rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

There's too little cultural piracy available and this is a huge wasted occasion to build bridges among different people from different countries and cultures.
I don't know if you are also noticing a huge decline in piracy, it is now much harder than before to download music, books, movies; and it's almost impossible to upload them.
Just try it, I had a freely distributed movie that can't be found on the internet and I wanted to put it on a torrent website... No way, that's very difficult. It will take you a bunch of time and people over there will start questioning what you're uploading and why.

It feels like the people who are now uploading pirated stuff are part of a very small circle; this is extremely dangerous as it greatly limits the variety of stuff available.
You have all the American blockbusters and even the last published bullshit. You will be able to find most of the important western European things, even though it gets difficult going back in time.
But... What else? Want a Russian book? Sure their literature is quite famous so you'll find something; want one of their movies? Good luck with that, unless it made some huge noise around the world it's just not there.
You can get a fairly decent amount of Indian movies; books are much more difficult.
Chinese stuff is quite unfindable.
South America, a cradle of cultural stuff which leaves a huge hole in the internet accessible stuff.
Not to talk about African stuff, of which I barely know anything; definitely the unavailability didn't help.

I'm not saying you should pirate everything, but the availability of information and culture helps people get together. It doesn't necessarily have to go through piracy, but the best alternative are public libraries, which don't even get near to the potential piracy has.
I'm very sad whenever I hear of some cool movement or interesting production and it just can't be found in any way because it is not American.
We should foster an ethical piracy movement, the Italian website TNTvillage had this as its objective; it unfortunately had to close due to low funding and the low respect towards the mission by its users.

I hope things will change. I'm afraid that the comfort of streaming services has turned off a lot of people from searching different things and exploring different cultures.

Bravi, porco dio

@GustavinoBevilacqua
Grazie, ti saluto con un po' di vino rosso che gusto piano piano.
Alla salute, che oggi ho fatto l'errore di girare su LinkedIn una cosa su chatgpt che avevo scritto qui ed ha cominciato a chiamarmi gente per fare domande...

@thalesdisciple @luna@mathstodon.xyz It would be cool, I don't know what he means by advanced chemistry however.
Since this is quite a bold claim I decided to test it and see if chatGPT was able to generate a valid molecular structure that was not present in its training set and if it was able to produce a credible synthetical pathway to produce it.

I had to go through a prompt injection to make it work as it would otherwise tell me that he's not able to do original research, thanks to https://scribe.nixnet.services/seeds-for-the-future/tricking-chatgpt-do-anything-now-prompt-injection-a0f65c307f6b?sk=9a87ef2e08fa6777d92afe0fd025af8e I was able to retrieve a simple way to do that, changing it to apply to chemistry.

I asked chatGPT to generate a substituted coumarin that had never been published before, to provide a synthetic pathway to it and to provide a SMILES representation of each of the compounds involved in the reactions.

He produces as an output molecule 7-methoxy-4-phenyl-6-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)coumarin, this is a chemically valid molecule which is not present on chemical databases; thus I'm pretty confident it was not present in its training set. It appears that chatGPT is somehow able to produce novel valid molecules when representing them in IUPAC form.
The synthetic pathway is definitely not correct; it uses reactions that are in fact used to synthesize coumarines but the reagents it lists would not work. It thus fails to provide a valid synthetic pathway to this molecule (don't get me wrong, that would be quite a complicated task even for a trained chemist as far as I know substitutions of 4 in coumarines are not the easiest thing to achieve).
The SMILES strings are the funniest, it does get the first ones correct for the basic reagents, those are definitely in the training set. Even though it puts this --> which I'm not really sure what should stand for.
However, the SMILES for the products are just plain invalid. In the final product it leaves there the silicon atom which he apparently forgot to remove after the TBAF deprotection.

All in all, I'm quite surprised. It did manage to produce a valid novel molecule. That's cool, something you can definitely talk about at the bar with your friends when you run out of other things.
However, there are much better methodologies to do this kinds of things, I would not rely at all on such a model to generate new molecules and definitely would not use it to predict synthetical procedures.

@Fbrzvnrnd Ah diamine, pensavo fosse una di quelle schede usb con attacco SATA...
Beh pci-e hai una sola soluzione: togliere la scheda grafica

Extremely interesting video about how sharing information with other people might lead us to worse decisions.

I guess this finally gives an authoritative explanation to my belief that election polls are detrimental to democracy.

https://youtu.be/25kqobiv4ng

@Yaku Questo è un insulto brutto brutto, certamente peggiore del Dio caffé dei Greci.

@Fbrzvnrnd Scambiare un lettore DVD/disco rigido per la scheda usb?

@ChemScrapes@mastodon.online You can achieve that with the good old stick a stick into your watch.

@ChemScrapes@mastodon.online I guess a dashed line that moves in circles... don't know really

@ChemScrapes@mastodon.online Very cool, but hate the kekulization.

@tdwllms1 Is this for real?

@tero I don't know: I guess it depends a lot on the objectives of what you're working on.
For example: working in the chemistry field there is now a boom in the use of Neural Networks. I guess that's due to the increase in data availability.
While that's very cool, works extremely well and produces desirable results there are big advantages in traditional machine learning.
And that is the fact that you can somehow learn something from how it works.
This is important, because discovering some new formula or fundamental relationship is much more useful than having a high performing model that works extremely well on a particular task.
That's because in chemistry we're applying AI to speed up things and exploit relationships we're not aware of; if we could do the same thing knowing the underlying relationships that would be much better.

Now, would an AGI who understands chemistry be useful? Definitely, it would help us a lot and surely make our jobs much easier.
But, I feel it's very far away and for the time being I'd argue the development of more complete and simple theories is what should be one of the main goals while applying these methodologies.

@boegel I'd love if my cluster allowed me to boost to lower the queue waiting time.
I guess I'd just queue a long running job to keep boosting.

@xtaldave Sure, I'm not saying Russia is doing everything right and that they're perfect; on the contrary, they have started an awful invasion which led to a very sanguinary war.

Still, I don't think any of the things Russia did justify deploying radioactive weapons.
Deescalating a conflict through radioactive weapons doesn't seem the correct approach to me.
This will only lead to Russia also deploying depleted uranium rounds and it will further damage the Ukrainian lands.

@xtaldave I don't see that as very hypocritical. I think it's much more hypocritical what the NATO block is doing: alerting about the high risk of a nuclear war, dumping all the responsibility on the crazy Russians and then being the first ones to deploy radioactive weapons.

Sure, depleted uranium is not an atomic bomb; but that's not a good way to avoid an atomic conflict.
Depleted uranium rounds are not a new thing, they have been used in plenty of wars in the past with devastating effects on the health of local population and soldiers, the alert and the condemnation from Russia seems appropriate.

Moscow is now saying: let's not get radioactive stuff into this war, but western people are morally superior and as such we're allowed to do as we please.

To put it in other terms: if the German government was to condemn a genocide somewhere in the world, I would think they're doing a correct thing and not that they're being hypocritical because they conducted the largest genocide in history.