I mean… yeah.

Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants “colonise the light cone by exploring latent space” type of delusional bullshit and I’m staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

cumputer*

You dropped this.

[–] dshan@mastodon.au 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@BlueMonday1984 I never thought I'd say this but, bring back Clippy!

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whilst we're at it, bring back Tamagotchi - they don't ruin the planet, and also they're cute

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

kintamagotchi

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

colonise the light cone by exploring latent space

Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don't understand it.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"

like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?