Zacryon
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- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 days ago:
They’ve observed this in a lab.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 3 days ago:
They will run out of business very quick if they allow it!
I wouldn’t be so naive. Even applications advertised as “secure” may be subject to surveillance laws of various nations. Or even just plainly lying for other malicious reasons while keeping it “hidden”.
And any file can be brute forced open given enough processing power or enough tech
Which, depending on the encryption and password, may take more time than the age of the universe. Even with quantum computers, afaik. There are already a bunch of new encryption technologies undergoing standardization that are also not vulnerable to quantum computers.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 days ago:
“just”
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Fair point. But still pretty bad. Literally two days after the warranty expired my Seagate drive was broken. This was my first and only Seagate drive. Never again.
Meanwhile my old Western Digital drive is still kicking way beyond it’s warranty. Almost 10 years now.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
How to make people on the internet staring on their phones like this:
Worked well for me. Cool stuff!
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Is Seagate still producing shitty drives that fail a few days after the warranty expired?
- Comment on Can't fool me 1 week ago:
When I first looked at this, I saw it as a broken-up kitchen floating through space.
- Comment on Can't fool me 1 week ago:
“NASA is lying about how space looks like and fabricates photographies instead. In this example, by just taking pictures of such shiny counters to fake how space with stars looks like”. - Conspiracy™
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 week ago:
“There is no evidence that this didn’t happen.”
This line of reasoning is the same way religions “argue”.
There is also no evidence that this did happen.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 week ago:
For dipping your toes into a new topic I think it’s perfectly fine. It helps to provide useful pointers for further “research” (in a sense that would meet your requirement) and also manages to provide mostly accurate overviews. But sure, to really dive into this, LLMs Like ChatGPT and co. are just some low-level assistants at best and one should go through the material themselves.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 1 week ago:
Perplexity does a good job as LLM-search-engine-combo.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
Yes. But if the machine has proven to work reliably it will usually do so for its lifetime, while humans are prone to e multitude of errors. Especially in the medical field.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
I trust a good machine much more than any human.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
That’s such a fucking stupid idea.
Care to elaborate why?
From my point of view I don’t see a problem with that. Or let’s say: the potential risks highly depend on the specific setup.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 weeks ago:
Do billionaires count as red meat? I am asking for a friend.
- Comment on Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI 2 weeks ago:
The idea of a world driven by robots empowered by AI methods, is really great. It gives freedom to everyone with almost no costs. Just doesn’t work so well with a capitalistic society as the one we currently have.
Such uses demand a non-capitalistic socio-economic system. Like some form of communism.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy to try on that pairs of shoes. Those ignorants should go ahead and try building a community, try creating a video with some genuine effort regarding its content and - especially - edit it in an appealing way.
Heck, I was doing some Blender rendering for fun as a hobby and am occasionally recording some demo videos of a project I am working at for my supervisor. Sometimes it takes about two hours to edit a fucking 10 minute video. This is just a huge amount of work. No wonder any creator, who has reached a sufficient level of income, hires editors.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
We don’t even have a clear definition of what “intelligence” even is. Yet a lot of people art claiming that they themselves are intelligent and AI models are not.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 4 weeks ago:
They have adapters. But yeah, would be nice to have a slot directly integrated.
- Comment on It is what it is 4 weeks ago:
That’s called victim blaming.
But yeah. I really hope people stop using Google products. Google is evil.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
I know that words are tokenized in the vanilla transformer. But do GPT and similar LLMs still do that as well? I assumed they also tokenize on character/symbol level, possibly mixed up with additional abstraction down the chain.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 5 weeks ago:
“Let me know if you’d like help counting letters in any other fun words!”
Oh well, these newish calls for engagement sure take on ridiculous extents sometimes.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 month ago:
Reading comments of people who (hyper-) organize their games as if it’s a project to get through and they have to work off. And I’m sitting here just playing whatever the fuck I’m in the mood in. ._.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 1 month ago:
Casually rotating 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses to bypass rate limits.
I am not in IT security, but find it fascinating what clever tricks people use to break (into) stuff.
In a better world, we might use this energy for advancing humanity instead of looking how we can hurt each other. (Not saying the author is doing that, just lamenting that ITS is necessary due to hostile actors in this world. )
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Ragebait?
I’m in robotics and find plenty of use for ML methods. Think of image classifiers, how do you want to approach that without oversimplified problem settings?
Or even in control or coordination problems, which can sometimes become NP-hard. Even though not optimal, ML methods are quite solid in learning patterns of highly dimensional NP hard problem settings, often outperforming hand-crafted conventional suboptimal solvers in computation effort vs solution quality analysis, especially outperforming (asymptotically) optimal solvers time-wise, even though not with optimal solutions (but “good enough” nevertheless). (Ok to be fair suboptimal solvers do that as well, but since ML methods can outperform these, I see it as an attractive middle-ground.) - Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Some AI researchers found it obvious as well, in terms of they’ve suspected it and had some indications. But it’s good to see more data on this to affirm this assessment.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
Grabs machete
Thanks for showing me where to find it. /j - Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 month ago:
Sure, they will. But some sooner than others. Therefore, you can save money by buying the more reliable alternative.
