jmill

@jmill@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The chemical is capsaicin, and it’s a neurotoxin. That’s why with repeated exposure you can start to gain resistance.

  Birds are less sensitive to capsaicin, which made having it around seeds beneficial for plants. Birds eat the seeds and then spread them after flying somewhere else, but mammals are deterred from eating the seeds and they are poor vectors for spread because most mammals that eat large amounts of vegetable matter have molar teeth that aid in breaking down small seeds for digestion.

  Until a certain mammal decided they liked the burn, and deliberately spread those plants further than birds ever did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My god. Somehow I hadn’t thought of doctors using LLMs to make decisions like that. But of course at least some do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never expect a good analysis of a movie from an LLM. It can’t actually produce original thought, and can’t even watch the movie itself. It maybe has some version of the script in its training database, and definitely has things that people have said about the movie, and similar movies, and similar books, and whatever else they scraped. It it just returns words that are often grouped together and that have high likelihood of relevance to your query.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, one way or another it won’t be too many generations. Either we figure out it’s a bad idea or sooner or later things will go off the wheels enough that we won’t maintain the infrastructure to support everyone using this type of “AI”. Being kind of right 90% of the time is not good enough at a power plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t add nicotine to tobacco, tobacco plants produce nicotine. That’s why people have smoked it for 100s of years.

  I hadn’t heard of this, but as far as insecticides go, this sounds about as benign as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes more sense than this shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few months before. Theory checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And nothing of value was lost⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your conversion took a wrong turn somewhere. BAC is just percentage, promille is parts per thousand. So to convert, multiply by ten. Making it 4,2 promille. Really shitfaced. Very potentially life threatening even if you are not driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A truly horrifying prospect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I can understand the feeling, but it’s not true. Many of the states in between have a better ratio of relatively sensible people to fruitcakes than it looks like, but the fruitcakes have gerrymandered voting districts pretty severely. Which is a self reinforcing issue.