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- Comment on Must be watching the Home Shopping Network 20 hours ago:
As kids we used to hang out near this skibar/restaurant that had a parabola at ground level
- Comment on When THIS happened it was so annoying 2 days ago:
Every piece of analog media you can buy now has been a file in a computer at a certain point, there’s nothing “more real”. If it sounds different from the file it’s because the media is unreliable and because to “fit” in a vinyl record songs have to be remixed, so you are actually listening to a remix.
- Comment on What is the worst thing you have ever done? 1 week ago:
In the top three of all the things that never happened, that comment occupies all three positions
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s the kind of wording that “electrochemistry” and “Physical instrument” use in Disco Elysium
- Comment on No it won’t 1 week ago:
It might be real, just bad. The stitches might just be holding the folded rim of the leather, while the bolts might be holding the leather onto the metal. Still, the bolts look small for the purpose.
- Comment on No it won’t 1 week ago:
I wasn’t entirely earnest. A more precise question would be “why the fuck an EDC tactical wallet”
- Comment on No it won’t 1 week ago:
What is that? It looks interesting but it also might be an AI image of something that doesn’t exists
- Comment on Screw MS 1 week ago:
C’mon they could have at least placed it in place of the menu key instead of rctrl… It’s like they want you to hit it by accident
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be cool tho? You could go up to a tree that’s super old and ask it about the world, and it would take an entire day to spell a world in a language you don’t understand. And house plants would be chit chatting and making all kinds of noise inaudible to us, kinda like WiFi, but with sound instead of light.
- Comment on Things used to be more simple back then 2 weeks ago:
I too used to be young and reckless once…
(I’m 26 and still in uni)
- Comment on Things used to be more simple back then 2 weeks ago:
This is one of those you download to send on the group chat, and then don’t send it
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
Noooooo 😭
It’s not the kind of validation I do tho 🤓😉
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
For my computer science internship I just dodged a drone-shaped bullet… I’m working on abstract verification of access policies instead
- Comment on Current state of the internet 3 weeks ago:
You guys are all doomed. Telecom Italia is ranked 9 among ISPs, and it’s a tier 1 ISP.
Imagine your global communication infrastructure being dependant on fucking Telecom Italia.
- Comment on ✨️carboniferous trees✨️ 4 weeks ago:
How do we know what the trees looked like? I thought they got buried and crumbled into carbon or something
- Comment on Please be aware! 4 weeks ago:
There are many more interesting proposed approaches though. Like creating a religious cult around avoiding nuclear waste, all kinds of hostile-looking architecture, and my favourite is the idea of stocking waste in containers so durable that any people advanced enough to break into it would have to be advanced enough to know how to behave around nuclear waste
- Comment on It's important! 5 weeks ago:
He’s getting the french culture alright
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
LLM are not the path to go forward to simulate a person, this is a fact. By design they cannot reason, it’s not a matter of advancement, it’s literally how they work as a principle. It’s a statistical trick to generate random texts that look like thought out phrases, no reasoning involved.
If someone tells you they might be the way forward to simulate a human, they are scamming you.
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
I don’t like it because people don’t shut up about it and insist everyone should use it when it’s clearly stupid.
LLMs are language models, they don’t actually reason (not even reasoning models), when they nail a reasoning it’s by chance, not by design. Everything that is not language processing shouldn’t be done by an LLM. Viceversa, they are pretty good with language.
We already had automated reasoning tools. They are used for industrial optimization (i.e. finding optimal routes, finding how to allocate production, etc.) and no one cared about those.
As if it wasn’t enough. The internet is now full of slop. And hardware companies are warmongering an arms race that is fueling an economic bubble. And people are being fired to be replaced by something that will not actually work in the long run because it does not reason.
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
Neural networks don’t simulate a brain, it’s a misconception caused by their name. They have nothing to do with brain neurons
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
If Turing was alive he would say that LLMs are wasting computing power to do something a human should be able to do on their own, and thus we shouldn’t waste time studying them.
Which is what he said about compilers and high level languages (in this instance, high level means like Fortran, not like python)
- Comment on Parents App'rule'ved 1 month ago:
Most restaurants serve alcohol and are good for kids. What’s your point?
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 month ago:
I think you can read the address in letters you find around in Central Executive
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 month ago:
Telephone exchanger. And as a consequence a lot of espionage occurred there, but just because it’s a big telephone exchanger, not because that’s its purpose.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 month ago:
Nope, the oldest house is just on the other side of the street
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 1 month ago:
at the 33rd round you do
- Comment on fools! 1 month ago:
Where is part one of this meme? I need to send it to the group chat
