag of words, have mercy on us 11 hours ago:
(That’s also why I see no point in using AI to, say, write an essay, just like I see no point in bringing a forklift to the gym. Sure, it can lift the weights, but I’m not trying to suspend a barbell above the floor for the hell of it. I lift it because I want to become the kind of person who can lift it. Similarly, I write because I want to become the kind of person who can think.)
This is one of the best quotes that I can grab from the page.
The second being:
Markus Strasser, an entrepreneur who tried to start one of those companies that’s like “we’ll put every scientific paper in the bag and then ??? and then profit”, eventually abandoned the effort, saying that “close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web.”
and last one:
For instance, if you show humans computer code that has security vulnerabilities, they do not suddenly start praising Hitler. But LLMs do. So yes, I would worry about putting the nuclear codes in the bag.
The paper cited in it is amazing, in the sense of confusingly surprising. Gonna give it a read.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on "The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You" Season 3 Teaser Visual 1 month ago:
peak 3 announced :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray:
- Comment on One Piece publisher Shueisha wins new U.S. court battle in Cloudflare manga piracy defense 1 month ago:
is tor the only way now if the publishers stop going towards sites and starts going towards people
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 month ago:
that im running out of ram maybe ?
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 month ago:
I haven’t really checked but CPU usage on Teams while just being a member on a call is low, but using the camera with filters clearly uses more. Just checking CPU temps gives you more or less how much CPU is used by a program. So clearly it is just worst case scenario: using camera with filters on top.
My issue with Teams is that it uses a whole GB of ram on my machine with it just existing. It’s like it loads the entire .NET runtime on the browser or something. IDK if it uses C# on the frontend.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 months ago:
what would need to change for you to actually give a flip phone a try?
For me to start using my phone as the main way of my computing needs and entertainment needs. Which I don’t. I only use it to send messages and read when my laptop is not in my hands. So I essentially have a not-so-smartphone, not-so-dumbphone.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 3 months ago:
I believe this will pass. Sooner or later, the AI companies will have to stop losing money and adjust their pricing. And then it’ll turn out that using AI for everything gets you worse results than humans, at the same cost. And that will be that. I hope I can hang on until then.
such hope, i wish i had
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
But isn’t this what people are trying to avoid when it comes to digital privacy? User data being used in less algorithms?
Yes. Invidious and other programs, websites and anything else are useful for these kind of things. When you go to another house and in another computer you want to see some video but not affect the watch history of the user that uses the computer mainly. Or just simply watching some video that you wouldn’t normally watch.
But most people who use YouTube actively on their main computer binge-watch. Sometimes they follow creators, sometimes they follow what the algorithm recommends them for the day. Invidious does not have such algorithm, since its a proxy. So, it is really not for everyone.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 months ago:
You see how often growing youtubers complain about more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed to the channel, or how just some videos have more views than their main content? The issue is that Invidious doesn’t have the algorithm Youtube provides to everyone, and that not a lot of people really watch their subscribed page.
- Comment on WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version 4 months ago:
What’s so funny is that they were going to allow encrypted (they say) calls on the web app but then suddenly released a native windows client and told everyone if you wanted calls you need to use it, then removed all buttons for calls or video calls.
I guess they’re coming back on that.
- Comment on [Discussion] The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - chapter 219 5 months ago:
Naddy has long lived alone from what her story tells. Aside from what someone did to try and get her back in the household, she must have been having these thoughts every now and then.
Have you ever thought your decisions have affected someone negatively even though it was necessary to take them for your own sanity?
- Comment on [Discussion] A Story After Everything Went Well (oneshot - science fiction, post-apocalypse, philosophy) 5 months ago:
That reminds me of an idea i had for a oneshot … i barely remember it, sadly. I don’t draw much, so I guess it never stuck on me. I only remember nuclear war or something related to war.
- Comment on matrix is cooked 5 months ago:
For me, the reason why Delta Chat hadn’t caught up on me is stickers. There’s a sticker picker on desktop, but not on mobile, and its behind more settings. Weird that it doesnt do it like WhatsApp where stickers are added to personal collections (favorites) that only sync between accounts and can be added manually; it’s not necessary to make it like Telegram or Signal where you can add a collection from a repository.
For chatting it is really enough. Like email.
- Comment on How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes 6 months ago:
It’s why Molly has local database encryption.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 7 months ago:
Their point is to make them dissapear, not fix.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 8 months ago:
I only use SearXNG because it loads faster than DDG for me. It parses very very fast on my low end pc, and thats what I wish.
- Comment on "Lycoris Recoil: Friends Are Thieves of Time" (Short Film Project) New Key Visual 10 months ago:
just remembered about this project yesterday and saw no info. finally something happens
- Comment on Vote Now for the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards 11 months ago:
when the only good thing your fav anime has is the op
