SkoomaDentist
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The number of terrible takes on AI on this forum often seem to outweigh even the good ones.
Have you considered that you might be the one whose takes are the terrible ones because LLMs match your desires and thus validate your pre-existing pro-AI future biases? From an outside perspective everything I’ve seen you write about LLMs matches the sterotypical uncritical fanboys to the tee. Always quick to criticize anyone who disagrees with you on LLM, largely ignoring the problems, no particular domain expertise in the technology (beyond as an end user) and never offering any sort of hard proof. IOW, you don't come across as either a reliable or a good faith commenter when it comes to LLMs or AI.
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
It should be illegal to ask ChatGPT to write something that would take you less than 2 minutes to write yourself.
Unless it’s a review mandated by the HR. Then ChatGPT is the right tool as its native output is close to ridiculous HR corporate speak.
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
Even Judas Priest wasn't metal until their second album, the 1976 Sad Wings of Destiny. That's six years between Black Sabbath releasing Paranoid and Judas Priest doing anything that could be called metal. I think much of it is Black Sabbath's influence being so ubiquituous in metal that people don't realize that it's all taken straight from Black Sabbath. Things like heavy power chord riffing, ubiquituous use of tritone as integral part of the riffs / melody, Geezer Butler's bass playing, down tuning etc.
It's a bit like people claiming The Beatles weren't that influential without realizing that the very concept of a rock band as we know it is based on their template.
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Books should be structured as expandable trees. One-paragraph summary of each chapter, expandable into summaries of component points/stories, expandable into the full text.
Every longer comment here on The Motte itself should be mandated to have that or the user gets an automatic week long ban.
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Someone crammed their lunch into the toilet, which caused it to back up and spew raw sewage all over the bathroom floor.
How does this even work? Is American plumbing significantly different?
Over here the tighest spot is the S-shaped curve at the bottom of the toilet itself, so that anything that gets past it cannot cause further blocks. Thus at worst you get (mostly) clean water spilling on the floor if you insist on flushing a blocked toilet multiple times.
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Black Sabbath effectively invented heavy metal and anyone who denies that is just trying push their own niche pet theory that nobody gives the slightest shit about.
SkoomaDentist
19d ago
On the rare occasions I wade back into reddit these days, I'm reminded how much lower quality the discourse there is in general. Arguing to win is the default, instead of arguing to understand. People will happily and uncharitably pounce on any minor mistake or misunderstanding they can in order to get a rhetorical edge.
It's not just reddit. Photography forums, musician forums and pretty much anything else that isn't either super strictly moderated or deals with super technical topics so that most users are far to the right of the bell curve.
SkoomaDentist
19d ago
This site is one of the few forums that doesn't make me constantly go "Why the fuck is everyone a bunch of retards who are violently opposed to even trying to get facts correct or using their brain?"... Like sure, there are idiots also here but not to the massively overwhelming extent that is the norm pretty much everywhere else. And I'm not even talking about anything politically related.
conversely, teaching econ to an anthro major won't go well because the anthro major won't have any intuition for calculus
Do econ majors have any actual intuition for calculus either?
A long running joke where I live has been that one degree program in a local technical university is ”business studies for people who know math”.
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
No, really! She was carving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given to her by Svenge, her brother-in-law.
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
A moose once bit my sister.
SkoomaDentist
24d ago
Said no competent engineer outside software engineering.
SkoomaDentist
24d ago
You have to be able to find the drone and guide the loiterer close enough fast enough.
SkoomaDentist
25d ago
Pretty sure you meant to write ”does not constitute”.
What’s stopping the development of drones with video recording that feeds into AI and surveils for incoming enemy drones? Ai should be able to determine if something is a drone from visual signature + movement.
Because surveillance drones are small and practically invisible in a wide angle view from distance. Realtime (or near realtime) computer vision operates at surprisingly low resolutions and only ”zooms in” once it has identified the area that has the target object.
I did a quick test with a camera and assuming a 20 MP sensor (possibly slightly optimistic) and typical DJI drone lens, a drone size target at 100 meters away would fill roughly an area around 20x20 pixels size - and that’s when fully digitally zoomed in!
You know how the stereotypical bird photographer carries a huge ass lens that resembles a bazooka in size? There’s a reason for that and it’s called ”small target far away” (except no bird photographer would imagine getting a good shot from 100 meters away even with a massive lens)
SkoomaDentist
25d ago
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SkoomaDentist
28d ago
EU telling phone manufacturers to stop making proprietary phone chargers when USB exists
Strictly speaking EU hasn't forbidden proprietary phone chargers. They've only mandated that phones must also support USB-C charging. Of course for phones this is in practise meaningless but it's quite relevant for some other devices covered under the same directive.
SkoomaDentist
28d ago
If Marxism does not work in practice, it doesn't matter how elegantly his theory is postulated
Ah, but you don't understand. Nobody has yet tried True Marxism! /s
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
Back in the reddit times, the only truly consistent thing was that a large majority of The Motte user base was anti-woke.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
Truly, the youth of today are uncivilized barbarians.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
Do people even bother calling rats invasive?
They do on islands where they are an invasive species destroying the local ecosystem, such as in New Zealand.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
How would I change the button colors?
I can never see if I’ve pressed the downvote button for a comment but have no such issue with the upvote button. I assume it’s because someone assigned stupid color to it.
SkoomaDentist
1mo ago
With games it’s tricky because the set of your players who are mastery-oriented are going to overlap a lot with the set of loyal fans who set the culture and promote your brand, so you can’t suppress them and you will end up being disproportionately affected by their vision whether you like it or not.
Not to mention that quite often such players infest even non-gaming forums (including The Motte!) and viciously attack anyone who suggests that the non-competitive version of the game (usually the single player campaign) should not be held to the same artificial limitations put there for the competitive players (eg. making RTSes depend heavily on actions per minute because the player AI has been intentionally left braindead).
Let’s just say that I used to work as a developer for a large German company. Note past tense.
For the first year I could only install new software or drivers by making an official request and having the Indian IT support do it via remote access. You can imagine how well this worked for embedded systems development where you regularly need to use some new piece of external hardware or random IC manufacturer’s legacy software tool.
The best part? All of the daily work could have been done on a rando, burner laptop as email, team chat, source repositories and build system were all in external cloud services. Literally the only things I actually needed intranet access was to put my hours into the SAP system once per month.
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