AbouBenAdhem
@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
- Comment on Your AI can’t see gorillas. 1 hour ago:
They see them, they just don‘t want to alarm us.
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 2 days ago:
There are plenty of activities that are perfectly harmless when done by one person, but need to be managed when a bunch of people try to do them at once.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 2 days ago:
Nine and a h^a^
- Comment on Humans are notoriously hard to kill on purpose but laughably easy to kill by accident. 3 days ago:
I would emend that to: It’s easy to kill random people, but hard to kill specific people. (Which is a logical consequence of population density.)
- Comment on Nails are just vestigial claws. 3 days ago:
As are hooves.
- Comment on Calling immigranta aliens is going to confuse the fuck out of the UFO fans with their foi requests 4 days ago:
On the other hand, “Ancient Aliens” is a lot more plausible.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The defining element of the library isn’t the content, it’s that the library gives it a semblance of intentionality.
- Comment on Looking for list/website that documents llm fails 1 week ago:
Ask an LLM to find you a list—if it doesn’t, then you have a failure right there.
- Comment on We get more month per day in February than any other time of the year. 1 week ago:
With one exception: October 1582—when Pope Gregory switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar—had only twenty days.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Am I missing something, or does karma (as a cumulative per-user measure) not play any functional role in Lemmy anyway?
- Comment on Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons 5 weeks ago:
Between the various cortical layers and white matter, what part of the brain’s structure do these implants typically target? Do they sit on top of the outermost layer of some specific region of the cortex, or do they make long-distance connections to other brain structures?
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 5 weeks ago:
Along the same lines, do deaf people compose poems in ASL? What aspect of that language plays the part of rhyme?
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 month ago:
So instead of a simulation, maybe we’re living inside of some other type of thing we’re hard-wired to be unable to even think of.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 1 month ago:
Obligatory Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 1 month ago:
My understanding of quantum algorithms is that they set up parallel computations in such a way that incorrect solutions cancel out and correct ones reinforce each other. They indicate the existence of multiple universes to the same extent that the double slit experiment does.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think Dick Cheney beat him to it.
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 2 months ago:
It’s a metric scale—just use centimoochies.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 2 months ago:
Uncle Tom had his issues, but he wasn’t hateful toward anyone.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 2 months ago:
When you say “by themselves”, you mean one person would still write the scripts manually, and AI would replace the grunt-work animation teams that shows like the Simpsons and South Park employ in East Asia?
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who want to add it to a public training set.
- Comment on Maybe prehistoric cave paintings were actually the worst paintings of their time, because bad artists were forced to practice in caves where no one could see them. 2 months ago:
There was a last major migration out of Africa starting around 70–50,000 years ago that coincides with both the disappearance of Neanderthals and Denisovans, and with the appearance of representational art. Earlier Neanderthals made artistic crafts like shell jewelry, but it wasn’t representational.
- Comment on Maybe prehistoric cave paintings were actually the worst paintings of their time, because bad artists were forced to practice in caves where no one could see them. 2 months ago:
Prehistoric people leaving things in caves is practically the only way we still know about them, but that doesn’t mean humans normally hung out in caves as a permanent lifestyle. We have evidence of people making wooden structures in Africa long before the first cave paintings—and compared to structures, caves would have been cold and dark, unlikely to be conveniently located, and contested for by cave-adapted animals.
It’s because the caves were so shitty that subsequent people left them untouched for tens of thousands of years.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
Legally, yes. (But of course, the Supreme Court has turned interpreting the Constitution into a game of Calvinball.)
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- Comment on Maybe the concept of nothing does not exist. Maybe the fabric of Spacetime is always there. 3 months ago:
According to quantum field theory particles are just fluctuations in fields that permeate all of space, so sure.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 months ago:
Not with a typewriter, though.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s why we need at least… two of them.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 3 months ago:
TIL Jürgen Habermas is still alive.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 months ago:
The McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem proves that, if an electorate is presented with a series of proposed policy changes and everyone votes according to their honest preference, the proposals can be fashioned and ordered in such a way that any policy can be made to win—even one that no voter prefers to the original.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 months ago:
Many authors stipulate that their books must be sold on Amazon without DRM, so their readers can back up and use their books outside Amazon’s ecosystem. Does preventing users from accessing their files violate any conditions that were implied when people bought and sold books with that feature?