Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial 1 day ago:
- Comment on Anyone get this? 3 days ago:
Used to work with a dude who took great delight in belittling others. He was quite Sr.
I thought I was taking crazy pills. “Oh, he’s actually a sweetheart once you get to know him”, “He doesn’t mean to be that way”. “He actually really likes me”
People were bending over backwards to defend a guy who was literally getting off on abusing his position of authority. Everyone seemed to think they were the special one who he liked and respected… they just wanted everyone else to “earn it” like they had.
It was scary! This guy had essentially formed a cult!
Anyways, our company got acquired and he was let go during HR vetting. The company doing the acquisition obviously had better due diligence then there was when this guy had been hired: sex crimes against a minor.
Everyone was shocked (STILL DEFENDING HIM). I was like “oh wow it’s actually crazy how perfectly that tracks”.
- Comment on Vibe management 6 days ago:
It’s actually crazy how incredibly wrong that is.
What is the CEOs job? To make profit? To select winning products? To chart a long term course?
Nope.
Nope Nope Nope.
Thier job is to increase the value of their outstanding stock. That’s it.
Now, given the fact that the stock market is a fucking casino… sure. Making profit is A way to TRY and increase your stock price. Making wise product decisions is A way to do that. This is a Warren Buffet type of CEO.
You also need to “read the room” (the room being investors) understand what they want to hear, and start saying it. No matter how stupid it is. No matter if you know full well it’s stupid.
If the whims of investors are convinced using AI is what is valuable, they will spend more on AI than humans for as long as it’s the case that the market will reward them for doing so… despite it being objectively inefficient.
You gotta remember that company stock is like a currency they can print at will. As nice as it is to have a profitable business… it’s even nicer to have the luxury of being able to just print money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s right-wing onion. That’s why they’re spitting at universities.
- Comment on They probably disable it first thing 1 week ago:
Relatively light gouges/scrapes in the road can pack with snow. Voila, new white line. Constantly sets off the lane departure. In the winter. When things are slippery. On mountain roads.
My vehicle JUST keeps. If it tried to “correct” the steering it could very easily get someone killed.
I don’t mind the beeps, but no fucking way I’m letting a computer take the wheel.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Really hate it when people ask questions, eh? Ngl, kinda ableist to bring “capability” into it, you utter buffoon. Bike racks. Noon.
- Comment on DNAddy 1 week ago:
I hate the generalized concept of “AI”, but I love the concept of “Machine Learning”
If you think LLMs are good at anything, I am almost 100% certain to disagree with you about pretty much everything, to help you understand this distinction.
Anyhow, some computer scientists found that a machine learning algorithm could predict beyond a null hypothesis that A fingerprint belonged to a person given a different fingerprint.
“Criminology” expers were just like “no, it’s settled science”
This is the state of discourse.
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why do I even feel the compulsion to preface by saying my bit about ai and llms?
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how tf is “settled science” even a concept in a science
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- Comment on Times have changes sadly 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it was a fantasy.
In the fantasy, AI would be doing the stuff you DIDN’T want to do. Any time it freed up meant you’d get paid the same, just work less.
Obviously the second point was obviously not how it’d pan out… but in the fantasy it did.
When the rubber hits the road, the reality crushes the fantasy. A lot of the work it’s doing is stuff people were passionate about doing. And obviously the tooling is being used to buttfuck everyone on the planet to enrich like 1000 people.
For a great many things and people, the fantasy is better than the reality. It’s the same general concept of life lessons like “Don’t meet your heros” and “You can never go home”. I’m frankly envious of people who are confused by this.
- Comment on Immaculate 2 weeks ago:
They heard and absorbed the hard truth that politicians get to where they are by fucking people, but just completely misunderstood it.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 2 weeks ago:
Not at all. Not even a little bit.
Human-to-human transmission is extremely rare.
You get it from mouse shit. It’s significantly more likely that the people who got it were all exposed to the same mouse shit than it is that they gave it to each other.
You should be way more worried about the mice on that ship coming off and shutting.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is a concise and correct answer to a significant percentage of questions I hear.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 1 month ago:
I’d argue this has incredible artistic value. And I think that was the point.
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 month ago:
OPs question is just any audio that strikes the listener as being a “real” sound. Doesn’t have to be long. Doesn’t have to be a song.
Because it just has to be “a” “real sound” i think there is an inherent measure of subjectivity. I might think a sound sounds like something you might not.
I think I’d approach this differently. I’d just pick a short time frame (maybe 0.5s) and generate 64kbs (PCM bitrate) worth of noise.
What percentage of those should have waveforms with any shape whatsoever within the domain of human perception. (What percent of random noise has the possibility of representation of a limited physical system interacting with the atmosphere in a way the human ear could perceive it)
Then, of that, subjectivity what percentage of those sounds “sound like a thing”.
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 1 month ago:
The minimal sequence of bits required to produce a sound of a voice recognizably saying something is many many many many orders of magnitude greater than a phone number.
- Comment on Medicinal Big Mac 1 month ago:
The original image was ~propaganda~ political persuasive media. This image is also ~propaganda~ political persuasive media.
As gross as AI slop is, as much as I don’t want it to exist at all, if I want to exist in reality I have to accept that it does.
A significant reason for MAGAs ascension and persistence is they’re better at ~propaganda~ political persuasive media. For MAGA-resisting groups to refuse to employ effective and efficient~propaganda~ political persuasive media tooling on principle is just an extension of how we got here in the first place.
- Comment on Lmao 1 month ago:
I suspect that atmosphere composition makes different options more or less viable.
The difficulty/cost getting to orbit probably also would influence where a space elevator lands in terms of developmental priority.
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
What a string of a few foolish Dukes does to a mf
- Comment on There was supposed to be a fifth Artemis II crew member 1 month ago:
My idiot cat loves vacuums. Dives in front if them like they’re security taking a bullet for some VIP.
She wants to get vacuumed. Makes hair management pretty easy since she’ll enthusiastically let us vacuum the source.
- Comment on I'd listen to that 1 month ago:
That is roughly the premise of Beavis and Butthead
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 1 month ago:
2 successive generations at 20 years isn’t statistically typical in north America in the last 60 years.
The math checks out, but isn’t a median representation.
- Comment on If you have a sibling that's hogging all the wifi bandwidth, what do you do about it without leading ot a confrontation? 1 month ago:
As others have said, probably best to just enforce at the router level…
Before anyone goes to war, it’s probably worth even clarifying if it’s true or not. I had a roommate convinced I was “hogging bandwidth” but our internet was just shitty. Over copper. Very inconsistent. I had to literally shut off everything i had to convince them it wasn’t even me.
They swore up and down it was me. There was a pattern. It was the only explanation.
- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 2 months ago:
Id never seen this image before but it’s the clearest and most intuitive illustration of the effect I’ve seen.
- Comment on meat honey 2 months ago:
What do bees need pollen for? I thought bees just got bukkaked as an co-evolutionary repayment for the nectar they’re jacking?
- Comment on Trump kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA movement after talker’s Iran war criticism: ‘Lost his way’ 2 months ago:
I used to think that too, until the pattern emerged that he’s outspoken only when it’s about Russia or Russian-aligned countries. His “interview” with Putin really was the icing on the cake.
- Comment on Trump kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA movement after talker’s Iran war criticism: ‘Lost his way’ 2 months ago:
Iran and Russia are allies, Iran is pretty much the last one they’ve got in the region. It’s in Russias medium/long term soft power interests that the current government isn’t toppled.
The war itself isn’t improving Russias bottom line as much as Trump dropping sanctions. The global price of oil didn’t matter much as long as the price caps were in place.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 2 months ago:
After overshooting and dinging the meat cooler, popping my 3 year old out of the cart and me squatting down to have a heart-to-heart:
“Look, buddy, I’m not blaming you. You’re still learning. We learn every day.
But the navigator is a crucial role here. I need you to to call out the distance and sharpness of the turns so that I as the driver can execute the maneuvers”
Him, nodding in agreement “Executing the maneuvers”
“That’s right buddy. We’ll work on it. What’s next on the list?”
“Beers for the boys”
“That’s right, buddy.”
- Comment on Trump kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA movement after talker’s Iran war criticism: ‘Lost his way’ 2 months ago:
Considering Carlson has ALWAYS promoted whatever view best serves Russia, I don’t know how anyone could not see this coming
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The difference between now and 18 months ago is that the shape of the dems had already formed. The groups on the different tracks were already tied down.
Who is the 2028 candidate?
There is time now to pressure the dems to pull Palestine off thier leg of the track.
It isn’t the trolly problem… yet.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
Because I don’t understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence
- Comment on Anon meets the headmaster 3 months ago:
WEASLEY, SNEAKING OUT AFTER HOURS? CIRCUMSISRIX!
