naught101
@naught101@lemmy.world
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 1 week ago:
The loose bit of skin on the outside of the elbow is called the weenus
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 1 week ago:
Yes, you can.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
Lots of them can walk on water (e.g. Fishing Spiders)), and some big ones can live underwater for over 24 hours
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
Only if they have capacity, and I doubt they have capacity for horses very often.
I guess how stupid it is depends on the particular location - if you’re on a flood plain, then yeah, but if there’s high ground nearby, maybe not.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
Lismore isn’t flooding…
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
… What?
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
Have you heard what we are not here to do with spiders?
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
One of our recent fuckwit prime ministers was prone to wearing them for photo ops.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 1 week ago:
Well, it is nearly winter 😂
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- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 1 week ago:
It is pretty annoying that that sub is labeled for US politics on a .world server…
- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but why would you just post that stuff to global news/politics communities? Wouldn’t it make.more sense to focus on what differentiates the Europe lemmy community?
- Comment on Is there any fundamental difference between an instance and a formal website ? 2 weeks ago:
Instances are websites. Federation just means that they can automatically communicate directly between multiple intakes, and share information without requiring user interaction.
All this happens via APIs. Any website that implements ActivityPub APIs properly can federate with other sites as part of the fediverse.
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- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Good point
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t suggesting anything was black and white. I was just giving an example of a chain of thought. OP is free to come up with their own chains of thought.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
What, like backwards?
I think with some things (like reading or skydiving), there are pretty fast feedback loops that tell you if you’re doing it wrong.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
This is good, but I’d add that you can get closer, and you can get closer faster, but truth will always be over the horizon.
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Suggesting therapy (or any course of action) for someone based on a couple of lines the posted on the internet seems a bit hasty. You know barely anything about them. AND you’re making umsupported assumptions (they said nothing about their own sexuality).
- Comment on Is it weird to sometimes wonder wether everything you know is wrong? 2 weeks ago:
No way, that’s just science, baby!
I think those questions need to be followed through with a chain of reasoning and questions, not denial. There’s usually lots of options.
So for that “gay people are deviants” question, a “no they aren’t” answer isn’t helpful, because it’s faith based, which leads to a shutdown of thinking and curiosity.
Another line might be: if they are, then does that mean that the tens or hundreds of other animal species with documented existence of homosexuality are also deviants? Can an animal be a deviant? Seems unlikely… Does that mean that maybe deviance is a dodgy concept? What does it actually mean? Does it mean a thing is fundamentally bad, or does it just mean that it doesn’t fit with a particular value system? If that’s the case, and I personally know a bunch of gay people who are really lovely people, is it possible that it’s the value system that’s the problem, not the gay people?
There’s usually plenty of other chains of thought that will get you to a place like this. Doing this kind of thought exploration also means that when you come up against someone making that argument in public, then you have a better idea where you stand, and you can potentially engage constructively with them, if they seem open to it.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Considering the value of a comment on the internet ONLY in relation to the person the comment is in reply to seems weirdly blinkered and bizarrely individualistic.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re interested in shaping public opinion I think you need to ask yourself why you are on Lemmy instead of somewhere else?
(Not OP) Because the “somewhere elses” all have their own fucked up problems, like algorithms that optimise for combativeness, and corporate control of various debates. Lemmy has the potential to provide a viable alternative, and it needs content in order to get big enough to do it. It’s the long game.
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, good catch. I know that, but was was forgetting it in the moment.
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, as @uranibaba@lemmy.world says, I was using the narrow meaning of AI=ML (as the OP was). Certainly not surprised that other ML techniques have been used.
That Cummins paper looks pretty interesting. I only skimmed the first page, but it looks like they’re using LLMs to estimate optimal compiler parameters? That’s pretty cool. But they also say something about it having a 91% hit compliant code hit rate, I wonder what’s happening in the other 9%. Noncompliance seems like a big problem? But I only have surface-level compiler knowledge, probably not enough to follow the whole paper properly…
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. People also use the term for e.g. american fascists. I think it would be reasonable these days treat the word as if it has two meanings, one historical, and one a more general synonym for “fascist”.
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 2 weeks ago:
Strong doubt that AI would be useful for producing improved compilers. That’s a task that would require extremely detailed understanding of logical edge cases of a given language to machine code translation. By definition, no content exists that can be useful for training in that context. AIs will certainly try to help, because they are people pleasing machines. But I can’t see them being actually useful.
- Comment on Why don't these code-writing AIs just output straight up machine code? 2 weeks ago:
I think on top of this, the question has an incorrect implicit assumption - that LLMs understand what they produce (this would be necessary for them to produce code in languages other than what they’re trained on).
LLMs don’t product intelligent output. They produce plausible strings of symbols, based on what is common in a given context. That can look intelligent only in so far as the training dataset contains intelligently produced material.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 weeks ago:
Saying “the Israeli government is acting like Nazis” is not the same thing as saying that “the current genocide being perpertrated against the Palestinians is equivalent to the Holocaust”. The former sentence can be true regardless of the truth or falsity of the latter sentence.
- Comment on Pixelfed Server Directory 2.0 is here! 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I tend to avoid apps and just use websites, so I don’t have that problem
