Khanzarate
@Khanzarate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Question me not 3 weeks ago:
“Pinghe Teacher Hotel”
- Comment on Y=-x² 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but it’s not as good as a reading direction.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
I doubt it.
For the same reasons, really. People who already intend to thoroughly go over the input and output to use AI as a tool to help them write a paper would always have had a chance to spot this. People who are in a rush or don’t care about the assignment, it’s easier to overlook.
Also, given the plagiarism punishments out there that also apply to AI, knowing there’s traps at all is a deterrent. Plenty of people would rather get a 0 rather than get expelled in the worst case.
If this went viral enough that it could be considered common knowledge, it would reduce the effectiveness of the trap a bit, sure, but most of these techniques are talked about intentionally, anyway. A teacher would much rather scare would-be cheaters into honesty than get their students expelled for some petty thing. Less paperwork, even if they truly didn’t care about the students.
- Comment on Controversial US commentator Candace Owens refused Australian visa for speaking tour 3 weeks ago:
In my personal experience, she’s mostly famous as someone that right-wing news can bring on and have their token woman and/or black person to tell all the trumpets that X thing is liked by women/the black community even when it’s not.
She’s listed as an influencer because that’s what they bill her as and pay her for, but the influencing is secondary to that role. It’s also an inevitable side effect because those racist trumpets can all go “oh shes one of the good ones” and do all the social media things and go “no of course I’m a good person, look at who I follow”.
The only thing online I’ve ever seen about her from the black community is “race traitor for hire”.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Right, but the whitespace between instructions wasn’t whitespace at all but white text on white background instructions to poison the copy-paste.
Also the people who are using chatGPT to write the whole paper are probably not double-checking the pasted prompt. Some will, sure, but this isnt supposed to find all of them its supposed to catch some with a basically-0% false positive rate.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It just needs to have the water and air removed, really, which is accomplished the same way as jerky, remove a bunch of it, then stick in a silicate packet, those ones that say not to eat them.
- Comment on my boss: "no you are in stem now" 5 weeks ago:
That is a footnote
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
Depending on the specific game itself, we can boil down the multiple-stat problem in a few ways. If the goal is to get all the stats as high as possible evenly, then we can assign each stat a multiplier based on how low it is. Fixing lower stats becomes worth more than buffing higher stats. That multiplier would depend on the game, on how much it punishes the low stat. The multiplier itself might end up being a whole new problem to solve, but for now I’ll just say its not my problem and call it X.
Whatever X is though, every stat can then be reduced to a single value using it. Super-low fortitude should be buffed over already-high mana according to X, so all of the numerical values in the game become directly comparable at any stage in this problem. Then I expect it will be equivalent to the knapsack problem. Each item in the game will boost several stats in certain ways, and all of those boosts can be combined using X to become our item value in the knapsack problem.
So I consider it to be the knapsack problem + figuring out X (which might be NP-complete on its own, depending on the game).
- Comment on Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod 3 months ago:
Garry’s mod uses Valve assets and is published by Valve. Of particular note, it has half life assets in it.
The skibidi toilet series was made with Source Filmmaker, a video editing software published by Valve, which allows people to use the Source engine, the game engine that half-life 2 used. As SFM was made by Valve, they allowed a bunch of half-life assets to be free in SFM. the original toilet head is an asset from Half-life 2, Male_07, which Garry’s Mod has access to, given it is a valve release and can use valve models.
They C&D’d Valve for using Valve assets in a Valve game.
- Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians 3 months ago:
They said x=10i^2, not 10i. Difference is it equals -10, and they chose not to simplify.
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 3 months ago:
Just spray them with a hose
- Comment on Stop. Calling. Everything. AI 4 months ago:
You missed the memo!
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
He’s a cockatiel. The coloring is usually more indicative of a female, but they don’t have hard rules like that.
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
- Comment on It's real 5 months ago:
My wife named my bird Rizz.
She says I finally have rizz.
- Comment on viruses 5 months ago:
Nah they’re a single molecule. While they do have a mechanism to “reproduce”, they cannot react to stimuli of any kind, or evolve. Of the 7 commonly accepted traits of life, viruses have 5-6 depending on where you stand with them not being able to reproduce on their own. (In comparison, while a tapeworm or other parasite might need a host, they bring their reproductive equipment with them).
Prions have 1 of those traits. They can’t regulate an internal environment as they cannot have one, they lack any kind of organizational trait, they have no metabolism (the other one viruses lack), they do not grow, they don’t adapt to their environment, and they do not respond to stimuli.
A digital thermometer has organization and responds to stimuli, so it’s more alive than a prion.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 months ago:
My state banned billboards for the same reasons.
It’s a really good reminder when I’m ever in another state that things like that just… Aren’t needed.
The advertising thing is a slippery slope, and it’s OK for people to draw the line for how far down the slope they’re willing to go higher up than you would. It’s also OK that your line comfortably holds a 2-second ad.
No position here is unreasonable, and everyone should keep that in mind.
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 6 months ago:
Nah.
That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential.
So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 months ago:
I liked tiberium wars.
One of my favorite games actually.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 6 months ago:
Definitely are.
In a way it makes sense because the industry loves its acronyms and you’ll be using them.
On the other hand, I have the ability to search. I’m an IT professional, I will have a computer. Let me let the computer do the lookup. Its the old “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument that was dated when my teachers told it to me.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
Churm
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 6 months ago:
Yeah but no one just has a kingdom or phylum.
Every living creature gets an entry from domain to species.
Celestial bodies aren’t a hierarchy, a planet isn’t also a dwarf planet or an asteroid.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 6 months ago:
Thing is everyone has one of those.
Compare it to non-sentience, sentience, and sapience, to properly anthropomorphize it.
- Comment on space 7 months ago:
Which is why the deLorean was an amazing time machine, obviously.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 7 months ago:
I really think that everyone really had trouble with the DS microphone rather than the flute challenge itself. It came pretty easily to me but I doubt I’m a particularly expert mic blower, so I can only think my mic was a fully functioning one and people like you got a much harder challenge.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Both!
- Comment on Physical or Digital? 8 months ago:
Disks are for games I want to be able to pull out of a box 10 years from now and go “oh man I remember this”. I have the box from a DSi that I filled with GBA games, and a shelf for Switch and PS4 games that, when they’re retired for something else, it’d be nice to come back to once in a while. My daughter has gotten into my GBA games lately, so that’s been nice.
PC games, they’re so much more available. Steam is steady, GOG is steady, I feel I can leave it to them to keep and I’ll have any particularly treasured games 10 years from now, anyway.
- Comment on The news did it first 1 year ago:
Ah, I avoid tiktok for reasons like this, I thought OP edited it together for reasons I was oblivious to. Thank you.
- Comment on The news did it first 1 year ago:
But what thing is it?
- Comment on Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down 1 year ago:
No, this hypothetical drive isn’t just relativity incarnate. It uses a hypothetical source of negative mass. This means it has a gravitational effect the same way the moon does, but the tides aren’t just a relativistic stretching.
This ship would literally push objects away from it. That mechanic is crucial to the concept of the ship. If we were in space, in a box, with that ship near us, we would perceive the ship’s direction to be up, because the repelling effect would be identical to the equivalent positive mass below us pulling us down.
And if one of these hypothetical ships could do this to an extent that allowed it to fold space to cheat out faster-than-light movement, I imagine the gravitational effect would crush us entirely.
