xthexder
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- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
That would definitely explain why it’s sped up if the source was a bunch of still images. I’ve seen other edits of it that look a little more like a real-time video.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
I believe that’s Mt St Helens erupting. Real footage from 1980 (though this gif is sped up).
- Comment on Applications 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but also no. We use giant prime numbers for cryptography because the more factors it has, the weaker the encryption becomes (because now there’s more than one answer for A * ? = B)
- Comment on speedometers 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it would work, lol.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
I think the way I use AI is fundamentally different from how most people draw. For me it’s much more like I’m exploring what’s possible, while making creative decisions on the direction to explore. I don’t start with anything in particular in mind. In a lot of ways it helps with the choice paralysis I get when faced with completely open-ended things like art.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
As someone who’s absolutely terrible at drawing, but enjoys photography and generally creativity, having AI tools to generate my own art is opening up a whole different avenue for me to scratch my creative itch.
I’ve got a technical background, so figuring out the tools and modifying them for my purposes has been a lot more fun than practice drawing. - Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
You’re mostly right, but this graph actually shows a little more about what’s happening with the “temperature” of the LLM.
It’s actually predicting the probability of each word (token) it knows coming next, all at once. The temperature then says how random it should be when picking from that list. A temperature of 0 means always pick the most likely next word, which in this case ends up being 42.
As the temperature increases, it gets more random (but you can see it’s still not a perfect random distribution with a temperature of 1) - Comment on consπracy! 2 months ago:
It’s a plot on this graph 📈
- Comment on Academic language 2 months ago:
Human language truely is a wonder to behold.
- Comment on It seems so simple 3 months ago:
Or a curved mirror for built-in zoom!
- Comment on Excuse me, René 3 months ago:
In the grand scheme of things, a human lifespan is in the same ballpark as a Planck instant when considering an infinite universe. That doesn’t mean either are insignificant in their own context though.
Time can be infinitely subdivided For all we know, billions of entire universes could be created and destroyed within ours in an instant. Our own universe could be as insignificant as an atom in some higher level universe. We can’t know that. But what I do know, is that I exist in this moment, and that’s enough for me.
Slightly related is the anthropic principle, or the “observation selection effect”, which is nicely summarized by this analogy:
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
The takeaway I get from this is that it’s important to appreciate the time we have, since everything comes to an end eventually.