Artisian
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- Comment on do what you love 2 days ago:
Ah, that’s true. Though the majority of these are much closer to factory jobs (at least harder engineering degrees than CS) I think? Once it’s built you need security, a couple systems engineers, some folks to move circuitry and cables, and custodial staff. There are perhaps a handful of cs grads employed by a data center as I understand it. (Most employees are managing hardware; they lean towards electrical engineering?)
The hardware only needs software designed for it once in order to offer compute as a service, and that design can happen far away from the data center (and, the CEOs believe, possibly by an AI).
- Comment on do what you love 4 days ago:
Everyone is trying to replace most support with AI. Why pay a person to be confused about your weird tech problem when the computer can do it for less?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
As with all economics, the answer is probably complicated. Death incentives aren’t great. Brands partially have value because they can be kept consistent, and some iconic characters have kept a relatively consistent identity across multiple authors. Allowing a free-for-all too early might make those kinds of characters harder to develop?
My favorite variation on this (which probably also has complicated consequences) is that government should, after say ~10 years, get the chance to buy any particular copyright/patent for a sum (based on its profitability, say), and should they choose to buy then the work enters the public domain early. No idea what horrors this hides.
- Comment on Resonite VR: Massive performance update 1 week ago:
Very similar for me. I suspect Overte will feel better for me when I setup hosting my own avatar, world, etc.
- Comment on Resonite VR: Massive performance update 1 week ago:
I’ll add that Overte VR is the FOSS competitor. It also runs quite well, though is not quite feature competitive afaik.
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- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
We should remember the stories with the records; each is unique and interesting and tells us one way a person did something incredible. But I don’t see the value of starring specifically the stories involving trans folks. I wouldn’t expect us to put an asterisk next to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisława_Walasiewicz , and indeed we do not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres_at_the_Olympics#…
I imagine you would indeed feel weird if you were to have transitioned into women’s swimming, especially if you are not a woman. It would certainly be a story; in fact, it would probably be the only story about you, crowding out any physical achievements. That’s a big part of why this isn’t really seen. Personally, it makes me think about why we want gender divided sports to begin with.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 2 weeks ago:
Oh this I did not know! New with the DLC it seems?
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 2 weeks ago:
I thought the weapons were samey until I saw some videos discussing it. The weapon combination system is crazy! Some of them genuinely feel unique, playable, and fresh (though I did not reason my way into any of these on my own).
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 2 weeks ago:
I am so excited to return to it and enjoy the DLC. It was a very satisfying base game.
Linearity hurts it a little bit, but I love the setting and mechanics. Feels really good, and in a different way than many fromsoft titles (at least how I played them). Worldbuilding worked for me, I wanted to spend more time with lore videos than I could find.
I hope it does well and we can see more entries in the series/universe.
(Standard souls warning: I don’t think this is a good first-entry into the souls games. I’m currently recommending “another crabs treasure” for that, and please go right for the accessability menu without shame.)
- Comment on 90% of Games Developers Already Using AI in Workflows, According to New Google Cloud Research 2 weeks ago:
Note that game dev is a setting where both users and developers already tolerate a fair bit of jank or bugs, and where having ideas is relatively cheap but iterating on them is not at all. It makes sense as a fit.
- Comment on Entertainer founder hands over toy shop chain to staff 2 weeks ago:
Yay for worker ownership!
I hope they get the financial training and support to use that power effectively (I’ve been told that’s a big stumbling block).
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- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 5 weeks ago:
A bunch more of this advertising started on my area after the local city council started considering making their own public option for power.
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 1 month ago:
If you have a venmo or other money-transfer method, consider cash.
While a thoughtful gift is nice, cash is flexible. Enough small gifts, and one can flee home…
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 month ago:
I’m going to make a mildly stronger claim. I think this game really is quite moddable by a non-coder. What you need is to implement a different ruleset with new win conditions; everything else can be done with copying existing files into the correct file structure. New win conditions are specified by a pretty boring JSON file, docs here:
github.com/…/5-Miscellaneous-JSON-files.md#victor…
See here for an MVP for a mod of this type (probably replaces/strips away too much, but you should be able to find the vanilla files in the github linked in the OP):
Which is all to say, this is much easier than doing address lookup imo.
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 month ago:
By testing it out in the app?
I’ve also tried getting AI to program really simple things, like using js to find particular elements in a webpage (which I don’t control and involves far too many lines). It did fine.
It’s not ready for commercial use, but it makes hacking around unfamiliar code more accessible. But hey, I’m too lazy to test this use case, so let’s keep arguing about it instead =) (though, thinking about it, automating the argument would be something the AI could do just as well, eh?)
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 month ago:
Kozy asked for a different rule set; essentially changing a few numbers related to non-combat victory (shorter research times, lower policy points required, etc). Identifying these numbers in a complicated code base, especially for a non-programmer, could be very difficult. For the non-programmer, understanding how the code works isn’t very important. You just need to know what to change, and perhaps make sure you don’t change more.
I think this is exactly a case where getting a novice programming friend to make a mod would make sense. Equivalently, to vibe code.
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 month ago:
That sounds like something easily modded; like a couple of integers somewhere. It would be cool to do (and seems vibe-code accessible if a model can hold the full script in context?)
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 1 month ago:
Needing to go through and disable all the stuff sounds like managing bloat to me, no?
I’m personally angry that we have ads on the default minesweeper and solitaire. Gross
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 month ago:
Thank you!
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- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 2 months ago:
If you wanna go the extra mile, skimming an ally guide for 10 minutes, looking up some terminology and concepts, would reduce awkwardness by a fair bit. I certainly would have avoided a half dozen missteps if I did some reading.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 3 months ago:
As I understand it, there are many many such models. Especially those made for academic use. Some common training corpus’s are listed here: www.tensorflow.org/datasets
Examples include wikipedia edits and discussions, and open source scientific articles.
Almost all research models are going to be trained on stuff like this. Many of them have demos, open code, and local installation instructions. They generally don’t have a marketing budget. Some of the models listed here certainly qualify: github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms?tab=readme-ov-file
Both of these are lists that are not so difficult to get on; so I imagine some of these have trouble with falsification or mislabeling, as you point out. But there’s little reason for people to do so (beyond improving a papers results I guess?).
Art generation seems to have had a harder time, but there are stable diffusion equivalents that used only CC work. A few minutes of search found: Common Canvas, claims to have been competitive.
- Comment on What is class field theory? 3 months ago:
Not a number theorist, but the wikipedia reads ok for me, so I’ll give an attempt. Answer based on the AMS’s Translated Math Monographs 240, by Kazuya Kato et. al…
A sample of the questions class field theory wants to address: a) Which primes p are the sum of 2 squares, p=a^2 + b^2? b) What about other formulae, say eg p=a^2 +2b^2? c) Consider a Galois extension. Take a prime ideal P in the smaller ring. For which primes does this ideal factor when we look at the larger ring? d) When is the factorization square free (unramified)? e) What’s the smallest cyclotomic extension that contains sqrt(M) for a given M?
If we look at the integers, you may already know the answers to several of these! And they all have something kinda magic in common. For (a), for example, the primes that are the sum of 2 squares are exactly those with p = 1 mod 4. For example, 5=2^2+1^2, yet 7 cannot be written as a sum of two squares. The answer to question (b) is similar! We can do it exactly when p=1,3 mod 8.
For ©, for concreteness let’s take the extension of the rationals Q to the rationals with a square root of -3, Q(sqrt(-3)). The prime ideal (7) factors as (7, 1-sqrt(-3)) (7, 1+sqrt(-3)) (a product of two distinct prime ideals; unramified), as do the ideals (13), (19), (31), and (37). But (5), (11), (17), (23) and (29) all don’t. Perhaps you notice a pattern: p=1 mod 3 ? factors. p=2 mod 3? doesn’t. There’s also a unique ramified prime, (3) = (sqrt(-3))^2. There will generally only be a finite number of ramified primes. Do a dozen more examples and you’ll notice a spooky pattern: the ramified primes seem to show up in the modulus (in this example, 3 was ramified and the factorization pattern works mod 3. If 7 and 23 are ramified, the factorization cases will work modulo 7*23=161). [Quadratic extensions are not special btw; the factorization of (p) in Q(zeta_5) (Q with a 5th root of 1) depends on p mod 5.]
On the face of it, why would modular arithmetic be the relevant condition? And why does the modulus seem to care about ramification?
A major result of Galois theory is that there’s a correspondence between subgroups of (Z/NZ)^* (integers modulo N under multiplication) and intermediate field extensions between Q and a cyclotomic extension Q(zeta_N). Prime ideal ramification and factoring can be stated in terms of this correspondence. Further, they show that every finite abelian extension of Q lives inside some Q(zeta_N). This result lets us explain all of (a)-(e). Generalizing it is one of the big motivations of class field theory. If we start not with Q, but with say Q(sqrt(-3)), what still holds? What is the right generalization of cyclotomic extensions and (Z/NZ)^*?
My understanding is that this program is quite successful. There’s a replacement for both that’s only somewhat more technical/tedious, and that gives similar results. One of the bigger successes is generalizing ‘reciprocity’ laws (the quadratic case is often taught in undergrad number theory; it’s about the surprising fact that p is a square mod q depends on if q is a square mod p).
- Comment on [Meta] Could we consider avoiding political topics in this community? 10 months ago:
As one of the few folks who have asked such questions, I obviously am against. I don’t think the dedicated pol communities are particularly good for honest questions about platforms/political figures; everything in those spaces feels like it’s being intentionally spun (even in discussions) in a way that this community does not. (Also, several of the communities you suggest as pol discussion places are… just not? Extremely few questions, most the posts are headlines, discussions don’t seem to happen much. Some feel closer to a curated feed of cringe.)
I do agree it could become an issue, and that would justify some division, perhaps tags? But I don’t think it is currently very unpleasant, and it will almost certainly get better in 2 months (at least short term).
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 10 months ago:
I think the scary thing is if it takes the suppliers more than 3 days to figure that out. Companies oftentimes can last 3 days without food (and rarely fix things very quickly at any scale).
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 10 months ago:
That one seems kinda scary - if inflation was 6% and something wasn’t sold at any profit, all stores would stop selling it. (This is true for most food.)
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 10 months ago:
Agreed, that would be.
But the most they could have done is 308% instead of that 300%, and I think they managed to get lots and lots of small stores to do it at the same time.
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 10 months ago:
I’ll note that grocers record profits are orders of magnitude less than the price increases. Maybe somebody is getting rich off of the price increases, but I’m pretty sure Walmart is not.
