V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Shumer credits Glaive AI — a company he invested in — for its LLM special cases, like telling which number is bigger or how many times the letter “r” appears in the word “strawberry.” Those are the two examples Shumer named to VentureBeat.

I quite often pondered how cool it'd have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago, you know, one of the pioneers, people on whose shoulders the entire tech sector rests now.

Think about all the advantages! Maybe I'd get to talk to Turing! Maybe I'd invent a foundational algorithm that would be in textbooks forever! Maybe I would've fucking died before this absolute blight on our domain happened!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I got mad at this last time I saw Nate Bronze assign percentages to the 2024 US election.

Like, my dude, what the fuck does that mean? Is the election result a random variable? What is its PDF? What maths could you have possibly done to arrive at a crisp [0, 1] probability value?

How did you go from "predict the future", an obviously wildly fuzzy and inaccurate vibes check, to a concrete real number??

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seems he resembles RFK Jr. more than a Democrat.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't seek out the video before, I read about all the glaring problems, but one thing that no one pointed out was... why is the entire thing slow motion?

Like, you know Doom? The game where the brisk pace and constant movement are a core part of its DNA? Witness it running at 0.5x speed and like 5FPS in the year of our acausal robot lord 2024.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago (14 children)

My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.

  • First heard of him existing when some Very Serious People were floating him as a replacement for Biden like two months ago
    • Infer from that that he's progressive maybe?
  • Like right after that a big story how he forcefully cleared homeless encampments like a fucking cartoon villain
    • So he's actually a weird little conservative in disguise?
  • Now this fucking nonsense.

How do you keep producing people like this, America?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

BTW 9th of September is not a Sunday lol

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

Also he's a programmer? You can find a Python job that isn't, you know, this bullshit.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

I always half-ass my captcha and try to pass in as many false answers as possible, because I'm a ~~rebel~~ cunt.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

steph also spends 20 minutes calling everyone involved a c*nt

I mean, that's every single episode, really

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

the whitepaper keeps acting like cooling all this computing shit will be easier in orbit and I feel like that’s very much not the case

ez

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