ImplyingImplications
@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
- Comment on European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers 2 hours ago:
Which petitions were those actions caused by?
- Comment on moderation 1 day ago:
Please DO NOT announce to the server when you are going to masturbate. This has been a reoccurring issue, and I’m not sure why some people have such under developed social skills that they think that a server full of mostly male strangers would need to know that. No one is going to be impressed and give you a high five (especially considering where that hand has been). I don’t want to add this to the rules, since it would be embarrassing for new users to see that we have a problem with this, but it is going to be enforced as a rule from now on.
If it occurs, you will be warned, then additional occurrences will be dealt with at the discretion of modstaff. Thanks.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 days ago:
Don’t misunderestimate Dubya. Irregardless of his policies, he coined words and phrases like Shakespeare. How many of use of dreamed of human beings and fish coexisting peacefully? How many of us strive to put food on our families and buy most of our imports from overseas? Don’t we all want to know “is our children learning?” And who can forget that famous Texas proverb “fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.”
- Comment on Elmo is on fire 3 days ago:
Monologue? He interviewed Elmo!
- Comment on Him and Elon were cybering, calling it now... 3 days ago:
OwO what’s this? *notices your copy of Mein Kampf*
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 4 days ago:
This gives me AI vibes.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 4 days ago:
- Comment on European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers 5 days ago:
Did anyone actually expect the EU to regulate a multibillion dollar industry because it’s trending on social media?
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 week ago:
My understanding of quantum computers is that they’re great a brute forcing stuff, but machine learning is just a lot of calculations, not brute forcing.
If you want to know the square root of 25, you don’t need to brute force it. There’s a direct way to calculate the answer and traditional computers can do it just fine. It’s still going to take a long time if you need to calculate the square root of a billion numbers.
That’s basically machine learning. The individual calculations aren’t difficult, there’s just a lot to calculate. However, if you have 2 computers doing the calculations, it’ll take half the time. It’ll take even less time if you fill a data center with a cluster of 100,000 GPUs.
- Comment on Day 358 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Making great progress! Bill is such a great character. He’s turned his town into a fortress occupied only by him. Sounds great until you realize he’s been alone for years. It’s less of a fortress and more of a prison and, with the way he talks to himself, you get the sense that the isolation is starting to wear on him. Even then, when given the opportunity to leave, he doesn’t. He’s going to die alone in that place because he sees trusting others as a weakness. Something he tries to impress onto Joel. But does Joel want to be like Bill? Does he want to be like Tess? Such a great chapter!
- Comment on Day 357 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I’d say the story of part 2 explores a different theme. The writing and acting are still top notch, it’s just not a theme people wanted to explore. The gameplay and scenery are arguably improved so I’d still recommend it.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 week ago:
It’s mostly the training/machine learning that is power hungry.
AI is essentially a giant equation that is generated via machine learning. You give it a prompt with an expected answer, it gets run through the equation, and you get an output. That output gets an error score based on how far it is from the expected answer. The variables of the equation are then modified so that the prompt will lead to a better output (one with a lower error).
The issue is that current AI models have billions of variables and will be trained on billions of prompts. Each variable will be tuned based on each prompt. That’s billions to the power of billions of calculations. It takes a while. AI researchers are of course looking for ways to speed up this process, but so far it’s mostly come down to dividing up these billions of calculations over millions of computers. Powering millions of computers is where the energy costs come from.
Unless AI models can be trained in a way that doesn’t require running a billion squared calculations, they’re only going to get more power hungry.
- Comment on Day 357 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I loved this game so much! You’re in for a treat! Last of Us certainly has a way of making the apocalypse look gorgeous. All those reclaimed by nature cityscapes are amazing.
If you like the scenery and gameplay of this one then you’ll enjoy it in the second game too. Maybe lower your story writing expectations a bit though…
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
Weird. That works all the time on Pawn Stars
- Comment on Women come, women go 1 week ago:
Pinecone? I don’t get it…
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 1 week ago:
I can’t find it on GOG’s but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in most EULAs. I’ve seen emails saying “confidential, if you are not the intended recipient of this email you must delete it.” There’s no way to enforce that. Ubisoft isn’t coming to your house to review the contents of your drives. I’m guessing it’s to stop some loophole like “you said I can’t resell your game so instead I sold my hard drive (that has the game installed on it)”.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 1 week ago:
I know for sure Korean does this, though technically their writing system is a syllabary. Symbols representing vowel and consonants are arranged into blocks that represent a syllable.
For example ㅈㅅ is short for 죄송합니다 meaning “I’m sorry”. Talk about efficient shorthand! The first consonants of each syllable block are used to makeup the shorthand, the ending 합니다 is a polite conjugation which is ignored in shorthand. You can look up “korean texting slang” for more. It’s apparently used a lot. The shorthand some might already be familiar with is ㅋㅋ which is “lol”.
- Comment on Anything for you, babe... 1 week ago:
How’d you get it to do this?
- Comment on Anything for you, babe... 1 week ago:
I just wanted to see if you’d actually go out of your way to fake a gimp screenshot. The guy has 17 fingers and 3 arms and the baby has 14 toes and one hand is meshing into the arm of the man. It’s AI. The screenshot also doesn’t have a layer for most things that would have layers like the text that says “Yoink” and for some reason the baby is half in one layer and half another. The checkered pattern in the layer view is messed up. Why would you go to such lengths to lie? Just say it’s AI. It’s obvious.
- Comment on Anything for you, babe... 1 week ago:
Post your gimp screenshot
- Comment on Lost dog 1 week ago:
Domestication of the first canine (30,000 BCE, colourized)
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 2 weeks ago:
Stnoe
- Comment on conspiracy 2 weeks ago:
This is like when people say they must add stuff to coffee to make it addicting. Yeah, caffeine.
- Comment on It's a special room where work happens I swear! 2 weeks ago:
My young nephew has entered a phase where he says “I like x” where x is the last thing you said to him. I told him I was going to work and he said “I like going to work”. No, little buddy. You don’t.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 2 weeks ago:
Oh it’s out?
PlayStation 5 exclusive
Ah. Thanks Sony.
- Comment on No! 3 weeks ago:
Is that a Boarder Collie?
- Comment on Car 3 weeks ago:
Ah 2024, great year!
- Comment on Casual wear 3 weeks ago:
This is a fetish thing isn’t it?
- Comment on Sweatshop 3 weeks ago:
These are the vests we have: TechNiche CoolPax. They’re okay. I find the ice packs melt quickly and freeze slowly but they’re good for temporary relief. My company initially bought these to be worn under hot PPE like hazmat suits, but even just having a bunch of ice packs in a freezer you can take out on the floor to hold onto could work.