Neuromancer49
@Neuromancer49@midwest.social
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 17 hours ago:
I’ve been chasing the high from Elite Dangerous on my HOSAS setup for years. Thankfully, the recent updates have breathed some new life into the game.
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 17 hours ago:
X4. Come for the arcadey spaceflight simulator, stay for the galactic-scale empire building, leave for another save file once the Xenon start sending multiple I-class battleships against your Teladi allies but they cannot muster the strength to repel them and the entire gate network falls because you were too busy solving the Paranid Civil War.
- Comment on I just opened an overpriced can of fancy soup and on the label, along with the expected stuff like 'gluten-free' and 'GMO-free,' was 'mustard free' and 'celery free.' Is that a thing now? 1 month ago:
For me and mine, it’s carrots. Do you know how difficult it is to find carrot-free items? Impossible.
- Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books 2 months ago:
Good riddance, Tom Bombadil. I don’t care how merry a fellow he was, those were my least favorite chapters of Fellowship.
- Comment on Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing? 3 months ago:
Nah. Fenced epee for a bit in a college club. Height advantage was pretty great. I guess it just depends on the weapon.
- Comment on Academia to Industry 5 months ago:
+1 to all of this. See also: phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1296
- Comment on thoughts on arpgs? 5 months ago:
Can’t say I’ve heard anything since launch, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
- Comment on thoughts on arpgs? 5 months ago:
Grim Dawn Item Assistant is your best friend. While you’re at it, Rainbow Item Names (or whatever it’s called).
- Comment on thoughts on arpgs? 5 months ago:
Well if you liked PoE I doubt you’ll like D4. It’s a much simpler game. Sadly my only advice is to try GD and Last Epoch again. I’ve got hundreds of hours in the former and I just got 10 hours into the latter.
Last Epoch feels like a more approachable PoE. I thoroughly enjoy how the skills interplay with one another, but I still prefer the itemization in Grim Dawn.
The only reason I’m not playing GD currently is because I have too many QoL mods installed so my cloud saving doesn’t work, but I can cloud save for Last Epoch for my steam deck lmao.
- Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.? 5 months ago:
My job is 8:30 - 5 with a 30 minute lunch break. So almost.
But, we also get 2 days/week at home, and can flex time as required. Tons of international work, so the flexible hours are a godsend when time zones are against us.
It’s a salaried position and depending on your supervisor and stage of your career, you’re expected to work 40-45 hours a week. Deadlines and ugly projects tend to increase hours work. I’m very lucky, as my industry can be pretty brutal with sudden ends to projects and unexpected layoffs.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
We’ve got some really good theories, though. Neurons make new connections and prune them over time. We know about two types of ion channels within the synapse - AMPA and NMDA. AMPA channels open within the post-synapse neuron when glutamate is released by the pre-synapse neuron. And the AMPA receptor allows sodium ions into the dell, causing it to activate.
If the post-synapse cell fires for a long enough time, i.e. recieves strong enough input from another cells/enough AMPA receptors open, the NMDA receptor opens and calcium enters the cell. Typically an ion of magnesium keeps it closed. Once opened, it triggers a series of cellular mechanisms that cause the connection between the neurons to get stronger.
This is how Donald Hebb’s theory of learning works. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_theory?wprov=sfla1
Cells that fire together, wire together.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Actually, neuron-based machine learning models can handle this. The connections between the fake neurons can be modeled as a “strength”, or the probability that activating neuron A leads to activation of neuron B. Advanced learning models just change the strength of these connections. If the probability is zero, that’s a “lost” connection.
Those models don’t have physical connections between neurons, but mathematical/programmed connections. Those are easy to change.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
I’ve been quoting Jordan Peterson for years?! Ahhh fuck.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Actually, we’ve got some pretty sophisticated models of neurons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project?wprov=sf…
See my other comment for an example of how little we truly understand about neurons.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Even assuming we can model the same number of (simple machine learning model) neurons, it’s the connections that matter. The number of possible connections in the human brain is literally greater than the number of atoms in the universe.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
It’s not a terrible idea by any means. It’s pretty hard to do, though. Check out the Blue Brain Project. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project?wprov=sf…
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
Heck, we barely know how neurons work. Sure, we’ve got the important stuff down like action potentials and ion channels, but there’s all sorts of stuff we don’t fully understand yet. For example, we know the huntingtin protein is critical to neuron growth (maybe for axons?), and we know if the gene has too many mutations it causes Huntington’s disease. But we don’t know why huntingtin is essential, or how it actually effects neuron growth. We just know that cells die without it, or when it is misformed.
Now, take that uncertainty and multiply it by the sheer number of genes and proteins we haven’t fully figured out and baby, you’ve got a stew going.
- Comment on RNA 8 months ago:
siRNA and miRNA: Are we a joke to you?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
I continue to feed my X4 addiction. Picked up the DLC during the Thanksgiving sale. I’m on my second play, about 35 hours in. Realized I’ve made a lot of mistakes, but that’s half the fun.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
I’ve never seen an exact number ascribed to it, any chance you have a source?