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- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 13 hours ago:
It’s not a criticism of people participating in a shitty system and have little say in the matter. It’s a criticism of a system that forces people to make shitty decisions.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 14 hours ago:
For one off events like 9/11, you can’t. There isn’t an accepted definition of “probability” for things like that. Either The question is completely nonsensical (Frequentist view) or the numbers are more or less all arbitrary (Bayesian view).
- Comment on Ok, boomer 23 hours ago:
People will always need a place to live, yes. We also always need food, and general safety from harm. A home is no good if you lose any of the other two while living there. That can happen if, for example, the government or your neighbours decide that your kind is undesirable, or an arbitrary trade war forces businesses in your area into downsizing/bankruptcy and losing you the jobs that paid for your food, or the same happening to farms in the area. How big these risks are will depend a lot on where you are and who you are.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 day ago:
Rent often isn’t too far off from the cost of buying. The main financial advantage of buying comes from appreciation, which I would say is a pretty big gamble.
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 day ago:
Jokes on you, my toddler makes me count the steps each time we go up and down.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 2 days ago:
Depends if you count undergrad. One that comes to mind is the RWKV paper.
- Comment on mercy merci 3 days ago:
Starlight tour, but for spiders.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 days ago:
Depending on the gym, some are a lot more third-spacey than others. I’ve been to a smaller gym where people just hang around after their workouts to socialize, with occasional impromptu dinner outings when the gym closed for the night. I miss that place. You still meet people at bigger commercial gyms, but it’s not the same.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 5 days ago:
In games like Dishonored, playing on the highest difficulty setting mitigated that problem of discovery being insufficiently punishing.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard they actually wear them to parties and such, surrounded by other wealthy people who are also above the law.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
Require a specific interaction from the user to display your actual email (e.g. click on a button). Even if they run a headless browser, they’ll still have to parse the page to figure out what to do and then do it. That’s much more expensive.
- Comment on Not promotings violence. If someone or some group puts a bounty on a presidents or kings or pm's head how does a person collect and do they give you safe haven in country? 1 week ago:
It’s usually the job of governments to enforce agreements. If you take them out, then you’re on your own.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 1 week ago:
Neural networks are a class of models. Genetic algorithms are a class of learning algorithms. You use learning algorithms to train models. Genetic algorithms are a valid way of training neural networks, but this is not currently in vogue. They’re typically trained via gradient descent.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 1 week ago:
Not all machine learning is AI
The other way around. Machine learning is a subset of AI.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 1 week ago:
I would actually buy that
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 weeks ago:
An example with an oversimplified diet to illustrate the point I think you’re trying to make: You have a diet that’s exclusively cake and you’ve determined that you need 2000 Calories of cake to maintain your weight. That 2000 Calories figure is an estimate and we don’t know exactly how much of it we’re actually absorbing. In reality, it’s actually more like 1800 Calories. Now all of a sudden, you switch your diet to eating exclusively cookies. You measure out exactly 2000 Calories of cookies and eat the same thing every day. But your Calorie estimate is wrong and you’re actually eating 2100 Calories of cookies per day. Now you gain weight on this supposed 2000 Calorie diet.
I argue that this doesn’t matter either. If you see that you’re gaining weight, then it means you’re eating too much. Reduce your Calorie target and you’ll be back on track. In a real world scenario, you’re going to have a much more varied diet than only cake or only cookies, and each item will come with their own measurement errors. But for most people, their diets are varied in a fairly consistent way, so these errors are also consistent on average. If you ever make changes in your diet (e.g. completely cut out McDonald’s), you’ll change both your estimated Calorie intake and target like in the example above. Adjust your numbers accordingly based on how your bodyweight moves and you’re good.
Of course, other ways of dieting are also effective. It depends mostly on what you can adhere to and your goals.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 weeks ago:
None of that actually matters when it comes to weight control. What matters is that the linear relationship is retained in your proxy measure of Calories. Meaning that if you eat two pieces of cake, you’ve doubled your Calorie intake compared to eating one piece.
- Comment on Community to honor Lemmy users/Fedi users who have passed away 2 weeks ago:
Something like “Fediverse Obituaries”?
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 2 weeks ago:
Privacy concern for sure, but given that you can already tie different photos back to the same phone from lens artifacts, I don’t think this is going to make things much worse than they already are.
someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images
Anyone who produces cameras can publish a list of valid keys associated with their camera. If you trust the manufacturer, then you also trust their keys. If there’s no trusted source for the keys, then you don’t trust the signature.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s enough people who care about this that you can just provide the data and wait for someone to do the rest.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t you achieve the same thing using a ceramic bowl with a lid?
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 2 weeks ago:
An air fryer is a convection oven. But not every convection oven is an air fryer.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
That’s two items. The second one costs extra.
- Comment on Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it would be correct to say that the civilians have nothing to do with the war. As far as I’m aware, the IDF’s intended target is all Palestinians, civilians included.
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 3 weeks ago:
It may be worth editing your post to specify that you’re talking about LLMs. There’s no indication that this is your intent without reading your responses in the comment section.
Ethical meaning : “private”, "anonymous, “not training with your data”, “no censured”, “open source”…
Private, anonymous, and uncensored. Those are easy. There’s plenty of pre-trained LLMs out there that you can download and use however you like.
Not training with your data, not possible as far as I’m aware. LLMs rely on the availability of a huge quantity and diversity of data. There isn’t enough of that available that also come with consent of the creator for this usage.
Open source isn’t well defined for machine learning models. Lots of models have their code and weights available, so if that qualifies for you, that’s also easy to find. Huggingface hosts most of them.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 3 weeks ago:
We can have static HTML websites, but that basically limits you to sharing static information (which, by the way, still have “bugs” in the form of typos). There’s already lots of great resources for that. Wikipedia, personal blogs, books (physical and electronic). That’s not usually what we’re on the internet for though. We’re here for interactivity. We want to connect with other people (e.g. Lemmy), and we want tools to help us with various problems we have (e.g. any portable software that just needs a browser to run). Avoiding JS would hinder that goal. If you just want to read, go to your local library, take out a book, and start reading. Or get an e-reader and download some e-books.
You also point out the problem of online privacy. While JS does empower the tracking, it also does way more than that. The solution shouldn’t be to throw out the baby with the bath water.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
When I get a movement right, I keep repeating it over and over until it’s committed to memory. You’re saying I could’ve stopped at the first success? Why did no one tell me earlier?
- Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure you can have medical emergencies unrelated to driving.
- Comment on Steady 4 weeks ago:
Hold my piss jug, I’m… uh… I feel like something’s missing.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 5 weeks ago:
The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.