Hamartiogonic

Hamartiogonic , 5 months ago to technology in Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

This is the way.

Given that there have been signs of the ML industry running out of quality data, there’s a good chance that development will begin to show down. Nowadays, the data is nearly always contaminated with AI generated trash, which means you shouldn’t use it to train a new model. Eventually, we’ll hit a point where it’s nearly impossible to improve the model because you just can’t find the right kind of data for it.

Hamartiogonic , 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in The amount of plastic from a Kinder Bueno 4 pack

Come to think of it, nowadays you can still buy certain things in bulk, but a packaged option exists too. You could carefully choose and weigh the individual potatoes you like, or you could just pick up a bag that was prepared earlier in some potato factory. The same things applies to many fruits and vegetables too.

Hamartiogonic , 5 months ago to technology in Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

Maybe it’s time to move away from fact based discussion and more towards stupid puns and satire.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making

Maybe he will end up saving the internet by shoving that ship full of bots and then letting it sink.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to programmer_humor in dont();

This has the way. A god strategy to minimize the probability of an accident is to never move at all. Someone else might still hit you though, but that’s their fault.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort

I haven’t looked at the bottom of my car in a while, but judging by the amount of dust, mud and ice I see everywhere else, the bottom probably isn’t very clean. During January the ice coating got so thick that I had trouble opening the back doors. Makes me wonder how the charging port would handle that.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes

If you keep in flying in the right direction, it could take more that 24 hours until you finally catch 5pm.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to asklemmy in If hemroids are common and can openly bleed, and people poop with hemroids, how do people not get infected buttholes all the time?

It’s common knowledge that xitter is full of bots. Be careful out there.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK: About BangYourBuck.com, which lets you sort Amazon by price per pound/count/etc.

Search for a USB flash drive to find some really sketchy scam attempts. Looks like you’re getting a gazillion gigabytes for a few dollars, but in reality you’ll get a lesson in what e-waste means. Scroll down to find the realistic products with realistic prices.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive”

Sometimes GPT says it’s using the correct values, but somehow gets the wrong answer regardless. Also the opposite happens frequently, and that’s when I realized I was pushing it too hard.

Don’t ask it to calculate the ratio between the surface areas of the Moon and Earth. Instead, ask what are the relevant radiuses are and calculate everything yourself.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing

All the ingredients are there. All we need is a bit of competition from other platforms and Reddit can join the club with all the other dead platforms like myspace, digg and tumblr.

As mastodon is beginning to seriously compete with Xitter, maybe Lemmy can also contribute to the downfall of Reddit.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to mildlyinfuriating in Chinese AI - Double Standards

This is absolutely brilliant! Bing refused to write a rap song, but a ballad following AABA pattern seems totally fine though.

We dig the earth for yellowcake We crush and grind and leach and bake We send it to the enrichment plant Where centrifuges make it dance

We are the uranium miners We work with radioactive shiners We are the uranium miners We make the fuel for the reactors

We separate the isotopes We want the U-235 the most We discard the U-238 We pack the enriched stuff in crates

We are the uranium miners We work with radioactive shiners We are the uranium miners We make the fuel for the reactors

We ship the crates to the factory Where they turn them into pellets tiny They stack them in metal tubes They seal them tight with no leaks or rubs

We are the uranium miners We work with radioactive shiners We are the uranium miners We make the fuel for the reactors

We load the rods into the core Where they start a chain reaction for sure They heat the water into steam They spin the turbines and make us beam

We are the uranium miners We work with radioactive shiners We are the uranium miners We power the world with our splitters

None of that is really secret or sensitive, because you could just read wikipedia or go to the public library to learn this stuff. Funny thing is, Bing refuses to answer this question in the normal or even rap format.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

For me, that already happened.

I had planned a train trip that started to seem pretty unlikely when the relevant union started talking about a strike. I needed to check the union’s site every day to see how the negotiations were going. Doing that through RSS would have been nice, but the site didn’t support it and none of the apps I tried were able to help me either. Do I need to craft my own webscraping code and make a cron job to run it every hour?

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to programmer_humor in Normal day in the life of a developer

In my experience, Copilot does a fairly good job when you already know what you’re doing, but can’t be bothered to write the code yourself.

For example, basic stuff like read data from that file, use dplyr, remove these columns, do these calculations, plot the result using ggplot2, label the axes this way, use those colors etc. Copilot gives you the code that does roughly what you want, but you usually need to tweak it a bit it to suit your preferences. Copilot also makes absurd mistakes, but fixing them is fairly easy. If this is the sort of stuff you’re doing, copilot can indeed boost your productivity.

However, if you don’t know how to do something a bit more exotic like principal component analysis, and you ask copilot to do the job for you, expect plenty of trouble. You may end up on a wild goose chase, using the wrong tools, doing unnecessary calculations and all sorts of crazy nonsense. When you know what you’re doing, you can ask a very specific thing. When you don’t, you may end up being too ambiguous in your prompt, which will result copilot leading you down the wrong path.

You can do it this way too, but before implementing a single line of that garbage code, you absolutely have to ask copilot a bunch of questions just to make sure you really understand what you’re doing, what the new functions do, where do you really want to go etc. You’re probably going to have to tweak the code before running it, and that’s why you need to know what you’re doing. That’s the one big area you can’t outsource to copilot just yet.

But is it still faster than reading the documentation and building your own experimental tests? If you spend an hour and get a pile of broken garbage, then certainly not. If you spend a bit more, ask plenty of questions, make sure you know what you’re doing, then maybe it is worth it.

Hamartiogonic , 6 months ago to technology in Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

I firmly believe that every system has exploits. The more complex the system, the harder it can be cheesed.