Iunnrais

@Iunnrais@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal that my world views, opinions of myself, and mood changes extremely rapidly (within seconds/minutes) several times per day?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please be careful, while the thrust of your statement is correct (not a substitute for a real professional, it can give dangerously bad advise on some occasions and there’s no way besides personal knowledge and expertise to distinguish when it messes up besides hard study and real research), the meme that LLMs are glorified autocomplete is factually incorrect. Don’t be like the D.A.R.E. program and try to scare people away from things with bad facts and lies.

  It is disingenuous to say that because the AI system that trains the AI system that becomes the LLM uses “next word prediction” as its success metric, that the LLM itself is nothing but autocomplete. Here’s an example of a next word predictor: a fully fledged intelligent human being who is asked to predict the next word of a sentence. And I’m not saying that an LLM is that, or equivalent, or even close, just that being a next word predictor doesn’t rule that out, and claiming or implying so is simply wrong.

  True, use of LLMs is not guaranteed to be correct, and in areas where correctness really matters and you lack expertise to check it, you really should not use an LLM. But let’s not lie to make it sound dumber than it is. It’s plenty dumb enough already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect they’d include “cups, glasses, canteens, water skins, etc” in the category of “water bottles”. :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I’m old enough to have been taught cursive, I can read cursive, but it’s a pain in the ass to do so and even correct cursive can sometimes take serious effort to decipher— then you get into potentially messy cursive which is an order of magnitude worse. Cursive was made to be fast to write, not easy to read, and this just isn’t something that’s really needed much anymore. Writing things that aren’t meant to be read just seems entirely counter to how we do things these days.

  Not that I hate cursive. It does teach good fine motor skills, it also teaches good letter flow and stroke order which can make deciphering even print handwriting easier, not to mention it can look cool and develop your signature better.

  But I do hate trying to read cursive in those rare instances that someone writes something long in it, like a letter. I feel like it’s obnoxious, bordering on disrespectful.

  Man… that’s a cultural shift from even just a half century ago…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would suggest “without good cause” instead of “without meaning”. Related for sure… things without good cause can often have no purpose. But I think it’s the lack of just cause that makes it BS to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Poe’s Law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Blackmist has a hot take here. The Ubisoft formula is: navigate to a tower. Tower gives you a checklist of things to do. You do the things, then look for a new tower.

  Breath of the Wild is different. Yes, you start by navigating to a tower, but then… no checklist is given. You look around, you explore, you find things to do. Maybe you find everything, maybe you miss things, maybe you miss everything. You can always come back and explore more later… and when you’ve done everything, you can’t really be CERTAIN that you got it all. The lack of a checklist dramatically shifts the gameplay from doing a list of events, with little difference from selecting them from a menu, to actually having to explore the world and look around.

  To call it the Ubisoft formula is to vastly misunderstand what the Ubisoft formula is. The formula is a list of things to do. BotW does not have that. Not even slightly. The towers are just something to aim for to get you started, and a place you can use your eyes to look around from, also to get you started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨originality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The scuttlebutt is that buffalo as a verb was only attested very briefly in upstate New York and the Midwest for a brief period of time in the early 1900s. It never spread nationally, and definitely not internationally.

  However, checking Google ngrams shows that “he buffaloed” and “was buffaloed”, (to ensure it’s being used idiomatically as a verb and not just in the famous example sentence) emerged in 1900, peaked in the 1950s, but has sustained small but constant use in published print since then. I was actually expecting the ngram to rapidly drop off and never recover… shocked to see that some people still use it as a real phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨originality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’ve heard of. Now, whether Homo sapiens idaltu is a real separate species from Homo sapiens sapiens is disputed, so there’s a question as to whether the second sapiens actually differentiates us from anything… but I haven’t seen any signs of any consensus against calling ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens to date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also wouldn’t work, nor would it likely trigger his delusions any more than not doing it. My understanding is that fundamentally, schizophrenia is when someone’s running internal monologue gets cross wired and confused with external input. Your stray random thoughts gain as much, or more, validity as actual events that you can see, hear, taste, touch, etc. Sane people know they have imaginations and random BS thoughts, and we have the ability to distinguish those from reality… but even so, sane people can be disturbed by their own random thoughts too. Now imagine if you physically COULDN’T distinguish them, or even a subset of them.

  Adding additional external inputs isn’t going to do jack shit when the problem is actually the internal inputs. Not unless your external inputs are really able to make him start thinking, and thus generate more internal thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe just a touch of cgi, like for the rippling wall when they cross dimensions, or morphing species when hit with the de-evolution ray. But that barely counts. The practical effects and set design were wonderful, and despite the weirdness of the mushroom king, definitely still hold up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mario Bros. No, not the new CGI one, the old live action one. I know I’m not alone in loving this movie, but man is it divisive— those that don’t like like HATE it, and I think that’s the majority opinion.

  I unironically love this movie. It’s not just nostalgia either, though I did watch it as a kid. I also watched the old Zelda cartoon as a kid when it first came out, and I loved it then but I can’t stand it now. No, I’ve watched this movie recently and it still rocks. It’s perfect for what it is, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but you were replying to someone who gave a single specific response that was not bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the AI said that was not a good resting heart rate, and only many for during exercise if you’re young, which is not wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, your farts are not what propel your poop. Squeezing and relaxing of the tube propels the poop, which is not a pneumatic process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. The “it’s not really good” came from labeling requirements that to be labeled cheese, it needs a certain percentage of its ingredients to be cheese. Once upon a time, American cheese slices were made from the offcuts of cheddar, but the popularity of American cheese means that there literally aren’t enough offcuts to be economical… you’d have to make cheddar just to turn it into American cheese.

  But guess what cheddar is made from? Milk. Turns out, when making American cheese, it’s possible to skip the aging and culturing process and simply go straight from milk into the cheese slice we know, with less than the mandated amount of aged cheddar added. That means they had to write something like cheese product instead of calling it cheese directly.

  But it is still food! In fact, it’s still American cheese… skipping a step in the recipe to get a very similar if not identical result doesn’t change what it is! It uses the same raw ingredients, for crying out loud! It’s still the same stuff!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think your premise is correct. From memory, and scanning a couple episodes illegally uploaded to YouTube, it doesn’t look like Captain Planet flies away at the end. Usually, the scene just transitions to later after he’s gone, but the few times we see it, he dissolves into light, presumably returning the rings powers to the planeteers and disincorporating. He doesn’t go anywhere, he bodily ceases to be.

  Where does his mind go? I think he’s a spirit. Where does team spirit go after the football game is over and everyone goes to bed? It still exists, but it’s not… here. It has to be activated to be tangible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did anyone here ever actually play the Mousetrap board game or use the cards in Operation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and yes. I followed the rules as a kid. I played the games with the full rules multiple times even, in defiance of everyone saying that everyone only does so once.

  Looking at YouTube playthroughs for nostalgia, it looks like the game rules today have the trap set up to start? When I played, the rules were that you had to build it up slowly over the course of the game, one piece at a time, and only once it was built could it be activated. Yes, I played that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we defederate from rdq2.net?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a statement I hear only from people who think “nazi” means “evil”, and don’t notice that their personal ideology is drifting closer to literal fascism, but since it’s their ideology, what they believe is right, that means it’s not evil. But nazi means evil, so nazi can’t possibly mean their new beliefs.

  But I assure you, it can. And it’s not scope-creep, it’s you-drift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people look at sunsets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The sun high up in the sky produces light that has to go through a thin layer of air to reach you, and is really powerful. It’s so much light that it can burn your retinas. The sun near the horizon produces light that goes through hundreds of miles of atmosphere, scattering a lot of the light, and the remaining light is safe to view.