pupbiru

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  muuuuuuuch more limited range, bulky, less utility (can’t easily send maps, photos, etc) - i’m not saying they don’t have options, just that the options aren’t really comparable

  also, i think i read somewhere that starlink was proving surprisingly resilient to jamming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  uh… okay but the alternative is what? no starlink… so a big fat on/off button in the hands of someone horrible is better than just off? they can now choose how they want to proceed - that’s still better than having no choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  also absolutely true!

  i’d even say that anti-capitalist and anti-capitalism are different things too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  being anti-capitalist is not the same as being a tankie. conflating the 2 is how labels get diluted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saved a bunch of floppies and drives from the landfill: what's it worth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you can still buy brand new floppies for this purpose. anyone that’s doing this is just going to fork out for brand new products because they need a stable supply chain, and a guaranteed quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the EUs version is cooking warnings

  in Australia technically we have to get a licensed electrician to change a light bulb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Sub Ban Wave⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if it was an accident, that’s almost as bad: either way they’re testing or developed some tool that has grouped lgbt and adult content together

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA| Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  good thing reality isn’t a political opinion then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  alternatively, the delusions of grandeur required to think your opinion is more reliable than that of many of the leaders in the field

  they’re not saying that LLM will be that thing; they’re saying that in the next 30 years, we could have a different kind of model - we already have the mixture of experts models, that that mirrors a lot of how our own brain processes information

  once we get a model that is reliable able to improve itself (and that’s, again, not so different from adversarial training which we already do, and MLP to create and “join” the experts together) then things could take off very quickly

  nobody is saying that LLMs will become AGI, but they’re saying that the core building blocks are theoretically there already, and it may only take a couple of break-throughs in how things are wired for a really fast explosion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will accelerate towards a stopped car so I can dart into a gap in the lane beside

  maybe… you should not do that for the sake of literally a couple of seconds. you’re risking the safety of everyone around you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  episodes shouldn’t be assumed to be exploring the same moral or philosophical points… it’s very difficult to explore complex logical arguments through innuendo whilst also maintaining a consistent grounding for all of them

  and also, the decision is left up to the viewer: by presenting situations that both (perhaps) cross, and do not cross the line it allows us to form our own opinions, rather than the shows writers convince us of their idea of what’s right and wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think that the existence of the disease is more of a maguffin than the point that the solution was achieved without section 31… the “problem” could have been any number of things and the fact that it’s s31 is more an interesting plot device to create other narratives around, rather than degrading the ultimate point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  there are efficient, self hostable models. i believe phi can run on mobile devices without too much trouble?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Next Monday: Meta announces Llama 3 beats GPT-4! Next Tuesday: OpenAI releases GPT-5

  don’t get me wrong, i hope the open-ish model beats the closed BS model, but this is what happened last time… Llama pretty consistently equals or beats last generation OpenAI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seamantic: A Semantic-Web-Bridging Mastodon Client⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean, the sea level doesn’t have to be a limit… people edit wikipedia etc or contribute to reddit just because they like their number to be higher or their community reputation. i get that it’s meant to encourage contribution, but i think you’ll get more contribution by people just wanting to make the information better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  or to “damn i forgot something” and just… walk on back to get it without it being a big deal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i’d imagine if an employee brings up that they’re being underpaid (perhaps anonymously), and then nothing changes then that constituted deliberate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s fucking nasty aye

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not updating it is a stretch - a lot of people (myself included) are just sick of mozilla announcing all this slop like AI and adtech which we believe are counter to mozilla’s entire purpose, whilst leveraging firefox to add “features” that are almost entirely related to said slop rather than focusing on what people actually care about - a solid browser that competes with chrome

  everything of value that mozilla does directly relies on firefox. firefox gives them a seat at the table with google, apple, microsoft, etc to fight for users on standards and the future of the web

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wait you don’t use scales???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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