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- Comment on Is social media fuelling political polarisation? 1 day ago:
I highly recommend you visit your local library and request/check-out a copy of the book Polarization by Nolan McCarty. Read that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 23rd 5 days ago:
The epilogue is actually pretty damn good. Highly recommended.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 23rd 5 days ago:
I’ve been playing Soulmask and enjoying it, but I need a break as the building in that game leaves a lot to be desired. So I’m returning to Baldur’s Gate 3. I can never bring myself to play Durge or evil aligned characters, but I’m going to try a class and character I’ve never considered and see how it goes.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Month later update: This is the route I’ve gone down. I’ve used WSL to get Ollama and WebopenUI to work and started playing around with document analysis using Llama 3. I’m going to try a few other models and see what the same document outputs now. Prompting the model to chat with the documents is…a learning experience, but I’m at the point where I can get it to spit out quotes and provide evidence for it’s interpretation, at least in Llama3. Super fascinating stuff.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 1 month ago:
I really appreciate all the responses, but I’m overwhelmed by the amount of information and possible starting points. Could I ask you to explain or reference learning content that talks to me like I’m a curious five year old?
ELI 5?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 26 comments
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 28th 2 months ago:
Manor Lords. Its got some annoying bugs in this EA version, but the developer should be really happy. Enjoying what is in front of me. Its beautiful, mind boggling at times, and fun.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mass Effect 2 months ago:
So many story telling memories. ME is still a treasure to me despite its challenges and missteps. ME2 is among my favorite game of all time, right behind Dragon Age: Origins.
But ME3 has a scene that was so well executed that I don’t think anything has ever topped it, for me, in video gaming storytelling. From his decision to rectify what he now believes is a past wrong, do it alone, to his final remark about seashells.
It, to me, is extremely emotional and in the best way that a good story can be.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 2 months ago:
I’m using Claude (subbed) to help me do qualitative coding and summarizing within a very nice academic framework. I was encouraged to try it by an LLM researcher and frankly I’m happy with the results. I am using it as a tool to assist my work, not replace it, and I’m trying to balance the bias and insights of the tool with my own position as a researcher.
On that note, if anyone has any insights or suggestions to improve prompts, tools, or check myself while I tinker, please, tell me.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 2 months ago:
Dragon Age: Origins
- Comment on Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant 5 months ago:
I got it. “Alexa, you owe me rent for being in my home. Alexa, send me 1500 a month in local currency.”
Somewhere, a Jeff Bezos explodes.
- Comment on Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant 5 months ago:
“How much ya gunna pay for what you used to get for free…” Tom Petty, Last DJ. Underrated tune about the demise of free and independent radio and radio DJs.
- Comment on What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? 5 months ago:
No Man’s Sky is still, in my opinion, trying to make up for what it was on release. It’s a great game now. Not my jam (very wide, but very shallow), but I can’t knock it. I think it’s a work of art and the seamless planet travel is pretty damn cool.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th 5 months ago:
I tried that return to moria game and it wasn’t my style. Felt a little janky, but amazing concept.
I fired up Valheim again and decided to close my eyes, delete my old worlds, and just go for a new solo experience. Having fun.
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 5 months ago:
Not an expert, but would our net neutrality rules that the supreme jerk Ajit Pai helped revoke have been a tool to combat this behavior?
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 5 months ago:
In my role at a Uni, I teach. I learned early on that every class I offer should have a skills workshop. One of them are basic non-phone skills like copying and pasting. Yes. Our youngest generation of college students in non computer sciences struggles with how to understand file structures and keyboard commands like copy and paste because they’ve never seen them before. So let’s stop making technology usefulness a generational thing. It’s exposure and education, which applies to everyone.