AbouBenAdhem
@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 1 day ago:
No one can really know what GNU stands for unless they can evaluate an infinite recursion in finite time.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 day ago:
And preceded by “it’s worse than that”.
- Comment on Individual ego is exceeded only by the ego of society. 1 day ago:
So… a superego?
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 3 days ago:
Scientists construct models from reality; engineers construct reality from models.
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 3 days ago:
Seems more like engineers than scientists (strictly speaking).
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 3 days ago:
Are there any games that accurately depict the activities of any kind of scientist?
- Comment on the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything 4 days ago:
It’s called a dummy pronoun.
- Comment on Almost all of you was food at one point. 5 days ago:
Theseus’ ship hasn’t been the same since they replaced the rudder with an AI.
- Comment on Almost all of you was food at one point. 5 days ago:
Unless you have dental fillings or other implants.
- Comment on Social nuke 6 days ago:
It only takes one example to refute a universal claim.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 6 days ago:
Do most public libraries have holocaust denial works?
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 6 days ago:
Legally, you could buy a used copy if you could find one.
- Comment on Someone should convince Trump to wear colorful robes or a uniform and a fancy hat. 1 week ago:
Or white robes instead of colorful ones. And a “fancy hat” with a point and two eye holes.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 1 week ago:
That depends on whether angels are bosons or fermions.
- Comment on The answer to the The Problem of Evil could just be that "god" has a totally different definition of evil. 1 week ago:
That’s basically the Euthyphro dilemma.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think it’s Staten Island.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 1 week ago:
Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where you can use some basic, intuitive ASCII-based formatting (like asterisks for bullets) and it will get cleaned up to a prettier format when you post it.
- Comment on The Brutal Origins of the Beautiful Game 1 week ago:
In 1583, a pamphleteer named Philip Stubbes railed against the growth of a violent game that was sweeping across England. He wrote about the game in his pamphlet “An Anatomie of Abuses,” calling it (in Old English, which I’ve cleaned up a bit)…
That’s not Old English or even Middle English—it’s Early Modern English.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Or alternately, applause is just an orgasm with your hands.
- Comment on Pedestrians Walking on Right or Left? 2 weeks ago:
I think the general rule (that also applies on one-way streets, etc.) is that the pedestrian lane closest to traffic should face in the direction of oncoming traffic, so cars aren’t approaching from their blind spot.
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a simulation how would prove it? 2 weeks ago:
Look at phenomena that should be totally random, and look for evidence that they were produced by pseudorandom number generators.
- Comment on Oh, now i get it! "Peanuts" is because they are nuts inside a pod-like thing, just like peas! 2 weeks ago:
They’re not nuts that resemble peas, they’re peas that resemble nuts.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
Because they want viewers to associate the products in these ads with feelings of annoyance and frustration?
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 2 weeks ago:
I believe so—but I grew up reading a lot of 19th-century novels.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s like when you get inoculated with a weakened form of a live virus so you can build up an immunity to more virulent forms.
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 2 weeks ago:
The basic idea behind the researchers’ data compression algorithm is that if an LLM knows what a user will be writing, it does not need to transmit any data, but can simply generate what the user wants them to transmit on the other end
Great… but if that’s the case, maybe we should re-think whether we need to transmit that data in the first place.
- Comment on Adding Fediverse handles to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a list of WP’s templates for adding social media links to articles—looks like they have one for Mastodon.
- Comment on Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms 2 weeks ago:
AlphaEvolve verifies, runs and scores the proposed programs using automated evaluation metrics. These metrics provide an objective, quantifiable assessment of each solution’s accuracy and quality.
Yeah, that’s the way genetic algorithms have worked for decades. Have they figured out a way to turn those evaluation metrics directly into code improvements, or do they just keep doing a bunch of rounds of trial and error?
- Comment on Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms 2 weeks ago:
It’s just the name of Google’s AI division.
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 2 weeks ago:
We’re not built for modern society.
We say this as if modern society were imposed on us by aliens—but we built it ourselves with the freedom to adapt it to our existing biological needs.
We’re just really bad at making societies.