Umbrias

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiger Predators⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  why care that they removed it at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animal Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a wasp, it is hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet is a funny analogue!

  Because it experienced the dot com crash under almost the same sort of circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I would and do in fact literally blame societal and familial problems when kids are brutal, unkind, or hurt others, and similarly blame societal and familial problems for when kids are not protected from brutal, unkind, and hurtful things.

  Why are you saying the things you’re saying like a gotcha? Do you not feel that society has a significant impact on the behavior of youth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: edit - you should actually read the article on what tone policing is in their conception and what is harmful about it, not all being called out for dickish replyguy behavior is tone policing. Frustration and aggression can be warranted, and is fine to express, but when all you’re doing is arguing with no cogent point (see: yelling into the void) and misinterpreting what someone is saying to the point of absurdity, aggression is being actively harmful to the discussion. That’s just being an ass for catharsis.

  And again, the point was to point out that the person you’re responding to did not say what you claimed they did, and that the addition about labour was helpful. You can be as frustrated and aggressive as you want about that, but this whole discussion could’ve been in agreement, you both appear to agree with each other on the meat of the politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh?

  I mean… you are literally instead of discussing the politics of the UK, actively choosing to be antagonistic.

  And antagonistic in a way that I have literally no idea what you’re even trying to say, beyond wildly thrashing into the void.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like they were just hoping things would at least improve, which means not get actively worse nor remain strictly the same, but does not mean things become absolutely good and fixed. You’re the one putting “fundamental changes to how things are run” as their claim.

  I found their comment quite helpful, and the content of the addition that labour may not do much better was also useful and fit in the framework they gave.

  I don’t think the aggression was warranted or helpful, and only served to stagnate the discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And another⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just a typo. “…Whoever gets the[n] gives…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hockey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The regulation appears to be based on the area of the plot, not the dimensions. By assigning explicitly annotated dimensions it can confuse the intended message more than using a goofy but useful analogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting! Thank you.

  Neat that the dorsal plane bends, I could see that disagreeing with the body orientation planes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dorsal means towards the (anatomical) back, ventral means towards the ground. These are perpendicular to the dorsal plane, as frontwards is perpendicular to the frontal plane.

  I’m unfamiliar with brain orientation so perhaps the tradition is a bit different!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be either the frontal or dorsal, however consider in zoology “dorsal fin”. Intuitively this is because the front of these animals doesn’t align with the frontal plane as it does in humans, but dorsal is a common alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because quadrupeds are oriented differently. This chart is accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok sir⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot things glow, some chemical reactions glow, fire does both, mostly the latter especially for cooler fires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok sir⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fire is much more complex than that. Fires appearance comes from:

  • blackbody radiation, as you point out from smoke particles but also from gaseous components
  • chemiluminescence, the chemical reaction itself emits light, and this is why fires can burn in different colors. In fact you can buy additives which are generally metals which make fires burn blue or green or red, etc.

  Fire is an active chemical reaction. It’s a transition between often solid or liquid, sometimes gaseous, fuels, into gaseous products, all while undergoing a chemical reaction. It’s not a state of matter, states of matter concern the phase of equilibrium conditions, and fire is decidedly not in equilibrium.