Don’t misrepresent the situation, Elmo is a muppet not a puppet!
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Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Games@lemmy.world•The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. English
6·10 days agoThen I’d have to also tell you to never play a game or buy a product ending in 99 cents. Getting into the mind of the consumer is business 101 and is literally the difference between a game/product having any success or not.
And this has been proven, JCPenney tried to get rid of 99 cent pricing and led to losing 30% profits and bankruptcy. The people who want fair and square pricing won’t be there to actually buy it.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warnsEnglish
10·27 days agoFundamentally due to it’s design, LLMs are digital duct tape.
The entire history of computer science has been making compromises between efficient machine code and human readable language. LLM’s solve this in a beautifully janky way, like duct tape.
But it’s ultimately still a compromise, you’ll never get machine accuracy from an LLM because it’s sole purpose is to fulfill the “human readable” part of that deal. So it’s applications are revolutionary in the same way as “how did you put together this car engine with only duct tape?” kind of way.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it.
50·2 months agoI feel like if this was a specific character going “wait that’s not normal lol” the joke would land better. But as it is the only frame of reference we have is one representing women and one representing men.
And it just all falls flat because women can have mental illnesses too? And yes men are forced to repress it more often but women often have their physical or mental health dismissed or ignored so it’s not much better either way.
I’m trans so I’ll never face a period but I can’t imagine the agony of going through one in addition to a mental health crisis or other sickness. And it’s not like women get “period days off” of work or school so you’re just expected to push through it.
The spark is temporary, in my experience it comes and goes in waves. But a relationship requires work, even if your bored with/frustrated at/unfulfilled by your partner, some level of effort and perseverance is where true love begins.
There’s always a balance, don’t put effort into a sinking ship. But if you want a long term marriage your going to have to risk investing in someone who’s not currently satisfying you.
Also get checked for anything external that could make you lose interest, like depression that fosters apathy or ADHD that fosters boredom. If it’s bad enough to end 5 marriages it may be that your brain is chemically unsatisfied.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-offEnglish
1·1 year agoThe official hosting of it has censorship applied after the answer is generated, but from what I heard the locally run version has no censorship even though they could have theoretically trained it to.
Arguably not natural since it relies on plastic or petroleum to make.
Pioneers used to ride those babies for miles.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•My issue with every chatbot I've tried
41·1 year agoI ask it for help when I’m unfamiliar with a library/language or if I’m getting complex errors.
But I always type out the code myself, making sure I’m reading each line and understanding what’s happening.
Even for boilerplate if you just let the ai go at it, it’ll generate a Frankenstein boilerplate of an outdated standard.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase priceEnglish
19·1 year agoIf he was that competent why would he resort to openly pumping and dumping meme coins in public just prior to this stunt.
He has some dangerous strings he can pull, but that doesn’t make him a good puppet master.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase priceEnglish
552·1 year agoCorrect me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure he gave an outlandish bid for Twitter to manipulate it’s stock prices when he pulled put, but he was sued into following through.
I don’t think he ever wanted to buy it, or at least he wanted to crash it’s value to come back and buy it on the cheap.
Humans have advanced far but hardly changed.

Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPressEnglish
4·1 year agoThe people can, but companies still need some kind of income to exist. The owners/ceos will just golden parachute away from the corpse
In order to tangibly pay employees/rent/servers a company needs either profits, subsidies, or
a ponzi schemeinflated stocks.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
36·1 year agoI hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because “it’s a theory not a fact” as if the label of “fact” exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. “Facts” is a colloquial word like any other, it’s not some special category above theories.
Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein’s General Relatively equations reduces into Newton’s Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton’s Laws of Motion weren’t “wrong”, it’s just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.
The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soonEnglish
11·1 year agoEeeeeh maybe not “CP settings”…
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Generative AI hype is ending – and now the technology might actually become usefulEnglish
4·1 year agoTheoretically we could slow down training and coast on fine-tuning existing models. Once the AI’s trained they don’t take that much energy to run.
Everyone was racing towards “bigger is better” because it worked up to GPT4, but word on the street is that raw training is giving diminishing returns so the massive spending on compute is just a waste now.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•MyPillow Man Mike Lindell Ordered to Pay Legal Fees for Guy Who Proved Him Wrong at ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ EventEnglish
33·2 years agoHappened to my brother, normal democrat who agreed with feminism and disliked Trump.
Then fiancee left him for another man, took a hard right thanks to Jordan Peterson.
What resonated with me is people calling LLMs and Stable Diffusion “copyright laundering”. If copyright ever swung in AI’s favor it would be super easy to train an AI on stuff you want to steal, add in some generic training, and now you have a “new” piece of art.
LLMs and Stable Diffusion are just compression algorithms for abstract patterns, only one level above data.




Some time ago: “I just hope the most evil people are so dumb that they get found out”
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