Hackworth
@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote 9 minutes ago:
Been uploading to Vimeo for 20 years. This does not sound like good news.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 4 days ago:
In much the same way people think of digital storage as external memory, I think of generative A.I. as external imagination. Of course, human memory doesn’t work like a hard drive, and LLMs don’t work like our imaginations. But as a guiding metaphor, it seems to work well for identifying good/bad use cases.
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 5 days ago:
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 1 week ago:
No Gods or Kings or Mans.
Only Dinosaur.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
Cyberpunk Circuses
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
One may draw upon the dark arts with any degree. -BA in Film, make ads
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
Generative inpainting doesn’t typically employ an LLM. Only a few even use attention transformers. It costs in the range of $100,000 - $10 million to train a new diffusion or flow image model. Not cheap, but nothing crazy like training Opus or GPT 5.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
The different uses of AI are not inexctricable.
Many generative inpainting models will run locally
Continuing to treat AI as a monolith is missing the point.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
The different uses of AI are not inexctricable. This is the point of the post. We should be able to talk about the good and the bad.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see the relevance here. Inpainting saves artists from time-consuming and repetitive labor for (often) no additional cost. Many generative inpainting models will run locally, but they’re also just included with an Adobe sub.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
Gish gallop
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
Spoilers: We will not
Generative inpainting/fill is enormously helpful in media production.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 weeks ago:
When I’m on the phone with a real human being in customer service, I’m often actually talking to an egregore of the company. They’re reading scripts (written by AI?), being scored by an AI that’s listening in to the recorded conversation, and responding in ways that the conversation tree tells them to respond. Even in the call center jobs that aren’t so managed, there’s really only so far someone can go off script. So while I definitely want more genuine human interaction in the world, I dunno if this is the hill to fight on. All that said, we’re definitely headed for the cyberpunk future, cause everything’s run by a buncha gonks.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 weeks ago:
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few AIs in my time.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 weeks ago:
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on robot slurs 1 month ago:
L…l…l…l…look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
Mysticism has a way of filling a volume. They’ll ask question after question until they get the answer they want: “No, we’re not sure why charge is a property that a particle can have in our universe, but…” - “Got it, mystery.” Then they’ll turn around and shepherd all these “mysteries” into their god of the gaps to demystify them anyway, so they can feel wise when they should feel curious.
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 month ago:
The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30’s-70’s didn’t taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 1 month ago:
From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 months ago:
intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value
Advertising and politics?
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 2 months ago:
- Comment on DIY 4th of July 2 months ago:
You can also do this by blowing out a match and putting it under an upturned glass shortly before microwaving it. Turns the carbon vapor into plasma, or some such. Though the time I tried it, it escaped the glass and melted the microwave’s lining. Don’t recommend if it’s an appliance ya care about.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 months ago:
And in that environment, everyone who actually understands how things work quits or gets quit. It’s my understanding that there are large sections of code bases that MS just doesn’t touch, because everyone who understood how they functioned is gone. Continuity of institutional knowledge is difficult in the best cases and impossible under leaders that discourage dissenting perspectives. /gestures about wildly
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 months ago:
352413, I mean, clearly.
