Techlos
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- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 4 days ago:
It’s the weak point of the analogy, surface gravity waves like you’d get in a shallow lake do have nonlinear behaviour though.
Maybe a more accurate description would be to describe the wavespeed of the medium having tiny variations that cause extremely small, close range kinks where the wavefront crosses past itself, relating speed through time vs speed through space as the radial and tangential propagation of the wavefront. But that’s a less clean analogy, and the lake ripple is still good for describing how an entire universe can appear to be in the middle no matter where you look, despite originating from (suspectedly) a singular point.
- Comment on Liminal Space 4 days ago:
If you follow an integrated information theory derivation, consciousness is emergent from integrating and partitioning information, and with no immaterial soul the possible capability of awareness remains, even if not directly comparable to our own.
Give that brain some morphine as a treat to be on the safe side, most brains find that one relaxing.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 4 days ago:
A drop of water falls in an endless, still lake. The ripple spreads out, leaving a circular wave spreading out endlessly. Tiny disturbances create their own ripples; one side travelling with the main ripple, causing wonderful interactions in the wavefront; but the main ripple grows faster than these disturbances spread across it.
The beings of the ripple look across the main ripple, seeing the disturbances as their interactions propagate across the main ripple. Looking back far enough to the earliest disturbances, one thing becomes clear; the entire ripple comes from one drop, and most of the ripple is moving away faster than a disturbance can propagate.
An expanding universe where every point of the universe started from the middle is pretty easy to conceptualize with the right analogy.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 1 week ago:
Ouchie, got me right in the TCP stack
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 1 week ago:
Fuck regions, I cook for tasty not tradition
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 1 week ago:
Legumes.
- Comment on RAS Syndrome 1 week ago:
Sorry, best we have is neutrino :(
- Comment on Man jailed for a year after endorsing neo-Nazi views and making antisemitic speech at Sydney rally on Australia Day 1 week ago:
This man was an active member of the NSN and quite literally a Nazi intent on furthering genocide.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 1 week ago:
Bingo, modern datasets are a list of URL’s with metadata rather than the files themselves. Every new team/individual wanting to work with the dataset becomes another DDoS participant.
- Comment on Bunnings wins fight to use AI facial recognition tech to combat store crime, opening door for other retailers 2 weeks ago:
Aviator shades, can’t beat the physics of reflection vs transmission. If the mask conforms to your jaw, it won’t help much; the baggier the better. Use eyebrow pencil and eyeliner to change the brow profile and eye corner locations.
- Comment on AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to throw my own thoughts in on this. I got into machine learning around 2015, back when relu activations were still bleeding edge innovations, and got out around 2020 for honestly pretty similar reasons.
Emotions can and have been used as optimisation targets. Engagement is an ever present target. And in the framework of capitalism, one optimisation targets rules above all others; alignment with continued use. It’s part of what leads to the bootlicking LLM phenomenon. For the average human, it drives future engagement.
The real danger isn’t the newer language models, or anything really to do with neural net architecture; rather, it’s the fact that we’ve found that a simple function minimisation strategy can be used to approximate otherwise intractable functions. The deeper you research, the more clear it becomes that any arbitrary objective can be optimised, given a suitable function approximator and enough data to fit the approximator accurately.
Human minds are also universal function approximators.
- Comment on A former Rockstar dev is making a Satisfactory-style survival game about doomed expeditions on a strange planet 2 weeks ago:
Oh cool, factorio again.
- Comment on halal paintball 2 weeks ago:
Nooch gang nooch gang
- Comment on 50ohm goes brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s showing polarization superpositions of the E-field?
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 2 weeks ago:
Radish the kind of veggie that gets relegated to a mook in DBZ
There, roasted.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
To alleviate your concerns - unlike fission, in a fusion reactor the only radiation comes from the active fusion process, and chamber lining that’s been bombarded by radiation. The worst case is a brief spike of neutron and gamma radiation from where the chamber breaches before the plasma collapses, a small amount of short-lived radioisotopes from the chamber debris, and a bit of tritium.
The radiation from the debris would be at background levels in a year or two, since there’s no transutanic decay chains. The tritium would disperse to background levels in minutes, and the radiation burst would only be a hazard in the immediate vicinity.
Not free from issues at all, but compared to a fission reactor the worst-case scenario isn’t bad at all.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
I’m old, fusion has been close for a while. Some reactors achieve unity but can’t sustain, some can sustain the plasma but don’t quite produce a net energy production, and all of them are limited by selection of materials compatible with the sheer radiation of the chamber.
We’re frustratingly close, and progress has been made, but I get the feeling it’s one of those areas of science where a large breakthrough in either MHD theory or material science is needed to kick fusion from info NG research into practically possible.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 3 weeks ago:
Beans, toast, wilted spinach, fried tomato, sauteed mushrooms and onion, all sprinkled with thyme and served with a big cup of coffee.
Not something I’d eat every day, but if I’m doing stage setup for a festival with back to back shifts? That brekkie will keep you going a good 10 hours.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 4 weeks ago:
SNW at least had some bangers, the Elysium kingdom episode captured that TNG magic
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
on average, i’m earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn’t been ruined so far.
- Comment on Y’all ain’t ready for this 1 month ago:
It’s the good shit
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 months ago:
If you want that long tail, bandcamp and soundcloud are better sources. The barrier to entry is low with those, and there’s a plethora of small, niche artists just doing their own thing.
For a representative snapshot of music though, it’s pretty amazing. It shows what a massive percentage of the planet listens to, preserved hopefully across many seeds, and historians will love shit like this in the future.
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 5 months ago:
Nothing has driven my desire to learn physics more than the urge to get rid of all the bloody randomness in it. It’s bloody irksome.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 5 months ago:
the fact that he disappeared off the face of the planet after this only reinforces my feeling about deplatforming nazis
- Comment on I love the future. 11 months ago:
wouldn’t surprise me, antivax movement has a strong association with the raw milk cheesebreathers.