Legianus

@Legianus@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I feel like what you describe in the second part is more of a genetic algorithm than a machine learning one, but I get your point.

  Quick side note, I wasn’t at all including a discussion about energy consumption and in that case ML based algorithms, whatever form they take, will mostly consume more energy (assuming not completely inefficient “classical” algorithms). I do admit, I am not sure how much more (especially after training), but at least the LLMs with their large vector/matrix based approaches eat a lot (I mean that in the case for cross-checking tokens in different vectors or such). Non LLM, ML, may be much more power efficient.

  My main point, however, was that people only remember AI from ~2022 and forgot about things from before (e.g. non LLM, ML algorithms) that were actively used in code completion. Obviously, there are things like ruff, clang-tidy (as you rightfully mentioned) and more that can work without and machine learning. Although, I didn’t check if there literally is none, though I assume it.

  On the point of game “AI”, as in AI opponents, I wasn’t talking of that at all (though since deep mind, they did tend to be a bit more ML based also, and better at games, see Starcraft 2, instead of cheating only to get an advantage)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How so? A Large Language Model is usually a transform based approach nowadays, right (correct me if outdated)?

  AI is artifical intelligence, which has been used and abused for many different things, none of which are intelligent right now (ampng others used for machine learning).

  Machine learning is based on linear algebra like linear regression or other methods depending what you want to do.

  An algorithm is by definition anything that follows a recipe so to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not talking about what it does, I am talking about what it is.

  And all tools do tend to replace human labor. For example, tractors replaced many farmhands.

  The thing we face nowadays and this is by no means limited to things like AI, is that less jobs are created by new tools than old destroyed (in my earlier simile, a tractor needs mechanics and such).

  The definition is something is entirely disconnected from its usage (mainly).

  And just because everyone calls LLMs now AI, there are plenty of scientific literature and things that have been called AI before. As of now, as it boils down all of these are algorithms.

  The thing with machine learning is just that it is an algorithm that fine tunes itself. And strictly speaking LLMs, commonly refered to as AI, are a subclass of ML with new technology.

  I make and did not make any statement of the values of that technology or my stance on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean doesn’t it heavily depend what you refer to as AI?

  ML algorithms, come very close to LLMs and have been back in the day refered to as AI. They are also used in code completion.

  Also both of these are algorithms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If proton decay isn't true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Astronomer here, not necessarily. Generally, heat death just means entropy goes maximal, as in everything is as spread out as it can be and the heat everywhere in the universe is the same.

  Not sure if on those time scales all gets sucked up by BH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. Generally, it is a marker for life as we see it being produced by living organisms on Earth and it also should vanish quickly from atmospheres if it is not replenished. However, as you correctly put it, there may always be a non-biological explanation as well for any of these marker. So far I know, DMS has no non-biological explanation so far and is seen as a biological marker still.

  Alas, the possibility of it being proven non-biological or even (as happend here) not a real detection makes it even more important to get more data and be very careful about the statements made from it than as otherwise those statements and/or connected papers have to be corrected/retracted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching for signs of life on exoplanets is tough.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Astronomer here, the “life detection” on K2-18b was dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and which is and remains a marker for life. What you get from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is raw data that needs to be treated and calibrated to some extent to be usable in scientific study. This is called data retrieval.

  However, the lead scientist on this paper claiming they found DMS basically used his own very specific way to do it and found very very weak signals in that way. Other scientist tried to both reproduce it in the way he did it and also with their ways to retrieve the data, but couldn’t find anything. So it turns out, it was simply a misdetection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Scientists Are Obsessed With Finding a Room-Temperature Superconductor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that is one of many applications. Also strong magnets, levitation (that is more funny or futuristic depending on application)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Holes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you explain it pretty well, but one thing to add. Due to the General Relativity and thus spacetime it is actually not directions that all point toward the singularity, but as soon as you cross the event horizon all of your future becomes the Singularity, not as a point in space, but a point in time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4 released⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are its advantages in comparison to Heroic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but that is what the whistleblower Warner about. He said the planes would fail randomly after around 10-12 Sears approximately.

  He was a quaility check engineer at the assembly lines where the workers were forced to assemble too quickly which caused a lot of small foreign bodies (residue) to enter components with wiring that would degrade due to this.

  He also said that would degrade those components much faster than expected and told to the airplane operators causing less checks and earlier failure (than was told by Boeing)