pupbiru

@pupbiru@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  i heard about a woman a while back that did exactly that: she read papers across disciplines and found doctored results etc… she’d found something like 10 papers that had fabricated data

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their stance is that by using lidar OEMs are hamstringing themselves on solving vision because they are so reliant on it.

  i get that… but… vision is kinda shit. why not use all the tools at your disposal? like literally “x ray vision” is something that we see as a super power because it’d be so useful - radar gives us that

  vision is an approximation of things like lidar. can you get a depth map out of vision? sure by why not just measure it directly and then you’re not introducing error by your model literally hallucinating

  The more sensors you deal with, the more your attention gets divided. You aren’t laser focused on one thing.

  kinda but also the last 20% takes 80% of the effort… solving a lot of easy problems with more information will lead to a better short term outcome, and then when you’re getting good results then you can solve from 80% to 85% then 85 to 90 etc across your whole sensor suite

  The extra sensors also cost a lot of money

  so they though? you can buy hobbyist ultrasonic sensors for literally a couple of bucks, lidar for a few hundred - sure that’s not at the grade that you’d use for cars, but at some point it’s an economies of scale problem. they’re not actually that expensive for a commodity “good enough” sensor package

  You might not like the reasons, or their stance

  correct - i understand them, but as an engineer it’s just wrong when you’re talking about one of the most dangerous activities that humanity collectively engages in (driving)

  What happens when they keep seeing improvements in vision and now radar isn’t needed?

  i think this could be the sticking point - i don’t think any extra sensors are needed, just like i don’t think seatbelts or air bags etc are needed… but… they’re helpful and improve the safety of people in and around the car

  all the crazy headlines you see about it are idiots in cars being idiots

  agree, and i totally think driverless is the way to go - humans are far worse drivers than machines are right now without any improvement

  … however, better isn’t perfect, and when it comes to safety simply ignoring tools because of some belief that eventually it’ll be fine is misguided at best, and negligent at worst

  If people wanna blame Elon for convincing people to be idiots, sure, you can do that

  absolutely that too! their systems aren’t “drives itself no problemo” and that’s how they’re marketing it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think anyone is relying solely on radar - that’s the point. every sensor we have as fallible in some way (and so, btw, are our eyes - they can’t see through things but radar can in some cases!)

  even if you CAN rely solely on vision, why hamstring yourself? with a whole sensor package, the algorithms know when certain sensors are useless - that’s what the training is for… knock 1 out, the others see that it’s in X condition and works around it

  if you only have a single sensor (like cameras) then if something happens you have 0 sensors… our eyes are MUCH better at vision than cameras - just the dynamic range alone, let alone the “resolution”… and that’s not even getting into, as others have said, the fact that our brains have had millions of years of evolution to process images.

  the technology for vision only just isn’t there yet. that’s just straight up fact. can it be? perhaps, but “perhaps in the future” is not “we should do this now”. that’s called a beta test, and you’re playing with human lives not just UI bugs - and there’s no good reason… just add extra sensors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the large majority of current self driving cars have radar, lidar, ultra sonic, and cameras. their detection sets overlap, and complement each other so they can see a wide array of things that others can’t. focusing on 1 and saying “it doesn’t see X” is a very poor argument when others see those things just fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re not wrong, but also that’s a fantasy with current technology. meanwhile, cars are dangerous heavy hard boxes travelling around at high speed while we “get the technology right”, and that’s unacceptable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China military encircles Taiwan in 'warning' drills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  perhaps, but also they could be confident in their ability but consider it either not the right time for political and likely economic fallout, not the right time to kick off a broader conflict, or simply that they think that whilst they’d win, if they wait and build a bit more they’ll loose less military hardware and lives with a stronger force

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and it’s still absolute crap… the heat produced by 100 words of GPT inference is negligible - it CERTAINLY doesn’t take 3L of water evaporating to cool it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[rant] I want computers to become personal again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re completely right, but only bank sanctions are relevant to the majority of people, and really are bank sanctions relevant to most people???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[rant] I want computers to become personal again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there are no distros or combinations of software that come close to what mac/iphone/apple tv provide even WITH effort; let alone without. they have other benefits, but ease of integration is not one of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wait you don’t use scales???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  actually professional motor sports are quite an exertion because they drive for hours with no rest and they’re doing a lot of movement of the wheel and pedals - it’s not just driving down an interstate for a couple of hours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you realised the olympics used to include poetry and art, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’d imagine it’s pretty detectable anyway… if the point is pushing a or d without any break between them, that’s real easy to time in software: no human is going to be perfect every time

  sure, then comes the arms race of circumventing by adding some delay, and some variance in the delay time, but no large hardware manufacturer will just include it at that point and it’ll be obvious it’s a hack rather than an acceptable feature

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  on top of what others have said - directing you to the app and login - it’s also likely just that teams don’t talk and make decisions that solve their local issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *without being sued for more than we would make from seizure induced deaths

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  just fork chromium again; why use a toolbar when you can have the whole browser!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  property is not worth violence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not knowing more context than what you provided, he was not protecting himself: he was protecting a building. they were looking to make the situation violent, and he provided the catalyst

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're seeing this, I'm in jail.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that wording is misleading at best. 2 things were true

  • certain people were being overinvestigated in order to use resources so that others who were guilty of far larger crimes wouldn’t be investigated… that’s a VERY different thing
  • he also thought that significant war crimes were going unpunished and uninvestigated
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨animals you need to know⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  as an aussie, it’s pretty safe to assume marsupial… basically everything here is a marsupial

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  office /ô′fĭs, ŏf′ĭs/

  noun 3. A subdivision of a governmental department. “the US Patent Office.”

  turns out an office isn’t a building… who’d have thought… wait… everyone… everyone knows that and it’s easily found information

  also language is malleable

  also who cares what the word is; forcing people to do dumb shit because of a name is the dumbest shit ever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i care about people… countries are a construct that we created, and often we use them as a bludgeon to make ourselves feel superior

  you’re not superior to an eastern european fleeing russian aggression

  you’re not superior to a mexican fleeing gang violence

  you’re not superior to an african fleeing civil war

  you’re not superior to a palestinian fleeing bombing

  these people are all people. the fact that you live in a country where you do is luck; not superiority

  heck, immigrants are what FORM local culture… without infusions of new ideas, culture stagnates

  mexican immigration brought us tex mex; italian immigration brought us pizza… there are countless examples of how immigration has formed the local culture of a country. in the colonial world, outside of europe, we are entirely built from the culture of immigrants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  man you really don’t see them as human beings do you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  immigrants are almost universally good for economies: they disproportionately start small businesses which leads to jobs and employment. they work hard because they’re thankful to be in the country they chose to be in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’d say that it’s a security vulnerability, but breach implies it’s been used

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think you understand how IT works… there will always be vulnerabilities… even the NSA probably has vulnerabilities… when found, these vulnerabilities need to be patched. i’m sure they’ll get their devices back; they just need to implement a fix

  none of this is perfect, but shit happens and all we can aim to do is minimise the damage when it does happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not an alternative. i agree that’d be preferable, but given where the situation stands, what’s the concrete action to take to remedy the situation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and the alternative is…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  then he’d have at least 1 kid that doesn’t hate him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh yup that’s a very fair point then! you certainly wouldn’t use it for security in that case, however there are a lot of ways to implement this that don’t rely on the security of the hash function, but just uses it (for example) to point to somewhere in a trusted source to manually validate that they’re the same

  we already have the trust frameworks; that’s unnecessary… we just need to automatically validate (or at least provide automatic verifyability) that a video posted on some 3rd party - probably friendly or at least cooperative - platform represents reality