kescusay

kescusay , 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to showerthoughts in AI is like a hammer

Software developer, here.

It’s not actually AI. A large language model is essentially autocomplete on steroids. Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

I’m not trying to diss LLMs, by the way. Like I said, they can be very useful in some contexts. I use Copilot to assist with coding, for example. Don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate code? Copilot is excellent for speeding that process up.

kescusay , 10 days ago to news in 'Disturbing' recordings from inside child-predator sting shows police, MAGA operatives ignoring laws

Weirdly, same. Two different guys, both publicly pillars of the community. Both arrested for raping kids. In each case, they were just not at work one day, and our supervisors would just say, “So-and-so isn’t employed here anymore.”

kescusay , 11 days ago to nottheonion in Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself

That’s a problem for future CEO John Q. Moneybags. Present CEO John Q. Moneybags just improved this quarter’s financials, and is already planning his golden-parachute retirement before becoming future Mr. Moneybags.

kescusay , 13 days ago to technology in Chips could harvest their own energy using a newly-created alloy

The way I see it, every little bit helps. If even a little of the waste heat can be recaptured as electricity for operation, it’s a good thing unless the conversion itself has a higher energy cost, and from what I can tell, that’s not the case with this technique.

kescusay , 13 days ago to news in MEGA THREAD - Trump shot but safe, 2 others killed at PA rally

Not if he can’t get on video. The man’s bizarre hold on his base is all about his verbal delivery. If he has to rely on written messages, he can’t verbally circumvent the higher brain function in his victims and they’re more likely to actually become aware that his messages are gibberish.

kescusay , 13 days ago to news in Trump rally shooter identified as 20-year-old Pennsylvania man

This is important to know, but at the same time, the majority of registered members in both parties in Pennsylvania voted for the front-runner, and given his youth (20), the primary was his first election involving presidential candidates.

We need to wait until the facts about him come out. Very little is currently known beyond the party registration and the YouTube gun channel.

kescusay , 13 days ago to news in MEGA THREAD - Trump shot but safe, 2 others killed at PA rally

That shit was amazingly disgusting. And yeah, Trump gets no sympathy from me. But I won’t call for his death, either. I want him to live a very long time. In prison.

kescusay , 13 days ago to news in MEGA THREAD - Trump shot but safe, 2 others killed at PA rally

But it shouldn’t be. He shows no signs - cognitively speaking - of being capable of putting something like this together as a stage-managed event, and all of his past stage-managed events have been shitshows because he micromanages everything and he’s incompetent.

kescusay , 13 days ago to news in MEGA THREAD - Trump shot but safe, 2 others killed at PA rally

Wouldn’t be the first time. Conservatives are conservative up until the moment someone uses freedom from government oversight in a way that hurts or inconveniences them. Then they’re all, “There oughta be a law against blah blah blah” without an iota of self-awareness.

kescusay , 13 days ago to news in MEGA THREAD - Trump shot but safe, 2 others killed at PA rally

Thank you. And fuck the idiots spouting off with the “staged” nonsense. The time to believe something is staged is when you have evidence that it was.

kescusay , 14 days ago to nottheonion in Netanyahu says ceasefire deal must allow Israel to keep fighting until ‘all goals achieved’

Any idea if those protests are making any difference? Watching Israel become this has been heartbreaking.

kescusay , 14 days ago to world in Russian soldier appalled by children’s hospital strike betrays comrades

It’s a start.

kescusay , 16 days ago to news in Senate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections

Then that person is a troll and needs to be banned.

kescusay , 17 days ago to news in Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

I become useless at temperatures above 85 (less if the humidity is high, too). These people are insane.

kescusay , 17 days ago to technology in Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%

At this point, I’m not sure why anyone would actually buy a Tesla. The alternatives are far less expensive, the “features” of a Tesla are unpolished and dangerous, and the money doesn’t go to a megalomaniac with a god complex.