Engineer/Mathematician/Student. I'm not insane unless I'm in a schizoposting or distressing memes mood; I promise.
Okay but see, in the case of CleanFlicks, that makes sense. It’s terrible because someone purposefully butchered it, not because it was a terrible film to begin with.
Coincidentally, the family member I mentioned in my rant is still very Mormon and is the kind that wants VidAngel so they can watch movies like that.
I remember watching Iron Man with them on it and yeah, you couldn’t really follow the movie at all. Plus, Iron man isn’t even that “inappropriate” to begin with, I can’t imagine how short an R-rated movie would be with the “filth” removed.
I definitely relate. I also kind of have this obsession with using only open source software which also tends to hinder my creativity because some of the open source alternatives to things have steep learning curves.
Anyway, I think this is one of the things that makes me great at math but terrible at learning math. If something is complicated, I have to chew it down to the bone and then rebuild back to the original complicated thing.
As such, I’m really good at doing all sorts of math and even have some of my own weird identities/constants memorized, but it takes me a lot of time and effort to learn new math from a textbook instead of (re)inventing it myself.
Them: “Hey you seem a little unfocused today is something wrong?”
Me using 90% of my focus to not say random thoughts out loud or pace or make weird faces because everyone will think I’m insane: “yeah I’m fine, just a little tired is all”
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YSK how to fillet a fish
Out of curiosity what was the intent of this comment?
- To joke about it being irrelevant for most people to know how to fillet a fish
- To make a troll joke about filleting something ludicrous (like saying “can you post how to fillet a unicorn next?”)
- To make a sadistic joke about killing something that people empathize with more than a fish
- To make a vegan statement about how killing a fish and killing a dog should be seen as equally distasteful (no pun intended) as the murder of a sentient thing
- To ask a question because you legitimately would like to know how to fillet a dog
No judgement, I’m just fascinated by the fact there are so many different reasons someone might post a comment like this.
I did not think that was common practice or even a thing anyone would do at all till I was with a girl who told me she called her pussy “Patricia”
The sex was great and she (the woman not “Patricia” lol) is a wonderful person, but I was, and still am, vaguely unsettled by someone naming their genitals…
It’s clearly just saying that the surfaces on which the ends of the cylinder lie are metric spaces with distances defined using Chebyshev or Taxicab metrics based on pentagonal tilings of the parabolic plane so the ratio of a circle’s circumference to diameter is 5.
Since it’s a cylinder we assume the vertical dimension is Euclidean and voila the math checks out geometrically.
Your username is purple. Thank you for developing the Voyager app lol
My siblings and I would occasionally eat raw okra from our garden growing up. They’re covered in fuzz that is really soft when they’re small, and it’s quite a weird texture experience with slimy ball-bearing-like seeds on the inside lol
This article has made me realize it has been way too long since I last had gumbo or jumbalaya or any good homemade southern cooking. :(
Yeah so all of these apply. It’d make more sense to do this daily. That way some of them might not be there lol
Edit: except sticky notes. I take my notes on hundreds of different notebooks and note taking apps then forget where they wrote everything, like a sophisticated person lol
I read that “Prickly muffin” and now I’m debating on whether I should or should not watch Bojack Horseman again
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Is there a Lemmy community for comments out of context?
Because even in context this is a wild comment; out of context it would be even better
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Valid point, though I’m surprised that cyc was used for non-AI purposes since, in my very very limited knowledge of the project, I thought the whole thing was based around the ability to reason and infer from an encyclopedic data set.
Regardless, I suppose the original topic of this discussion is heading towards a prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate:
Should the term Artificial Intelligence have the more literal meaning it held when it first was discussed, like by Turing or in the sci-fi of Isaac Asimov?
OR
Should society’s use of the term in reference to advances in problem solving tech in general or specifically its most prevalent use in reference to any neural network or learning algorithm in general be the definition of Artificial Intelligence?
Should we shift our definition of a term based on how it is used to match popular use regardless of its original intended meaning or should we try to keep the meaning of the phrase specific/direct/literal and fight the natural shift in language?
Personally, I prefer the latter because I think keeping the meaning as close to literal as possible increases the clarity of the words and because the term AI is now thrown about so often these days as a buzzword for clicks or money, typically by people pushing lies about the capabilities or functionality of the systems they’re referring to as AI.
The lumping together of models trained by scientists to solve novel problems and the models that are using the energy of a small country to plagiarize artwork also is not something I view fondly as I’ve seen people assume the two are one in the same despite the fact one has redeeming qualities and the other is mostly bullshit.
However, it seems that many others are fine with or in support of a descriptivist definition where words have the meaning they are used for even if that meaning goes beyond their original intent or definitions.
To each their own I suppose. These preferences are opinions so there really isn’t an objectively right or wrong answer for this debate
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The term “artificial intelligence” is supposed to refer to a computer simulating the actions/behavior of a human.
LLMs can mimic human communication and therefore fits the AI definition.
Generative AI for images is a much looser fit but it still fulfills a purpose that was until recently something most or thought only humans could do, so some people think it counts as AI
However some of the earliest AI’s in computer programs were just NPCs in video games, looong before deep learning became a widespread thing.
Enemies in video games (typically referring to the algorithms used for their pathfinding) are AI whether they use neural networks or not.
Deep learning neural networks are predictive mathematic models that can be tuned from data like in linear regression. This, in itself, is not AI.
Transformers are a special structure that can be implemented in a neural network to attenuate certain inputs. (This is how ChatGPT can act like it has object permanence or any sort of memory when it doesn’t) Again, this kind of predictive model is not AI any more than using Simpson’s Rule to calculate a missing coordinate in a dataset would be AI.
Neural networks can be used to mimic human actions, and when they do, that fits the definition. But the techniques and math behind the models is not AI.
The only people who refer to non-AI things as AI are people who don’t know what they’re talking about, or people who are using it as a buzzword for financial gain (in the case of most corporate executives and tech-bros it is both)
Well the svg file itself wouldn’t be, but whatever tries to render the image might think the file is infinite since it’d loop around forever. Come to think of it, I’d imaging there are probably safeguards in place to prevent svg files like this hypothetical one from being opened because they’d run as an infinite loop
Nope, gen z, and I haven’t actually read any of the Harry Potter books myself.
But you’re on the right track; I think it was reading The Hobbit that did me in lol
Thanks, idk if op needed this but I did