kitnaht
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- Comment on ‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds 1 week ago:
I’ve been yelling this at the top of my lungs forever. No amount of cardboard straws are going to stop corporations from polluting the fuck out of things.
- Comment on VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos 2 weeks ago:
It’s an option in their Android/FireTV client. I don’t know what it supports, just know that it’s there.
- Comment on VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos 2 weeks ago:
Jellyfin supports using VLC as the internal media player ya know.
- Comment on VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos 3 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for this feature to show up in Jellyfin.
- Comment on Turkey is a fucking failed state and no one wants to believe it 3 weeks ago:
America in 4 years.
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 3 weeks ago:
The video is completely incorrect in what it’s pointing out as being “AI Generated”. The person in the video is a moron.
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 3 weeks ago:
The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not “AI Slop”, this is a pretty common thing to see in mass website farms from India.
Go ask chat.openai.com to explain GLTF and GLB to you, and it’s not going to have any of this weird grammatical error shit; it explains GLB pretty succinctly, because it’s a widely discussed subject.
Unfortunately, sooooo many people are worried about AI, that they’re attributing anything and everything to it now.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
ARK: Survival Ascended; I run a public cluster for some streamers and friends.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
Guarantee Microsoft is funding this from a shadow shell corporation like all the other times.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
You should read your own link, because it also mentions that by the end of his term, most disapproved.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
It was viewed as illegitimate inside the US too. And yeah, I remember, even as a 17yr old at the time, seeing the event happen live and lamenting to my mother that we were going to have another Bush term over it. Historically for America that’s always been the case.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Nobody thought that at all. Most presidents sitting during outbreaks of war retain their positions. You’d have to have been in a complete echo chamber to believe this stance.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 months ago:
Even LLMs in the context of coding, I am no programmer - I have memory issues, and it means I can’t keep the web of information in my head long enough to debug the stuff I attempt to write.
With AI assistants, I’ve been able to create multiple mictocontroller projects that I wouldn’t have even started otherwise. They are amazing assistive technologies. Many times, they’re even better than language documentation themselves because they can give an example of something that almost works. So yes, even LLMs deserve the amount of hype they’ve been given.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 months ago:
They don’t. The models are trained on sanitized data, and don’t permanently “learn”. They have a large context window to pull from (reaching 200k ‘tokens’ in some instances) but lots of people misunderstand how this stuff works on a fundamental level.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 months ago:
Go look at the models available on huggingface.
There’s applications in Visual Question Answering, Video to Text, Depth Estimation, 3D recreation from a photo, Object detection, visual classification, Translation from language to language, Text to realistic speech, Robotics Reinforcement learning, Weather Forecasting, and those are just surface-level models.
It absolutely justifies current levels of hype because the research done now will absolutely put millions out of jobs; and will be much cheaper than paying people to do it.
- Comment on What advice would you give to someone half your age? 2 months ago:
Don’t listen to your teachers regarding being “realistic” with your dreams. If you want to do mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, programming, robotics, build your own machine shop, etc – just start now. Get out of hickville where being intelligent is looked down upon.
- Comment on Nvidia to cap game streaming hours on GeForce Now instead of raising fees 2 months ago:
Doesn’t China do this?
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 months ago:
We already had a monkey write Shakespeare. His name was William Shakespeare.
- Comment on ChatGPT has literally devolved into "let me google that for you" 2 months ago:
I’ve found that 4o is substantially worse than the previous model at a ton of things. So I run all of my LLMs locally now through OLLAMA.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
Yeah. Money. Google has an incentive to make search results less accurate to get you to click around and interact with more ads. As it currently stands, AI models aren’t inserting advertisements; though I suspect that’s only a matter of time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Are we talking who is going to grind the election to a halt, and then force this to go to the house, where they unceremoniously decide that Trump gets to be King?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
The content is not unavailable to search engines. AI LLMs simply are better at surfacing it.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
If someone has put in the work to find and feed the quality content to LLMs, why couldn’t that same effort have been invested in Google Search?
I’d rather a world where 10 companies can compete with google search on AIs, than where they dump money into a monopoly.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 months ago:
Crunchyroll has a monopoly on Anime? Shit, someone better tell Nyaa.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
It’s not remotely within the realm of plausibility that Sam Altman genuinely believes any of the horseshit he spews.
Welcome to earth.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
You’ve got a pretty high bar of proof for proving “actual fraud”…
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
You might want to look up the definition of reactionary. Because that’s…exactly what it means. To oppose reform/advancements.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
Honestly, he’s wrong though.
I know tons of full stack developers who use AI to GREATLY speed up their workflow. I’ve used AI image generators to put something I wanted into the concept stage before I paid an artist to do the work with the revisions I wanted that I couldn’t get AI to produce properly.
And first and foremost, they’re a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it. They are terrible at deducing things themselves, because they can’t ‘think’, or coming up with solutions that others haven’t already - but so long as people are aware of those limitations, then they’re a pretty good tool to have.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
And even better because they start to come to their own thought-out conclusions. There’s less baggage in the way for them to eventually work their way through it. Especially when they’ve got to convince you - because mysteriously they always jump to all of this “proof” to show you.
It doesn’t happen immediately, and if you try to speed it up you’ll just cause them to reverse course.
I’ll sprinkle a little bit of … my own confusion into the mix? As an example, I’ll remain interested, but be like “wait, you said X but then you said Y - doesn’t that contradict X?” I’ll let them explain and not fight them on it, but send them off with a warm smile.
Not everyone will break free of the programming, but some will - and that’s all I can hope for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They’ve always had that power, regardless of it being official or not. Because who’s going to hold them accountable? – Basically nobody.