Jezza! @jezza@qoto.org
Proper nutter.
Joined Jul 2023
@levisan "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx
@levisan but if you point that out to them, you're a sexist (or racist, nazi, etc.)
Please consider this parable:
https://gradypolcyn.medium.com/the-parable-of-the-donkey-and-the-tiger-11a4b0b9327c
🍍Pineapple
> Modern GUIs abandoned old hardware long ago. Even "lightweight" desktops demand resources that vintage PCs and embedded systems don't have. Pineapple brings windowed multitasking to machines with no FPU, limited RAM, and modest CPUs—think Mac System 1 meets Windows 1.0, but with TCP/IP networking. Designed for FreeDOS, the whole thing fits on a floppy.
@levisan an invitation to redefine neighbor to those with adjacent properties? :-)
@levisan even with thousands, sometimes you find The One. 🎄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHU99s793q8
Vapes on the sidewalk (use gloves) could well be your next electronics project...
https://github.com/schlae/VapeRE/
@realTuckFrumper so... exactly like Biden, except able to walk and talk?
@levisan given the timbre of the conversation, where people speak of AI as if it has agency, desire, and creativity, I don't think people understand that.
"AI" is also the wrong term, unless you mean Actually Indians. OCR is "AI", a proven and robust technology, but no one means OCR when they say "AI". No one says LLM to distinguish it, from, say, OCR... it's just "AI."
I'm not sure what use it (meaning mostly LLMs) has that it hasn't already proven itself abysmal at, from deleting user's hard drives to offering people deals that companies don't actually offer, to suggesting field telescopes as gun sites (all things I've seen in the last week and a half) it's just... not a thing.
The military's recent rollout of a specialized version of Gemini lead to crashes and lack of access even as personnel were urged to "integrate it into their battle rhythm", touting such amazing features for the soldier as... formatting documents.
To really make the LLM parlour trick work, like ELIZA of days past, it strokes the user and prompts them, mostly agreeing or affirming them. All the way to suicide, divorce, and erotic interaction.
I don't see what positive use it has, nor the justification for the energy, water, and space its consuming.
@levisan it is for a number of professions, and raises some serious questions about intellectual property.
Not that the movie studios and pop music industry haven't been doing their best, but it is almost almost guaranteed to be the death of originality or novelty of any kind (by definition.)
It is potentially the death, or a severe culling of designers, musicians (especially composers and producers), writers, editors, and so on.
If this had occurred in an age where people had taste, it would be a curiosity, but in an era where packages of coke emphasize elementary addition, it is a much bigger threat.
It remains to be seen what kind of "better" current engines might become, but I suspect that we'll either have an uncanny valley effect that separates the crap from the cream, or dumb everything down to make AI look competitive:
@levisan i find a distinct deficit of concern and sympathy for such people in myself, wishing them only flack until they grow a spine and thicker skin.
@levisan over a decade ago, one of my friends said in a very grave voice, "we don't call it 'Idiocracy', we call it The Prophecy."
That turned out to be... prophetic.
Once upon a time literacy meant you were familiar with the canon of western literature. Today, it means your lips move when you read a stop sign.
This has a parallel in mathematics where a problem like 15-3 requires a desperate plea to the AI oracle for an ever-growing percentage of the world's population.
Kyrie Eleison.
@Gina yeah. boycott a musical program. that will certainly teach them a scorching lesson that everyone will immediately forget and does literally nothing to Israel.
@levisan it's a good rule of thumb (referencing your grandfather clause question.)
@levisan it means, "i'm a new age flake and you can disregard pretty much anything i have to say."
@levisan anyone should be allowed to say anything they like, owing no justification for their choice of words to anyone if they're brave enough to manage any potential flack.
Also, beware folk etymologies that serve ideological purposes.
@levisan they believe that about walmart as well. People are generally stupid, emotionally driven, and via programming from public schools, allergic to mathematics to the point of mathematical illiteracy and almost complete lack of (literally) rational thinking.
Years ago, I lived in a place that had an existing walmart, and a new walmart opening up in a place that made my home the approximate midpoint between them.
They were the only stores of the type in the area, so I was there after housewares and similar occasionally.
I quickly noticed that the new store had much better prices, and soon learned that walmart sets prices low with many loss-leaders in new stores, and then slowly raises the store over a timeframe that approximates the time it takes to bankrupt existing local stores.
I suspect Target, Costco, and others have a similar MO.
As to mathematical illiteracy, I was at the gas station this morning and notice that they had 15-packs of coca cola, on the end of them "15 cans - 3 more cans than 12 pack."
FFS.
@levisan I'll take the hit: I believe gambling for money is morally wrong.
I don't mean penny stakes, but any case where actual money or meaningful stakes are on the line -- especially with children and young people.
it is my belief that gambling trains people towards associating euphoria with risk. It is also the case that those so trained are easy marks for financial predators (ic, "the house".)
The benefits are few: you might learn to pick on people's tells, and perhaps there's a social benefit, but at least half of that is also true of a crack house.
@levisan similarly, "fighting the Nazis in ww2" is a bit like Iran declaring war on the Republicans.
@gwensnyder.bsky.social seems very similar to the "words are violence" argument often heard from the left. Can you cite an example?
Proper nutter.
Joined Jul 2023
