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  • You can totally be the nice guy in this case. Imma just call a spade a spade. I suspect that this account and those comments are intended to drive people to YouTube. The first thing people do when dealing with controversy is check a person’s profile. The first thing they will see on that profile is basically an ad and self-promotion. Maybe I am looking too deep into this, but when you read his comments the way he narrates, it kinda clicked about what the motive might be.

    I do totally understand your point. Mental health issues are absolutely real and should be addressed. How much we can do about that here on Lemmy is debatable.









  • These findings suggest LLMs can internalize human-like cognitive biases and decision-making mechanisms beyond simply mimicking training data patterns

    lulzwut? LLMs aren’t internalizing jack shit. If they exhibit a bias, it’s because of how they were trained. A quick theory would be that the interwebs is packed to the brim with stories of “all in” behaviors intermixed with real strategy, fiction or otherwise. I speculate that there are more stories available in forums of people winning doing stupid shit then there are of people losing because of stupid shit.

    They exhibit human bias because they were trained on human data. If I told the LLM to only make strict probability based decisions favoring safety (and it didn’t “forget” context and ignored any kind of “reasoning”), the odds might be in its favor.

    Sorry, I will not read the study because of that one sentence in its summary.




  • I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It’s a “pick your adventure” kind of scenario, IMHO.

    It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It’s not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot and I like the concept of a ‘home instance’.

    Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it just is what it is.


  • When I use it, I use it to create single functions that have known inputs and outputs.

    If absolutely needed, I use it to refactor old shitty scripts that need to look better and be used by someone else.

    I always do a line-by-line analysis of what the AI is suggesting.

    Any time I have leveraged AI to build out a full script with all desired functions all at once, I end up deleting most of the generated code. Context and “reasoning” can actually ruin the result I am trying to achieve. (Some models just love to add command line switch handling for no reason. That can fundamental change how an app is structured and not always desired.)




  • remotelove@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 month ago

    I am 46 and was in the ICU a couple months ago with super high blood pressure and a false alarm for a stroke. Up until last week, I hadn’t ran for proper exercise in 20 years:

    I can push myself to two miles, but it hurts. It only took a couple of months to work up to this point, so that was cool.

    But still, if he wants to show off that he is doing just a little better than a 46 year old with cardiovascular issues he can go right ahead. I ain’t going to yuck anyone else’s yum, but a comparison needed to be made.

    Edit: Fitbit doesn’t separate workout types that well without planning ahead and configuring a workout routine. “Lap 2” was a running mile, and the rest of the laps are walking.


  • remotelove@lemmy.catoMemes@sopuli.xyzEvery time!
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    Mixed theories on that, and most are older.

    On earlier computers, I had several ICs walk themselves out of sockets due to repeated thermal expansion cycles. Keeping the computer turned on eliminates most of that.

    Mechanical wear was another problem. Booting a computer was extremely taxing on old HDDs and floppy drives.

    Edit: Mechanical stuff also takes much more power to spin up and get running. The energy savings might be measurable if you just kept a computer running and didn’t power cycle it everyday.

    Most power supplies are really well designed now but they had a tendency to spike power briefly in when turned on. This was especially bad for older capacitors but also not healthy for the ICs. This still happens to a degree, but it’s not an issue.

    Now that boot times are reasonably fast and most everything is solid state and power managed really well, turning a computer off is fine.

    However, I just assume most electronics now just go into some type of deep sleep mode unless fully disconnected from any power source. That likely isn’t true in many cases, but I consider it healthy level of paranoia.