ekky
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- Comment on No Chance 🎤 2 days ago:
Oh no, that’s VILE! x)
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 2 days ago:
Lots of people think it’s only AI if it’s at least a Machine-Learning enabled Neural Network whose model is at least of 1B+ parameter complexity and runs on a digital computer using NVIDIA hardware.
It isn’t, or at least wasn’t, unless you use the techbro definition from the past 10 or so years (or the Hollywood definition from before that).
Bristlebots were some of the most simple proto-AI you could make. They are capable of navigation and object-avoidance in 3D space and even show simple swarm behavior, even without any kind of computing power or “brain”.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 week ago:
Jup, it’s as if everyone magically forgot about pre-deep-learning AIs the moment Microsoft and OpenAI appropriated the word AI to mean LLM++.
Turn off ALL AI and you’ll have windmills and power plants go rogue, ships will loose navigation and stabilization, planes falling down from the skies, and most important: the NPCs in your video games will only be able to react with the most simple interactions - terrible, truly!
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
Spatial movement
Since the 4th dimension of space is just an infinite amount of 3rd dimensions of space stacked infinitely tight and which is tangent to the normal vectors of every other spatial dimension, you could flip or pass through it just fine. All people and objects you know would disappear and you’d be faced with a new and alien world where every physical object and phenomena is off. Unless, of course, if you not only witness translation, but also rotation, in which case you might be able to see parts of your own dimension from a fucked up point of view, aka. being able to see the organs inside people etc…
Obviously, this assumes that our 4D space is part of a 5D space-time such that at least 1 dimension of time exists, as you’d be frozen in 0-dimensional time otherwise and wouldn’t be able to see anything.
Time movement
Contrary, we already live in 4 dimensions of space-time, of which the 4th dimension of space-time is the 1st dimension of time. You move through time constantly by yourself, and if someone where to move you, you wouldn’t know that you’ve moved since you haven’t moved yet or already did from your own perspective.
You’d need to exist in 2D time to be able to “experience” the entirety of any single string of 1D time, just like you’d need to be a 3D spatial being to see the entirety of a 2D paper/plane. Also, you would obviously not be aware if you were moved beyond your birth or death, as you wouldn’t have a functional spatial body to interpret this.
Notice
This assumes that time and space are two separate phenomena that can be mixed in any given proportion, though resent research has proposed a theory that “space” might just an illusion of time, aka. that what we call “dimensions of space-time” or “dimensions” in general is just one big ol’ load of bull.
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure OP was talking about a 4th dimension of space, not space-time.
- Comment on This FedEx driver has never won a round of Tetris in his life 2 weeks ago:
Some teenage legend actually beat Tetris for the NES in 2023.
- Comment on Well that's my vacation ruined 2 weeks ago:
You guys go on vacations just to watch TV?
Not to brag, but I can do that from home.
- Comment on Watcha gonna do? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 1 month ago:
Why the “\s”? That sounds like a most optimal solution!
Just remove half the blocklist, and instead of having a pure bland expetience, you’ll instead get extremism pure.
What’s there not to like?
- Comment on I may be wrong here. Isn't AI only as smart as the user putting in the information or commands? What's the big deal? 1 month ago:
They’re about as intelligent as the average user they were trained on. Maybe a tiny bit better because of tuning.
So, if you’re a programmer below average then LLMs might help you. Contrary, if you know what you’re doing then it’s a glorified (and often wrong) auto complete.
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 months ago:
Fewer than 19*
I’ve converted to Linux since.
- Comment on Is Temu leaking the end of the US? 4 months ago:
Spoiler, please!
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Unless we’re talking SteamOS or similar, then it just sounds like disaster waiting to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Thank you! This is from the southern Danish archipelago, from Hjortø.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Thank you! It’s my home island in the background. ^,^
I’m in no way a photographer, and I prefer staying at home over traveling, but I do love our local nature.
Photo of an assortment of birds seeking shelter on land during storm.
Photo of a old grain windmill stuck in the middle of the sea.
Both above photos and this video (which I cannot seem to embed) are from the storm surge that ravaged the Baltic in the fall of 2023. I cancelled all appointments to go home when the state asked us to consider evacuation or be stuck for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Wow, that’s gorgeous! I’m personally more of a sea-person, but I can appreciate a good mountain view. :)
View of the sea during twilight, with an island in the background.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 5 months ago:
Your new point does indeed stand.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 5 months ago:
Against caucasians? Dudette said she was white.
- Comment on Lab-grown brains have started solving engineering problems 5 months ago:
Thank you, Moonshadow. :)
- Comment on Lab-grown brains have started solving engineering problems 5 months ago:
This might be padentic, but the lab-brain didn’t solve anything. It just acts as the controller in a solution created by a scientist.
It is the one who created this “controller” who solved the problem.
- Comment on Meirl 5 months ago:
And even when they apply to bikes, they don “apply” to most bikes anyway.
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 6 months ago:
“Big Handsome Men in you local area want to help you. Click now!”
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 7 months ago:
Sure, but going to a proper restaurant tends to cost a bit more than doing it yourself.
Like, making some roasted pork with steamed veggies, sauce, and potatoes takes some 10+40 minutes of preparation and about 10 minutes of cleanup, and it costs me about 25$ (and is, of course, not including any deals). That’s for 4 grownups, plus some leftovers for lunch next day.
Obviously food and restaurant prices differ wildly depending on where you live, but I’m not sure I could get a decent and healthy takeout/restaurant meal for less than 60$ for 4 people in my area (assuming that 4 kebabs can be considered “decent and healthy”).
That’d leave me with a hourly “food-wage” of roughly 35$ (or 75$ if we’d assume 100$ for takeout), which I think is acceptable. I’d not make more than that after taxes either way.
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 7 months ago:
And now we have those who’d rather work for recreation, and those who’d rather work as recreation. I can find better things to spend my money on than food.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Nice. The first computer I had all to myself had Vista, it thought me how to fix my own stuff after random crashes. I ditched Windows shortly after the end of support for windows 7, after having entirely skipped 8, and then witnessing Microsoft themselves skipping 9 for the shitshow that was 10.
- Comment on One of those days 10 months ago:
Might be. I’ve never seen it used that way, though, I know that some people prefer parentheses around the fraction to the right of integers.
That said, even Wolframalpha appears to disagree, which I find mildly funny if what you say is true.
- Comment on Could someone please explain/Tldr the Subnautica 2 controversy? I liked the first one, but I'm severely out of the loop. 1 year ago:
The Krafton leadership blessed the execs projects, which meant they were totally aware well in advance.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 1 year ago:
Imma use this as world map for my next Pen&Paper campaign.
- Comment on The good old days 1 year ago:
Me to my hairline: Stop right there, criminal scum!
- Comment on oops 1 year ago:
Plastic gotta be this age’s lead/quicksilver.
