Jamie
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- Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home 11 months ago:
By the time we invent any sort of lightspeed travel, we’ll have long conquered quantum entanglement. If you have a signal transferred over a properly quantum entangled technology, the signal would transfer instantaneously.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Fools are easily parted with their money, and I typically view a lot of misinformation as ways to seek out those exact fools. Not all of it, but a lot.
Take a bunch of crazy people that polite society doesn’t agree with, make them feel seen, and they throw money at you.
- Comment on Gore-Tex is a Marketing Gimmick 11 months ago:
Interesting to find a RyanF9 video here and not in a motorcycle community. But yeah, probably most people here don’t have much interest in Gore-Tex unless they ride or do other outdoorsy things.
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 11 months ago:
I would say of the services to give money to, Discord is on the lesser evil side.
Sure, they lock a bunch of stuff behind Nitro, but they’re at least only giving people ads for their own stuff and not scams or dong pills. Because if nobody paid for anything, that money would have to come from somewhere.
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 11 months ago:
The only thing more eco-friendly than buying an eco-friendly printer, is to not buy a new printer at all.
Both of my local libraries offer printing at $0.25 a page. For photos, I just go to the photo lab at the store and print them there.
Both are cheaper than owning a printer unless you’re doing a ton of it, and in the former case, I get to support a library just a little bit.
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 11 months ago:
Speaking for LLMs, given that they operate on a next-token basis, there will be some statistical likelihood of spitting out original training data that can’t be avoided. The normal counter-argument being that in theory, the odds of a particular piece of training data coming back out intact for more than a handful of words should be extremely low.
Of course, in this case, Google’s researchers took advantage of the repeat discouragement mechanism to make that unlikelihood occur reliably.
- Comment on In the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us? 11 months ago:
Accumulated knowledge in our society really is frail. Take a computer mouse, tons of people are involved in making them, they’re considered extremely simple tools. Yet not one person on the planet could go out into nature, get the natural resources required, and without help turn those resources into a working computer mouse.
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 11 months ago:
I’m not an expert, but I would say that it is going to be less likely for a diffusion model to spit out training data in a completely intact way. The way that LLMs versus diffusion models work are very different.
LLMs work by predicting the next statistically likely token, they take all of the previous text, then predict what the next token will be based on that. So, if you can trick it into a state where the next subsequent tokens are something verbatim from training data, then that’s what you get.
Diffusion models work by taking a randomly generated latent, combining it with the CLIP interpretation of the user’s prompt, then trying to turn the randomly generated information into a new latent which the VAE will then decode into something a human can see, because the latents the model is dealing with are meaningless numbers to humans.
In other words, there’s a lot more randomness to deal with in a diffusion model. You could probably get a specific source image back if you specially crafted a latent and a prompt, which one guy did do by basically running img2img on a specific image that was in the training set and giving it a prompt to spit the same image out again. But that required having the original image in the first place, so it’s not really a weakness in the same way this was for GPT.
- Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family 11 months ago:
The issue, I think, was because most of what I use it for is anime. So some shows wanted the Japanese title, others wanted the English title, some couldn’t be found at all. My US TV shows and movies never had that problem.
- Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family 11 months ago:
The title matching is what made me go to Plex. Some shows were impossible to get sorted right on Jellyfin. Plus there’s a lot more ecosystem around Plex
- Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family 11 months ago:
I mean, I like mounting an SFTP server on my system and playing stuff with MPV just fine, but I host this stuff for my friends, too. Having something like Plex where they can use an interface that’s familiar and easily watch what they want is worth it to me.
But then, none of us are watching porn on it, either.
- Comment on Why can't I argue against claims of suffering? 11 months ago:
That’s not what they said, you’re presenting a false dichotomy. The truth is, in determining what another person feels, if you refuse to trust their words, then you can trust nothing. Yes, there are signals that hint at things that might lay below, but you cannot tell someone what their inner thoughts are better than they themselves.
In that vein, something often said of those who have killed themselves is “but I saw them yesterday and they looked so happy!” By your logic, if they looked happy they must have been happy, and just felt like ending it one day for no real reason.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 11 months ago:
I discovered that when playing FarCry 5. I attached cheat engine to it to do some messing about and the game would force crash itself every time. Annoyed me that I couldn’t ruin my own SP experience
- Comment on With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison 11 months ago:
Art of the deal
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster -sources 11 months ago:
It’s not a terribly complicated idea, really. You can train it to output formatted calculations when presented with a problem, then something in the middle watches for those and inserts the solution for it behind the scenes. You might even trigger another generation to let it appear more smooth when presented to the user.
- Comment on Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation 11 months ago:
Man, Microsoft really is just smelling the blood in the water and going on the attack.
I’m wondering if they’re aiming to bankrupt OpenAI and rob their talent, then buy the assets they’ve created for pennies on the dollar instead of spending half a billion training their own GPT4
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- Comment on Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting 11 months ago:
I’m glad this comment section seems to agree that some fault lies on the game companies, too. I get it that parents gotta also parent, but when games are hiring behavior/psychology experts to design their games to become addictive and suck in people’s money as effectively as possible… adults struggle enough with resisting gaming addiction, let alone kids.
I know a guy that spent all of his free time, and on average $2,000 a month, on Genshin Impact.
- Comment on do you know of a VPN provider that accepts ETH ? 11 months ago:
If the end goal is privacy, Mullvad accepts cash if you can wait for it to arrive in the mail.
- Comment on This video of David Attenborough narrating a programmer's life shows Hollywood actors were right to be afraid of AI 1 year ago:
Hot take: I think there’s not a great deal to fear even for most common people. Technological innovation has always stolen away jobs from somewhere, but the large majority of people are still finding work despite the human population exploding drastically over the last century as that happened.
Because realistically, if only a few people are working and earning money, then there’s no one consuming to feed the shareholders’ desire for unsustainable infinite growth every quarter. It would hurt the economy as much as it does the people in it, and that’s the one thing that regulators actually care about.
- Comment on Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December 1 year ago:
Fortunately, they at least aren’t deleting accounts with YouTube videos “at this time”
I still backed up the videos from a deceased friend’s channel just in case- but I’m glad his content will still be there.
- Comment on Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant 1 year ago:
Sounds like plant management needs to enforce lock-out tag-out procedure. That’s rule 1 of working on heavy machinery, no matter how safe you think it is.
- Comment on Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor 1 year ago:
But how the hell are they saying “forced” to do something by some scumbag over the internet?
There was a group from Brazil doing stuff like that and got publicized when they were arrested recently. Usually they’d coerce the minor into sending one picture, then use it as blackmail against them to give them more. They might even gaslight them to convince them that they’ll get in big trouble if they tell anyone and it’ll just get worse for them.
I’ve seen full fledged adults taken hard by scammers and willingly giving them thousands of dollars against their own interests, and they heavily distrust and resist anyone trying to help them. I can only imagine accomplishing that with a child that lacks long term thinking skills is even more effective.
- Comment on Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening 1 year ago:
What if you want to tell someone that you’re not a lawyer, but you are into anal? Then it’s just efficient.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
“The Copilot is like the Start button,” Nadella explains. “It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”
I like to put down M$ when I can, but I don’t think replacing the start button is the exact plan here. I think he’s just using it as a comparison.
- Comment on New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill 1 year ago:
Driver definitely didn’t look confident in their ability or seem to have any kind of plan.
- Comment on Think of the children 1 year ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Think of the children 1 year ago:
Chaotic evil: Send SIGSEGV
- Comment on Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion] 1 year ago:
For as long as people have complained about YouTube ads even before they started the crackdown, I don’t think it’ll matter.
Personally, I bit the bullet and got Premium last year because I didn’t feel like maintaining a DNS solution on my wifi and like using my TV for it. YouTube is basically the main form of “TV” that I watch when I’m in a couch potato mood. Most actual TV shows that come out aren’t interesting to me.
I’m not really advocating everyone just go buy premium. Even in my case I’m not jumping up and down to give Google my money by any means. But for my situation it’s an expense that I justify for myself
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
I’m a Loss Prevention Manager.
