V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

Likewise, flipped-number ("little endian") algorithms are slightly more efficient at e.g. long addition.

What? What are you talking about? Citation? Efficient wrt. what? Microbenchmarks? It's certainly not actual computational complexity. Do you think going forward in an array is different computationally from going backward?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Buddha, just seconds before enlightenment:

-you know what actually fuck those guys heavenly light

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

(in the objective sense that his comments score very highly on the toxic-bert scoring system)

That's an ML model. Like I searched and toxic-bert is just a github repo.

"objective" go fuck a cow

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

Feels like overlooking the same issue as with every other AI use

When a human makes a mistake and is called out, they can usually fix the mistake. When genAI outputs nonsense, it's fucking nonsense, you can't fix something that's fundamentally made up, and if you try to "ask it" to fix it it'll just respond with more nonsense. I hallucinated this case? Certainly! Here's 3 other cases you could cite instead: 3 new made up cases

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I expect the last step in that is you slapping him?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's extremely annoying everywhere. GitHub's updates were about AI for so fucking long that I stopped reading them, which means I now miss actually useful stuff until someone informs me of it months later.

For example, did you know GitHub Actions now has really good free ARM runners? It's amazing! I love it! Shame GitHub only bother's to tell me about their revolutionary features of "please spam me with useless PRs" and... make a pong game? What? Why would I want this?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

I wanna be software The best design Infinite princess Computer mind

Substituting this for the text whenever I see Sammy Boy say something again

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

hot AI girls are on track to remove a lot of men from the mating pool.

Wasn't the "problem" that there's too many men in the mating pool and women are "alphamaxxing" or whatever the fuck to get the highest quality dick? Shouldn't this be a good thing for incels like Hanania.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Missed opportunity to call it "Live Free or Fail Hard"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is such a wild example to me because sitting at beach is extremely boring and takes forever whereas doing calculus is at least engaging so time flies reasonably quick.

Like when I think what takes the longest in my life I don't think "those times when I'm actively solving problems", I think "those times I sit in a waiting room at the doctors with nothing to do" or "commuting, ditto".

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's wrong on both counts.

The complaints about NFTs were also that they were unethical - consumed a shitton of electricity for no reason, sustained themselves mostly by scams and rugpulls. The chief use case of crypto has always been crime and money laundering.

The complaints about AI are that it fucking sucks and results in a truly insane waste of resources towards something that doesn't solve literally any problems, like NFTs squared. The unethical aspect of it all is just a cherry on top that makes using LLMs a no-go even if it happened to kinda work for your problem.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m not surprised by the results, but it’s hardly a fair assessment of the usefulness of AI.

It's a more than fair assessment of the claims of usefulness of AI which are more or less "fire all your devs this machine is better than them already"

 

This is a nice post, but it has such an annoying sentence right in the intro:

At the time I saw the press coverage, I didn’t bother to click on the actual preprint and read the work. The results seemed unsurprising: when researchers were given access to AI tools, they became more productive. That sounds reasonable and expected.

What? What about it sounds reasonable? What about it sounds expected given all we know about AI??

I see this all the time. Why do otherwise skeptical voices always have the need to put in a weakening statement like this. "For sure, there are some legitimate uses of AI" or "Of course, I'm not claiming AI is useless" like why are you not claiming that. You probably should be claiming that. All of this garbage is useless until proven otherwise! "AI does not increase productivity" is the null hypothesis! It's the only correct skeptical position! Why do you seem to need to extend benefit of the doubt here, like seriously, I cannot explain this in any way.

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