josephc

@josephc@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨17 years*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real kicker is it was and is used in productive and constructive ways. It was just invisible until very recently. The ability to search for other photos of your pets in your photos app, the spam filters that keep your email (relatively) usable, the special effects tools that let artists paint out wires were all possible because of machine learning (used to refer to the subgroup of AI) and were made better by transformers.

  If this same tech were released in a post-Capitalist society there would be no need for every single company to ham fistedly shove it into every product that doesn’t need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean ‘g’. 1g is 9.81m/s^2. c is a speed, not an acceleration. g is acceleration.

  Not coincidentally, it’s the acceleration you experience from Earth’s gravity, but it doesn’t have to come from gravity. Astronauts routinely experience 3gs during takeoff from their rocket boosters.

  If you were in a rocket that accelerated at a constant 1g it would feel like Earth’s gravity, even in space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we could accelerate at a constant 1g, flip, and decelerate at a constant 1g, the trip would take ~152 years… from Earth’s perspective. If you were onboard, time dilation would make the trip about 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say the word⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do I have to wear the lace all the time? I don’t look good in lace.

  And honestly probably not; not because I have any objections to her being the breadwinner or have any weird ideas about who raises kids, but mostly because I’m not sure I could do it. I’d be a pretty shit father.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro choice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Draw goes to the player who moved second?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can think of a few potential cut offs, taking differential calculus to be basic.

  Integral calculus. Multivariate calculus. Differential equations. Epsilon-Lamba calculus.

  But that’s just my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good info. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! That could be it!

  SPACE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to noodle on this one for a while and ask around. I think, and this is only a guess, that this might be “consensual non-consent”, which is a role play of sexual assault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn’t have the font or doesn’t recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you’ve ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that’s like what happened here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprisingly, ChatGPT is the mortal enemy of a lot of machine learning researchers. It gives people a bad impression about what the field is, poisons future training data, and gives AI researchers who make truly remarkable and useful things a bad reputation because everyone “hates AI” when they really hate the stupid VC backed circlejerk that becomes inevitable in a society like this.