solomonschuler
@solomonschuler@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 6 days ago:
I’ve said this to my Jewish family countless of times how unethical the practice is. After all, I saw a statistic which said 70000 Jewish babies die each year from urinary tract infection because of this ritualistic performance.
To me, for someone who stopped believing 3 years ago, I’ve waited for this ban to happen.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 1 week ago:
No its apart of the companies business strategy. These tech companies fire an unprecedented amount of employees (primarily from the mass hiring during 2020) make a post they fired these employees because of ai improvements, see their stock price rise ultimately inflating it and creating an economic bubble and rinse and repeat with the next wave of potential hires who are sucking their employers dick a little to hard.
It’s unethical, and it violates any and all job security and I don’t want to be apart of that toxic workspace. Its ironic im saying this because a few years ago if I got a job at Google I would say “fuck yea mother fucker count me in” and now I just don’t want to work for them: there are far better companies doing interesting and valuable work to benefit society.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 1 week ago:
As far as I’m concerned the generative AI that we see in chatbots has no goal associated with it: it just exists for no purpose at all. In contrast to google translate or other translation apps (which BTW still use machine learning algorithms) have a far more practical use to it as being a resource to translate other languages in real-time. I don’t care what companies call it (if it’s a tool or not) at the moment its a big fucking turd that AI companies are trying to force feed down our fucking mouth.
You also see this tech slop happening historically in the evolution of search engines. Way before we had recommendation algorithms in most modern search engines. A search engine was basically a database where the user had to thoughtfully word its queries to get good search results, then came the recommendation algorithm and I could only imagine no one, literally no one, cared about it since we could already do the things this algorithm offered to solve. Still, however, it was pushed, and sooner than later integrated into most popular search engines. Now you see the same thing happening with generative AI…
The purpose of generative AI, much like the recommendation algorithm is solving nothing hence the analogy “its just a big fucking turd” is what I’m trying to persuade here: We could already do the things it offered to solve. If you can see the pattern, its just this downward spiraling affect. It appeals to anti intellectuals (which is most of the US at this point) and google and other major companies are making record profit by selling user data to brokers: its a win for both parties.
- Comment on I love science 2 weeks ago:
In my experience, it really wasn’t an “advanced subject” for me. Sure, the majority of majors who are trying to become doctors, CS, or computer engineers only have to take up to calc 2 (and diff eq) for their bachelors, but I still wouldn’t say MVC or diff eq is an advanced math subject. Real analysis or algebra – where you have to take a math course on mathematical proofs before taking these classes – is where I’ll say math becomes more abstract on its applications and advanced.
Diff eq was not challenging at all, I spent probably 6 hours a week on average (which includes the 4 hours of lecture). Its as simple as solving a linear equations, with it being slightly more tedious. If you understand derivatives, integrals, and partial fraction decomp (for Laplace transforms) its a breeze of a class.
MVC on the other hand was slightly more challenging, but having finished calculus 2, that too was also very enjoyable.
Point is, MVC and diff eq aren’t hard classes I wouldn’t even call them advanced classes as that title goes to analysis.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
225 * 2 = 450 ≠ 550. I initially thought it was 550 which makes sense since I was a math major. its been 3 years since I actually studied arithmetic leave me alone.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 1 month ago:
“Because I fucking hate my privacy, and Lemmy and other FOSS media platforms is like veggies on my dinner plate – I don’t want it.
I want people to know when I get my first boner, when I inevitably kick the bucket, and when i announce I got a new position (while users on the platform give context that I was hard the entire interview process). Because why celebrate with family and friends when I got the whole internets asshole comments to read and respond to.”
This is my interpretation of why users don’t join Lemmy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Dark matter isn’t matter, I know shitty name to call something “matter” that isn’t matter, Dark matter is a force. The most common example where dark matter shows up is in astronomy, where galaxy positions aren’t where we calculated them to be, hence there is some external force that is being applied, that we don’t know and haven’t found a way to take into account. I guess we call it “dark matter” instead of “dark force” is because for a force to be applied there must be some mass. Still i think it’s illogical to assume that dark matter is a matter, because we don’t know what force is exerting on it. For all we know it could be the accumulation of other galaxies applying a force on the observed galaxy that we’re simply not taking into account.
- Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM? 1 month ago:
I would say I’m fine supporting Microsoft by buying their laptops, I just don’t want it to be surveiled and capitalized off of through spyware in the OS. I suggest going used instead of new, reason being, you can get really good specs that makes the license practically free. My current laptop is a thinkpad E14, the previous owner loaded it with 40 GB of ram and a 1tb ssd with a ryzen 7 7730. I paid $400 for that machine. If you don’t mind going used with slightly older specs, maybe a haircrack or two, the payout is worth it.
- Comment on So much... 2 months ago:
No. physics is generalized to algebra, you don’t need to know a lot of math to learn physics. Having more math will allow you to do more complicated problems and understand concepts the way it was discovered, but it isn’t limited to those who know calculus.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 months ago:
Yea I’m trying out tuta it supposidly is end to end encrypted. My hope is that I’ll take a look at it, and see if I like it. It does have RSA encryption so from my preliminary testing it is believable.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 months ago:
My god, yes. Just yesterday I stopped using duckduckgo since even that has now become increasingly infuriating with AI. I’m using this search engine with no AI it’s based on database queries and to go to a specific website there is a small tab you can use. I love it because now I get to appreciate and use textbooks (whereas i would have chatGPT’d it) because of how limited the queries are and the limited selection. It’s not like google where it dumps the most relevant information at the top, you have to search for it. Anyways, if you were wondering it’s called marginalia search.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 2 months ago:
I unironically said this in my group chat, “proton mail is becoming more and more sketchy as being a privacy focused mail service” just like how signal is becoming more sketchy as a instant message service. There are things proton mail does such as logging activity that shouldn’t be the case as a paying customer, and yet here we are. When I request privacy I want it to be private, as in don’t give my data to anyone. it seems for that to happen it must be community driven and decentralized.
- Comment on Dear God 2 months ago:
I didn’t fully understood the joke, my only understanding of episilon comes epsilon-delta proofs… I forgot that epsilon in that context measures the certainty of the “Infinitesimal” displacement in x. So when epsilon is really large everyone looses their shit as if the world’s going to collapse into a black hole. 😂
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 2 months ago:
Why did I read this as nodes. Am I seriously that married to CS that I read Nudes as nodes (as in nodes from linked lists).
I guess it doesn’t help that the they’ve used the character ‘•’ in place of the ‘u’ to solicite the word “Nudes.”
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
“I was wondering where the units went” noted: c = 1 dumbass ≈ 3 * 10^8 m/s