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- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 5 days ago:
Are all outputs hallucinations? It’s just some happen to be correct and some aren’t. It doesn’t know and can’t tell unless it’s specifically told (hence the guard rails).
But if I’ve gotta build so many hand rails (instructions) then is it really “AI”?
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 6 days ago:
Which is why Musk had proposed putting into orbit a million plus sats
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Stars are a lot cooler then fusion reactors.
It’s in their outer layers that they produce a shit ton of photons.
Fusion reactors are way hotter (like 100m Celsius) and although they make photons most are very high energy (think gamma, xrays etc).
So what would be emitted as visible light would never be enough to generate enough power via pvc to pay back the cost of generating the fusion reaction in the first place much less the cost of building the plant.
Also pvc is like at best 22%~ efficient. You’re losing a lot compared to say steam powered generators which, using ultra super critical hot steam made by a fusion reactor could maybe hit 60% (I believe that is high as you can go).
Asianonmetry has a great lecture on steam powered generators
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
to play a game of paper scissor rock. Most chatbot try to play (without any understanding of how pointless it is). Anything that tries to play straight away is automatically a bot.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
They already have orbital, distributed, data centres.
It’s called Starlink. It’s already got the equivalent of entire cabinet worth of hardware.
Scott Manley has been doing the maths and shown how it’s already incredibly viable with current tech, especially with how they can already cool 20kw of Starlink sat just fine.
The biggest constraints on earth are town planning costs and delays/time, and of course power. (most DC cooling systems are closed looped)
- Comment on New kink unlocked 1 week ago:
I read a time travelling book (very old and dusty, relatively short, I think it’s from the 70s) where the protagonists discovers over time that he is his own father/mother. He travels in time so often that there are zillions of him at different ages in each time.
He just ends up partying with himself because he can be just himself. And with all the drugs and partying one thing leads to another. Also because he travels so damn much somehow that leads to a female version of himself.
That Ethan Hawk film Predestination is a less fucked up, similar version of the story.
- Comment on crazy stuff 1 week ago:
Came here to say, as well, that Steve1989 is well ahead of the game of eating strange cans of a 100 year plus beef
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 week ago:
In Australia the wackos and feral teamed up with the conservative nut jobs in our rural hippie town of Nimbin.
All because of the vaccine.
Fucking morons
- Comment on The spirit is willing but the body is weak 2 weeks ago:
AliExpress lead lined fleshlight.
I too worry about radiation on my dick.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 2 weeks ago:
US billionaires have $1.5 trillion in assets. Firstly if distributed across 350m Americans this would be $4.2k.
But in no way would the assets or wealth be liquidated in such a stupid manner.
Taking a percentage of this would provide universal health in the US whilst maintaining the golden egg.
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 2 weeks ago:
Yet 20 million Chinese had to die to achieve that life expectancy.
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 2 weeks ago:
Probably an insurance job coz no one was buying that shit
- Comment on Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you all pay into Social Security?
Isn’t that the mandatory retirement savings system in the US?
- Comment on Can't get better than this 2 weeks ago:
Why does he have so much space? Stupid bastard has overcapitalised.
My first place when I moved out of home was a room where I had a couch, a single bed and a coffee table doe my computer.
Clean clothes at one end. Dirty in a garbage bag. Small passage between couch and bed to move back and forth to the door.
Leaves more money for acid, MDMA and nitrous.
Maybe leave the nitrous out of it OP. Being a nitrous fiend is bad.
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 2 weeks ago:
I understood a few of those words.
Basically you’ve validated the study that LLMs make shit up.
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 3 weeks ago:
Gulp
I work in a DC as well.
I wonder if I qualify for danger pay now
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 weeks ago:
It seems like an utterly vexatious, and banal one at that, lawsuit by the PRS.
Definitely feels like they were put up to it by the dark money private equity jackels who want to devour Valve.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 weeks ago:
Yup, the REAL goal here is to get an ID associated with an IP address to remove your anonymity from the web.
Maybe I’m not technical enough but I believe there is some sort of fingerprint at the OS level that they can obtain that in turn they want to map to your identity, thus even if you’re using tor/vpns to mask your IP, you’re still identifiable.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 3 weeks ago:
That would be such a cool map for a new go karting game
Super market trolley racer
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 3 weeks ago:
I used to walk around with 3 phones. It got tiring very quickly.
Besides in order receive classified material the gov is already well aware of my kinks
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 3 weeks ago:
I used to walk around with 3 phones. It got tiring very quickly.
Besides in order receive classified material the gov is already well aware of my kinks
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 3 weeks ago:
Stuff I and my employer doesn’t want the CCP to know.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 3 weeks ago:
So who gets sued. The guy who put the chat bot on the server and is running it or the chatbot software developer themselves?
Or both?
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 3 weeks ago:
Chinese company who has to comply with the CCP is a problem for me, and my work.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 weeks ago:
Great film, especially the native American language version
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t a jedi knight on the council either.
What a failure.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 4 weeks ago:
- Filter for Brazilian who are Pink Floyd fans
- Filter for Brazilians who can speak English
- Filter for Brazilians who are left/socialist and who are on alternative social media sites.
And so on
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
This is really well written. Great post.
- Comment on Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall out 4 weeks ago:
Who the fuck listens to radio?
Let alone these shitstains?
15 years ago I remember being forced to listen two whilst car pooling.
I lasted two trips before I decided was either slitting my wrists (and spraying it over the numpty that listened to this shit) or taking the bus and losing an hour.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Is this a new meme format? I’ve seen several of these in the last couple of days all with them inferring all sorts of craziness by “Faith” from the rationale professor.