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A_A , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fediverse in Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up

I really don’t know so I edited my (faulty?) comment. I was here 4 months and made 660 comments : so 165 comments/month

A_A , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to fediverse in Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up

Obviously, it’s not total number of comments, but rather number of comments/month
Edit : it seems really odd that the number of comments would go down if that is the total number rather than a number by unit of time.

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Space is starting to look like the better mining operation

Fantastic ! Well, in the next millenia we could see some real progress in this field (if we are lucky). So, lets look forward to the next million years with joy !

A_A , 10 months ago to world in Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to stop attacks on Gaza 'amounting to genocide'

You are being sarcastic here… right ?

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Huawei anti-porn filter may be active non-Chinese devices. [UPDATED]

“Huawei anti-porn filter may be active ( on or in ) non-Chinese devices.”

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis

How can we prevent bad guys changing their control modules to remotely drive these things through crowds ?

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Chinese scientists claim record smashing quantum computing breakthrough

I understand your statement here and I agree with it. Yet I guess both you and the other user here (@cyd) are missing what I am trying to describe. Maybe my explanation is not accurate and my understanding is not well developed.

Let me illustrate with an example : we can study new planes models :
a)- in a wind tunnel equipped with instrumentation (camera, smoke trail and so on), or
b)- with numerical simulations on a computer.

One method (a) is very specific to a very precise problem, it cannot be (easily) adapted to calculate various random problems. The other (b) is meant to be a versatile programmable computer and so can switch to a completely different problem in one microsecond.

For what I understand so-called quantum computers (of today) are more like option (a).

Does this makes sense to you ?

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Chinese scientists claim record smashing quantum computing breakthrough

I understand your statement here and I agree with it. Can you say the same about my previous comment ?

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Chinese scientists claim record smashing quantum computing breakthrough

I read about it here :
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Jiuzhang_(quantum_computer)because there is nothing interesting in that scmp article.

How is it valid to call this a computer ? Seems like if I said : I am making fluid flow calculations by using a pipe and water. Do get it right ? These are not calculations ; these are experiments.

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Israel Deploys Semi-Autonomous Machine Gun Robot to Gaza Border

Almost 20 years ago (because bad ties) I was presented with a military video for the development of this horror.
Israelis where very proud in the video to show this thing driving in front of a poor house and firing from outside through the wall to anything (eventually) living inside. They didn’t give a fuck whether it was (to be) woman children or else. (of course the house was empty for the research phase, well I hope so).
This is the kind of monstrosity Palestinians are facing now.

A_A , 10 months ago to technology in Israel Deploys Semi-Autonomous Machine Gun Robot to Gaza Border

I appreciate your writing here at Lemmy and I find it easy to misread previous comments.

So, I would like to try to clarify what happened here :
Nuke wrote : “So automated driving is dystopian?” (+…) Then, @Zeth0s answered : “It is not.” (+…)

Because of the rest of their comments I misread it the same way you did and I had to go back and read again (or at least my first reading was the same as what you explain).

it would be nice if you took it on a positive note since on the whole you and @Zeth0s are saying the same thing.

in the hope of reading more of you, take care 🌸.

A_A , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?

Because of fear of retaliation from Israel ?

A_A , 10 months ago to fediverse in Lemmy developer, @SleeplessOne1917, argues for the killing of Israeli civilians and children

1st & 2nd of these are inside a post at [email protected] (not lemmygrad.ml)

it has 490 upvotes, is locked & it is radically pro Palestine and anti Israel.

Not defending this user, just looking at the context.

A_A , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to technology in Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans

@flossdaily
@anarchy79
@SirGolan
I quite agree.

And, from SirGolan ref : Submitted on 3 Oct 2023 Language Models Represent Space and Time
… (from the summary) …Our analysis demonstrates that modern LLMs acquire structured knowledge about fundamental dimensions such as space and time, supporting the view that they learn not merely superficial statistics, but literal world models.
arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207

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What makes it worse (in my opinion) is that LLMs are just one step in this development (which is exponential and not limited by human capabilities).
For example :
Numenta launches brain-based NuPIC to make AI processing up to 100 times more efficient
lemmy.world/post/4941919

A_A , 10 months ago to news in Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

wtf are capithigny ? Don’t bother I don’t care.