Umbrias
@Umbrias@beehaw.org
I exist or something probably
- Comment on GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack 1 day ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it. Openais track record is lying about capabilities and letting hype inertia smooth it out for them.
- Comment on ChatGPT-4o vs. Math 1 day ago:
Hilarious example of a problem which is so much harder than the tester thinks it is (and thus gets it wrong and says chatgpt is wrong for the wrong reasons on the first attempt). Oh and the ‘correct’ answer wrong, it’s an ok approximation but analytically incorrect. But the tester doesn’t even realize this because they are unqualified to run this test.
Oh and nobody in the comments appears to realize this either. And this show of math reasoning is ultimately a show of drawing a known and oft repeated basic arithmetic question for a math test that fails to interrogate the assumptions of the problem.
This is all hilariously infuriating, and I hope the two people who read these posts enjoy the answer:
- Comment on GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack 3 days ago:
Funny how the increasingly underwhelming ai releases still get hyped to oblivion like each one is gpt2 to 3 again.
This is an incremental at best improvement, if not basically the same thing but people assume it will be better and see what they want to see.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
“Why would a society bring people back to life when they [describes why you think they deserve to die]”
Happy to know you’re not going to be solely responsible for bringing them back!
- Comment on Moon dust 1 week ago:
Sand, but sharp due to a lack of water erosion, and formed mostly from asteroid impacts and thermal cycling. So it’s more like glass dust. It’s possible it had similar effects on lungs as asbestos, but we don’t know for sure.
- Comment on Stress 1 week ago:
Because excel doesn’t have built in unit handling so when you enter in readings from the strain gauge you’ll probably enter them in what’s being reported.
You can write the units of strain however you like, I often say ul for unitless.
- Comment on Stress 1 week ago:
Because practicality. Strain generally occurs across mm scales at most for most traditional tensile tests and relevant materials. Normally it’s actually much less than mm. Occasionally you see micrometers/micrometers.
- Comment on Stress 1 week ago:
Yes. Stress is a measure of an object’s internal pressure.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 1 week ago:
Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 1 week ago:
Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.
Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
*origin of prophets as they are understood today
The first religions were generally flavors of animism.
- Comment on Antybooties 2 weeks ago:
Quorum sensing does not require a conceptual framework of numbers. The conceptual framework is the harder part, your brain and many cells perform quorumsensing and computations all the time that you would find difficult to do by hand, or to do symbolically.
- Comment on U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine 3 weeks ago:
Opsec and limited powers, it’s right there in the article. If you want to be inflammatory the obvious response is that it was done after Russia was already using the same style of weapon in Ukraine.
- Comment on Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel 4 weeks ago:
Elaborate.
- Comment on Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of quantum resistant cryptography methods that already exist and have existed for a decade or more.
- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
Beehaw doesn’t have nor does it federate down votes, so don’t worry. People can be as upset as they want but if they won’t engage in discussion to voice it I’ll never know.
- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
In doing so you sacrifice the wealth and progress of the people you are colonializing. Like I said, broken window fallacy. Slaughtering while cultures doesn’t actually as a rule lead to an increase in human wealth or progress towards this future.
And "great person"ing Columbus who was more a bumbling symptom of the colonialist sentiment that already existed is silly. There would have been colonization without him. He’s just the face that got to start genocides for Spain in the Americas first.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
That’s not answering the question though.
“Pick a number between 1 and 100” doesn’t mean “grab two d10” or write a script.
- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
Columbus did not in fact do that, nor is that “the reason” the modern world exists. Broken window fallacy, slaughtering people and generally doing colonialism is not an effective way to create technological progress.
- Comment on mimic 5 weeks ago:
Pus isn’t the Greek form so it’s neither here nor there. Octopus is an English word and as such can be pluralized in numerous ways. Octopodes is my favorite though.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2 updates will give you new save option and make player dwellings available earlier 1 month ago:
Sealion all you like, you know what’s being discussed and why. Feel free to respond when you’re willing to engage with the conversation.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2 updates will give you new save option and make player dwellings available earlier 1 month ago:
Blatantly the incredible use of microtransactions in dd2 and the increasing frequency that games are monetized in general.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2 updates will give you new save option and make player dwellings available earlier 1 month ago:
“You don’t have to pay for any feature! They just made not doing so arduous and inconvenient exactly as much as they think they can get away with to maximize profits in spite of objectively worse design choices and a worse experience overall!”
The conflict of interest is there, it’s impossible to pretend it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on zzz 1 month ago:
Maybe. Could be the compressed nerve reduces vasodilation in your fingers. Could be that your finger only feels cold.
- Comment on Patent time: Cylindrical safety razor 6 months ago:
Biggest issue is probably manufacturing difficulty and the biomechanics of pushing a razor being less stable/precise than pulling, making much of the razor less likely to be used and likely to provide a worse shave.
- Comment on 20 years ago, a UFO Hacker claimed to have found evidence in a NASA network 9 months ago:
Hacking into governments will often do that yes.
- Comment on 20 years ago, a UFO Hacker claimed to have found evidence in a NASA network 9 months ago:
Pretty huge dent to credibility that.