calcopiritus
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
I used to. Yes
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
I used to be shoes on.
You just wake up, put on underwear, pants, shirt, socks and shoes, in that order.
- Comment on Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' 2 weeks ago:
The words of someone that has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Are you 0.00113636 miles tall though? We use centimeters for height. You are 191cm tall, not 1,91m.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What a weird argument. There is no practical difference between 180°C and 180,5°C. No need for ovens to have decimal precision.
Thermostats do have increments lower than 1°C though. My car’s AC increments in 0,5°C steps.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 weeks ago:
First of all, I’m going to replace AI with LLM, since that’s probably what you meant.
There are 2 distinct questions asked in this post:
- Why not use LLMs to provide different levels of automation? (Like, manual, medium, auto)
Answer: you don’t need LLMs for that. You can just code it in like any other feature. It’s not particularly hard, game developers know how to do it since they are used to programming automation for NPCs.
- Why not use LLMs to procedurally generate NPC dialogue?
Answer: games are primarily a form of art. NPC dialogues are written with a purpose. Different characters have different personalities. Some dialogues are meant to drive the plot. Other dialogues are meant to teach the player how to play. Others are meant to show the player things that they may have missed, or things that are interesting.
Procedural dialogues removes all the control from artists. They would all be generic npc n#473, with the personality of the LLM, maybe slightly varied if the developer writes a different prompt for each character.
Procedural dialogues would have the same issues as procedural world generation or photorealistic graphics, it would just not be interesting.
There is a practically infinite amount of Minecraft worlds, yet they all feel the same way. The thing that differentiates a Minecraft world from another is that which the player has built. The only part of the world that wasn’t procedurally generated.
There is a great amount of photorealistic games. And they all look very similar. You may only distinguish one from another by looking at their handcrafted worlds or their handcrafted characters. But not by staring at a wall. You can stare at a wall in non-photoreslistic games and know what game it is.
So if you put procedurally generated dialogues, no one will read them, since you’ll be bored by the time you read the same thing being said by 5 different NPCs from 5 different games.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 3 weeks ago:
Because the British empire was absolutely huge. Which lead to many countries having English as an official language. Which means those countries would conduct trade in English. Followed by American dominance, which also has English as its main language.
And that American dominance includes dominance in media, especially films because of hollywood. Technical documents, research and especially computer-related technical documents are mainly in English for the same reason.
Sure, English is not that hard of a language. But it’s not the easiest either.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 3 weeks ago:
It didn’t make me repeat the curriculum. The curriculum is the same for everyone.
I didn’t use basque outside school, but I barely used English. Inside school, it was ~7 hours every day of basque. And ~3h per week of english.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 3 weeks ago:
Not research, personal experience:
Even after many years of school/high-school in basque, I learnt it at a way slower rate than English, which was just 1 subject.
I didn’t speak neither basque nor English outside school. At most, the difference might be that I consumed a little bit of media in English while none in basque. But all subjects except spanish and English were in basque, so that should make up for the difference.
And I don’t think it’s just a me thing. Since the curriculum has mostly been the same for all those years of school:
Learn how to say a verb.
That’s it. Many years of school just to say verbs correctly.
The exams where mostly just fill in the blank exercises, where the blank was a verb.
I still don’t know how to say verbs that aren’t the simplest ones.
So to your question I’d say yes. Even though neither are my native tongue, I learnt both since I entered school, but learned them at wildly different rates.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t when 8GB was the norm. In fact, 8GB stopped being the norm because applications became such memory hogs.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 5 weeks ago:
Who said it’s okay to invade Greenland? And of course it’s not ok to invade ukraine
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 1 month ago:
Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.
- Comment on why 2 months ago:
I believe this comment chain is about spanish, not french.
In Spanish the last letter of the word is right most of the time. We do say “una Fanta”.
- Comment on why 2 months ago:
I don’t know what dialect you speak where “Mano” is masculine. In Spain it is feminine, and I’ve never heard anyone say “el mano”. I’ve also never heard anyone say “el manita”.
I don’t think “ser” and “estar” being different verbs is at all wrong with spanish. They are very clearly different concepts.
You can be something because it is part of you “I am tall” or you can be something situationally “I am at the library”. What is weird to me is that English uses the same verb for those clearly different concepts.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 months ago:
Idk why you are choosing to imagine anon like that. But that is a pretty normal and socially acceptable behaviour in a bar
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 months ago:
He wasn’t listening to the conversation for 3 hours. He was seated there for 3 hours, and then he overheard a part of a conversation.
Overhearing is not the same as actively listening. Talking in public is public. They are at a bar, which is an extremely social place, it is normal for strangers to join conversations.
And what place and context is more appropriate than a bar for asking someone out? It has been the de facto place exactly for that purpose for millenia.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 months ago:
Talking to a stranger is extremely rude?
How are you supposed to find a partner if you’re not allowed to talk to strangers?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.
In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.
The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.
Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.
Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.
I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
Simple.
- I’m reading tab A
- Tab A links to tab B
- Open B in new tab, since I know I’m going back to tab A soon.
- Go to tab A
- Go to tab B again
- I’m finished reading tab B so I close it.
Notice how I didn’t close tab A. Because at that point, I was not in tab A, therefore I don’t think about that tab much so I don’t even think if I should close it or not. Tab A will probably stay open until I decide to clean my tabs when there are 50+ tabs on them.
Another common scenario:
- I’m reading tab C
- Something comes up that makes me either switch to another task or shut down the computer
From this point there are 2 paths: either I never resume the task I opened tab C for, so it stays there for a long time, or I resume the task when tab C is too far up (I use vertical tabs), so I open tab D that is the same webpage as tab C. When I finish I close tab D, but tab C remains for a long time.
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 2 months ago:
You can’t shrink the yardstick down to an infinitesimal size.
Coastlines are not well defined. They change in time with tides and waves. And even if you take a picture and try to measure that, you still have to decide at what point exactly the sea ends and the land starts.
If the criteria for that is “the line is where it would make a fractal” then sure, by that arbitrary decision, it is infinite. However, a way better way to answer the question “where is the line” is to just decide on a fixed resolution (or variable if you want to get fancy), which makes the distinction between sea and land clearer.
It is like saying that an electron is everywhere in the universe, because of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. While it is very technically true, just pick a resolution of 1mm^3 and you know exactly where the electron is.
- Comment on Anon has had enough 3 months ago:
Sometimes? I’m not tall at all, and if I pee standing up I later see droplets of pee basically everywhere. It wasn’t that much of a problem as a child, so I guess it’s height-based. But again, for an adult I’m not tall at all.
- Comment on sucked in losers 3 months ago:
Heh. Ironic.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 months ago:
This comment was surprisingly easy to read. Definitely easier than if it were for the “th” sound
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 3 months ago:
Pokemon uranium is playable on PC, I don’t think it works in consoles. Played it long time ago so I don’t remember how good it is though.
I don’t know how easy it would be to find though since Nintendo shut it down.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 4 months ago:
In the movies extended version you can see saruman clearly dying after the ENT counter-attack. So in the movies, only sauron is left at this point.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 4 months ago:
I don’t think anyone denies that whatever happens after you no longer pass your genes around has no evolutionary effect.
Whether helping your offspring is evolutionarily helpful or not might be debatable (I don’t see how it would not be helpful though)
Even in beings that not form societies it has an impact. Example:
You reproduce, then instantly die. Now your offspring have more available resources around them, since you no longer consume them
Or, your reproduce and you become much stronger, but not aggressive towards non-predators. Now predators are less likely to be near you, and your offspring are probably near you. Therefore, they probably benefit from having less predators around.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 months ago:
You’re not stupid for it. Since it makes sense.
However, due to the way we “calculate” the sizes of infinite sets, you are wrong.
Even integers and all integers are the same infinity.
But reals are “bigger” than integers.
- Comment on We're all going home early today 4 months ago:
My microwave has a sticker so you don’t heat liquids without a teaspoon. I’ve heated milk in it every day for years, every time with a teaspoon in it. It also heats up faster with it.