Jayjader

@Jayjader@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonobos can "play pretend"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the “language training” has anything to do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get random friend requests from accounts in discord servers that I haven’t even viewed, let alone interacted in, for years - most have some sort of “live/laugh/love” bio blurb. Maybe I’m just an antisocial hermit at this point, but I ignore every single one.

  In comparison, Steam seems a lot more genuine. You can always try suggesting discord for voice chat if you’re leery of installing an unknown program just for talking to that user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kitten Mittens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  When you’re coming back from the rave and it snowed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I daydream of #16

  I’ve worked on a reverse #10 before (i.e. vertical monitor in the middle, surrounded by two landscape monitors)

  Apparently Linux Torvalds works on dual 6k monitors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not how I wanted programmers to stop wasting RAM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  time for hardcore shuffle to make a comeback?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and to ensure that artists can afford the necessities, add universal basic inco… OK shit I’m at it again.

  It’s “funny” how it always seems to come down to this people shouldn’t need to make someone else richer just to survive…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshittifinancial Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something when a metric becomes a target something something it ceases to be a useful metric. Only in this case the metric is fungible and can be traded for almost anything else in the world. No wonder it became the target.

  The older I get, the more I think Tolkien and Herbert had it right (despite disagreeing with much of their politics); gift economies, subsistence farming, and self-reliance are the way to go to prevent us from destroying ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ska ftw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the exact genre name is but Opeth’s Eternal Rains Will Come comes to mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I respect the environment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: 1), you’re not kidding - check out that gray banding on the caption in the top-level post!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are dogs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant username

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, and anthropic is supposed to be the least shitty of the western LLM actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨typical lemmy users on their way to work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  how delightful
  great dedication to the bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Ploughing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  username checks out, i guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yaoi or Yuri, chat?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happened to Sabine Hossenfelder's face?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is the right community for such a question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yaoi or Yuri, chat?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So… straight sex?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then there’s kids like me, who would daydream about actually being a fae changeling.

  It’s not even as if my parents didn’t love me, I was just a weird kid who was more comfortable being weird than fitting in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone in tech confirm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm, though it’s mostly because tech workers are so de-politicized that they don’t realize they would have the power to change things if they acted collectively – so they do the “next best” thing, remove themselves from the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone in tech confirm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck with getting into law school!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, that “Iceberg Index” study doesn’t convince me just yet. It’s entirely built off of using LLMs to simulate human beings and the studies they cite to back up the effectiveness of such an approach are in paid journals that I can’t access. I also can’t figure out how exactly they mapped which jobs could be taken over by LLMs other than looking at 13k available “tools” (from MCPs to Zapier to OpenTools) and deciding which of the Bureau of Labor’s 923 listed skills they were capable of covering. Technically, they asked an LLM to look at the tool and decide the skills it covers, but they claim they manually reviewed this LLM’s output so I guess that counts.

  Project Iceberg addresses this gap using Large Population Models to simulate the human–AI labor market, representing 151 million workers as autonomous agents executing over 32,000 skills across 3,000 counties and interacting with thousands of AI tools

  from iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf

  Large Population Models is arxiv.org/abs/2507.09901 which mostly references github.com/AgentTorch/AgentTorch, which gives as an example of use the following:

  user_prompt_template = "Your age is {age} {gender},{unemployment_rate} the number of COVID cases is {covid_cases}."
  # Using Langchain to build LLM Agents
  agent_profile = "You are a person living in NYC. Given some info about you and your surroundings, decide your willingness to work. Give answer as a single number between 0 and 1, only."
  

  The whole thing perfectly straddles the line between bleeding-edge research and junk science for someone who hasn’t been near academia in 7 years like myself. Most of the procedure looks like they know what they’re doing, but if the entire thing is built on a faulty premise then there’s no guaranteeing any of their results.

  In any case, none of the authors for the recent study are listed in that article on the previous study, so this isn’t necessarily a case of MIT as a whole changing it’s tune.

  (The recent article also feels like a DOGE-style ploy to curry favor with the current administration and/or AI corporate circuit, but that is a purely vibes-based assessment I have of the tone and language, not a meaningful critique)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to read that study, as going off of your comment I could easily see it being a case of “more than 10% of jobs are bullshit jobs à la David Graeber so having an « AI » do them wouldn’t meaningfully change things” rather than “more than 10% of what can’t be done by previous automation now can be”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CompSci freshmen can relate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Powers of two per knuckle? I’m curious what the method is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m understanding your comment correctly, wavelets are a kind of discrete and/or finite quantization of the “full” infinite Fourier transform, by way of using more complex “basis vectors” than pure sine waves?

  Very cool and thanks for the reading recommendation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wonder of the sea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience as a TF2 n00b in public lobbies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While avians can exhibit foster parenting behavior (c.f. the Cuckoo), we can see that due to his skeletal structure Tarzan would not have survived leaving the nest were he to have been raised by birds instead of gorillas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In France we’ve had a few white trash rappers take a decidedly punk slant. Ptite Soeur and Gemroz came out with the album Kayfabe Chimera about a year ago ; the track “Kayfabe” is, to me, full of punk messaging. Femtogo has more recently collabed with Ptite Soeur and the album they released, Pretty Dollcorpse, also has a decidedly punk message.

  In terms of “old-school” punk music, you might find better recommendations on mastodon /the blogiverse rather than here on lemmy/the threadiverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time I saw this meme, someone commented that these bags are made and used so that the mouse can be euthanized after an experiment. Supposedly this holds the mouse in place so that it can be “cleanly” decapitated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of “a rhino’s weight”!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, a man of science!