[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 17 points 3 weeks ago

US forest service cuts thousands of jobs. Not to worry, the bright hackernews are on it! just install an AI data center in the forest!. Seriously though, I can't tell if this is brilliant satire or not.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago

best we can do is 100 free chatgpt queries per month. If you can't make a living from that you need to catch up.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nope, actually this used to work but the genius computer scientists at Boeing put the cockpit in a random place around the cabin, thwarting most pilot overwrite attacks.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago

ooh can I play? A species' or race's intelligence can be reasonably defined by how rapidly it extracts resources from the surrounding area.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

It's pretty on-brand for a techbro to search for answers in what they see as "the code" (genome) while ignoring the entire rest of the fucking world.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

huh, I looked into the LLM for compression thing and I found this survey CW: PDF which on the second page has a figure that says there were over 30k publications on using transformers for compression in 2023. Shannon must be so proud.

edit: never mind it's just publications on transformers, not compression. My brain is leaking through my ears.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago

I don’t like AI hype either but I don’t feel the need to use Lobsters to rally groups of people to mass punish projects who add optional AI-friendly features. That is quite disturbing.

ok. I tried writing something sarcastic and sneery but alas, I don't think I can mock this person hard enough to satisfy my ethical obligation.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

the divide is too deep. Algorithmic content and garbage education got us here, kumbaya let's all be friends ain't getting us out.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 22 points 6 months ago

Ben Gomes is the counterfactual. I get the feeling you didn't actually read anything.

You have a lot of growing up to do.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago

Dude couldn't invert a binary tree in an interview and so couldn't get a job, allegedly.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago

no, haven't you heard? Great minds discuss IDEAS not PEOPLE. You're basically a Vogue cover article if you even dare delve into networks of powerful people beyond taking them at face value.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A reminder that Rationalists have absolutely No Fucking Clue what they're talking about when it comes to quantum mechanics, and this is evident from the very top.

Here is their prophet's, Eliezer Yudkowsky's, brilliant writings on QM: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5vZD32EynD9n94dhr/configurations-and-amplitude

In this stunning vindication of Dunning-Kruger, EY sets up a thought experiment of a photon being ejected at a half-silvered mirror. Then, he realizes that QM is formulated with complex numbers, so he decides to shoehorn them by imagining a "computer program" that computes the result of the experiment and using the complex numbers as the internal state (because he read somewhere that a wave function is a complex-valued function). From there, he goes on to realize that he needs to actually justify the use of complex numbers, so he drops the fact that multiplying the "internal state" by i represents the photon turning 90 degrees (what?! yes, multiplying by i rotates complex numbers by 90 degrees but this has literally nothing to do with the direction the photon travels, what the ACTUAL fuck am I reading?)

I seriously want to pull my hair out after reading this asinine nonsense. MIT OCW's QM course is extremely accessible to anyone with a decent high-school math education but these chucklefucks' need to prove to themselves that they're smart supercedes any process of actual learning.

edit because I can't stop sneering: "wave function collapse" is purely born of the Copenhagen interpretation which EY rails against as ridiculous (which, admittedly, isn't a totally unpopular opinion for real physicists to have). This is, of course, 100% lost on SBF.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

sinedpick

joined 1 year ago