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BluesF ,

No, the title is poorly worded. They are testing a technology that could redirect an asteroid, there isn’t one that is currently a concern.

BluesF ,

Well then the average is just 1 isn’t it. It doesn’t make any sense to integer-ise your inputs but leave your output rounded.

BluesF , (edited )

Scots isn’t just an accent, it’s a language in its own right.

Although honestly I’m not sure how much of this is Scots and how much is just specific to Scottish twitter lol

So actually having done some more reading this isn’t Scots - I’m fairly sure this is Scottish English which is somewhat a merging of Scots with English.

BluesF ,

Wikipedia does explain that Scots and English are sister languages, they both descend from Old English. Neither is a dialect.

BluesF ,

Why do we have to reduce it to “good” or “bad”? They have reprehensible methods, but the fact that they exist is an inevitable consequence of the conditions that the Palestinians have been living in for decades.

The idea that Hamas and the IDF are two “sides” is itself absurd. Hamas have absolutely no chance of victory against the IDF. There is no world in which they can even compete! They are a desperate attempt to take action by a people who have been pushed to the brink.

They aren’t a side, they are a symptom. They’ve done terrible things! But those things are a consequence of the circumstances that caused Hamas to exist.

BluesF ,

Do you think we should abandon all gender entirely?

BluesF ,

I’m not sure how perfectly reflective tiktok is of the views of the generation as a whole. I know the meme is that gen z is “the tiktok generation” but you also have to distinguish users from creators, and also note the huge bias any one viewer has based on what tiktok decides to show them.

BluesF ,

Consider chaos magick which quite openly admits that it might not actually be magic. Magic-ised placebo effect.

BluesF ,

But it isn’t artificial intelligence. It isn’t even an attempt to make artificial “intelligence”. It is artificial talking. Or artificial writing.

Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid...

BluesF , (edited )

Surely that’s the vaccine, not the needle?

BluesF ,

Huh, I have never heard of such a thing! Sounds very annoying to say the least

BluesF ,

I feel like the kind of “freedom” players want from an RPG is somewhat inconsistent with playing as a specific character, i.e. Geralt. For me, I want to be my own character and decide who they are and what they do. I never really got on with Geralt because I don’t want to be a moody medieval jedi, I’d much rather be a whimsical wizard or something.

BluesF ,

I’m not suggesting it should be at all. Not sure how you got that from my comment. I liked the Witcher 3, honestly, but it isn’t a game about freedom and it shouldn’t be imo. It tells character focused stories well, which is harder to do the more choice you give the player.

BluesF ,

What? That isn’t what I said at all.

BluesF ,

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BluesF ,

If this is the same startup I read about a while ago… Well the technology doesn’t actually exist. There’s a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that’s about it.

BluesF ,

DM me hun x

BluesF ,

Mm, I’ve already seen marketers present outputs from GPT models as if it’s useful customer feedback. My suspicion is this bubble will burst though, because at some point it will become clear that they are not as good as what they’re doing as execs have been told they are.

BluesF ,

If shareholders’ profits are affected then so will the decisions lol

BluesF ,

And his face half stopped aging! Wild story, always love being reminded of this guy.

BluesF ,

Yeah. I mean if he’s blowing it the she probably feels left out.

BluesF ,

Oh damn I did not know Vihart was still going! Tis a good day.

BluesF ,

100%, all I really want is something I can look at and perhaps sensibly chuckle at when I have a few minutes… Not a pasasitic brain worm that really wants me to pay attention to it.

BluesF ,

Tbf if you’re used to the ol’ emoticons its muscle memory in a way that emojis can’t be because your frequently used ones are always moving (at least on my phone).

BluesF ,

All you need to do to avoid content filters is make it not machine readable.

BluesF ,

Yeah, it’s just back exactly to the problem the article points out - refined bullshit is still bullshit. You still need to teach your LLM how to talk, so it still needs that cast bullshit input into its “base” before you feed it the “grounding” or whatever… And since it doesn’t actually understand any of that grounding it’s just yet more bullshit.

BluesF ,

Haha, good point. I can’t say I find, for example, Nazi views being downvoted a bad thing, no matter how reasonably they are presented.

‘Astounding’: Alabama woman with two uteruses is pregnant in both wombs (www.theguardian.com)

Kelsey Hatcher, a 32-year-old mom of three was born with a rare uterine anomaly called uterus didelphys, or two uteruses. However, she was not diagnosed with the condition until last spring, when she discovered she was pregnant – in each uterus....

BluesF ,

I have a sneaking suspicion that if she had two vaginas she might have realised somewhere before child number 4.

BluesF ,

Captchas aren’t made to “defeat AI logic”, the human detection happens in part outside the picture selection part. The picture selection is for training AI. In this case you are training an AI to distinguish the (potentially abstract) concept of warmth.

Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?

Yeah, basically that. I’m back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It’s not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I’ve encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?...

BluesF ,

I sometimes have a weird issue with my laptop WiFi where it intermittently drops speed to 0 without disconnecting… Network troubleshooter always fixes it despite the fact I never can lol.

BluesF ,

Series one maybe, two was a bit of a mess imo. I didn’t even understand what the stakes were until everything started turning into noodles.

BluesF ,

Many copyright holders believe that if they’re able to communicate with pirates, a proportion will change their behavior.

Yes, they will probably be more careful next time

BluesF ,

Although I haven’t tried much, I feel like the expert badges can bring some of that challenge at least, no?

BluesF ,

Hmmm, yes … “Scientists are researching a device” aka “this device does not exist nor does the technology required to build it”

BluesF ,

Just because you don’t like crumpets doesn’t mean there’s a need for genocide

BluesF ,

Agree 100% I embarrassed myself thoroughly in the sack race as a child and would like all future examples banned.

BluesF ,

Is the word for race & species in French the same? Just trying to understand the mix-up!

BluesF ,

Gamers lose when the store shuts down and you lose access to all of the games you got for free, or worse actually paid for.

X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up (www.independent.co.uk)

X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up

BluesF ,

Omg this might actually be a good reason to get back on twitter

BluesF ,

How dare you assume that I’m not only full of myself but also uneducated! I’ll have you know I was schooled by the finest scholars of YouTube, and received several diplomas from both Udemy and Coursera. Frankly, I am above this debate and will be removing myself henceforth! Good day!

BluesF ,

If you go far enough back we’re probably all entitled to the land. Let’s just do away with these “borders” and make the whole world into a theme park instead.

BluesF ,

Assembly is a scrapheap with every sort of technology imaginable but it’s all broken. Could be an iron man suit, or you could just grab a length of rebar.

BluesF ,

Do you have an example? Just curious.

Personally I’d rather have crowd sourced bias than the bias of one really rich dude anyways.

BluesF ,

I mean, good luck with that. It’s near enough impossible to completely remove bias from any source of information… I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job, honestly, and the talk pages mean you can see different perspectives fairly openly.

BluesF ,

C&H is to sociology & psychology what XKCD is to science & technology.

BluesF ,

Machine Learning is such a better name. It describes what is happening - a machine is learning to do some specific thing. In this case to take text and output pictures… It’s limited by what it learned from. It learned from arrays of numbers representing colours of pixels, and from strings of text. It doesn’t know what that text means, it just knows how to translate it into arrays of numbers… There is no intelligence, only limited learning.

BluesF ,

Learnéd Machines

BluesF ,

Yes, we absolutely are different. Okay, maybe if you really boil down every little process our brains do there are similarities, we do also do pattern recognition, yes. But that isn’t all we do, or all ML systems do, either. I think you’re selling yourself short if you think you’re just recognising patterns!

The simplest difference between us and ML systems was pointed out by another commenter - they are trained on a dataset and then they remain static. We constantly re-evaluate old information, take in new information, and formulate new thoughts and change our minds.

We are able to perceive in ways that computers just can’t - they can’t understand what a smell is because they cannot smell, they can’t understand what it is to see in the way that we do because when they process images it is exactly the same to a computer as processing any other series of numbers. They do not have abstract concepts to relate recognised patterns to. Generative AI is unable to be truly creative in the way that we can, because it doesn’t have an imagination, it is replicating based on its inputs. Although, again, people on the internet love to say “that’s what artists do”, I think it’s pretty obvious that we wouldn’t have art in the way we do today if that was true… We would still be painting on the walls of caves.

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