wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Is reddit blocking VPNs now? I don’t use reddit anymore, but sometimes I search something on the web and like it or not, redditors in niche communities have good answers to uncommon questions. Definitely better than can be found on quora or other places.
But it doesn’t let me view them, supposedly because I’m using a VPN now…
If that’s the case, fuck spez and all corporate sellouts. Reddit used to be a mecca for freedom of association…
- Comment on Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - An benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%. 3 days ago:
Philosopher: looks at the mathematician…
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 4 days ago:
I don’t need humor, I just need unspoiled tuna.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 4 days ago:
I’ll eat tuna from somewhere that doesn’t give me bad tuna…
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 4 days ago:
Okay, but they can focus on experiments designed to determine whether gravity is caused by quantum mechanics or relativity or something else. They don’t need to drop bricks on their heads just to prove newtonian physics…
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 4 days ago:
Good science starts from the body of evidence we already know, creates a plausible hypothesis, and then tests that hypothesis to see whether it can be disproven.
We don’t say “hey, maybe gravity isn’t real so to be unbiased I need to assume it’s not and test every other possibility before determining what keeps making these bricks fall on my head every time I throw them up in the air”
No need to reinvent the wheel for every experiment.
- Comment on Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford and the rich pay to evade. 4 days ago:
Maybe in one of the two links that other commenters posted to it?
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 4 days ago:
You mean the tuna and the house sauce weren’t the two variables this guy tried isolating first?
He literally tried removing rice and all the vegetables before thinking “hmm, maybe it’s the tuna or the sauce.”
What a loon. He deserves every one of those awful shits.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 6 days ago:
Training data isn’t stored in the model. The model processes that data and uses it to adjust the weights and measures of its parameters (usually several to a hundred billion or more for commercial models), which are divided among several layers, hidden sizes, and attention heads. These weights and the architecture are what are hard-coded into the model during training.
Inferencing is what happens when the model generates text from an input, and at this point the weights and measures are hard-coded so it doesn’t actually retain all that information it was trained on. The context window refers to how many tokens (words or phrases) it can store in its memory at a time.
For every token that it processes, it runs a series of calculations on embedded vectors passes them through several layers in which they’re considered against the context of all the other tokens in the context window. This involves matrix multiplication and is very compute-heavy. Think like 1-4GB of RAM for every billion parameters, plus several more GB of RAM for the context window. There’s just no way it would be able to hold its entire training dataset in RAM at a time.
You would need to integrate retrieval-augmented generation to fetch the relevant data into the context window before generating a response, but that’s not at all the same as containing all that knowledge in a stateful manner
- Comment on oh ok 1 week ago:
To be fair, if someone’s using a chatbot on trivia night, they deserve to get wrong answers…
- Comment on Am I too late? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s Johnny English, and the youtube title is wrong
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 1 week ago:
That’s either a really big banana or a really small alligator…
- Comment on Am I too late? 1 week ago:
I think that was Johnny English…
- Comment on Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover 1 week ago:
They should repossess it and place it in the hands of a responsible steward…
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Combined with the news that they’re going to start requiring developer age verification even in the alternate app repositories…
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
That’s not a valid comparison at all, and it’s not pedantic to point that out no matter how preemptively you claim that it is.
Bilapial ≠ lapiodental! It’s not that hard to understand.
The entire similarity between K and the German Ch is based on them both being velar (and unvoiced). You’re crafting a strawman by focusing on the “fricative and plosive” manner while ignoring that the sound is made at the same place.
S and T are almost a better comparison because they’re both technically alveolar, but that ignores the fact that S has a dental component. Try making a T sound and then an S sound without moving your teeth. It won’t work.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
Well it is close, though. A velar fricative versus a velar plosive. Both unvoiced.
- Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon 1 week ago:
Lebanon’s government and military were actually *helping Israel combat Hezbollah". It was the only path towards stability.
You see the thanks this got them…
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 1 week ago:
Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!
- Comment on Am I too late? 1 week ago:
It’s like that scene from Mr. Bean. Or was it Johnny English?
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 1 week ago:
200 hours was in reference to the main storyline.
There are also side quests, guild quests for dozens of different skills, and all sorts of other activities beyond questing. Plus several expansions. You really won’t ever run out of things to do in FFXIV…
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 1 week ago:
Lets federate it (if it hasn’t already been done)
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Jensen Huang has all the GPUs, he can probably play games where each character has its own dedicated GPU and every atom and molecule of the environment is rendered in real time with a hyper-realistic physics engine, with built-in AI that plays for you so that even your idle pastimes are automated giving you more time to WORK AND PRODUCE VALUE FOR THE OWNER-CASTE.
“This game only needs two GPUs to run, what’s the problem?”
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
“The consumers don’t know what they want. I, the CEO, know what the consumers want. And the consumers want to give me money!”
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
I grew up with Windows 95 and later XP…
I remember watching the slow downfall ever since Office 2004 (or maybe that was the last one I liked, can’t remember if it was that or 2000) when they changed from primarily using toolbars with submenus to hiding everything in different tabs.
Like, I could find everything I needed to on the classic toolbars. The tabs, I never got used to…
I’ve hated enshittification since before there was even a word for it.
I strongly considered using Mate when I switched to Linux, but KDE is so sleek and I’m settling into it quite nicely. Plus, LibreOffice lets you choose your toolbar style, so I already have the classic version.
All my life I thought I hated computers, until I finally tried Linux. Then I realized I just hate Windows (and Mac, I tried Mac and hated it too).
I think I put off trying Linux for so long because I thought I was incompetent based on my experience with Windows, so I didn’t think I could learn Linux. I was wrong, and some of the beginner-friendly distros make it so easy.
I wonder if Windows does that on purpose, like an abuser who gaslights their victims by telling them they couldn’t make it on their own, that they need them, when they’re the ones holding them back…
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
I’m so glad I bought my laptop when I did recently, with plenty of RAM and storage. Just in time before that stuff becomes impossible to find or impossibly unaffordable.
This generation of hardware will probably be the plateau. The decline and fall is just around the bend. Maybe another generation of CPUs before those go for bust, too. They can rent out GPUs, RAM, and storage, but as far as I’m aware the CPU needs to be local on the device. At least, a CPU needs to be on the device…
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this trend is occuring just as NPUs are starting to hit the market. Those chips are too powerful to let the plebeians own and use without restriction, in the corpo’s view.
Whether a better system replaces this one after it falls, or we enter an era where consumer hardware is a thing of the past, remains to be seen. Maybe when the AI bubble bursts, tech companies will have to liquidate their data centers and secondhand servers will become cheap. That would do wonders for the fediverse and the decentralized web…
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
Tell corporate to give you more RAM or let you choose a lighter operating system 🤷♀️
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
As long as you’re getting paid for those 30 seconds, it’s the shareholders’ problem. Keep your blood cool, take a sip off coffee and sit back. Twiddle with a thingamajig on your desk.
If your supervisor asks what you’re doing, say “waiting for Windows to load”. Because that’s what you’re doing, and if they don’t like it then they should let you use a different OS.
- Comment on PC upgrade woes 2 weeks ago:
They gotta convince the shareholders that investing so much in AI wasn’t a completely idiotic idea. Especially when the majority of those investments are going to LLMs and other genAI, when the most tangible benefits will come from machine learning’s effects on R&D and data analysis…
- Comment on PC upgrade woes 2 weeks ago:
I used to think I hated computers, but once I tried linux I realized that I just hate windows (and macOS too, for that matter)