coffeejunky
@coffeejunky@beehaw.org
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 8 months ago:
scientificamerican.com/…/do-trees-support-each-ot…
The whole tree network thing is not as proven as many people think.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 10 months ago:
Yeah I’m not surprised or angry about it, isn’t this basically what has always happened? Like at some point we had elevator operators, some company automated the elevator and now there are basically zero elevator operators.
This is just happening all the time, like when I was a kid every gas station had people working at the station. Nowdays most stations around me are completely without workers, it’s all self checkout (like supermarkets, McDonalds, etc).
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 10 months ago:
I actually had it the other way around, I wanted to learn to understand and speak Spanish a lot better. My wife is half Spanish and her family speaks zero English. Anyway started to learn with Duolingo and my Spanish did improve. But after a while I got to a point where most of the mistakes I made where spelling errors. I don’t care how to spell in Spanish, I’m not going to write them, I just want to understand it and be able to respond. There is no option (afaik) to just learn the meaning of the words.
- Comment on The worst technology failures of 2023 10 months ago:
Not great bot, sorry…
- Titan submersible
- Lab grown meat
- Cruise RoboTaxi
- Plastic Proliferation
- Humane AI Pin
- Social media superconductor
- Rogue geoengineering
- Comment on The march towards an all-EV future hit a major roadblock. What went wrong? 10 months ago:
We also don’t have the grid support for everyone to start charging at home. At least not where I live. At the moment even solar panels are becoming a problem, major peaks during sunny days, where energy prices even go negative and people with dynamic energy contracts turn panels off.