Zos_Kia

@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No irony, this is a core skill when you’re in tech leadership. If you’re the people pleasing type, always replying immediately is a classic trap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what’s important is to understand that these things work because they are at a certain scale. Algorithms are notoriously bad at predicting individual behaviour, hence why recommendation engines are a specialization that is far from solved. But when you have large amounts of traffic, the law of large numbers allows you to predict group behaviour with some accuracy.

  So you can’t follow a user around and predict their next move and show them the right ad at the right time. But you can take 50 000 middle-aged males, and bet that at least 10 of them will buy a motorbike if you randomly show them a picture of a guy riding in the sunset. Once you have a good volume of this kind of data you can do some casino math to tilt all your bets slightly in your favour, and start betting 24/7.

  It’s really cold reading, like they do in those mentalist shows. It’s a lot dumber than it looks, but it’s way more effective than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't all act like this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Social media bros virtue signaling the most basic social skills, episode 3257

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEN.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s a hero to us all! Without him, how would you have ever heard of the clerical necromantic underground ? (Which will be the band of my next black metal band, yes, thanks for asking)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI model collapse is not what we paid for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.

  They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talk about putting all our eggs in the same basket smh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t stop it. It’s healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just misanthropy though. People have their own idea of good which may not align with yours but nonetheless exists.

  I bet I could dunk on your tastes for hours, it wouldn’t mean you “don’t care about good”, just that I enjoy being mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is, almost certainly, not the reason. What you’re describing is “model collapse”, a situation which can be triggered in certain extreme laboratory conditions, and only in small models. It may be possible on larger models such as OpenAI’s flagships, but has never been observed or even proved to be feasible. In fact there probably isn’t enough synthetic (ai-generated) data in the world to do that.

  If i were to guess why hallucinations are on the rise, i’d say it’s more probably because the new models are fine-tuned for “vibes”, “empathy”, “emotional quotient” and other unquantifiables. This naturally exacerbates their tendency for bullshit.

  This is very apparent when you compare ChatGPT (fine-tuned to be a nice and agreeable chat bot) with Claude (fine-tuned to be a performant task executor). You almost never see hallucinations from Claude, it is perfectly able to just respond with “i don’t know”, where ChatGPT would spout 5 paragraphs of imaginary knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vendors do exist but they are not required to do so. My last job was at a software vendor, GDPR compliant, ISO & SOC 2 certified, controlling personal data (including salary information) of EU citizens who were not opted in (their employer is the one on the contract). Not healthcare levels of sensitive but still pretty icky in terms of EU law and we had tons of German friends who are real sticklers for the rules. We stored everything on AWS infrastructure and it has never caused any issue during certification or security assessment by clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Appropriate means running a risk assessment and deciding accordingly

  The risk assessment doesn’t require the company to assess the reliability of international diplomatic relationships. Having your data on EU soil (even under the care of a US company) is enough for compliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no requirement for the company to think about that. The majority of GDPR-compliant companies still store on AWS/GCP, just on EU servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, as long as the actual servers are hosted in Europe, you’re compliant with GDPR and European law. The European company is not liable if the US government violates the EU-US framework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft getting nervous about Europe's tech independence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a company in Europe doesn’t give a shit that the US government can peek at their data. Their users might care but they certainly don’t.

  What’s new is that they no longer trust the stability of the services long term. What if trump slaps a tariff, or asks Amazon to shut down access, or whatever bullshit passes through his head daily? You wouldn’t store your business on Russian servers, and they’re starting to realize the same applies to the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't pay rent because devs just don't care⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technical testing still leaves a lot of potential issues with business rules, UX etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, I’ve been looking for something like that for quite some time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, I’d say it’s not necessarily baked into the models, but rather part of a style guide in the system prompt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.

  Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.

  You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Minitel was a text only early internet that popped up in France in the 80s. You connected to it through a small terminal connected to the phone line, and had access to various commercial services such as phone book, train booking etc…

  Most of those services have been shut down a decade or two ago but some hobbyists are operating new services on the network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the real shocker was the step change between 3 and 4, and the hope that another step change was soon to come. It’s pretty telling that the latest batch of models was fine tuned for vibes and “empathy” rather than raw performance. They’re not getting the next a-ha moment and want to focus their customers on unquantifiables.

  It seems logical that this would negatively impact performance and, well, looks like it did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE 500 BILLION DOLLAR DELUSION: How the AI Sovereignty Wars Are Reshaping Humanity’s Future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah the 500B$ is for building data centers. Well, it would be if that money existed but the truth is it was just an empty announcement.

  The companies involved don’t have that kind of money, even pooled together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know any AI artists (as in someone who prompts a model and then calls the result a work of art), although most traditional artists i know have come to incorporate AI one way or another in their process.

  You don’t really hear about it because it’s all intermediate material used during the production phase. For example, as a hobbyist writer, one thing i struggle with is writing action scenes cause i don’t have visual memory and i tend to forget a lot about continuity and “spatial realism” (“this guy starts in this corner of the room so there’s no way he could grab that object at that point”, shit like that). With AI I can generate some kind of “story board” of my scene, which helps me write it much better. It’s just laid out visually in front of me and i catch a lot more details.

  Sometimes when i’m toying with an idea i’ll also have a model generate a few variations on it, with different points of view, writing style, focus etc… Even if the writing is mediocre, it gives me a really good idea of how each version could pan out, and whether an angle works or not. I’ll then select the angle that works best and rewrite it entirely from scratch.

  There’s nothing innovative about it, people have been using assistants to avoid tedious work forever. It’s just that before AI you had to, you know, be rich and able to actually pay for the labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice wanted: Making reliable private cloud backups with Kopia.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am looking for a solution for a ~1TB collection, and the Glacier Deep Archive storage tier is barely above 1$/m for the lot. You may want to look into it ! If I remember correctly, the retrieval (if you one day need to get your data back) was around 20$ to get the data in a few hours, or 2$ to get it in a couple days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah he should be using real art like stock photos and shitty clip art

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you read that stuff on reddit there’s a parameter you need to keep in mind : these people are not really discussing Lemmy. They’re rationalizing and justifying why they are not on Lemmy. Totally different conversation.

  Nobody wants to come out and say “I know mainstream platforms are shit and destroying the fabric of reality but I can’t bring myself to be on a platform except it is the Hip Place to Be”. So they’ll invent stuff that paints them in a good light.

  You’ll still see people claiming that Mastodon is unusable because you have to select an instance - even though you don’t have to, you can just type Mastodon on Google, click the first link, and create an account in 2 clicks. It’s been ages. But the people still using Twitter need the excuse because otherwise what does it make them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh fuck no⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “i have collected some soil samples from the mesolithic age near the Amazon basin which have high sulfur and phosphorus content compared to my other samples. What factors could contribute to this distribution?”

  Haha yeah the top execs were tripping balls if they thought some off-the-shelf product would be able to answer this kind of expert questions. That’s like trying to replace an expert craftsman with a 3D printer.