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  • African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

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  • Yes? The shapes of countries- and their relation to other countries around them- is literally the most important part of learning geography in some respects, because of how much that shape is influenced by- and has been influenced by- the surroundings, the socioeconomic and sociopolitical history, etc etc.

  • African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

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  • The problem with that is that it gives a completely incorrect idea of what an individual country looks like, in a way that gives a false impression to kids about what the countries even look like. Suddenly they have to look at one map, and recognize a country, and then look at a zoomed in, more accurate map, and recognize it in a completely different shape. To be frank, most people's geography knowledge is already bad enough- doubling the amount of shapes they need to learn is basically a non-starter.

    For classroom instruction, a globe should be being used anyway- that's the gold standard. Why go through all the work and effort of introducing a worse solution, that doubles the amount of studying, and is made completely useless when it can be replaced by a $10 globe?

  • African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

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  • Actually, fun fact, the entire point of the Mercator projection is that it DOES maintain shapes/angles, just not scale. It's a nautical map, it's for sailing. That's why when you look at a mercator map and a globe, the countries look about the same, just potentially different sizes- because that's literally the point of it.

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  • I'm going to be honest, this just looks utterly useless for any country that isn't south africa, and ESPECIALLY useless for any country in the northern hemisphere.

    Like, yes, sure, you've made all the country's areas roughly equal, but also every single country that isn't south africa is a distorted, warped mess that looks nothing like its actual shape.

    Look at parts of europe- every country is a COMPLETELY USELESS shape. Three quarters of them have been turned into diagonal lines. How the fuck is that useful? Europe is the worst area in that regard, but by no means the only one.

    It makes it literally useless as a map.

  • UFC vs NYC seats

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  • In light of this comment, please learn any media literacy skills.

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  • These days, they're usually racks and racks and racks of specialized rackmount servers with all kinds of hardware, hilarious amounts of ram, networked storage, tensor cores, etc stuffed inside, all networked together via fiber optics to run in parallel as one big PC with many CPUs.

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  • yyyyes they do have tensor cores? Where did you get such an absurd idea from?

  • Why do so many conservatives in the US bash on California all the time?

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  • Because a lot of them know that if there was any kind of safety or training requirements, or a psyche or physical test, they would fail it.

  • Sweden prime minister under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion

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  • He explicitly states that no sensitive informarion gets used. If you believe that, then I have

    ... a bridge to sell you.

    Don't be naive.

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  • I think you've misunderstood what I was saying- I don't have spreadsheets of statistics on requests for LLM AIs vs non-LLM AIs. What I have is exposure to a significant amount of various AI users, each running different kinds of AIs, and me seeing what kind of AI they're using, and for what purposes, and how well it works or doesn't.

    Generally, LLM-based stuff is really only returning 'useful' results for language-based statistical analysis, which NLP handles better, faster, and vastly cheaper. For the rest, they really don't even seem to be returning useful results- I typically see a LOT of frustration.

    I'm not about to give any information that could doxx myself, but the reason I see so much of this is because I'm professionally adjacent to some supercomputers. As you can imagine, those tend to be useful for AI research :P

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  • As I said, anyone with sense.

  • Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button

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  • Pretty sus how much pro-AI slop is suddenly on lemmy right as GPT5 is about to be launched.

    Be less fucking obvious, you dipshits.

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  • Source is the commercial and academic uses I've personally seen as an academic-adjacent professional that's had to deal with this sort of stuff at my job.

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  • Again with the conflation. They clearly mean GPTs and LLMs from the context they provide, they just don't have another name for it, mostly because people like you like to pretend that AI is shit like chatGPT when it benefits you, and regular machine learning is AI when it benefits you.

    And no, GPTs are not needed, nor used, as a base for most of the useful tech, because anyone with any sense in this industry knows that good models and carefully curated training data gets you more accurate, reliable results than large amounts of shit data.

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  • Using chatGPT to recall the word 'verisimilar' is an absurd waste of time, energy, and in no way justifies the use of AI.

    90% of LLM/GPT use is a waste or could be done with better with another tool, including non-LLM AIs. The remaining 10% are just outright evil.

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  • Those are not GPTs or LLMs. Fuck off with your bullshit trying to conflate the two.

  • Like A Cool Summer Breeze

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  • No problem, thanks for being receptive!

    Modern day breakers are better about failing safe than they used to be, but... still not an intended use, and all it takes it one bad roll of the dice and everyone gets to have a Bad Day. Hence me viewing them, much like you, as things Not To Mess With Unless Needed. :P

  • Like A Cool Summer Breeze

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  • Just so you know, breakers are not on/off switches. Turning them on/off like that is awful for them, they degrade every time they're tripped. The result of it is, best case, everything on the circuit eventually get destroyed because it's doing weird shit to the electricity going through it because of a bad connection. Worst case scenario is that it can no longer trip when it should and your entire neighborhood burns down.

  • Jedi must live by a code

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  • While that's all a good question and thought provoking... unfortunately it's literally just word of god that if Qui-Gon won, the light would win.

    A common problem in Star Wars- the fans have put waaaay more thought and worldbuilding into it than Lucas ever did.