SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
GitHub submissions always have an element of flexing and self-actualisation (the "become the best stamp collector in Sheffield" type of male hierarchy climbing pursuit)
What do you think is driving useful research if not just that?
Someone just going with the flow isn't going to email their prof with "I've been trying to solve this open research problem but got stuck two thirds of the way, do you maybe have some pointers..." followed with publishing several papers before even considering PhD studies (like I did way back in the day).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
More importantly, what tools are people now using for expert level code that isn't trivial Javascript / Python boilerplate or doesn't interface to trivial apis using such languages?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
I would have actually expected slightly more just based on the ratio I saw while working in a university lab 20 years ago but not massively so. Certainly nothing close to 30%. Once you account for how the number of useful papers are divided between publishing researchers (something resembling the usual 80-20 thing), the result I got isn't all that surprising.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
I have a directory of some hundreds of dsp papers from the last 20-30 years I’ve accumulated over time and I’ve at least browsed through if not outright read every single one of them. The number of papers with a female first or second author is less than ten. The ratio has been similar in other subfields of electrical engineering I’ve read papers and books from.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
24d ago
I rest my (and your) case.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
24d ago
Women aren't banned from education today or for the last 50 years in Western countries.
50? Make that 70. Quite a bit more than that for some countries. Eg. the first engineering degree to a woman in Finland was awarded in 1905.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
26d ago
I believe I speak for much of the community here when I say the answer to every one of your questions is: ”Yes”.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
27d ago
How do those countries handle cases of "odd jobs" and stuff like that? If you're a farmer that makes money by, I dunno, selling grain, how does the government know how much was sold? Or if you sell goods/services direct to consumers?
A farmer already has a business, so those would be handled the same way as any other business transactions. Selling small scale goods / services requires reporting the income if it exceeds a small threshold, but that's still fairly easy and can be done online. If it's more substantial, you may want to start a business. There are also services for people who do occasionally freelancing gigs that charge a small percentage fee to act as their official employers, so the client doesn't have to deal with paperwork and the person doesn't have to deal with the extra complexity of starting up a business.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
28d ago
It should have been (and in some ways was!) the scandal of the century. All the more reason such mistake (giving a US president an entirely premature Nobel peace prize) shouldn't be repeated.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
29d ago
giving it to trump also seems very premature
Not least because it's awarded for deeds done before the year 2025. How exactly did Trump advance peace in 2024 when he wasn't even a president?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Your premise is faulty. Most LLM front-ends have memory or instruction features. You can literally make sure it remembers your preferences and takes them into account by default.
No, it isn't. I'm not talking about remembering a bunch of explicit instructions or preferences. I'm talking about learning in the way a competent person goes from a newbie to a domain expert. That is completely missing in LLMs. No matter how much I guide an LLM, that doesn't help it generalize that guidance because LLMs are static snapshots. And if your answer is "but GPT-6 will totally have been trained better", then why on earth would I waste any time whatsoever with GPT-5?.
Like I said I have no use for or desire to be saddled with an annoying intern, whether a human or an LLM.
If you're trying to force everyone to use the solution you like, you better be damn sure your solution actually works for them instead of constantly resorting to "no, you're just using it wrong".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
You can always ask followup questions, demand citations, or chase those up yourself.
Riddle me this: Why the fuck would I want to deal with an entity which requires me to do that and never learns enough so I won't have to anymore?
It's like being saddled with a particularly annoying intern for no reason at all.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Nah. It’s mämmi and we embrace it.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
The Motte world domination 2025.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
One obvious potential explanation: Gay men don't have to care about what women think of them.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
blames other women who show off the goods for free for making men want that kind of sex.
Just wait a year or three until the free image and video models manage to combine decent prompt understanding with uncensored training material and stock up on popcorn.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
No, Hestia does not have to be a generic big titty asian girl.
Agreed. Small tits are underrated!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Even Ulyssessword came up with several as he was disproving me.
You and I clearly have a very different idea for what counts as "great". Those are the most lukewarm "great" takes I've seen in a long while.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
You have gained +5 to neuroticism
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Things get spicier when you notice that there are modern groups whose moral guidance with outsiders is remarkably similar and what the effects of that are. Further discussion of that is probably best left for the culture war thread.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
IIRC, the usb spec has always required that any compliant usb port can withstand an infinite short circuit of any pin to any pin without damage.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
10 pounds? Those are rookie numbers, son.
Unfortunately.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
What the hell is ”CRA”? Googling mostly turned up Cyber Resiliency Act and something from Canada.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
You keep spelling that with one too few *'s, you know...
I have no advice to share but I request, nay, demand that you write an extensive report after you have recovered from the event. For science, of course.
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