j4k3

j4k3 , 22 days ago

Not one of my pronouns. Never been in a tank. I don't even own a tank top. It sounds like a sophomoric pejorative neologism. Why would I adopt such a label? No.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Basically a pinhole camera. The lens is doing the same thing as your eyeball. If your eye can see it, so can the lens.

j4k3 OP , 2 months ago

ꞃᴔ ⅟

j4k3 OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Like at 7:04 you might think of July 4th. All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock (e: if you're using mmdd). I'm asking if your pattern recognition software is picking up on such a meaningless correlation and giving it some pleasant side effect or if that is not a very common mental connection.

j4k3 OP , 2 months ago

Yeah, but neither makes sense any more. I use yymmdd in my default file naming for natural sorting hierarchy. I just don't think in that context. I guess that makes this post an interesting reflection from a couple of extra angles.

Our US 3 digit area codes for phone number regions are likely not really paralleled elsewhere in the world either. It's interesting all the little cultural subtleties that shape the mind.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Not enough cow bell

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Also pager related fatalities in 2023.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Open source 8×7B sexbot LLM:

Question: Translate this to English please: "Quando tutto Sara privato saremo privati di tutto"
Answer: "When everything is private we will be deprived of all." (This sentence expresses concern for a society in which everything - from natural resources or public utilities, even basic needs like water and air - are turned over to the private sphere. The fear is that this would lead people to become impoverished as essential goods may not be available at affordable prices.)

I don't know. I must be getting old cause nerdy girl cardboard granny is starting to look kinda hot.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

I'm glad you're here regardless

I think one of the things we need is more transparency about the real numbers of daily users. Dot world stopped showing this info, but dot ml has it.

Judging by the numbers on ml and what I know from various instances, I bet we are peaking at less than 5k active daily users. Of those probably 1/3 - 1/2 are actual daily users and the rest are weekly or monthly users. It is that last set weekly/monthly users that are published as total numbers. This is inflated to our perspective as a regular community. How many times do you see an interaction a week or month after a post you've made? I certainly don't see many. So to me that implies all of these folks are primarily lurkers. If that assumption is mostly correct, we have to split our numbers around the world in order to account for how many people are present at any one time.

If we take all that into consideration, those of us that are on regularly at routine times are likely interacting with the same few hundred people daily. The best we can do is be there for each other for support and ready for anyone new that wishes to join the community.

Honestly, I don't think this is all that different than most social media platforms. Like for a long time the Newpipe app would show a view count they were scraping from the YT website and showing it in the view history. Everything I watch was at like 5-15 views despite never watching anything more than once. I fully expect that was the number YT publishes for each view (every person is 5-15 views). I fully expect all of these social reward metrics like views and votes are fudged and they are all smaller communities than the claims.

If we are so small on Lemmy, that means most of the avid users are watching the All feed. That makes the probability of seeing any given post even lower because if the person was not on within a 6-12-24 hour window of the post, they are unlikely to see it.

I view all of us more like a large collective with mostly superficial communities. I'm happy you're here, and anyone else that wants to be positive and build community.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Depends on how you do relationships. Like for me, I need a long time to really get over someone and like long term relationships, so I wouldn't.

IMO, I never have looked to date. I don't even know how that works. I just live my life and if someone I encounter is interesting great, if no one is, that is fine too. I have to be happy as just me doing me things to be happy with someone else that does someone else things and maybe meet them in the middle. Otherwise it is going to end ugly.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Don't stress about time. All of that is in your head, I promise. Like, I got hit by a car riding a bicycle to work 10 years ago and disabled in a weird way where my only limitation is holding posture. I'm in near social isolation but home life is almost normal-ish. I know I have nothing to offer anyone so I don't bother trying. You can function like this. If you were in prison or disabled, you would be forced to make the best of the situation. It is not the end of the world; not easy, but not the end of the world.

I used to say, never ask for what you are unwilling to give in a relationship, and never expect more than you have to offer. It was a brutal perspective for my present circumstances, but it is still just as true. The most loving gift I can give a future potential love is to never go looking for them. To never put them through what I am experiencing and will eventually experience. I don't know them and never will, but that is the best gift I can give them.

So the question you're asking is not really the right one in my opinion. You should be asking if you would value the situation and how you would act if the roles were reversed.

I had a partner once that thought she was doing this same thing, about to move away in a couple of months. Then she met me and I flipped her priorities in life completely for the next 2 years. You may find a similar dilemma if you choose to meet someone. So, would you date you even if you baited yourself into a long distance situation?

j4k3 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

The question is directed at you to your inner self. I am saying try to step outside of your inner voice's first person consciousness; like you are the objective third person narrator of your life and interactions with others. From this perspective, you can see many things more clearly. This region of the mind is the location of "hindsight is twenty twenty."

None of us can objectively enter this third person perspective in the present or the future easily. In my mind I can picture something like a computer game. It could be Mario, Zelda, Warcraft; any game where the player controls the character from a third person perspective.

Once you have this image in your mind; yourself on a screen in a game, it is not much more of an abstraction to change characters in the game. Now, in the game you write the narrative of your ideal partner; the person you are hoping this meet. Put yourself into the mind of that character like you've been playing as them in this game of life every day for years. What are your goals, where are you at in life, what do you want and need out of that relationship, etc.; become them in abstract within your mind.

Now, insert an encounter between the ideal partner you are playing and your inner self in this game. You hit it off well and enjoy spending time together. After a few casual dates, things evolve into feelings. Your game character gets to the point of infatuated addiction when suddenly the opposing character tells you that they have plans to leave the area, and that they had known about this all along.

I can't continue this story for you without inserting my biases (more than I already have). Only you can answer if this kind of situation would bother you in practice. I am telling you that, the only way to know what is right or wrong for you, is if you can be objectively honest with yourself and assess the situation from a third person narrative perspective. If you can step back and say, "if someone did this to me, it would not bother me at all" then go ahead and do it. If the opposite is true, you will feel guilty in the end because your emotions and logic are in conflict. That inner conflict will eventually manifest as an external issue, likely through a mechanism called cognitive dissonance until it is resolved.

I had a particularly hard time with the feelings you have mentioned; feeling that need to be in a relationship. It was more of an issue when I was in my early to mid twenties (in my late 30's now). I think a lot of that feeling of need is the withdraw that accompanies shifting from life in school to adult life. I really wish someone had been able to tell me that humans are not cognitively fully formed until age 25 when the prefrontal cortex is fully formed. That is one factor, while introversion and extraversion are another major contributor. I'm introverted, so it is easier for me to be independent. I still have social needs, but I can fill those with places like here. Anyways, in retrospect, the person I was in my early to mid twenties, the one that thought he needed a relationship to be happy, he didn't actually know himself very well. He was looking for himself in the wrong places. The things he learned that allowed him to mature and grow were many, but some were, an enjoyable daily exercise routine, a regular reading habit, and allowing his curiosity to run wild into interests.

I could spend hours writing about that journey, but in a sentence, this is where I found myself and who I really am. The growth that came from this chapter of my life was immense and I am so glad that I wasn't struggling through that with someone else that may have had a shorter book or some different chapters in life. What I'm trying to say is that, you may find yourself in a similar vain if you take the time to get to know yourself.

Everything in life is just brain chemistry. In other words, everything about the human experience is a managed addiction. From the food you eat, to your circadian rhythm, to work, play, cleaning, reading, and relationships, it is all fundamentally a managed addiction. Your metabolic rate and its day to day average consistency will determine a lot about how you feel. If you engage in an endurance exercise daily, it will largely remove several inconsistencies related to what when and how you eat and sleep. This will balance hormones and becomes a major endorphin source. For me it was cycling, and still is in limited form. That will give you the emotional independence you need in order to explore yourself more. It takes 2 months to work your way into a solid routine that will then slowly shift and become harder to quit than it is to continue.

You do you. I'm just telling you what worked for me and explaining it like I am talking to my former self, and assuming you are of a similar age and mind. Those are big assumptions, so sorry if they miss the mark.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

It is a more nuanced issue than this and a bit naive as well, if I can be blunt and still say; friend, I cared enough to read and comment.

The next most probable token is not related to hallucinations as described. This is like saying statistics is worthless because it doesn't give absolute answers.

AI can mean a great many different architectures and all have different strengths, weaknesses, and issues. The best way I can relate current LLM's is the early days of the microprocessor. There were a lot of issues and limitations to work through. Eventually companies like Sun made some really capable and powerful machines after the first few generations of microprocessors. These devices became much more complex with time; integrating many peripheral devices. Many systems used several microprocessors in a single machine when it wasn't cost prohibitive. If you have a computer in the last few generations, you have around twenty very similar microprocessors all working together on the same chip.

AI is presently at that early stage. It is a useful fundamental tool, but by itself it is not very remarkable. The innovations in the peripheral space are where things get interesting. The way these innovations get integrated and the way the complexity multiplies over time will follow a similar curve as the microprocessor.

There is and will be lots of misuse and failed companies over time, but the technology will continue. This is an inevitable future and it will never go away.

When someone talks about hallucinations, it means the model is outside of alignment. The complexity of the model and its bias is the largest factor. In many ways this is why the the proprietary AI models will fail eventually. Open Source, offline models are the future of AI for text. An 8×7B unfiltered research model hallucinates far less than others and does not involve the massive amount of data that can be collected an inferred by proprietary AI. The majority of hallucinations are due to user input errors that are not accounted for in the model tokenizer and loader code. This is just standard code errors. Processing every possible spelling, punctuation, and grammar error is a difficult task. The next probable token is not simply a matter of the probable vector in the dataset. If the input contains a rare error the output will be in the style of a foolish error. This is not a hallucination. It is responding in the style it was addressed. If the user does not have control of the entire text inside the present context, aka previous questions and answers, the style of "stupid error" will likely remain persistent. It is still not an error, it is just a mirror. Indeed this is the greatest analogy. AI is like a mirror of yourself upon the dataset. It can only reflect what is present in the dataset and only in a simulacrum of yourself through the prompts you generate. It will show you what you want to see. It is unrivaled access to information if you have the character to find yourself and what you are looking for in that reflection.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

I use the tech every day. Good luck with your echo chamber. You are a statistical inevitability. Time will teach you far more than I care to.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Everything will be consumed by the US election and whatever conflict arises as a result. This will result in the first organized broader scope violence since the 1860's. I expect a Kennedy level conspiracy type event that will shape the next decade or more. Getting the guy out of office resulted in a failed coup, and the man is not in jail or dead. That alone shows that the country is dead in the water. This is like Brexit; fuck around and find out how much worse in can be. It was the same with Hitler. Inaction makes it worse because it emboldens monsters. Either way, now is the time to become a tin foil hat vender.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Fart jingles.

*ba da bu ba ba ^double arches^

New timeline plot for the bidet...

the fuck?! my Throne of Thor has HDMI?!

j4k3 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I can't move my comments and history with me to another instance; only my settings and subscriptions follow.

Sublinks. You whine and make excuses but didn't make pull requests with good code, and now you are trying to tank the largest instance. Very Spez move of you.

I want nothing to do with your casus belli

j4k3 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It was MASSIVELY disappointing to see .world go down the path of announcing the intentions of instability with unnecessary change. It was the single most damaging move possible for Lemmy all because of stupid people's anti community politics and people that can't figure out Rust as far as I can tell.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

It was things said in the comments of that post and reading between the lines. I think the change is inevitable and already decided. The main active admin of .world is working on sublinks. That is enough for me to view time spent on building community on .world as a waste. If it was the other way around and they were coding in Rust and the Lemmy base was in js or whatever, maybe I'd think differently, but everything I've seen is a massive red flag saying sinking ship, or at least I'm on the wrong ship and regret the time spent there now. A lot of people left already. I have my other accounts, but had never made a .ml until recently in an attempt to start making sure communities were shared across larger instances, but I guess it was well timed to make the shift.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Can I get a piracy playlist? Where Napster at?

I bought almost every CD mentioned but own none of them now.

• Incubus - Fungus Amongus
• Alice in Chains MTV Acoustic Album
• Metallica, Nirvana, Van Halen, Scorpions
• Disturbed, System of a Down, SlipNOT, Korn
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton, etc. too

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Roku just announced they are going out of business the slow way.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

We would be ~1000 years in the future right now without Abrahamic faiths.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Talked about this a ton with an LLM a couple months back. The thing is, there was never an alternative that captured a similar psychotic zealotry. All groups have their faiths throughout the same eras, but none match the exported hate, murder, and industrial scale slaughter of other humans like the Abrahamic faiths. Confusion Monks never invaded France. Buddhists never occupied Scandinavia. The hate, death, and constant conflict of the Abrahamic faiths are the absolute most toxic and harmful aspect of all of humanity. The most deadly conflict since WW2 has been in Africa over the last few years. Most of the west isn't even talking about this. It is a Abrahamic in origin. Gaza is the same. It has all been like this for 2500 years of constant killing. Other places had minor issues, but they never exported and in the present, these others are mostly in decline. If you take away the Abrahamic faiths, I bet all are gone in half a millennia. The man was as schizophrenic as the nations and peoples he left in his wake. Taming the ghost of the worlds most psychotic killer changes everything for the better.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Never on boats across seas and continents. Nowhere on earth now is really safe from the history and influence of colonialism. All of those expeditions carried a strong religious underpinning that was the primary capital motivation in case of loss. Myanmar is no exception. All of it only happened because it was underpinned by religious bullshit. Many cultures were motivated by trade in the past but none of those that only cared for trade ever had the kind of history of death accompanied by Abrahamic faiths. This is the primary commonality with all of the worst acts in human history in one form or another. Shedding this one awful thing would be the largest positive change possible. Abrahamic faith is the single greatest disease in all of history.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

The one that stays quiet, gives the benefit of the doubt in all possible circumstances, never takes action when involved in the conversation personally, and can objectively set themselves aside before taking action as a mod; the mod that is invisible to everyone that matters and takes the actions that a distinct majority support.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

It's the blue tie. It chokes them out like a wood stake in a vampire's heart. He looks like a traffic cone under a blonde turd in a red tie.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

I honestly love the way Alexandrite does the interface on Lemmy.world. I used photon for awhile too, but the way Alexandrite does voting made a positive overall experience that was more pleasant long term, (a.Lemmy.world & p.lemmy.world). Alexandrite simply ignores the down vote count and displays the total. Overall negativity is not clearly seen unless the count goes below zero.

Long term this makes a more positive overall experience across the spectrum of emotions in real life, especially for someone struggling through disability. The only way I would change this is to add a negative vote view in the ... extras.

j4k3 , 2 months ago

Ticking for what exactly?