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xthexder , 1 day ago to technology in The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery

That doesn’t seem worth it when you can fit that amount of storage in about 20 L with lithium ion cells (think a small PC case), or something like 40 L if you used sodium ion cells, which are looking like a new alternative.

Concrete offgassing of CO2 is already a big contributor to greenhouse gasses, so I can’t imagine this battery version is improving things there. You’d probably have to wire your whole basement with electrodes to even access the stored energy.

xthexder , 9 days ago to programmer_humor in Corporate America is Just Office Space in Real Life

It’s sad that the best most startups can hope for is to be bought by a giant corporation. Not a lot of people are interested in just having a successful long-term business.

xthexder , 14 days ago to technology in How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others

It’s sad probably 90% of this stuff won’t make it back to it’s original owner. Who’s still got serial numbers or receipts for something they bought in 2014? Most people will have moved on or had insurance replacements already

xthexder , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to technology in How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others

I’m not a professional, but all my powertools are covered under my renter’s/hone insurance. It’s incredibly cheap compared to car or health insurance.

Edit: I guess this doesn’t count if the tools are stored in a vehicle parked anywhere but in my garage. There’s definitely some policies available that will cover the full contents of your vehicle though.

xthexder , 21 days ago to technology in Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

Just useful enough to become incredibly dangerous to anyone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Isn’t it great?

xthexder , 21 days ago to science_memes in Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.

Brazil’s approach for fostering innovation and technology is to tax all outside tech at 100%, even though no local industry for the products even exists. I don’t have high expectations for them investing in scientific publishing.

xthexder , 25 days ago to memes in rice

I’ve had the audio desync in cutscenes after leaving a game open in sleep for a week or two. I think it’s an issue with how the game timers work. If they’re counting since the game started, any slightly inaccuracy will become more obvious as the game is left open, regardless of sleep.

xthexder , 25 days ago to memes in rice

It’s a little like comparing a top of the line gaming laptop to a middle of the road efficient laptop. Sure the games will run a bit better on the powerful laptop, but you’re trading that for battery life. The Steam Deck is insanely efficient, and they made a few hard tradeoffs like the 1280x800 display resolution (which is great for battery, and honestly plenty sharp for the screen size).

I’m still a little blown away it runs Balder’s Gate 3 and Cyberlunk 2077 at all.

xthexder , 26 days ago to technology in Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

You can’t use cash online tho

xthexder , 26 days ago to technology in OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit

I think they’re being more literal. All the latest open source AI models get posted on Hugging Face.

xthexder , 26 days ago to memes in Just a few specs of rust

Basically every car says not to wash in direct sunlight. From my understanding it’s because you’ll end up with water spots and other residue from the soap drying on to the paint before you can rinse it off.

xthexder , 28 days ago to technology in "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded

Let me try putting this a different way: The machine is picking the next best word / action / chess move to output based on its past experience of the world (i.e. it’s training data). It’s not just statistics, it’s making millions of learned connections between words, and through association they start to have meaning.

Is this not exactly what the human brain does itself? Humans just have the advantage of multiple senses and having a physical agent (a body) to interact with the world.

The problem that AI has is it’s got no basis in reality. It’s like a human talking about fantasy things like unicorns. We’ve only ever experienced them as descriptions and art created from those descriptions without any basis in reality.

xthexder , 29 days ago to technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

I have adopted the philosophy that human brains might not be as special as we’ve thought, and that the untrained behavior emerging from LLMs and image generators is so similar to human behaviors that I can’t help but think of it as an underdeveloped and handicapped mind.

I hypothesis that a human brain, who’s only perception of the world is the training data force fed to it by a computer, would have all the same problems the LLMs do right now.

To put it another way… The line that determines what is sentient and not is getting blurrier and blurrier. LLMs have surpassed the Turing test a few years ago. We’re simulating the level of intelligence of a small animal today.

xthexder , 29 days ago to technology in We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Because hallucinations pretty much exactly describes what’s happening? All of your suggested terms are less descriptive of what the issue is.

The definition of hallucination:

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus.

In the case of generative AI, it’s generating output that doesn’t match it’s training data “stimulus”. Or in other words, false statements, or “facts” that don’t exist in reality.

xthexder , 29 days ago to pics in Sucks to suck!

Bare stainless steel, lol