Umbrias
@Umbrias@beehaw.org
I exist or something probably
- Comment on nuclear 5 days ago:
that is believable, no structures should have been where fukushima was nor with the lacking tsunami protections it had.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
did i claim chornobyl didnt have any effects or are you just searching for stuff to argue about?
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
more like a few thousand ever, if you are really really conservative tens of thousand, though the methodology to get there is unscientific. tmi killed nobody, fukushima will have killed nobody. meanwhile people falling off roofs installing solar or accidents working on wind are much more common. keep doing solar and wind, but your perception about nuclear is wholly irrational and unfounded.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
sure, like corners are cut in every industry including renewables (which have a higher accident rate even). yes a nationalized nuclear power program is less perversely incentivised. if you look at countries where nuc is accepted more you wont find insane accident rates nor are plants bombs.
- Comment on nuclear 6 days ago:
meltdowns do not resemble bombs at all. nor are they really possible either.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 week ago:
almost certainly doing those things and more (especially lin alg and diffeq solutions, and who knows what equivalent mathematical representations). Why wouldn’t it? even stereotyped, there are subtle feedback variations you need to account for.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 week ago:
there is certainly math going on in the brain at various levels, both equivalent models and identical sorts of calculations, it’s not just fuzzy matching.
- Comment on Evil Sabretooths 1 week ago:
it has them, they are just covered.
- Comment on Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit 2 weeks ago:
they didnt strike gold, they are trying to inflict their value crash on the public market. effects will be far reaching, including but not limited to people’s retirement plans.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
what is that thing wired into a 600v line??
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
nah it’s actually pretty low, toothpaste isnt in your mouth for a huge amount of time and it needs to be a certain level of nontoxic for edibility. this is why dentists still do fluoride soaks. the fluoride in the water also accumulates in and hardens bones a bit, though not a ton.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
yes fluoride diffuses into enamel and chemically and mechanically hardens it. this effect is strongly linked to better dental outcomes for children and adults. also, tons of blaces actually remove fluoride to the needed levels because it is naturally higher.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 1 month ago:
that’s not how that works, we cant regrow (most) vital organs (liver says hi) because of “engineering problems” not because evolution is random. we personify adaptations to understand them, it can lead to issues but yours is a massive overcorrection.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 2 months ago:
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 2 months ago:
via statistical imitation. other methods, such as solving and implementing by first principles analytically, has not been shown to be np hard. the difference is important but the end result is still no agigpt in the foreseeable and unforeseeable future.
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 2 months ago:
the limitation is specifically using the primary machine learning technique, same one all chatbots use at places claiming to pursue agi, which is statistical imitation, is np-hard.
- Comment on MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA 2 months ago:
could you expand on that?
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 2 months ago:
read where?
- Comment on meow_irl 3 months ago:
yes, we had a dog that would shiver to be let into places. …even when it was over 70f. the* learn a behavior gets som thing and sometimes they also learn to lie, lol.
- Comment on A quantum neural network can see optical illusions like humans do. Could it be the future of AI? 3 months ago:
see certain optical illusions in a way that other vision models cannot.
eh… but not in a way that is really like what humans see. which is the articles claim, but it makes a clasically cs approach to nuerology: zero effort to prove the quite substantial claim.
Word soup
that is most certainly not word soup. it’s also an accurate statement, though uncharitable to the authors claims.
Also, the detail in description of their “quantum” inspiration (an effect not unique to quantum mechanics in fact, at that level of description) reads like they skimmed wikipedia’s intro to xyz topic, whether or not the author understands the topics more deeply.
- Comment on Animal Attacks 4 months ago:
neither are jerks, they simply are what they are trying to survive hostile environments best they can with what they have.
- Comment on The Dead Rising remaster no longer gives you points for "Erotica" creepshots because it's not "required" or "appropriate" 4 months ago:
removing unnecessary abusive misogyny != puritanism. hilariously different things in fact
- Comment on The Dead Rising remaster no longer gives you points for "Erotica" creepshots because it's not "required" or "appropriate" 4 months ago:
why care that they removed it at all?
- Comment on Animal Attacks 4 months ago:
it’s a wasp, it is hungry.
- Comment on Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer 4 months ago:
if you can see the wire that is likely laying in trees and twisting and turning. across the scale of most warfare this is far from a major opsec concern.
- Comment on Fisiks 4 months ago:
if this observation is even accurate then an alternative explanation is just that people in relationships are more used to being emotionally available, more recently have practiced “relationshipping”, and have a larger social circle.
- Comment on Conversing with Mathematicians 4 months ago:
fortunately math problems are administered in the context of the class, so it will be pretty obvious that it’s in the complex plane.
- Comment on GLAMour 5 months ago:
Yeah this is the key point in all of this. You can speculate forever, until you can confirm it your confidence will be very low.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 5 months ago:
The internet as the internet companies percieved it would look like and sold it as absolutely and completely vanished, yeah.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 5 months ago:
The internet is a funny analogue!
Because it experienced the dot com crash under almost the same sort of circumstances.