I mean that is pretty much what AI bros want to do… and/or maybe already doing

From a researcher/developer perspective: the biggest bottleneck that affects current-gen AI is the lack of high quality training data; the more high-quality (a.k.a. human-generated and not complete shitposts) training data, the better. What people write on their computers would probably overwhelmingly be high quality. That means, without major technological advancements… if AI companies have access to the types of contents you just described, it is very much in their interests to use them

I don’t 100% agree with this view, but if you subscribe to Prof. Emily M. Bender’s thought of seeing AI models as plagiarism machines, maybe you can say that AI is “stealing your soul”

Can relate, in fact I still use Chinese for anything related to numbers because all the numbers are one-syllable 💀 (why remember “seven” whey “qi” does the same?)

I did have a bit of a superiority complex in high school, but that’s because I was fluent in Japanese which was considered a “cool” language that basically no one else at HS was fluent in. But after that not much. Besides I don’t think most people would realize or care that I’m fluent in three languages

Now I live in a city where most people are multilingual and I don’t speak the local language (French) despite all the other languages I speak or understand so… I definitely feel inferior, but I don’t think that’s what you are asking

I am fluent in Chinese/Japanese/English; my Japanese got way worse after HS but I can still read news/play videogames and hold up a conversation. I’ve learned a bit of German and French so I have some basic reading comprehension

Yuppp, this has been on the front page of Nature news for a few days. I was worried to share it because I was worried ppl would jump too quickly to conclusions, and all-things considered it appears that mRNA vaccine is a lot more… peculiar than what researchers would have imagined, in good and bad ways. We now have reports about the COVID vaccine doing things such as:

• people can have pretty severe reactions to it
• somehow it reduces cancer risk (as a form of immunotherapy?)
• someone’s breasts got enlarged to a dangerous degree after having the Pfizer vaccine (warning: this is a clinical report, contains NSFW images)

Realistically I don’t think they (as in the authors) as researchers can do much… but as you pointed out, there are possible ways to deal with this. Rats are common pests and I would be surprised if there aren’t some experts out there, so I am hoping that even acknowledging this issue alone would lead to better outcomes. This paper got quite a bit of traction so it definitely helps

Lots of K-pop get people who don’t understand Korean at all to vibe; there’s also famous (infamous?) songs like the remixed Caramelldansen (which is Swedish), Tunak Tunak Tun as you mentioned is a good one too

Personally I… vibe to a lot of songs that don’t have any lyrics at all

Or how about ones with fictional lyrics? Such as siromaru + cranky: conflict (OK this might be a bit too niche…)

This amount is peanuts compared to the operating budget of the city I live in…

Realistically? I was pleasantly surprised by someone trying to make little tree pit gardens on the street where I live. $10,000 might be enough to make some of those on a few residential streets and kickstart a local initiative for the community to keep maintaining them. There may be some leftover money for acquiring a few communal trash bins to help with trash issues around the neighborhood as well

I’m speaking from experience, I have tried… To give them some benefit of the doubt, designing a good difficulty variation is difficult (pun not intended), even games like the original Hades which has a very extensive difficulty modification system still gets flack for it

For me it probably is. I do not like many of the live-service game mechanics (limited stamina, gambling, microtransactions) but at least I get why; the one I mentioned just feels lazy and would make otherwise good games feel unplayable

Something that hasn’t been mentioned: difficulty variations that only change stat penalty. These get really annoying for people who enjoy challenging gameplay…

Case in point, unmodded Skyrim’s legendary difficulty where the only difference is that you do 0.25x damage and take 300% damage. Instead of providing challenging gameplay that forces you to use gaming skills or think, it just makes the game more annoying to play & limits player build options (stealth is mandatory as any other playstyle deals no damage and results in you getting kill-animation’d…)

What? At least their whole career isn’t defined by a Suite of MEMEs

(William Stafford Noble is a very famous computational biologist)

Replying as someone with diagnosed depression (“Major Depressive Disorder”, isn’t as bad as it sounds) which apparently first started in teenage years

For me “talk therapy” (such as CBT) has never been ineffective, but not effective to the extent that I considered my depression “managed” so to speak. I’d always have negative thoughts, bad feelings, etc… I was reading The Feeling Good Handbook and became open to the idea of medication, so I was put into contact with a psychiatrist a few years ago who decided to put me on a very low dose antidepressant (10mg fluoxetine/Prozac per day), later upped the dose (20 mg/day, still low)

A week or so after being put on antidepressants (a very low dose, mind you), a large part of my depressive symptoms just… went away. I’m no way near being “constantly happy” or anything; it’s just that the depressive thoughts left. And it was significant enough because I don’t think I’ve ever achieved that with talk therapy

There was an extended period a year and a half ago when I stopped medication due to relocation, and depression came back after like a month or so, but it could have been compounded by the fact that I got a bone fracture back then & was not in a good mood in general… but the symptoms went away again after a week or more of me restarting medication. I stopped medication again 3-4 months ago for another relocation, and depression hasn’t come back for me yet

My understanding is that antidepressants, depending on the type, alters the body chemistry… so depending on where someone’s depression comes from, antidepressants is sometimes the most effective treatment out there (for many others, talk therapy is the most effective). Since it appears that my source of depression is due to losing the genetic lottery, antidepressants probably was the perfect solution. But realistically psychology/neuroscience don’t have enough research funding despite how important and interesting they are, so we don’t actually know that much regarding how antidepressants work… just that they work quite well for some people

And to answer your question: no not really. It just “treats” depression and is not always effective. Happiness seems like something very much separate, but can probably be induced by certain controlled substances (which are highly addictive and bad for you)

poor mice that sucks

Part of the necessary evils of doing science… there is the saying that the lab mice is the one who sacrificed the most for scientific research. Also there’s this cool monument in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse

From a scientific standpoint I hope they can do something useful with this technology too

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I thought it would be so funny if any of the EU employees would go to a bar in Brussels (majority French-speaking) and have an aneurysm explaining what they do to a local in broken French. Not that it would ever happen… but it would be funny

There are legitimately AI researchers who are investigating “how can we make models that can be trained on AI generated data”. These researchers know about model collapse (LLMs recursively trained on generated data will degenerate after a few iterations) for over a year now

… I hope I was joking

Exact number is between 3100-3200 EUR/mo after tax. My current salary is fixed by the government and is under a preferential tax treatment (no income tax first 3 years, only social security)

Number might seem low… but in comparison, the country’s median salary is like 2500-2600/mo, 2800+/mo where I live. I also don’t spend a lot (I literally don’t know how to spend more than half of my monthly salary at the moment) so I feel like a king here lmao

The literal same job title I had in Chicago was $61,008/yr exact before tax in Chicago and I definitely felt poor. Enough to survive, but poor

Never been fired fired as I haven’t had that many jobs and jobs in academia usually don’t officially fire someone… the closest one I had was pretty wild though

I was taking a summer job in college on a clinical research project; part-time job, we got assigned working hours at the beginning of each week. I was one of the few students who did not have clearance for clinical/counseling work so I could only do lab work. My performance wasn’t the best and I couldn’t do anything besides processing samples, so after 2-3 weeks they stopped issuing me work schedules and I was “fired”… or at least that’s what I thought. Later it turned out the lead professor and the entire project got into a massive scandal (sexual harassment, bullying, etc… got on local news) that eventually got the professor fired (tenured btw so they can’t be officially fired, uni “convinced” them to leave), so every student worker was essentially laid off at that moment. Probably likely that the entire research team got something akin to a stop-work order earlier so that’s why I never got work assigned for those weeks…

So yeah, the answer was a combination of 1) I wasn’t that good of a worker and more importantly 2) the entire project we were on got into a scandal and was terminated

Yes, but sometimes I wonder if it is just the nature of what happens when a social media network grows large. I did observe how some subreddits instantly get more toxic as they grow bigger too

… On the other hand though, coincidentally I did see some very recent comments that are decidedly more right-wing than the general Lemmy userbase. I personally try not to judge ppl’s political orientation but I do wonder if there’s something weird going on

Anyone remotely interested in Japanese music, J-pop, or rhythm games might have seen some music being labelled with something like “BOFU2017” or “BOF:NT” in song names, and a lot of these music have surprisingly high production value. This actually has some rather interesting history

So Beatmania was a DJ simulator rhythm game released by Konami in 1998 that was an inspiration for a lot of music games in the future. The Be-Music Source file format was developed for a community simulator of Beatmania. Later, BMS evolved into essentially its own rhythm game (which anyone can play btw, beatoraja is even available on AUR), and the community forbade players from playing official Konami charts (referred to as “illegal charts”)

In order to increase the amounts of content available for BMS, the community decided to host BMS creation competitions to encourage players to make more BMS… the flagship event is called “BMS of Fighters” (BOF), hosted annually starting from 2004. All music from the events are completely free and libre: as in, free as in both freedom and free beer. And the competition is fierce; a quick search on YouTube will show some top-ranking songs and their production values tend to be very high (… and there are some shitposts too, we don’t talk about Mopemope or that stupid Kirby song)

Obviously because of the libre nature of these competitions, a lot of these songs end up getting picked up by various rhythm games that are not BMS at all. The most popular rhythm games (like DDR, maimai) tend to have a generous collection of the top ranking BOF charts. The low-budget games even more so: when I was in China for two months and saw a lot of local arcade games (basically Chinese clones of maimai, DDR/PIU and Dancerush), guess what songs they have the most! Muse Dash which also started as a Chinese indie game also has a ton of BOF songs; in fact, Blackest Luxury Car, a song which I strongly associate with Muse Dash’s entire identity (they even have a stage modeled after the song), was in fact… a song from BOFU2017

It’s hard to tell but I wouldn’t be surprised if BMS have a wider societal impact on rhythm game music and even the entire Japanese music genre as a whole. A lot of the artists behind top-ranking charts probably got contracts with various rhythm games… or maybe even beyond those. One funny example I know is that one artist became the lead composer of a gacha game that grossed $18M last month; the game in question is almost universally praised for their good soundtracks

As for the BMS themselves… distribution is not centralized whatsoever, especially for less popular songs. Some are on Google Drive, some on OneDrive, some on certain hosting websites, some only in packaged archives that some people are thanklessly maintaining… but anyways it is rather fascinating

Also the 2025 BOF started on October 3rd and is ongoing now. The portal for all BOF events are here: https://bmsoffighters.net/