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- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 1 week ago:
Strange that Spain and Norway don’t have its own instance. Big countries
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
I mean yeah, doesnt matter. The point is people shared alternatives to big tech just like folks who are not in the power right now
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
It’s crazy how the wind changed. Does anyone remeber the almost exact same thing 4 years ago, when people on the right side of political spectrum shared alternatives to big tech from their point ov view? GAB.COM, PARLER, BRAVE, DUCKDUCKGO etc
XD
- Comment on Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of money.
- Comment on A perfect? solution to fix reddit/lemmy voting system to make discussion healthy and productive. 2 weeks ago:
I asked ChatGPT about existing experiments on this matter:
Key Studies: The “Hidden Votes” Experiment (Muchnik et al., 2013)
One of the most well-known studies on this topic was published in Science by Muchnik, Aral, and Taylor. Researchers manipulated upvotes and downvotes on a social news site (similar to Reddit) with 100,000+ users. When an initial upvote was artificially added to a post, it increased the likelihood that others would upvote it by 32%. Downvotes did not have the same effect—they were often corrected by other users. The experiment suggests strong social influence in voting behavior. “Bandwagon Effect in Online Voting” (Lorenz et al., 2011)
This study found that when people saw public votes before casting their own, they converged towards the majority opinion. The effect was particularly strong in subjective judgments, like ratings of art or music. YouTube and Social Proof (Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006)
In a controlled music experiment, researchers manipulated download counts for different songs. Songs with high fake download numbers became even more popular, showing strong herding behavior. “Hidden Likes” Experiment on Instagram (2019)
Instagram conducted real-world A/B testing by removing visible like counts in several countries. Initial reports suggested reduced social pressure, but Meta has not released detailed statistics. What Happens When Votes Are Hidden? Some studies show that without visible votes, people rely more on personal judgment instead of following the herd. However, others found that herding still happens when other subtle signals (such as comments, engagement, or reposts) remain.
- Comment on A perfect? solution to fix reddit/lemmy voting system to make discussion healthy and productive. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I fixed the answer, check it out now and see if your questions still hold.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Scoop — Zelensky to Trump: Putin pretends to want peace because he's "afraid of you" 3 weeks ago:
What exactly can victim of torture “want that the person who they are afraid of want them to want.”? They can say something that the torturer wants them to say, sure. But wanting something? Like what?
- Comment on Scoop — Zelensky to Trump: Putin pretends to want peace because he's "afraid of you" 3 weeks ago:
“When people are afraid of other people, they often pretend to want the thing that the person who they are afraid of want they to want” - first time hearing this. More examples?
- Comment on Scoop — Zelensky to Trump: Putin pretends to want peace because he's "afraid of you" 3 weeks ago:
Im not sure about the logic of the implication here. What “pretending” has to do with being afraid of somebody?
- Comment on Russians were asked which countries should be the next target of their so-called “special military operation.” Spoiler: USA, Poland, Baltic countries, all of them. Links to video 3 weeks ago:
Some people from US might laugh at it and not look at it seriously cause you have most powerful military and are far away. But folks from Poland like me don’t look at it thay way. Just sharing how some of these people think. This is their reality. Ordinary folks on the street. Nobody in rest of the world ever say such think about Russia the way they do it, like it was obvious, like it was just a simple answer. Zero surprise at a question.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 1 comment
- Comment on My Deep Thoughts 3 weeks ago:
There is no TLDR at the and. No way Im reading this. Ill paste this into AI chat to summirize it for me though
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 3 weeks ago:
what? what happened?
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
Damn you sound like bot you know that?
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
Well maybe. Apparntly some folks are already doing that but its not done yet. Let’s wait for the results. If everything is legit we should have not one but plenty of similar and better models in near future. If Chinese did this with 100 chips imagine what can be done with 100000 chips that nvidia can sell to a us company
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
WTF dude. You mentioned Asia. I love Asians. Asia is vast. There are many countries, not just China bro. I think you need to do these reflections. Im talking about very specific case of Chinese Deepseek devs potentiall lying about the chips. The assumptions and generalizations you are thinking of are crazy.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
Did they? According to their repo its still WIP github.com/huggingface/open-r1
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
well if they really are and methodology can be replicated, we are surely about to see some crazy number of deepseek comptention, cause imagine how many us companies in ai and finance sector that are in posession of even larger number of chips.
Although the question rises - if the methodology is so novel why would these folks make it opensource? Why would they share results of years of their work to the public losing their edge over competition? I dont understand.
Can somebody who actually knows how to read machine learning codebase tell us something about deepseek after reading their code?
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
Its just my opnion based on few sources I saw on the web. Should I attach them as links to the comment? I guess I could. But thats extra time which Im not sure I want to spend. Imagine the discussion where both sides provide links and sources to everything they say. Would be great? I guess? But at the same time would be very diffcult on both sides and time consuming. Nobody doest that in todays internet. Nobody every did that. Not just internet acutally, both in real life and internet. Providing evidence is generally for court talk.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
Yup. Thats internet nowadays. Full of comments like this. Cant do muich about it
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
So are these techiques so novel and breaktrough? Will we now have a burst of deepseek like models everywhere? Cause that’s what absolutely should happen if the whole storey is true. I would assume there are dozens or even hundreds of companies in USA that are in a posession of similar number but surely more chips that Chinese folks claimed to trained their model on.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 weeks ago:
Apparently DeepSeek is lying, they were collecting thousands of NVIDIA chips against the US embargo and it’s not about the algorithm. That’s the story I’ve heard and honeslty it sounds legit.
Not sure if this questions has been answered: if it’s open sourced, cant we see what algorithms they used to train it? If we could then we would know the answer. I assume we cant, but if we cant, then whats so cool about it being open source on the other hand? What parts of code are valuable there besides algorithms?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to askhilariouschaos@hilariouschaos.com | 1 comment
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to askhilariouschaos@hilariouschaos.com | 1 comment
- Comment on Reddit in shambles. You just love to see it. The wind change. So refreshing. Wonder if the reddit mods will loosen up a bit after they tasted their own medicine. 4 weeks ago:
Apparently they already banned or suspended a few leftist subreddits for hate speech, per r/conservative
- Reddit in shambles. You just love to see it. The wind change. So refreshing. Wonder if the reddit mods will loosen up a bit after they tasted their own medicine.thefederalist.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 3 comments
- Comment on Do you think forums will Die out? 10 months ago:
I think they have been stedaily dying since mid 2000 when reddit facebook entered the stage, don’t they? The biggest ones and few niche ones somehow still preserve, but not sure if they are growing. The question is what will happen with the rise of new web (fediverse, web3, etc) - will we see people migrating to them again or not necessarily? I mean fediverse is like forums as well. Plus it offers one account for everything.