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- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 1 day ago:
I know this is probably googleable but I swear it was like strength of a man sized spider and like could lift a car. Also haven’t seen a spider man movie in a long time so could be wrong
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 1 day ago:
Doesn’t he have super human strength which would require superhuman tendons and bones
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 week ago:
11.4% take anti depressants and between 40-65% experience some degree of sexual dysfunction so even using the highest numbers and assuming that the sexual dysfunction completely eliminates interest in sex (it doesn’t) that would only be 7.41%
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 1 week ago:
But would you advocate for trying to integrate 3D printed fasteners into bridge construction?
LLMs do actually have a lot of use, asking it to rephrase an email or report to make it more concise can save a considerable amount of time but trying to get an LLM to perform complex calculations isn’t what it’s made to do and it fails at it.
Also just to be pedantic but do you use 3D printed screws or 3D printed bolts?
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
Even if you let them fully mature they will eventually breakdown because that’s what trees do and then all that stored carbon will return to the atmosphere. This carbon capture is mostly fruitless as the amount of carbon they store is negligible compared to how much we are adding to the atmosphere but if they are turning it into “rock” which is likely just graphite that would take carbon out of the carbon cycle and actually sequester it. which we desperately need to do to offset the ridiculous amount sequestered carbon we are adding to the atmosphere
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pop science article… they usually don’t cover things like life cycle analysis. It is however a first of its kind plant that makes its net effects less important as it kind of works as a proof of concept. It’s a relatively small scale plant that if it does work, great, lets build more of them; if it doesn’t work, that sucks, can we modify them in any way to make them work.
It is taking two ingredients that usually have to take extra energy to be able to dispose of them and combining them together to make electricity. That is really cool, and there is no reason to be overly negative about it because it might be bad based on info that you don’t have
- Comment on China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build 2 weeks ago:
Nuclear reactions do involve neutrinos and antineutrinos but they aren’t super important for fission so I am assuming the decade long detector would be for something else
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
It says in textbooks that in a vacuum water will spontaneously boil so arguing that it’s not spontaneous is wrong.
It happens as pressure decreases but unlike conventional boiling where you can see nucleate boiling it can instead happen all at once without you adding heat to the system
Most importantly he’s trying to argue semantics with a person who is much smarter than him and then ends it with a condescending “simple thermo”.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 weeks ago:
He has dementia which is an easy enough word for most people to be able to say. If you want to know the location of the dementia it’s in the frontotemporal area of the brain. But why that complex word well the front of the brain is called the frontal lobes which is a fairly logical name then the temporal lobe is the part that’s near your temples which is also kind of logical.
Historically medicine has been bad about being less specific with names and instead just naming things after people which while they are easier to say don’t actually describe what’s happening
- Comment on If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a programmed creativity it’s a flaw in an algorithm. If you enter into a calculator 2+2 a 100x you would expect to always get 4 but if every once in a while it gave you 5 you wouldn’t call that creativity… it’s just wrong
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
I was just as confused when I first heard the terms lol
- Comment on If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit? 2 weeks ago:
The “danger” comes from reliance and a misunderstanding of capabilities. It can save time and be very helpful if you use it to make a framework and then you fill in/ modify the pertinent details. If you just ask it to make a PowerPoint presentation for you about the metabolic engineering implications of agrobacterium and try and present without any proofreading you will end up spouting garbage.
So if you use it as a tool and acknowledge its limitations it’s helpful, but it is dangerous to pretend it has some semblance of real intelligence
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
Can you describe what you mean by “disconnect with the image of masculinity you’ve been taught”
That is a very interesting statement but does not align with how it’s been described to me which is men can’t get laid and are horny and give up on women and just watch porn
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
Cis means same as opposed to trans which means opposite it’s commonly used to describe the shape of molecules in chemistry but is also used to say if a persons birth sex is the same (cis) or different (trans) then their gender
Het is short for hetero which means different vs homo which means the same so if you had homogenized milk it’s all uniform and the same vs a heterogenous mixture which would have some areas of extra fat. Those are used as hetero and homo sexual where a homosexual likes people of the same sex and heterosexuals like people of the opposite sex
So a cis het male is a dude whose not trans who likes banging chicks
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 2 weeks ago:
Being the size of current reddit is bad but having more content would be nice
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
If you want useful public transit then it needs to connect population centers where people are. People are lazy and don’t want to walk more than 1/2 mile to a bus stop so if you have a population density of 1000/ sq mi that means any one bus stop is only going to be able to provide adequate coverage to 250 people. With so few people per stop it needs to make a lot of stops to be useful which then makes it slow which further lowers use. At that density it also doesn’t make logical sense to have designated bus lanes so they are stuck going slow in traffic as well. So now you have an expensive system that nobody uses because it sucks
If you have higher density then you can justify more lines which makes them actually useful and can add things like light rails which really make a difference
Bike transit is usually easier in those lower density areas but due to the low density getting between places is usually a bit further away so there are usually higher speed limit roads that aren’t as good for cyclists so more expensive barriers need to be constructed or they have to follow less direct paths which causes cycling to be slow
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
That’s amazing you guys have actual transit infrastructure, near me you can find that in towns and cities but as soon as you get to the cookie cutter suburban developments you need to take 45mph roads with little to no shoulder to get to any stores
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
The American style suburbs where you have just single family homes and the closest stores are 5 miles away?
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
The suburban sprawl makes building transit a lot harder but to fix that we need to increase density but then it’s hard to increase density when you need space for cars because you have no usable transit
- Comment on scholarly evidences for the resurrection 3 weeks ago:
As others have said
Your first point is useless, as you are saying the people who believe in something think they saw something.
The second point is the same as the first
The third point is an interesting point but they hinge on the idea that he really died and was really resurrected when even if you accept the first two points there are many other possible interpretations.
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he wasn’t resurrected in the sense of died and was reborn but instead it was a spiritual awakening where he meditated in a cave and returned as a spiritual leader
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he wasn’t really dead but was instead in some form of coma
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he sustained an injury that normally would kill a person but was able to shortly recover before dying for real 40 days later
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it wasn’t him who supposedly came back but someone imitating him
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it wasn’t really him who was crucified and was instead someone who pretended to be Jesus to spare him
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he did really die and his followers made up the story to make him seem larger and help spread his teachings
And those are just off the top of my head in a few minutes. If you want to have faith there is nothing wrong with that but considering the utter lack of tangible evidence you aren’t going to convert anyone.
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- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 4 weeks ago:
Because if it’s a closed loop then the heat doesn’t leave the system so at some point you need to open the system. Your options for getting heat to actually leave the system are: evaporate water, air coolers (not efficient with large systems or in warm climate), or water coolers.
The water coolers sound good but then you are heating up a local water supply which can kill a bunch of local wildlife
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 5 weeks ago:
They have 0.2T in assets the world has around 660T in assets which as I said before is a tiny fraction. Obviously both hold a lot of assets that aren’t worthwhile to AI training such as theme parks but when you consider a single movie that might be worth millions or billions has the same benefit for AI training as another movie worth thousands. the amount of assets Disney owned is not nearly as relevant as you are making it out to be
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 5 weeks ago:
It’s not because they would only train on things they own which is an absolute tiny fraction of everything that everyone owns. It’s like complaining that a rich person gets to enjoy their lavish estate when the alternative is they get to use everybody’s home in the world.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 5 weeks ago:
But the problem is you don’t have anything to tie that to. if you have a car that gets 4 gph but goes 100 mph then it’s more efficient than a car that gets 3 gph but only goes 50mph but even with those you miss out on the actual efficiency which for a car is usually transporting people.
So if car A gets 4 gph at 100 mph and transports 2 people it gets 50 passenger miles per gallon of gas which is finally an actually useful metric
For LLMs that becomes much harder to quantify but a useful metric might be wh per minute of time saved or mL of water per minute of time saved. Unfortunately to quantify those you would need to do much more in depth analysis and probably also factor in false readings and time lost from that
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 5 weeks ago:
Your units don’t make sense. Watts shouldn’t be used for a fixed energy usage it’s like saying a car drove across the U.S. and it did it at 4 gallons per hour.
The more useful metric to use is Gwh so chatgpt3 used 1.3 Gwh which isn’t bad but gpt4 used 62.3 Gwh in training plus an extra 1 Gwh per day
- Comment on It might not be too long before animals evolve a rudimentary mechanism to filter microplastics 5 weeks ago:
The formation of fossil fuels that then got burned starting in the Industrial Revolution causing our current climate change
- Comment on It might not be too long before animals evolve a rudimentary mechanism to filter microplastics 5 weeks ago:
Yup
- Comment on It might not be too long before animals evolve a rudimentary mechanism to filter microplastics 5 weeks ago:
It took 60m years for fungi to evolve to break down lignin (trees) and the eventual oxidation of the lignin decay products has caused the most rapid climate shift we have ever seen
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t try actually contacting customer service about it but from talking to other people it has to do with how the watch moves around during exercise that gives the false readings. If I just sit still and compare to a pulse oximeter it stays pretty close but if I am biking or walking around the values change drastically. Then for some reason while when I sit down or lay in bed my heart rate is around 65 it says my resting heart rate is in the 50s
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
As a current Garmin user I really like a lot of the features of the Garmin but the app for smart watch health tracking is atrocious and some of the values you get are clearly wrong like it recording my resting heart rate at 15 bps lower than it actually is.
The battery life is still insane which makes things like sleep tracking really nice