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- Comment on it's friend shaped! 19 minutes ago:
Tanzania!
It was a group of 3 cheetahs that made a kill, which is apparently quite unusual. I kid you not, they just blocked the truck path, fat and panting without a care, then walked off into the sun across the Kenyan border… Like they knew we couldn’t follow them.
And the kill didn’t go to waste.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 59 minutes ago:
Or snakes. Like, big snakes.
I swear, they see a noodle as a kitten and some “I’m born to paw this to death” switch goes off.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 hour ago:
literal tens of tons half-burnt uranium that takes way too long to decay to safe level.
I mean, breeder reactors? Also it’s still not that much.
Anyway what I didn’t realize was these are 14 MeV neutrons, unless they crack D-D fusion. That’s… very different. That’s way more destructive, and harder to deal with, than fission neutrons.
…I’m somewhat skeptical of nuclear now. It’s fine, it works. But it just takes too long to set up to stave off carbon emissions.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 hour ago:
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 hours ago:
I just realized…
I don’t like fusion.
They say it’s clean, but 14.1 MeV neutrons are no joke.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_temperature#Fast
14.1 MeV neutrons have about 10 times as much energy as fission neutrons, and they are very effective at fissioning even non-fissile heavy nuclei. These high-energy fissions also produce more neutrons on average than fissions by lower-energy neutrons. D–T fusion neutron sources, such as proposed tokamak power reactors, are therefore useful for transmutation of transuranic waste. 14.1 MeV neutrons can also produce neutrons by knocking them loose from nuclei.
On the other hand, these very high-energy neutrons are less likely to simply be captured without causing fission or spallation. For these reasons, nuclear weapon design extensively uses D–T fusion 14.1 MeV neutrons to cause more fission. Fusion neutrons are able to cause fission in ordinarily non-fissile materials, such as depleted uranium (uranium-238), and these materials have been used in the jackets of thermonuclear weapons. Fusion neutrons also can cause fission in substances that are unsuitable or difficult to make into primary fission bombs, such as reactor grade plutonium. This physical fact thus causes ordinary non-weapons grade materials to become of concern in certain nuclear proliferation discussions and treaties.
How are reaction chambers supposed to deal with that? It’s not very sustainable if the whole assembly breaks down and turns radioactive over time.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 hours ago:
I mean, not necessarily.
They could use a magnetohydrodynamic generator to siphon off some of the helium, though TBH it’s better suited for fission:
- Comment on Oh no! 1 day ago:
Yeah. That’s kinda how open source has worked so far? See: Linux
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 day ago:
The base Mac Mini is not super powerful. Physically, it’s comparable to AMD Strix Point, which you’d find in any AMD laptop.
I am not trying to rag on Apple here: their stuff is fine. It’d be beyond excellent for a handheld like the Steam Deck.
…But a plug in gaming console? Not at the prices they’re asking.
- Comment on What did I forget? 1 day ago:
My interpretation is noise sensitivity.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 days ago:
M chips are super expensive. They’re optimized for low clockspeed/idle efficiency and pay through the nose for cutting edge processes, whereas most gaming hardware is optimized for pure speed/$, with the smallest die area and cheapest memory possible, at the expense of power efficiency.
And honestly the CPU/GPU divide over traces is more economical. “Unified memory” isn’t needed for games at the moment.
And, practically, Apple demands very high margins. I just can’t see them pricing a console aggressively.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 days ago:
Sigh.
I swear, Epic would probably have a decent reputation (and storefront) if Sweeney would just shut his trap and delete all his social media.
- Comment on Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy 4 days ago:
Interested. Also a little interesting in the MC server, per your website.
Never played Starbound; how many players are typically on a server concurrently? Or at least y’alls server?
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 days ago:
The site publishes the paper and the peer reviews (few journals publish peer reviews). Readers can then decide if the science is valid, or not.
…So like Wikipedia for papers? With the “peer review” being the discussion section?
That sounds like a great project for Wikimedia TBH. That + Arixv’s nice frontend is literally the stack to do it, with few modifications, and they have reputation.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 days ago:
I appreciate this comment, especially the cited papers.
Chicken, chicken, chicken…
- Comment on Can posts like this actually be real? 1 week ago:
A post that long?
Eh, well, it could definitely be an unmarked bot on X. That’s good attention bait, and it has a feeling of temporal inplausibility kinda like a ‘cheapest API LLM’ story.
- Comment on Can posts like this actually be real? 1 week ago:
Where’d you see it?
There are GPT-2 bots on Reddit and Lemmy that make a lot of posts like this. And they are labeled.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 1 week ago:
Yeah.
To misquote a paper, “attention is all you need.” It’s like the motto of the 2020s.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 1 week ago:
The only thing on the UX manager’s mind, when considering this decision, was “engagement.”
Nothing else is even in their same universe.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 week ago:
Lulz.
It’s an interesting coding exercise, though. Trying to (for example) OCR all the documents, or generate a relations graph between the documents or concepts, is a great into to language modeling (which is not, in fact, prompt engineering like most seem to think, and can be totally LLM free).
If you’re like a reporter or something, it’s also the obvious way to comb through the documents looking for clues to actually make headlines. I dunno what they do at big outlets, though.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 week ago:
It’s literally “this one is my fursona. This one won’t refuse BDSM, but its not as eloquent. Oh, this one is lobotimized but really creative.” Here is an example, and note that is one of 115 models from one account:
huggingface.co/Mawdistical/RAWMAW-70B?not-for-all…
I am not exaggerating. And I love it. Furries have made some good code contributions to the space, like better sampling algorithms, not to speak of horny roleplayers.
Early on, there were a few ‘character’ finetunes or more generic ones like ‘talk like a pirate’ or talk only in emojiis. But as local models got more advanced (and the uncensoring got really good), they got so good at adopting personas anyway that the finetuning focused more on writing ‘style’ and storytelling than emulating specific characters. For example, one trained specifically to stick to the role of a dungeonmaster: huggingface.co/LatitudeGames/Nova-70B-Llama-3.3
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 week ago:
Meme finetunes are nothing new.
As an example, there are DPO datasets with positive/negative examples intended to train LLMs to respond politely and helpfully (as opposed to the negative response).
And the immediate community though was “…What if I *reversed them?”
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 week ago:
I dunno what the ‘writing style’ would end up as. The bulk of the text seems to be formatted like this:
... 10. Is Epstein cooperating with federal suit against Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin? Will he testify in their cases? 11. Mr Epstein was deposed on this week, on Thursday. Is it true that he answered almost every question by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights? 12. Defense attorney Brad Evans has filed a motion to freeze Mr Epstein’s assets. Has Mr. Epstein moved his money from the US offshore or abroad, or does he intend to, in order to protect his assets from possible damage claims? 13. What did Mr. Epstein do during his work release program while serving time. Reports have said he engaged in “scientific research.” If so, what was he researching? ...
Response "That's because it isn't, and everyone here (apparently save one) is rational and objective enough to understand that. Physical phenomena, and phenomena in general, are ultimately perceptual in nature and subject to observational replication - that's why they call physics an empirical science. But consciousness is not. Consciousness cannot be objectively, replicably observed. Its putative physical correlates, including ...
Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had 'regular' orgies at his Caribbean compound that the former president visited multiple times e The former president was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who was arrested in 2008 for soliciting underage prostitutes e Anew lawsuit has revealed how Clinton took multiple trips to Epstein's private island where he 'kept young women as sex slaves' e Clinton was also apparently friends with a woman who collected naked pictures of underage girls for Epstein to choose from e He hasn't cut ties with that woman, however, and invited her to Chelsea's wedding e Comes as friends now fear that if Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, all of their family's old scandals will be brought to the forefront e Epstein has a host of famous friends including Prince Andrew who stayed at his New York mansion AFTER his arrest By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 09:06 EST, 19 March 2014 | Updated: 21:10 EST, 5 January 2015 A new lawsuit has revealed the extent of former President Clinton's friendship with a fundraiser who was later jailed for having sex with an underage prostitute. Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who served time in 2008 for his illegal sexual partners, included up multiple trips to the onetime billionaire's private island in the Caribbean where underage girls were allegedly kept as sex slaves. The National Enquirer has released new details about the two men's friendship, which seems to have
Or email headers/spam. Lot of OCR artifacts. But it would definitely bring up Trump and Clinton randomly, heh.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 week ago:
…The same way Google Search has forever?
Ranking, reranking, oldschool RAG.
- Comment on il boohoo 1 week ago:
Yeah. They don’t sell it with a better engine because it would embarrass more expensive cars, kinda like the Porsche boxster/cayman (which handle better than the 911).
- Comment on il boohoo 1 week ago:
A manual BRZ is far from a shitty sports car. Hell, it’s more agile than a lot of $100K+ ones.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 1 week ago:
There’s a ‘meme’ trend of local ML tinkerers messing with the Epstein files as a dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/…/EPSTEIN_FILES_20K/
See: text embeddings huggingface.co/…/epstein-files-nov11-25-house-pos…
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
I just wish I could systematically prevent myself from making any mistake lol, or like anyone from making the first mistake.
…I guess we theoretically could, via a Lemmy or Piefed PR, heh.
As an example, we could implement an opt-in feature that pops-up community rules before one is allowed to post. Kinda like Discord, but less obnoxious.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
That’s kinda the idea behind moderation.
It’s why it’s best done in small communites, as the context narrows the scope of the arbitrary judgement.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
I’m not trying to grandstand. My issue is with these presumptions:
like if the mods want to auto-ban everyone who doesn’t personally verify with them their womanhood, that’s their business. but expecting people to self-police their gender is a dumb expectation.
They’re not checking you at the door. They aren’t auto banning anyone. They very politely point out the sidebar to a few posters, then request them to stay quiet; that’s the extent of it.
…If you don’t make an issue of that, it’s not an issue.
if you want a private exclusive type of space… then make it private and exclusive. that way you can control who views and interacts with the event and even hire security to keep the ‘wrong’ people out.
But this is unrealistic, as then they wouldn’t get nearly as much participation in the space. It’s a public gathering spot, by choice.
Again, my specific problem is with poster the mods point out the rules to, yet willingly choose to ignore them.
Just because you think rules are unrealistic does not give you a right to ignore them once asked. That’s how every community here works. Yet they seem to get tons of posters carrying that attitude.
That’s what makes me bristle. Respecting community rules (once known) is basic human civility, and people are perfectly capable of ‘self-policing’ that. I do not like the rejection of that, and the policing of others in its place.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
Wandering in, missing the rule sign, apologizing when you’re corrected fine. I’ve done it; the mods there couldn’t have been nicer about it. It’s not ideal, but the system works well enough; it’s the mods shouldering that burden more than anything.
…The problem is when the guys are corrected and keep talking anyway. Which I see happen a lot.
There is no excuse for that.
Is the best behavior to block any community you don’t or can’t participate in? I personally don’t love that behavior because I like seeing what everyone is discussing in threads, but that’s a reasonable solution.
I feel extremely mixed about this, yeah. I feel weird even talking about it.
I personally don’t love that behavior because I like seeing what everyone is discussing in threads, but that’s a reasonable solution.
The women’s space… doesn’t prohibit lurking? On one hand, the community is public, and I’m curious about the perspective in the discussions. I’m interested in understanding them so I can be more respectful person myself.
…But I don’t want to violate their privacy either. Blocking is reasonable.
Obviously my current strat is just reading the community before posting (like not commenting negatively about Star Gate getting a new season in the star gate community as an example that happened today lol).
Read the room, yeah.
IMO TV fandoms shouldn’t worship their material. Negative discussion is allowed, otherwise the space gets toxic.
In fact, this kinda happened to one of my personal fandom spaces, /r/thelastairbender: among other things, they idolize ATLA (the original series) like a diety, to the point where anything different (including other material like Korra or the Netflix adaption) is demonized. Deeper stuff like the novels, fanfics or speculative lora is not welcome either.
That sucks. It’s all to common; the Star Wars fandom (for instance) is notorious for it. And its why some negativity and ‘outsider perspectives’ should be welcomed in such spaces.
The women’s space is different though. It’s basically a shelter from the shit this group puts up with IRL and online, so being more sensitive to barging in makes sense.
