jaden

@jaden@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, my father in law just lost 3 months of work yesterday because he synced his documents folder that had an old copy of his book on OneDrive. Maybe if OneDrive was made well, it would prevent data loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, lost 3 months of work yesterday because OneDrive erased it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sanders Warns 'Absurd' Low Pay of Teachers Fueling Public Education Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only two types of people will still be a teacher with current pay expectations:

  • those with a genuine passion for education, and get joy out of helping kids
  • those with some other ulterior motive for having authority over children.

  The amount of absurd power-tripping I suffered under in school makes me think there’s way too much of the second group. We’re definitely getting what we pay for here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get scattered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead smile of someone who had too many pictures taken of them as a child. I like to think I preserved my authenticity by being a little monster during pictures as a child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get scattered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dopamine used to be considered the generic pleasure chemical, but I think it’s not anymore. Has more to do with reward pathways and learning, maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get scattered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s a fairly consistent pov. “God of the Gaps” is what it’s called. Ostensibly, that sort of person accepts new evidence for things, so it’s probably not one of the worst ways to think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how well that percentage matches up with the percent of Americans who believe those sites, too. Would an LLM trained on the raw internet have a fairly proportional spectrum of beliefs to the American public?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just weird that we get so much humanlike reasoning from them, anyways. The jury’s still out whether our brains learn in an autoregressive manner like that, too. I’m finding a lot of really cool results in my research by tinkering with the idea that a developing brain might just be constantly trying to guess what’s happening next.

  Seems pretty plausible to me that passive learning in humans works similar to next-token prediction in transformers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are just people skills. Of course you’re gonna have to make people like you if you want to work with people. Half the brain is dedicated to networking with other brains.

  And it’s not actually that hard to agreeably disagree with someone. You say your thing, and then you do your little song and dance to make sure they know you respect them, and you go on your way.

  A little bit of humility goes a long way. Hard scientists aren’t above a little compassion, a little bit of care for explaining themselves to the public and to money movers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really see how it isn’t antitrust stuff. Apple has used their market power to restrict competition at every possible opportunity.