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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
8hr ago
I don’t see this as all bad, to some degree everyone is acting. You don’t curse in front of grandma even if you do in other places. You don’t dress the same for work as you do to just hang out. As long as the character you play is something of a decent human being, it’s probably not harmful.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
8hr ago
Yeah I always categorized it as a name like Louis Freeh, a former FBI director
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
8hr ago
What do you do to get AI help with a large code base rather than a toy problem?
Two things mainly:
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Have a good prompt that has the nuances of the crappy, antiquated setup my work is using for their legacy systems. I have to refine this when it runs into the same sorts of errors over and over (e.g. thinking we're using a more updated version of SQL when we're actually using one that was deprecated in 2005).
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Play context manager, and break up problems into smaller chunks. The larger the problem that you're getting AI to do, the greater the chance that it will break down at some point. Each LLM has a certain max output length, and if you got even close to that then it can stop doing chain-of-though to budget its output tokens, which makes its intelligence tank. The recent Apple paper on the Tower of Hanoi demonstrated that pretty clearly.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
8hr ago
Twitter and Reddit both allow you to sort chronologically. I've just naturally stopped using most of the ones that don't have an option like that, such as Facebook and TikTok (I never got into TikTok in the first place, I bounced off hard). I also don't think "the algorithm" is necessarily always bad -- Youtube's recommended videos have exposed me to some truly excellent creators like Montemayor over the years. Sometimes I'll watch lower quality stuff like whatifalthist and my recommended will be populated by garbage for a bit, but that resolves itself after a week or so, and I could probably speed it up by marking those videos as things I don't want.
Ublock Origin blocks basically all ads, and is quite effective. I haven't noticed shills posing as users to be that much of a problem outside of stuff like porn.
thejdizzler
8hr ago
Can you link the video? Sounds like something I need to hear.
WhiningCoil
8hr ago
fight the dandelion infestation on your front lawn again (fuuuuuuuuuuuck)
I'm waiting for it to stop raining long enough to put down something for the crabgrass currently threatening to destroy the overseeding I did last fall. I feel your pain.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
My point was that any identity which can totalise will absorb literally all common symbols, of which the rainbow is one(literally every culture has given it a special meaning- the pagans thought it was a bridge for the gods to access the world, Christians think it’s a sign of God’s mercy, LGBT thinks it’s about diversity of deviant sexualities, South Africans think it’s about multiple races working together in harmony, etc etc), and this is unconnected to general cultural design trends.
gattsuru
8hr ago
Fair. My impression is that LASD has a lot of the same issues, but I'll admit I've got less current evidence on that.
gattsuru
8hr ago
I've tried turning off visibility of things like individual post scores, but that does just risk you changing to focus on notifications, instead. And given the extent twitter has driven people completely bonkers, that might be worse than the karma farming. There's always been worries about the masks we wear molding the face -- and even some theories about using that to improve ourselves -- but having the masks get molded in turn is Not Great Bob. And then what exactly it seems to be driving even the boring people toward is kinda disturbing.
You can do some efforts to de-algorithmify yourself, but that's only going to get the worst of it, and maybe not even that. And it's pretty incompatible with having a career or even a renumerative hobby online. Even some offline small business work is becoming increasingly hard to kick off without it. I'd like to advocate some level of in vino veritas, but a) I don't drink, and b) that doesn't seem to work great for those who pick it up. Trying to actively avoid collecting enough of a following maybe helps? But I dunno if that's just because I wouldn't notice the microscale examples of the trend, either.
The one bright spot is that Flanderization does, at least in part, reflect another trait specific to media, not people qua people. Ted Flanders didn't turn from slightly-religious neighbor into a fundie just because time's arrow flew, but also because the shows writers needed something new for each episode. "Simpsons Did It" is a problem for South Park, but it's also an issue for The Simpsons itself; even if most viewers won't recognize the psuedorerun, the show's staff and a lot of the commentariat will. If you have to get a column out for your tech column the weekend and three videos M/W/F, you start diving into this sorta A/B-to-death-testing because you don't have anything else, and the content doesn't have that much to start with.
For normal people, that doesn't quite work that way. Yes, history rhymes, and I'm probably one of the worst people on this site when it comes to bringing up ancient history from the long-ago days of two years ago. But anyone that hasn't let the mask embed into their skull can and probably will find something new because the world is filled with new stuff. Get a hobby, touch grass, fight the dandelion infestation on your front lawn again (fuuuuuuuuuuuck), talk about cooking.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8hr ago
I've always wanted to be able to refer to a family beach house.
Rov_Scam
8hr ago
Grey vinyl plank should have been banned before it ever hit the market. I think it had to do with that farmhouse kitsch thing that was popular a few years back. The thing that pissed me off about the whole trend more than anything else was that, having grown up in a semi-rural area, it looked nothing like any farmhouse I'd ever been in. I'm guessing that the grey is supposed to look like weathered wood? Except wood only looks like that if it's been outside for years, and wood from inside a house doesn't ever look like that. Luckily my house was built in the 1940s and has real hardwood, but if I didn't have it and couldn't afford to put it in, I'd at least pick something that imitates real wood. If it isn't already obvious from the material that it isn't real wood, I'm not going to let the color just give it away.
oats_son
8hr ago
If you really think that this is something that works empirically, it should be easy to design some studies that properly prove it. Has anyone done it? Or maybe there are too many confounding factors like true belief? If you fail to pray for something and it happens anyway, did God do it?
I'm perfectly happy to let Christians have their faith. I think it's healthy. But I really can't stand these kinds of outrageous claims about how prayer really works when it's been pretty clear that it does not work at all for years. If God only grants you specific, insignificant, entirely-taking-place-in-the-mental-realm prayers, can you say it's that useful, especially if something like stoicism grants you similar results? Is God pleased by secular stoicism? If we compared prayers made to God to prayers made to stoicism, what would the results look like?
quiet_NaN
8hr ago
the rainbow from God’s promise not to destroy the world again
When dealing with lawful entities such as YHWH, it is always good to read the fine print.
From Genesis 9, NIV:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. (My emphasis, not His.)
One does not need to be a rabbi or lawyer to not that He emphatically does not categorically promise not to destroy all life, just that he will not do so using floods.
TeknOShEeP
8hr ago
Some cursory searching indicates that the proper term for such strategies is "bonus hunting", not "arbitrage"
I would agree- arbitrage has a very specific technical definition that is not remotely equivalent to "free money". It gets abused often and is frequently used in get rich quick training course scams and the like.
You can execute an arbitrage strategy in gambling, but its much more likely to pop up in things like sports betting where you could buy the opposite sides of a result at different books under the right odds, ensuring a profit regardless of outcomes. Bookies are generally competent enough to avoid this situation though.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
8hr ago
Maybe you would know, but are there good “AI” piano music transcription models nowadays?
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
8hr ago
Only certain strategies, but there can sometimes be some fun dimensions especially when outnumbered to the Total War Troy or Pharoah games.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8hr ago
In the OKC area, I recommend both the American Pigeon Museum and the Museum of Osteology.
I keep seeing the latter show up in Wikipedia photos.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
8hr ago
In my perception it’s not so much that the Democrats have gone crazy it’s more that Republicans won the messaging war and also, tactically, tricked many Democrats into knee jerk reactions. Dems have always been praising the virtues of model minority immigrants and at times Reps too, that’s important background. Dems had a long history of wanting more “charitable” treatment for the poor or oppressed (whether you think this is a weakness or a strength is partly a values disagreement). We can’t act like this isn’t a recurrent historical position - see for example the Statue of Liberty poem about bringing America the poor and hungry and persecuted. (Immigration sentiment also historically has come in waves for and against)
So when Trump says some overtly racist things or does a Muslim bad etc., plus the college educated lens of viewing Trump pronouncements as facially and literally accurate rather than the directional pronouncements most voters actually hear, I think there was an overreaction. Dems operate partly on guilt and border security plays on that guilt. But again, although some politicians got tricked into saying and supporting poorly considered things in Trump backlash (hate to admit he could be right about anything) extending even to the Biden years still in the shadow of Trump, I’d view this as mostly organic rather than some actual pro-immigrant plot.
To be sure, there IS a subset of Democrats who legitimately feel greater allegiance to the globe and humanity as a whole than they do to the US, they are loud but this is often a minority and they don’t always get into authority positions.
I should also add that at least 3 times in the last 15 years we got extremely close to compromise with immigration bills, but they all failed to pass so in a very real way the problem got worse than normal. In that way, of course the rhetoric gets most extreme, because the problem is more extreme
quiet_NaN
9hr ago
I remember Scott posting some twitter screenshots which had the UI text turned to some East Asian language. When he was asked about it in the comments, he basically said that this was so that twitter would show him trending tweets in that language, with which he then would not engage because he could not read them.
Short of not having a twitter account, this is probably the best way to prevent the algorithm from tempting you with outrage bait.
oats_son
9hr ago
It's the idea that absolutely awful things can happen to you for reasons outside of your control at any time for many multitudes of reasons that were decided by seemingly nobody.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
9hr ago
From what I can find the term aphantasia was first coined as recently as 2015 in a paper titled Lives without imagery.. This despite the existence of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire or VVIQ which predated the 2015 study by 40+ years.
The Guardian article you've linked makes the point at the end:
Keane’s work was proof that you do not have to be able to picture something to be able to draw it. “People had conflated visualisation with creativity and imagination, and one of the messages is: ‘They’re not the same thing.’”
I wouldn't suggest that creativity and visualization are "the same thing" but I think to suggest that there is no correlation between the two is counterintuitive, and bears investigation.
In a 2020 study Quantifying Aphantasia through drawing Zeman et al found evidence that aphantasics have deficits im object memory (what something looks like, its color, shape, size, etc.) but not spatial memory (location, relative distance from other objects, directions, layouts) and in fact in some cases aphantasics outperformed non aphantasics in this regard.
Also there seems to be no real difference in an aphantasic's ability to draw what they see (eg a still life) rather than what they imagine (Medusa, a leprechaun, etc )
Train is arriving, have to cut this short. Thanks for engaging.
I sometimes wonder if I'm the last user who still goes to each user's personal page a specific subreddit when I want to see something.
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