General_Effort
@General_Effort@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 day ago:
mittelhochdeutsch (mitteldeutsch) vunke, althochdeutsch funcho, entstanden aus den mit -n- gebildeten Formen des Feuer zugrunde liegenden Substantivs
www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Funke#Bedeutung-1
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 day ago:
“Knallfunkensender”
Literally “Bang-Sparks-Sender”.
Are you sure it’s because of the radio spectrum bang? I always thought it was because of the audible bang.
If someone operated such a thing today, any guesses what the death zone for electronic devices would be?
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 day ago:
It really is from “Funkentechnik”: “Spark technology”. I wonder how many people appreciate the post for the cute etymology and how many because it sounds funny.
Good information for ham radio people, too. Hobby sounds too geeky? Just say you’re into Über-Funk-Parties.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 days ago:
Fun fact: The german word for using a radio is “funken”; literally “to spark”. A radioman is, or was, a “Funker”. When you are talking over the radio, you are doing it “Über Funk”.
- Comment on no thanks 6 days ago:
Oh no. It moves.
“It’s a coordinated superorganism, acting and moving as a whole.”
Oh no no.
A 10-millimeter (0.4-inch) nematode tower twists and folds as the mass of worms reaches for the lid of its petri dish.
Oh nonononono
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
So that wasn’t sarcasm?
Not quite sarcasm, not quite reductio ad absurdum. It’s just a reminder of certain psychological realities.
Possible instance of backwards causation
Don’t see how you get that.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
If that’s a steelman then it’s definitely at forging temperature (which jet fuel btw can achieve easily), collapsing under its own weight.
I don’t understand. I simply agreed with the previous poster. Do you disagree with anything I wrote?
- Comment on One for the wee Ones 1 week ago:
It depends on where you are, I think. Was yours more of a beer lab or a wine lab?
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
Oh yes. You absolutely don’t have to believe that the earth is billions of years old to understand geology. You just have to assume that it looks like it is, while doing geology. That’s completely compatible with believing that it really is just 8,000 years old.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
What?
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
- Submitted 1 week ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 12 comments
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 1 week ago:
How else are you going to have a 1-sided sheet?
Hmm. Would the surface of a sphere qualify as a sheet? But I feel that is cheating. The inside would count as another side if you could only get to it.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 2 weeks ago:
I’m always glad when someone is interested and conscientious enough to ask for a source.
Article 4 in full:
Providers and deployers of AI systems shall take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience, education and training and the context the AI systems are to be used in, and considering the persons or groups of persons on whom the AI systems are to be used.
AI Act -> eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng
BTW. That site is the official repository for EU law. It’s also how EU law is promulgated. What you find there is, by definition, the correct version (unless stated otherwise).
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
Oof.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 2 weeks ago:
Are you in Europe? The AI Act requires some unspecified “AI literacy” from staff working with AI. Some sort of grift, I guess.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 2 weeks ago:
It actually is. Do you even nerd, bro?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Most people don’t care about locked-down tech. They don’t have the skills necessary to use anything open, and that’s fine. You have to pick what you do with your limited time.
OTOH, many people want to have control over their data. That means having control over other people’s computers. It’s not just the copyright industry demanding money, or Big Tech building walled gardens. You can see a lot of users on Lemmy demanding that kind of control. That means that computing devices of all kinds must become more locked-down and remote-controllable.
So that’s where I see us going.
- Comment on wake up baby new radiodont just dropped 2 weeks ago:
When I read new radiodont, I thought this would be about a hilarious screw-up in the radiology department.
Oh well. Radiondont stick your head in the particle accelerator.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on On trees... 3 weeks ago:
People have experimented with that sort of thing. Here’s a DIY for going into 3rd person mode using a camera on a stick and some electronics in a backpack. Bit of googling also finds me body swap experiments, but nothing on a crotch perspective.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 3 weeks ago:
You mean legally? Yeah, no problem. It depends on the location, though. In the EU, the rights-holder can opt out. So if you want to do it in the EU you have to pay off Reddit, Meta, and so on. In Japan, it’s fine regardless. In the US, it should turn out similarly, but it’s up to the courts to work out the details, and it’s quite up in the air if you can trust the system to work.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 3 weeks ago:
The usual tends to be that the platform can do basically whatever. That shouldn’t really be surprising. But I see your point. If you literally want consent, not just legally licensed material, then you need more than just a clause in the TOS.
You could raise the same issue with permissively licensed material. People who released it may not have foreseen AI training as a use, and might not have wanted to actually allow it.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 3 weeks ago:
For images, yes. Most notable is probably Adobe. Their AI, which powers photoshop’s generative fill among other things, is trained on public domain and licensed works.
For text, there’s nothing similar. LLMs get better the more data you have. So, the less training data you use, the less useful they are. I think there are 1 or a few small models for research purposes, but it really doesn’t get you there.
Of course, there aren’t any such open source projects. When you take these extreme, maximalist views of (intellectual) property, then giving stuff away for free isn’t the obvious first step.
- Comment on GIVE ME 4 4 weeks ago:
Big fail. That has grenadine in it, which is non-alcoholic.
- Comment on GIVE ME 4 4 weeks ago:
So, how do you make a TS? I’m guessing it starts with breaking an egg.
- Comment on Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords. 4 weeks ago:
That won an Ig Nobel, IIRC.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 4 weeks ago:
And quartz, of course.
- Comment on Is there any fundamental difference between an instance and a formal website ? 4 weeks ago:
“Instance” is programmer lingo. Roughly, it’s when you have the same piece of code running multiple times with different values (as part of the same system). More narrowly, “instance” is used in the context of classes. All lemmy instances run the lemmy code but with different users, admins, and so on. The expression makes perfect sense, but it is not used in a formal way.
A lemmy instance runs a web server. Wikipedia says that when you host a web page under a dedicated domain name, you have a website.
- Comment on It's My Nature 5 weeks ago:
I always think about that fable when I see Germans voting for that far-right party.
