Jayjader
@Jayjader@jlai.lu
- Comment on Ska ftw 3 days 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. 6 days 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 week ago:
Relevant username
- Comment on Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee 1 week 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 week ago:
how delightful
great dedication to the bit - Comment on On Ploughing 2 weeks ago:
username checks out, i guess
- Comment on Yaoi or Yuri, chat? 2 weeks ago:
nice
- Comment on What Happened to Sabine Hossenfelder's face? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think this is the right community for such a question.
- Comment on Yaoi or Yuri, chat? 2 weeks ago:
So… straight sex?
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
My experience as a TF2 n00b in public lobbies
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of “a rhino’s weight”!
- Comment on Fucking math... 2 months ago:
Ah, a man of science!
- Comment on Like father... 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it’s life?
- Comment on I don't think so 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 3 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 🦈🦈🦈 4 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!