CarbonIceDragon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI in Education: Doomed?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that the general idea of artificial intelligence in education hold some promise, in the sense that if you could construct a machine that can do much of the work of a teacher, it should enable kids to be taught in an individual way currently only possible for those rich enough to afford a private tutor, and such a machine would be labeled as an AI of some kind. The trouble is, like with so many other things AI, that our AI technology just doesn’t seem to be up to the task, and probably just won’t be without some new approach. We have AI just smart enough for people to try to do all the things that one could use an AI for, but not smart enough for the AI to actually do the job well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a wiki article about the topic, because it would be a bit much to list it all out in a lemmy comment: en.wikipedia.org/…/Nativism_in_United_States_poli…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf one if the use cases for display technologies with high pixel density is vr headsets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  flip him upside down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨production line⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’d get real embarrassing if that bread is supposed to later go through a slicing machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The devil made me do it⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing holding me back from having way too many deviled eggs, is being too lazy and impatient to prepare all the deviled eggs Id want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is. Just accept it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are traditional foods for labor day? I legit just thought the labor day tradition was “not working” lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fennecs kind of look like the "little grey/green aliens" of the fox world.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once used to the warmth of the water the anxiety that it’ll be uncomfortably cold when it stops sets in.

• Fennecs kind of look like the "little grey/green aliens" of the fox world.
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not particularly fond of the field and roast brand sausages in particular because the texture seems too gummy for my taste, but yeah, my general experience has been that the more processed a meat is and the more it relies on being infused with spices or served with something else, the better the replacement works. Like, replacing a burger works great, replacing a steak is virtually a non starter. For something like ground and spiced taco meat, I actually started preferring the alternatives well before I stopped eating meat just because tvp doesn’t have gristle the way ground beef does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Travelling through space using the Sun as a Fuel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you can do this in theory. The very simplest form of the idea I know of isn’t even technically that high tech, just very large in terms of manufacturing scale and also very slow (even by slower than light star travel standards).

  You’ve probably heard of the concept of a solar sail, where a spacecraft with a very big, thin reflective foil sail is pushed by the sun. If you design the size and mass of such a spacecraft right, you can make it’s outward acceleration when pointed directly away from the sun equal the inward acceleration due to gravity. Add some means to control the orientation of the sail to keep it pointing directly outwards, and it can be made to stay balanced, staying in one spot, not actually in orbit, just hovering.

  Say we make a lot of these. We figure out how close to the sun we can hang them without them overheating, and we cover one side of the sun, almost completely, in these sail craft (the actual amount of material, though large, might not be that insane even, if the sails can be thin enough. Not compared to the mass of a star anyway). They don’t have to be attached together into a rigid shell, just a big swarm of them whose net effect is to stop most of the light on one half of the sun and reflect it to the other side. We can leave gaps between along the orbital paths of any planets we want to still have light.

  The swarm of sails will stay bound to the sun, and the combined sun-sails system now emits light but biased in one direction on average. This makes it basically a form of rocket. It’ll be extremely slow to accelerate on account of the extreme mass of the sun compared to the light and such coming off, but in space even a small acceleration adds up over time.

  This is called a shkadov thruster. There are other, more complicated but probably faster to accelerate ways you could hypothetically use the sun to move itself, but I’m less familiar with how they work. The wiki page on stellar engines might give you ideas.

  This is probably not a great way to go colonize other planets though. The sheer scale of manufacturing capability needed to do this implies enough resources and energy to launch much faster spaceships, and even a spaceship with spinning habitation rings so big or numerous as to fit an entire self sufficient country inside would be much easier to move around than the sun. You could even use the sun to move the ship instead of moving the sun (for example, take that swarm of solar sails, cover the whole sun instead of just one half, and include solar panels to turn a lot of the sunlight into usable energy. Then run big lasers off the sunlight, and point them at another sail attached to the ship, so that it’s like a solar sail but with way more light pushing on it than it would normally have). You could send out probes to do this to other stars and bring them closer to other stars though, or even hypothetically send out a very long term mission where a probe that can build copies of itself goes to another galaxy when it gets there, builds copies and sends them to nearby stars, which copy themselves again, until every star in that galaxy has the probes, and then the probes build the mirror swarms and direct all the stars in the new galaxy to fly towards your original one. It’ll take them a very long time, millions of years at the very fastest and closest, to get to you, but “running out of materials to the point that you need to harvest entire other galaxies to satisfy your needs” is such a far off problem that that’s probably not an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death to the spiders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What have the spiders done to you though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a prefix that isn’t specific to gender (I don’t know of a particular use in sexuality though that doesn’t mean there isn’t one), but in other uses that I know of, it isn’t used by itself as a descriptor of an aspect of a person’s identity, but as part of some other word. It basically means the opposite of trans (as a prefix, so not just “cisgender means someone that isn’t transgender”, but anywhere that the prefix trans- could be used, for example, when talking about spacecraft visiting the moon, the space farther away from earth than the moon is is sometimes referred to as translunar space, and conversely, the space between the earth and the moon can be called cislunar space). In general, if one is talking about people, especially if it’s just used by itself with nothing else attached, it just refers to everyone other than transgender people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something I do wonder about these laws: could a person self-hosting a private fedi instance that only they have an account on, argue that they meet age verification requirements by virtue of personally knowing the age of the only user? Or at that point would the whole network of federated servers count as the “platform” rather than the instance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "AI" the end of truth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did truth not exist before photography?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A genderino sounds more like something you’d find in particle physics than biology anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it so hard to tell kids the truth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no I saw it, but what else on that list is someone gonna put the stuff on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it so hard to tell kids the truth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont partake in the weed, is there a particular reason one would be putting whipped cream on edibles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Byeeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a trilobite and an ammonite in there, did those guys even leave any evolved descendants before they went extinct?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got banned on reddit for 3 days..... so hi...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy meme. One of the first lemmy-specific ones that I know of. Someone made an post on an asklemmy community asking for advice on how to avoid shitting for three days, and somehow the “lemmy three day challenge” became a widespread meme on the lemmy network for awhile. Then after that it was memes about beans, and briefly ones about beef stroganoff for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got banned on reddit for 3 days..... so hi...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny coincidence, to mention shitholes on a lemmy post that says we only have “3 days”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got banned on reddit for 3 days..... so hi...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom Scott has a pretty entertaining trivia podcast, he doesn’t appear to be insane?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t the tops edible too? I wonder how the little shriveled bean thing on the end became internationally popular but the juicy looking fruit on top isn’t. Like, every cashew harvested has to have the fruity part too, what do they all get used for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I always thought they grew like tiny cabbages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Permian Park⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would want to see an “ediacaran biota” park, though that one would have to be more like a public aquarium than a park I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When we give life lemons, what is life meant to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, just a fan, or like a combo microwave and convection oven? Because the latter is something I sometimes wonder if would be a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone throws a hat in the air, you take a picture of it before it lands, and you don’t know what it is you’ve seen and photographed, technically you have taken a photo of a UFO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im no religious person, but given this afterlife punishment has an end to it (once he finally finishes working all those hours), wouldn’t this be more a purgatory than a hell?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Climate change is an ongoing process that takes decades to centuries. That’s very fast as far as evolution and natural climactic shifts are concerned, but on a human scale long term. Given that it’s not stopping within the lifespan of one person, and contributes to virtually every health problem in subtle ways, it’d seem a bit difficult to say if a given person has “survived it” or not, even if they live to an old age.