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myrryr··on Parents could get alerts if children show acute distress while using ChatGPT
Wow, the false positive rate on that will be interesting. from OpenAI's point of view, having it flood the parents with false positives is _way_ safer than having some slip past.

so needless to say....

myrryr··on Claude Research refuses to answer questions about cytotoxic mushrooms
> with Ophiocordyceps are the ants it infects "happy"?

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Yeah...... It's all kinda crazy.

myrryr··on LLM Inevitabilism
This is why once you are using to using them, you start asking them for there the plan goes wrong. They won't tell you off the bat, whuch can be frustrating, but they are really good at challenging your assumptions, if you ask them to do so.

They are good at telling you what else you should be asking, if you ask them to do so.

People don't use the tools effectively and then think that the tool can't be used effectively...

Which isn't true, you just have to know how the tool acts.

myrryr··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
UE is going to be amazing (It mean it already is, but WAY more so) once verse is integrated into it.

The "so, you have a choice of c++ or drawing lines between boxes" is missing a lot of middle ground :)

myrryr··on Artificial Intelligence Cheapens the Artistic Imagination (2023)
Yep, that is exactly what I was going for.
myrryr··on Artificial Intelligence Cheapens the Artistic Imagination (2023)
> The makers of these tools promise they will boost efficiency and productivity by making workflows easier and faster. The problem with this message is that art is not about efficiency, productivity, or smooth workflows. Art is not about “executing” a task. Art is certainly not about the metrics of quantity, low cost, and speed that characterize industrialism.

This here is really the crux of the issue.

Making art as an expression of yourself isn't about these things.

Making assets for games, etc is more about about the metrics of quantity, low cost, and speed that characterize industrialism

Having the systems for the second, doesn't remove the first from existence.

myrryr··on Clang vs. Clang
Can't you give it a different -O level?

-O0 gives you what you are after.

myrryr··on Clang vs. Clang
Yes! This is exactly the point. It is undefined, so given that, it could do what the other branch does, so you can safely remove that branch.

you get it, but a lot of other people don't understand just how undefined, undefined code is.

myrryr··on 'Equals' has more than one meaning in math
Things where equality is on more than one axis, _but there is a primary one where people use._

Think things like vectors or complex numbers, or people.

The absolutely classic example however is types which have a signed zero...

myrryr··on I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
Leading to many of the NZ fetish scene jokes :)
myrryr··on New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when providing expert testimony
To be fair, Scott revealed the amendment was satirical prior to a vote in New Mexico House of Representatives.

prior.... so they knew it was satire.

myrryr··on Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior
> Unpredictable compression ratios weren't as much of a concern for me as physical failure.

totally. I just think that their quirk in how they advertise has pushed people away from using them at all is interesting.

As one guy said, "I can compress stuff on my disks as well, it doesn't mean that they have twice as much capacity, and shouldn't be advertised as such"

I thought people would have just kinda shrugged their shoulders and just went "I guess it is just a little weird" but it really has pushed people away.

myrryr··on Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior
This is going to sound pretty damn weird, but the last couple of places where I though tape backups would have been the right plan, we had people who saw the tape industry as a bit untrustworthy. Not the tapes, but the industry.

It took me a while to find out why, but the whole tape storage size not being their actual size has left a long shadow.

It is amazing that something so small can leave such a large bad taste in people's mouths for so long.

myrryr··on TokenFlow: Consistent diffusion features for consistent video editing
They absolutely think about the consequences of their actions. What makes you think for a second that they don't?

> Perhaps we should slow down this frenetic pace of AI development and think about it for a bit?

Perhaps you should actually talk to them sometime and get a clue.

myrryr··on Why Nvidia Keeps Winning
Right? It is CUDA, that is why they are winning.

AMD has the patents for putting a SSD directly on the card, they could be killing it in the home AI market, but.... they just can't get it together.

myrryr··on Desktop GPU Sales Lowest in Decades: Report
I just want something with more memory. It is crazy how little GPU memory has moved over the years. I have a 1080ti, and upgrading from there looks like paying a LOT more money for very little more VRAM.
myrryr··on React, but in Python
> It's not like there's any overlap between current web developers and ML people anyway to need an unified bridge.

I guess you have completely missed people running language models on WebGPU then.

I think webasm + webgpu will be a target for a lot of new ml libraries.

myrryr··on The Wait Until 8th pledge
> Especially because I assume that you weren’t allowed to read comic books during class.

But we were able to bring them to school.

myrryr··on The Wait Until 8th pledge
> If there's any truism to parenting (and education) its that there's no one size fits all solution

So a pledge to try to enforce a one size fits all solution is dumb as hell yes?

myrryr··on Uncensored Models
Think the point is "alignment" isn't doing shit about 1 and 2.
myrryr··on I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
There is real speed gains to be had.

Typically your server is right next to the database. The end user isn't, so being able to give their first view being right, without an extra trip around is pretty good.

myrryr··on I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
The weird part here is you are assuming SQL was even the right thing to begin with.

But sure, if you want to use SQL, then yeah, I agree with you.

myrryr··on I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
This really does remind me of that meme with the bell curve.

On the far left and right side, there is a person saying "denormalized data is great"

It is just this one in the middle which doesn't like it.

After doing pretty major projects for 40 years, let me tell you, "denormalized data is great"

It is like watching people go down the hole of "patterns for everything" and then watching them crawl back out of it again many years later.

myrryr··on De-dollarization: Not a matter of if, but when
An actual default would be different. The US doesn't have anything like the wiggle room it had last time.
myrryr··on De-dollarization: Not a matter of if, but when
My partner is from the ex soviet part of the world. She uses the term "very slowly, then all at once" to describe what happened there.
myrryr··on De-dollarization: Not a matter of if, but when
Political instability driving a default would be pretty different.
myrryr··on PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
given all the other places where it has been tried. "poorly" is the likely answer.
myrryr··on PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
The point is the banning of porn is part of the mess which is around socio-economic status, rights of women, attitudes towards marriage, rape etc.

It is ok to not have to differentiate them, since mostly you are after a correlation between the different underlaying attitudes.

The banning of porn is a symptom - it is a sign of the attitudes, and you can EASILY test against that.

myrryr··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
having it mean people voting against their best interests isn't remotely saying they won't do so.
myrryr··on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
Totally agree but "have control of power that we are not able to responsibly manage", is becoming increasingly untenable.

"we are managed by power we can not control" sounds like a step up from here, since we corrupt the things we can control.

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