OhNoMoreLemmy

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OhNoMoreLemmy ,

If yud just got to the point, people would realise he didn't have anything worth saying.

It's all about trying to look smart without having any actual insights to convey. No wonder he's terrified of being replaced by LLMs.

OhNoMoreLemmy , (edited )

Not these ones. They're automatically generated so the computer that creates them will already know what the string is meant to be. You don't need human annotations to use these kinds of capcha as training data.

This is just a road block. They're designed to inconvenience spammers so you get less spam to delete.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Lone skum.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

It's worth saying that ml is in a very different position to most of academic publishing.

All of the serious journals are free to publish and fully open access and a significant amount of publication includes enough code that things are mostly replicable. GitHub has done wonders for our field. Also many tech companies use publications as an indication of prestige and go out of their way to publish stuff.

We're still drowning in too many papers and 95% of everything is shit, but that's every field really. Talking to musk on twitter is the not right place for a nuanced discussion about publication.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

the UI conversation around git has been going on long enough (here included) that there has to have been a significant global productivity cost due to the lack of a better UI.

I don't think this is true.

Git is ugly and functional.

People love to complain about it being ugly, but it does what it's meant to. If there was actually a persistent productivity hit from its interface, one of the weird wrappers would have taken off, and replaced it.

But the truth is, those wrappers all seem to be written by people learning to use git in the first place, and just get abandoned once they get used to it.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Work socks as well.

They're socks that go with construction boots. Basically the same as hiking socks but cheaper.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Both. It's like the saying "Governing a big country is like cooking small fish." (With the explanation that if you keep poking it, it'll disintegrate) also taught me how to cook fish as well as realpolitik.

The fish advice was most useful.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel, an IBM employee and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[9][10] The synonym self-teaching computers was also used in this time period.[11][12]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

It wasn't so much stolen as taken back.

New Study Links Complex Jobs to Reduced Risk of Dementia ( scitechdaily.com )

A cohort study found that individuals who engaged in mentally stimulating jobs during their 30s to 60s were less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia after turning 70, highlighting the importance of cognitive stimulation during midlife for maintaining cognitive function in old age....

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

The title of the actual paper includes "Occupational Cognitive Demand" which is a lot more on point.

Doesn't need to be fun, doesn't need to be interesting, just needs to be hard.

Accountancy has a fairly high cognitive demand, but calling it stimulating is a stretch.

What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?

It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)...

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Ok but if you're at a bus stop, and the bus is just coming round the corner into sight, you can say "this bus" even though it's not parked up yet.

Same thing with this Friday. If it's close enough to be in mind, you can use this.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Yeah, debugging tests is an important part of test driven development.

You also have to be careful. Some tests are for me to debug my code and aren't part of the 'contract'.

But on the other hand, it's really nice. If I spend a couple of hours debugging actual code and come out of the process with internal tests, the next time it breaks, the new tests make it much easier to identify what broke. Previously, that would have been almost wasted effort, you fix it and just hope it never breaks again.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

He's the president of the fucking Heritage Foundation. That makes him the head of one of the most influential political organisations in the country.

That's much more important than what his PhD was on.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Yes, it makes it much worse. It is absolutely a serious plan and you should worry about it.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/heritage-foundation/

They've created substantial policy for Regan, Clinton, and Trump. You should also pay attention to the shear amount of money they have. They spend 80 million plus in a year on lobbying.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

I'm surprised they found that there is no evidence that using these platforms is "rewiring" children’s brains. Wasn't it shown that social media companies base pretty much their entire technical decision making on psychologically conditioning not just children's brains but everyone who uses it?

Not really. There's a difference between things being sticky and actually altering the brain.

Yeah, we spend more time on social media than we intend, but I also take longer to get up in the morning than I'd like. The big question is does this alter the rest of my behaviour, or my mental state, when I'm not doom scrolling or refusing to leave my duvet?

That's a much harder question to answer, and the evidence is a lot more mixed.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Wow. The map doesn't even match their own table underneath it (check out the UK, which is yellow in the table and dark red in the map).

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

It's good for anything that has thousands of examples on stack overflow.

For example, every time I end up trying to work with pandas, I always forget the syntax and it's generally good here.

Anything unusual, or that is sufficiently complicated that I wouldn't be able to Google for, and just forget it.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Honestly it's good.

Trump is not going to stop embezzling from the campaign, and the more people point out the problems the more chance there is that the republicans start infighting, and donors drop out.

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts ( www.nbcnews.com )

Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok. ...

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

How fucked up would it be if your actual town square was owned by a private company?

You have just invented malls. Hugely damaging to society, but they come with convenient parking and air con.

I quite like the tag line X, the abandoned shopping mall of the internet.

I think it describes it well.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

The UK food standards authority says there are more people in hospital because of improved detection.

Jesus fucking Christ, pre Johnson this would be a resigning issue, now it's just business as usual.

What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?

So I've realized that in conversations I'll use traditional terms for men as general terms for all genders, both singularly and for groups. I always mean it well, but I've been thinking that it's not as inclusive to women/trans people....

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Is buddy really a problem?

I'd be more worried that someone thinks I'm treating them like a dog, than a man.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

It's still an interesting question. Why was this a civil case rather than criminal?

And there's no great answers. Basically a lot of it comes down to civil being easier to win and a safer bet than criminal proceedings.

https://apnews.com/article/crime-new-york-lawsuits-manhattan-bb0b240218679e38f59b6fe28566272c

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

It's the plural form.

One axis, two axes.

https://www.splashlearn.com/math-vocabulary/geometry/axis-plural-axes

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

The take-home is that the US immigration procedure is so inhumane that even the fucking Cato institute thinks it's a bit much.

OhNoMoreLemmy , (edited )

So for most people royal mail is not particularly competitive for parcels.

They're great for letters, and if you live somewhere that's hard to get to they are often the only option for parcels. But for most people, most deliveries from Amazon etc won't come via them. Instead they'll come via much cheaper and crappier private companies.

That's for two reasons. 1. Because royal mail has to deliver everywhere for a similar price, the prices for easy destinations are more expensive and subsidize people living in hard to reach locations. 2. They pay their staff an actual salary rather than per package delivered.

So you have a parcel operation that can't make money because it is stuck with uniform pricing across the country, and a letter business which used to make money but is slowly dying.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

My favourite thing about this is that most of the AIs like chatgpt and its copycats use Reddit as a source of data.

Then they make shit up, sound confident, and mislead people.

All it needs to do is also repeat the same four tired memes, and it would be a high karma user.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

But if it kills everyone, it can be fair.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Having freedom and drive to do whatever you want is great, even if that means you spend a bunch of time just fucking about and getting high and watching TV.

On the other hand, a lot of the people that are dropping out like this are actually just depressed. They look like they're doing the same thing, but they're actually just self medicating and it sucks for them.

For some of these people, getting up and out the house, being forced to do a bit of exercise, and talk to people can help with minor depression.

OhNoMoreLemmy ,

Ok but LinkedIn and Facebook don't have a duty to broadcast what you want all over the internet.

They don't need consent not to share personal information, only to share it.

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