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neverokayon Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScript

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Should I encode my passwords to memory like this?

neverokayon Ozempic keeps wowing: trial data show benefits for kidney disease

Ozempic? Or just eating less?

neverokayon Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

That may be the end product from all of this which is quite scary because trillions of dollars moving into this.

Think it’s worth mentioning that their Qualcomm exclusive windows laptop deal ends soon and this should allow AMD and NVIDIA to ramp up (arm) windows laptop cpus soon within the next few years.

neverokayon Meteor seen in Portugal

Too small to see, but too small for damage?

What’s the largest smallest object we won’t be able to see that can be devastating?

neverokayon Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain

Aren’t these things supposed to do automatic feature detection? Wouldn’t these models figure out consciousness as some hidden layer over time?

neverokayon OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI – then let it wither

Something is wrong with Sam Altman. You can’t find a single interview of him discussing technical details of anything.

He may really be a tech version of George Santos. A grifter like that should be nowhere near in charge of tech like this.

neverokayon Ask HN: Can Art Explain an LLM?

Mind fuck time, he doesn’t have a conception of the world. His conception is entirely defined by his immediate memory (effectively the most recent prompt). The first tattoo or photograph he sees in the morning is the first prompt every morning, and it overwhelms his context length.

Lack of … useful memory (what’s useful? We consider big memory useful right now) is what handicaps Leonard. It’s the first thing Gemini looked to solve.

Anyways. It’s his system prompt that’s in the cmos that can’t be overridden. He wakes up every morning with the same plan. People are overly concerned about sentience, but in reality it’s the dogmatic machine code that can’t be changed that makes a robot scary.

Ask Leonard, he can’t forget his system prompt.

neverokayon A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

Ur just racist lol

Your two options are caricatures

neverokayon A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

You want like a sadistic marshal plan?

So, we take your shit. Then we define your morality, then set the benchmarks and culture, and your ass better meet all that.

And if you don’t, well

we don’t wanna hear you say nigga no more

Imperial means we run you for a couple hundred years. I guess some people don’t get it. You pray to our god, for the foreseeable feature.

Behold South America, what god do they pray to? The fuck we said to pray to.

That’s imperial shit.

No magical mother in the sky. I just don’t like being polite no more, where this war at.

neverokayon A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

I said you have to be lucky

Read carefully :)

neverokayon Project Gameface launches on Android

I mean, they desensitized it to me too. I play the girl class if there’s no option. The arc of justice doesn’t bend toward truth, it bends toward revenge. It’s zero sum.

I guess the bitches were tired of playing bulky men that they don’t identify with and now force the men to play whores we don’t identify with.

I’m just saying

But if I had to get really meta:

I personally don’t believe there are enough women to force that macro change in gaming. It’s self flagellation of hyper aware males.

If I had to get double meta:

It’s self flagellation by guys that don’t even get laid.

Tricky business

neverokayon Project Gameface launches on Android

Sure, Black Desert Online.

They insist you play a big titted whore.

With magic and shit, for clarity’s sake.

neverokayon A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

American, close enough. Our empire hopes at least.

neverokayon Project Gameface launches on Android

It depends how far they go. There are games where they insist I must play as a big titted whore even though I don’t identify as a woman and even if I was a woman, I’d opt for more subtle whoreness not the full whoreness some of these games insist I must role play.

neverokayon Project Gameface launches on Android

should not assume that they should develop for one kind of player.

Or even better, if they accommodate the lowest common denominator, you actually can end up with better experiences for even experienced players.

I’m looking at this tech in reverse. Sure it’s going to help the disabled, but it’s also going to enable entire new things in games. I fly around a helicopter a lot in Arma, and I’d love some simple solutions for head and eye tracking just with my web cam and it looks like most of this r&d is happening in the accessibility space, not in the game design space.

neverokayon Android's theft protection features

I’ve opted for a backup phone on a $10 line to always have SMS if necessary for 2fa. I don’t take it outside.

Quite frankly I need to make a stronger commitment to memorizing three passwords for life.

But to your point, yes I have critical apps where the main threat vector is being accidentally locked out.

neverokayon A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history

They say you have to be lucky to get cancer statistically because you actually have to live a long time to even get it.

I guess if you are several hundred year old empire you will have run into just about everything. The plague was just the last thing they saw, not the ultimate thing that ended them.

We’d be lucky if all this crap lasts long enough to watch a plague run through it.

neverokayon Android's theft protection features

Maybe I’m crazy? If you have an iPhone, enable faceid and put it into lockdown mode manually (I just remember it happening automatically).

Tell me how you get out of lockdown mode.

neverokayon Android's theft protection features

If you have FaceID enabled, it will require that to disable lockdown mode (and I already explained the loop about how lockdown mode disables biometric auth like Face ID). I can get into the phone with my pin just fine, but the phone is still locked down. When lockdown mode disables biometric auth, I couldn’t get into bank, brokerage or any app requiring that auth.

Maybe I’m just crazy because it seems like a ridiculous oversight.

neverokayon Project Gameface launches on Android

If you’re right handed, then yeah, playing with your left simulates a handicap. They designed a lot of their games around such handicaps.

neverokayon Android's theft protection features

So I’m supposed to go into lockdown every single time? Fine, but don’t lock me out with FaceID so I can override it at least.

Apple needs to revisit that feature because that lockout could have happened at a critical time.

neverokayon Project Gameface launches on Android

It’s interesting this tech is for disabled people when Nintendo just assumed their players were disabled to begin with. They always played their games with their left hand to simulate it.

Software developers are pretty terrible in applying this kind of empathy in our UX.

Assume your app is unusable and the user doesn’t know how to read or have hands. Hah.

neverokayon Android's theft protection features

Maybe? Does it excuse this oversight by the iOS team?

neverokayon Android's theft protection features

This is how a feature like this worked on my iPhone.

1.iPhone detects I’m in an unusual location (I’m not, vpn). It just decided this all of a sudden, and I’ve used vpns in the past without issue.

2. Goes into lockdown mode

3. You need Face ID to disable lockdown mode

4. Face ID cannot be used in lockdown mode. Go back to step 3

Step wtf: We’re now trapped out.

5. I have to reset my phone. I forgot that I have eSIM, so resetting deletes my phone number too.

Step holy shit: Apple let me delete my entire sim card in about a one click warning lol.

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These people don’t dog food their own shit at all. Had to disable Face ID after an event like that.

neverokayon Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

So there isn’t much more to it than getting a good resolution image of the eye from any distance, every millisecond.

Precision is the issue because we are mostly moving our eyes in about 8 directions, there’s no precision because we don’t know how to measure focusing of our eye lens with a camera yet (unless that too is just a matter of getting a picture).

Squinting would be the closest thing to physically expressing focusing. So the camera needs to know I’m looking left with my eye, followed by a squint to achieve precision. Seems stressful though.

Gonna need AI just to do noise cancelling of involuntary things your eyes do like pupil dilation, blinking.

neverokayon Veo

If they cared about the kids they would out ahead of this before it spreads like wildfire.

neverokayon GPT-4o's Memory Breakthrough – Needle in a Needlestack

Why not just generate complete random stuff and ask it to find stuff in that?

neverokayon Gemini Flash

So perhaps human language is simply never complex enough to need more than 3072 numbers to represent a given train of thought, but that doesn't seem clear to me.

Will compute allow that number to go up? Or is that an optimal number?

neverokayon Gemini Flash

Context length isn’t the same as context volume I think. Just input the 1m tokens slower, it’ll still be in context.