owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 day ago:
No.
Exhibit A: current US administration…
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 day ago:
Sure, the earth will roast and people won’t have water, but they won’t have to fund artists anymore!
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 2 days ago:
You can ask him, just try to not put a bunch of pressure on him for it. Explain where you’re coming from and how you feel.
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 2 days ago:
Sounds reasonable from what you’ve said. What’s your relationship like with your brother? That’s probably the biggest factor.
- Comment on What Trump Is Really Up to in Washington 2 days ago:
Shenanigans. Same thing he’s been up to for decades.
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 3 days ago:
Based on Fediverse lore, I’d guess at least 3 days
- Comment on youtube thumbnail 3 days ago:
So this is what that person was doing…
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 1 week ago:
Watch Carrie
- Comment on Where is he going, chat? 1 week ago:
Are you to have me believe, as God’s own truth, that a hole full of water, a mere column of water, itself took parachute in hand and affixed it to this feline?
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 1 week ago:
Exiled Kingdoms is a great old-school RPG. Paid but worth it.
- Comment on Vibe check! 1 week ago:
BCCC
- Comment on nothing against that guy, but this was a funny glitch 1 week ago:
- Comment on Funny how there were no food allergies 1 week ago:
- Comment on Eh close enough 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How does Wikipedia continue to be such a bastion of awesome in an increasingly shitty internet? Keep on, good folks!
- Comment on Me right now 2 weeks ago:
I may not know much.
There’s no “but”, I’m just clueless.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 weeks ago:
So whenever there’s a new tech innovation, there are two instances of it.
The first is the actual tech innovation, that often finds a specific use in a few industries, then just becomes part of how things are.
The second is the venture capitalist innovation. It has nothing to do with the technical stuff (as long as the tech is complex enough to impress the average 5th grader). It’s more a concept or an idea, and a lot of big promises of unending potential. And as soon as the potential is there, stock prices go up. And that’s the only point.
The second one blows up big, then deflates quietly when the next thing takes everyone’s attention away. The actual tech innovation usually just finds its niche and quietly chugs away.
Any time anybody talks about a “tech revolution” or some similar word vomit, they’re presenting the second thing. Currently we’re on “AI” (i.e. LLMs), which will become a niche novelty when the next big thing comes along (I give it a few more years).
- Comment on Biblically accurate SpongeBob 3 weeks ago:
BE NOT AFRAID, SQUIDWARD
- Comment on robot slurs 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, we skinbags do ruin everything.
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on be gay, do computers 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer. As others have noticed, you can go down the rabbit hole a long way, depending on what you define as a computer. Fascinating stuff.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the whole history is fascinating. I also like to remind my college students that computer science/engineering is one of the rare branches of science/engineering that was founded at least in equal part by women, if not more (again, an arguable point, but undeniable that there is a larger influence from women compared to other scientific disciplines).
- Comment on be gay, do computers 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, there were plenty of precursors (hence the MB was arguably the first). But the Manchester Baby was the first stored-program general purpose computer. Gotta pick a point somewhere.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 4 weeks ago:
Alan Turing was the father of computer science, but didn’t invent the first computer. Arguably the first computer was called the Manchester Baby and was created by folks at the University of Manchester.
Alan Turing was an absolute boss, though. Huge respect.
- Comment on Sounded great when I was young 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 4 weeks ago:
LLMs can’t do basic math, and can be convinced that 2 + 2 = potato. Don’t put it in charge of your finances.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 4 weeks ago:
No, crabhorse shoes didn’t come until at least 5 years later.
No idea when shoecrab horses came about, though.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 4 weeks ago:
And don’t even get me started on horseshoe crabs. Older than plants, those ones.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 4 weeks ago:
Sharks are also older than trees, flowers, Saturn’s rings, and the Atlantic ocean.
- Comment on Gourmet chocolate 5 weeks ago:
All anus is edible if you’re into that.
