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egeres , 2 months ago

What are the reasons for this? I’m out of the france loop

egeres , 2 months ago

Wait, which gamble? I’m not well informed on what’s going on over there

egeres , 2 months ago

Right, I see your point. I also wonder sometimes if the excess of social media consumption and the battle to gobble more eye balls has somehow influenced people making them more susceptible to manipulation via charisma and populist opinions, I’m not sure how different it is nowadays than a couple of decades back. I might be wrong about this anyways

egeres , 2 months ago

Okay, I think I saw this somewhere but I didn’t really read further into it

egeres , 2 months ago

I think if it was up to them, and latency was low enough, they probably would have pushed some kind of “fully remote convertible laptop” where they literally own everything you do in a cloud, I don’t even want to search if this is a thing that exist already

egeres , 2 months ago

Does north korea have actually good military power? I’ve seen their parades here and there, but does anyone know if they have updated equipment, trained military personnel, good intelligence, etc?

egeres , 2 months ago

Yeah, I don’t think numbers is everything, lacking experience or leadership can tip the balance against you in a blink

egeres , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I didn’t know this, damn, that’s moving a lot of troops across a length of ~8.000 km in rail

egeres , 2 months ago

Why is this on shitpost? I think it’s a perfectly valid hobby and it should be celebrated

egeres , 2 months ago

Aerial pic of my friend running archlinux in my company where everyone is using W11

egeres , 3 months ago

Why do they struggle so much with some “obvious things” sometimes ? We wouldn’t have a type-C iphone if the EU didn’t pressured them to do make the switch

egeres OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Left side: Black mirror S01E02 “fifteen million merits” . A guy tries to “break the system” but this backfires and his critic that was supposed to change people’s minds is absorbed by it and turned into an entertainment product. The upper-left image shows the moment in the episode where he criticizes the system threatening to kill himself while the bottom one shows the final image of the episode where he how lives in an expensive suite

Right side: “Being ugly : My Experience” A youtube video of a guy explaining how his unattractiveness has biased his life and brought unhappiness upon him. A reason why this became viral, besides the obvious connection by many due to the topic was that a girl commented that she found the guy of the video very cute and they actually became a couple

The meme: It compares both cases implying that the guy on the right was breaking the system but that his cause was “silenced” by providing him a girlfriend and turning him into a channel that lectures people on having hope about the prospect of finding a suitable partner

egeres , 3 months ago

The closest to this I can remember rn was the movie oblivion, where humans used masks to distort their voice? Not sure about the logic behind that, pretty sweet visuals tho, the UI design was sick

egeres , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Eehrm, acktually, the tweet is wrong 🤓

You can always be getting a result above average in a series of numbers as long as the nth number is significantly greater than the previous ones. For example, f(x) = x^2 would always be above average for every next number

egeres , 3 months ago

I was going to say this, their new architecture seems to be better than previous ones, they have more compute and I’m guessing, more data. The only explanation for this downgrade is that they tried to ban porn. I haven’t read online info about this at the time anyways, I’m just learning this recently

egeres , 3 months ago

Interestingly enough, even if it would make sense that boeing is now fully focusing on improving quality, it also makes sense to me that airbus must be ensuring and pushing a lot of quality upgrades as well, it would be perfect marketing for them if no mistakes whatsoever happened on airbus’s planes

egeres , 3 months ago

The teaser itself is some generic terrain with procedural grass anyone could do in blender in 3h

egeres , 3 months ago

Are they going to integrate mastodon instead?

egeres , 3 months ago

“but I don’t need privacy, I don’t have anything to hide!”

egeres , 3 months ago

Right but, AFAIK glaze is targeting the CLIP model inside diffusion models, which means any new versions of CLIP would remove the effect of the protection

egeres , 3 months ago

What would be the solution? Re-solder some chip from the motherboard?

egeres , 3 months ago

I do think that the concept of recall is very interesting, I want to explore a FOSS version where you have complete ownership of your data in a secure manner

egeres OP , 3 months ago

… oh…

Should I delete this post? Hahah

egeres , 3 months ago

Even if we all disagree with him politically, what, is anybody going to form the lemmy repo on GH and make a better version?

egeres , 3 months ago

This

AI is actually providing value and advancing to a huge rate, I don’t know how people can dismiss that so easily

egeres , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I’m using LLMs to parse and organize information in my file directory, turning bank receipts into json files, I automatically rename downloaded movies into a more legible format I prefer, I summarize clickbaity-youtube-videos, I use copilot on vscode to code much faster, chatGPT all the time to discover new libraries and cut fast through boilerplate, I have a personal assistant that has access to a lot of metrics about my life: meditation streak, when I do exercise, the status of my system etc and helps me make decisions…

I don’t know about you but I feel like I’m living in an age of wonder

I’m not sure what to say about the prompts, I feel like I’m integrating AI in my systems to automate mundane stuff and oversee more information, I think one should be paid for the work and value produced

egeres , 3 months ago

I had the most horrible experience trying to install it on an SSD, I’ll ramble about it in some sub-lemmy to vent out 😭

egeres , 3 months ago

It’s weird that I’ve been on firefox for the vast majority of my life and I always had this perception that “everyone” was using it. Here in lemmy you hear about it all the time, my friends use it, I see it on my newsfeeds etc

But when you check the market share it around 2.8% while chrome is 65.1% gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

egeres , 3 months ago

I feel like “most people” only learn “one technology per category”. They know of, one operative system, one browser, one app to mindless scroll, one program to edit text. As a developer it shocks me a little because I’m always eager to try new programming languages, technologies and ways to interact with things. I guess most people only know about edge/safari because they come pre-installed

egeres , 3 months ago

I would even go as far as saying that the left meniscus of the gaussian thinks google chrome is “google” and the “thing that finds webs”

egeres , 3 months ago

I have decreased my meat consumption to about a third than it used to be in recent years. I’m not qualified to do an in-depth study about all the ramifications of the CO2 emissions, but agriculture being just about 11.2% of all emissions sounds like eating less cow won’t cut it to “save ourselves”

I have a hunch that shit will hit the fan and there will be a massive reduction in CO2 emissions because of a supply chain failure. Third world countries produce the vast majority of “low manufacturing complexity” products, which will be made even more unsustainable if those regions become a scorched earth. That, coupled with a lesser incentive to travel due to an adverse climatic situation, and a trend in population decrease due to an overall quality of life degradation, will really be the reason why we will reduce emissions, simply because things stop working and become unsustainable

Either way, I don’t think it’s possible to really predict the future and even less so in such a complex society where technology might be a game changer all of the sudden, so my opinion is not really that valid. Even educated estimates using proper statistics/data cannot guess the implications of new wars, AI, new scientific breakthroughs etc

egeres , 3 months ago

People get very confused about this. Pre-training “ChatGPT” (or any transformer model) with “internet shitposting text” doesn’t cause them to reply with garbage comments, bad alignment does. Google seems to have implemented no frameworks to prevent hallucinations whatsoever and the RLHF/DPO applied seems to be lacking. But this is not “problem with training on the entire web”. You can pre-train a model exclusively on a 4-chan database that with the right finetuning you would see a perfectly healthy and harmless model. Actually, it’s not bad to have “shitposting” or “toxic” text in the pre-training because that gives the model an ability to identify it and understand it

If so, the “problem with training on the entire web” is that we would be drinking from a poisoned well, AI-generated text has a very different statistical distribution from the one users have, which would degrade the quality of subsequent models. Proof of this can be seen with the RedPajama dataset, which improves the scores on trained models simply because it has less duplicated information and is a more dense dataset: cerebras.net/…/slimpajama-a-627b-token-cleaned-an…

egeres , 4 months ago

Lemmy seems to be very near-sighted when it comes to the exponential curve of AI progress, I think this is an effect because the community is very anti-corp

egeres , 3 months ago

That argument it’s fallacious and reductionist, I’m not denying the situation it’s messed up, but objectively speaking we all have 0 idea about who’s making what decisions and how this google search shitstorm was caused

egeres , 4 months ago

How did this clickbaity headline got so many upvotes? Are we really cherry-picking some outlier example of a hallucination and using it to say “haha, google dumb”? I think there is plenty of valid criticism out there against google that we can stick to instead of paying attention to stupid and provocative articles

egeres , 4 months ago

I find the concept interesting anyways, does anybody know of an open source alternative?

egeres , 4 months ago

You’re forgetting a silly and funny company whose name starts with “G”

egeres , 4 months ago

What the fuck

egeres , 4 months ago

I feel terrible for all the work boeing’s hitman is going to have to do this week 🤦🏻‍♂️

egeres , 4 months ago

Hahahh, would be hilarious to then get a whistleblower from the team of “boeing’s hitmens” because of bad working conditions

egeres , 4 months ago

Why did the emoji picker of W11 get so fucking downgraded?

egeres , 4 months ago

How many android apps are designed by teenage engineering?

egeres , 4 months ago

I find the antikythera mechanism much more baffling!!

egeres , 4 months ago

Out of curiosity, does anybody know how big was the team?

egeres , 5 months ago

Does any body know of an open-source reddit alternative? God, I wish that existed :/

egeres , 5 months ago

First time I’m seeing this