mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 3 days ago:
Alas, they’re the universal spooky bird. They show up in fucking Avengers Endgame.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 4 days ago:
See similar review of ant emoji.
“Firefox: that is a termite.”
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 6 days ago:
You have no idea how much labor a washing machine saves.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 6 days ago:
I find that any box folds clothes. If you mean folded such that they don’t wrinkle, I think you’re looking for a closet.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 6 days ago:
Ryedaft, founder of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 6 days ago:
Systems include plumbing!
- Comment on Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? 6 days ago:
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 6 days ago:
We automated plumbing. It’s called plumbing.
Same deal for laundry, dishes, farming-- there’s so much stuff where human labor has been almost entirely eliminated, and people still bitch about the tiny remaining fraction. Ugh, you have to put the dishes in the box that effortlessly cleans them, and then take them out? That’s bullshit. Where’s my robot maid!
- Comment on The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it" 1 week ago:
‘We changed scope and it’s your problem’ does not parse.
- Comment on The new SNW episode "What is Starfleet?" has problematic, even dangerous connotations 1 week ago:
This kinda sounds like ‘Why did the creators make the sudden easy answer blatantly unbelievable? Are they stupid?’
- Comment on AI extension: Stable Diffusion image generator for LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Any reliance on remote compute is fragile, because you lack control of the model. Exact versions matter. Every thread that goes ‘how do I use the old [service name]?’ is someone learning this lesson, often too late.
- Comment on AI extension: Stable Diffusion image generator for LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Ehhh. Mixed bag. Integrating AI into every-damn-thing is half of why people act like a robot kicked their dog - but diffusion is the half that unambiguously does what it’s supposed to, and a popular FOSS tool is a decent place to offer an it-just-works installation for local models.
The images are generated on volunteer GPUs through AI Horde.
Nevermind, fuck this.
- Comment on Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release 1 week ago:
Could Lucasarts not secure the rights for “Fistful?”
- Comment on How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 1 week ago:
Quite possibly, yes. But how much is “a lot?” A wide network acts like many permutations.
Probing the space with small networks and brief training sounds faster, but that too is recreated in large networks. They’ll train for a bit, mark any weights near zero, reset, and zero those out.
What training many small networks would be good for is experimentation. Super deep and narrow, just five big dumb layers, fewer steps with more heads, that kind of thing. Maybe get wild and ask a question besides “what’s the next symbol.”
- Comment on Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. 2 weeks ago:
Nevermind tearing a page out of your own copy of a book is not a copyright issue… at all.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 2 weeks ago:
Defragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 2 weeks ago:
It’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 2 weeks ago:
Is there a difference, besides SSDs tending to be plugged-in all the time? Maybe better firmware?
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 2 weeks ago:
So… an SD card?
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure? Check.
Where you jumped in is me, pointing out, repeatedly, that LLMs and IT have nothing to do with the actual article. Y’know, the doctors I keep mentioning? They’re not decorative.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 2 weeks ago:
You literally did.
“Concerning that the same is happening in medical even for the experts.”
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 2 weeks ago:
No. You’re making a faulty comparison. The thing in this article is exclusively for experts. Using it made them better doctors, but when they stopped using it, they were out-of-practice at the old way. Like any skill you stop exercising. Especially at an expert level. Your junior programmers incompetently trusting LLMs is not the same problem in any direction.
This is genuinely important, because people are developing prejudice against an entire branch of computer science. This stupid headline pretends AI made cancer detection worse. Cancer’s kind of a big deal! Disguising the fact that detection rates improved with this tool, by fixating on how they got worse without it, may cost lives.
A lot of people in this thread are theatrically advocating the importance of deep understanding of complex subjects, and then giving a kneejerk “fuckin’ AI, am I right?”
- Comment on Bonk. 2 weeks ago:
Bop it!
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 2 weeks ago:
Some guy blogged that the smart ones move to advertising.
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 2 weeks ago:
Neural networks becoming practical is world-changing. This lets us do crazy shit we have no idea how to program sensibly. Dead-reckoning with an accelerometer could be accurate to the inch. Chroma-key should rival professional rotoscoping. Any question with a bunch of data and a simple answer can be trained at some expense and then run on an absolute potato.
So it’s downright bizarre that every single company is fixated on guessing the next word with transformers. Alternatives like text diffusion and mamba pop up and then disappear, without so much as a ‘so that didn’t work’ blog post.
- Comment on Anon is Banished 2 weeks ago:
On his back all vows are made.
There ain’t no movie in Ba Sing Se. - Comment on Anon is Banished 2 weeks ago:
The Tuco doctrine.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 2 weeks ago:
We’re not talking about LLMs.
These doctors didn’t ask ChatGPT “does this look like cancer.” We’re talking about domain-specific medical tools.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 2 weeks ago:
Should urologists still train to detect diabetes by taste? We wouldn’t want the complexity of modern medicine to stunt their growth. These quacks can’t sniff piss with nearly the accuracy of Victorian doctors.
When a tool gets good enough, not using it is irresponsible. Sawing lumber by hand is a waste of time. Farmers today can’t use scythes worth a damn. Programming in assembly is frivolous.
At what point do we stop practicing without the tool? How big can the difference be, and still be totally optional? It’s not like these doctors lost or lacked the fundamentals. They’re just rusty at doing things the old way. If the new way is simply better, good, that’s progress.
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 2 weeks ago:
“Concerning that the same is happening in medical even for the experts.”
It isn’t.
Glad we cleared that up?