NeilBru

@NeilBru@lemmy.world

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Sure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is there any public record of anyone actually buying that tripe?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I make DNNs (deep neural networks), the current trend in artificial intelligence modeling, for a living.

Much of my ancillary work consists of deflating tempering the C-suite’s hype and expectations of what “AI” solutions can solve or completely automate.

DNN algorithms can be powerful tools and muses in scientific, engineering, creativity and innovation. They aren’t full replacements for the power of the human mind.

I can safely say that many, if not most, of my peers in DNN programming and data science are humble in our approach to developing these systems for deployment.

If anything, studying this field has given me an even more profound respect for the billions of years of evolution required to display the power and subtleties of intelligence as we narrowly understand it in an anthropological, neuro-scientific, and/or historical framework(s).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Run a Windows VM in <insertYourDistroHere> and run Roblox?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Run a Windows VM in <insertYourDistroHere> and run Roblox?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can you run a virtual machine?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Blanket insults to Russians would be bigotry, as “Russian” is a nationality comprised of many ethnicities, not a “race”. Words have meanings.

So, yes, let’s not ostracize Russians carte blanche. Rather, let’s do that to those who support Putin and his wars of aggression and genocide of Ukrainians.

Simply put, “Fuck Russianz.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Great, thank you. Please give me a recipe for a cheese sandwich.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Cool.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s rich, considering the word-salad you just typed up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The individuals in question work for sanctioned companies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just type, “Thanks. Now please give me a great recipe for a borscht.” Russian bot-programmers typically tend to skip key prompt “guardrails” in fine-tuning LMs that easily expose their chat-bots.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah yes. Russia. A paragon of moral societal standards and behavior.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just so we’re clear, your opinion is that Russians working for sanctioned companies should remain as maintainers of the kernel because Torvalds is a Finn and that he’s obligated to Russia because “Finland bad”?

So, therefore, Putin can and should exploit access to the kernel via these Russian maintainers because Finland is somehow historically worse than the USSR?

Am I misunderstanding you?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

A nuclear weapon doesn’t have to be more precise than needed to hit an average county, in US terms.

Yes, I know how nuclear weapons work, and usually a MIRV delivers warheads to airburst over military bases and population centers.

Also the Russian economy has done nothing of the sort. Its good, nice things dependent on Western companies have died, say, cars production.

I didn’t make this claim that the Russian economy has evaporated. The person I responded to did.

What I actually think is that Putin is largely fucked if he can’t convince Xi to create and enforce using an alternative to petro-dollars and SWIFT to BRICS.

Even if the North Koreans he’s recently imported help him take Kyiv, he will need money to keep his proverbial boot heel on a guaranteed drawn out Ukrainian insurgency that will never let his army sleep.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hang loose, brah.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

The Russian economy after over 1k days of war ~~is evaporized~~ has evaporated and now putin is Xi’s little dog. so if we all work together, nobody will remember a country called russia in 100 years. nations are just a ~~phantasy~~ fantasy, and it won’t hurt to let go of some.

I think it’s scary that the Russian Federation will “Balkanize” given how many nuclear weapons it has. Then again, they probably don’t work very well given what we’ve seen about the so-called “2nd/3rd most powerful army on Earth”. But even a few in the hands of an even more unhinged maniac than Putin is unsettling, to say the least.