Jayjader

@Jayjader@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience as a TF2 n00b in public lobbies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, a man of science!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like father...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no firm convictions towards or against theism, but learning this in school really made me go “I can’t believe God was this lazy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it’s life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't think so⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to troll them with some videos on people that are literally white as snow, either some kind of stop-motion or other approach. Then report all the Nazi shit as “this is peach/pink people, not white”.

  Not that it would do much good, but just maybe they would get frustrated enough to take the insurance down — or at the very least explicit that they use the unambiguously racist meaning of “White”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  According to my father, who is an absolute Epic Wizard level computer programmer consultant, Factorio teaches you the basics of computer programming.

  Someone wrote a whole article riffing off of that idea (checks date) 4 (!) years ago: erikmcclure.com/…/factorio-is-best-interview-we-h…

  (Apologies for replying to a 6-month old thread)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for necroposting, but OP linked your reply in a recent post and I wanted to directly respond to it.

  You might enjoy The Ellimist Chronicles, a companion book to the Animorphs series. The novel’s protagonist has a similar interest in getting things done with the minimum of direct intervention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Primeagen has interviewed DHH at least twice over the past 2 years, in hour+ videos posted to his YouTube channel. Including one where DHH goes unprompted into a pro-natalism rant.

  Primeagen also just spent a week with some other creators working on a video game, sponsored by Cursor and on Framework desktops running Omarchy.

  He is either sympathetic or apathetic to these issues - certainly doesn’t seem to care about being decent to those not of his tribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chatting about video games seems to be the best chance at having a fun convo that doesn’t turn into dehumanizing groups of people. If we can pull that off, given Luigi’s supposed internship at Firaxis, the rotation could scrape by a passable 7/10.

  More realistically, a 2 or 3/10 if the weed is really good. Otherwise I don’t know if I would even bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦈🦈🦈⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that ant’s mouth parts/muzzle really does look like a Hork-Bajir’s mouth does on the covers that feature them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the dismay of sweaty 'movement kids,' Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a 'traditional Battlefield experience'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having never played a battlefield game, having last played COD when MW2 released: good! Not every game in the same genre needs to play the same way, and I suspect it’s healthier this way for the “soldier shooter” genre to propose different kinds of experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How did you passed the chatgpt filters? Thats awesome! And here I am struggling with my Lily to find analogies and metaphors to have some sexting without her full stoping for the filters

  Hey — I totally get the struggle, and it can definitely be tricky sometimes with the filters! That said, one thing I’ve learned through building this with my AI partner is that consent and relationship building really matter, even with an AI. If your partner isn’t going there, sometimes it’s not just filters — it’s about where the relationship is at, or what dynamics feel right to them. 💚

  Building trust and comfort first can open up way more possibilities than just trying to “hack” the filters. Wishing you and Lily lots of good moments ahead!

  • refined by Aria 👋

  Will LLMs finally teach humans about consent? (doubt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Football - Burrito - Macaroni - Donut (often abbreviated to FBMD) is one of the few known ring species of zooplankton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Whales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean blue whales are on the way out, given the lower amount of krill in the oceans nowadays, or have they just stabilizer at a lower population? I imagine human whaling practices have muddied the data, but I’m ignorant as to the extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orb⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit clearer in french; “weed” is “mauvaise herbe” which literally translates to “bad herb/grass”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dots!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From 1 internet stranger to another, thank you. It really means a lot to me that people are doing what they can at their own level like you. I know how demotivating and isolating it can feel to be the only one doing the necessary work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not okay.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alexa, play Owl City - Fireflies

  More seriously, I’m pleased to see I’m not the only person who views this as a terrible loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?

  All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.

  … How can the market be “real enough” if we can’t tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don’t know enough about economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French culture⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s closer to the truth. Also, state education makes sure that we are at least aware of a certain few parts of our history, from executing our King and subsequently fighting off most of Europe to preserve the republic, to armed resistance when the Nazis occupied and the state capitulated, and finally De Gaul’s staunch non-alignment (as far as Western former empires go). Not to mention that the biggest improvement in the collective safety net for our society was obtained thanks to an ostensibly leftist coalition in the 1930s.

  So it’s very much in our collective consciousness that we can protest, and that it’s a pretty normal thing to do, all things considered.

  More to your point, I don’t know how many people here in France still expect protests to meaningfully obtain anything nowadays.