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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM 1 day ago:
Tulsi hasn’t finished putting in the freedom taps yet
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 4 days ago:
Animal brains have pliable neuron networks and synapses to build and persist new relationships between things. LLMs do not. This is why they can’t have novel or spontaneous ideation
This Nobel prize winner seems to disagree with you.
Neural nets do indeed learn new relationships. Maybe you are thinking of the fact that most architectures require training to be a separate process from interacting; that is not the case for all architectures.
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 4 days ago:
LLMs are just fast sorting and probability, they have no way to ever develop novel ideas or comprehension
And how do you think animal brains develop comprehension…?
- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 4 days ago:
this Chinese feller
He’s French, actually.
This is one of the three people that basically invented Deep Learning . One of the others is Geoffrey Hinton, who got the Nobel Prize in 2024
No matter what you think of LeCun or his opinions… he’s damn well worth listening to with attention and respect.
- Comment on Israeli society is truly gone so outrageously far right that translation from Hebrew is now disabled on X (#Twitter) as of Nov16 4 days ago:
TBH this is damning both of auth-right antisemite “extreme free speech” X/Musk, as well as of religious genocidal right-wing Israeli politics
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 6 days ago:
This
You kill bulls quietly in the Senate not the Houe
- Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now 1 week ago:
En-shit-ti-fi-cation
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 1 week ago:
Probably to recoup hosting costs for downloads
- Comment on Is the EU spy unit about to become reality? Von der Leyen wants her own secret service 1 week ago:
Please let them overthrow dictatorial regimes like the USA
- Comment on You can only read this scentence if you can read this scentence. 1 week ago:
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 2 weeks ago:
Now if the drive contains personal data but you want to resell it, boot into the BIOS and see if there is a TRIM SSD / SECURELY DELETE SSD option. Doing a manufacturer’s “Trim” on the disk will delete it completely and securely.
- Comment on To what extent dœs mass-overwriting files with random data wear out NAND storage ? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to destroy storage, whether it’s spinning platters or NAND SSD, the single fastest most effective way is with a hand drill. A few holes through the media will make it unrecoverable.
For an SSD, overwriting to wear out the media will take years of continuous writes and you will get slow degradation as blocks wear out, not a nice clean failure.
Physical destruction is the way to go.
- Comment on Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name 2 weeks ago:
FB and its inevitable relationship with authoritarian governments is the problem.
Just being on Fedi is being part of the free-speech (and in this case, beer) solution.
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 2 weeks ago:
per OP, signal reached T.C. in 1998
T.C. is ~12 ly away
if they responded that year we’d have got the message in 1998 + 12 = 2010
that was 15 years ago - Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 2 weeks ago:
If you’re thinking of the “Wow” signal, it turned out to be a magnetar
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 2 weeks ago:
Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away
So they’re like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they’re just too busy
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 3 weeks ago:
“Never sit down to program without a crowbar close at hand."
-Stanislaw Lem - Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 3 weeks ago:
Still not Bloons Tower Defense 😢
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
For low power neural nets look up “spiking neural networks”
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
At least one Nobel Laureate had exactly the opposite opinion (see the Hinton lecture above)
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
You might benefit from watching Hinton’s lecture; much of it details technical reasons why digital is much much better than analog for intelligent systems
BTW that is the opposite of what he set out to prove
He says the facts forced him to change his mind - Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 3 weeks ago:
Dead serious
I can’t decide
Maybe if everything has an LLM and talks to its owner and adjusts itself based on the owner’s level of interest & understanding… that will be better?
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 3 weeks ago:
WRT + TP-link = more secure than most corporate networks
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you really want to get theor attention, carrry signs with pictures and names of their children
- Comment on Relativity 4 weeks ago:
sounds… hot
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 4 weeks ago:
I don’t have what it takes to be a parent
All it takes is the creativity you get when high. You know what fruit kids will eat? Apple chips, Mango chips, dehydrated strawberries, frozen blueberries
The same fruits you crave when really high
- Comment on I AM BETTER 4 weeks ago:
There’s a Sean Carrol video somewhere talking about how the average graduate student in physics understands Relativity far better than Einstein did, and it’s because lots of people with lots of different specialties and insights have thought really long and hard about it and come up with deeper, more elegant ways to describe it.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 4 weeks ago:
I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.
It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”
But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.
Zefram Cochrane - Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 4 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself.
I bought an old Radio Shack Color Computer off EBay and had a total blast playing Dungeons of Daggorath with my kids. Plus, it’s educational: it teaches you to type “A L <enter>” really really fast
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s much more expensive to have two providers. Both in terms of outright costs but even more so in terms of ongoing engineering/technical overhead.
The calculus is how much the expectation downtime is, versus that cost. It’s a reasonable calculation and TBH if outages are a few hours once every few years for most cases it’s acceptable.
OFC if your hospitals or emergency services depend on a cloud service, you happily fork over the extra money same as you do for any other insurance.
