Anthropy :verified_dragon:

https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy

"old school #hacker", Googler, owner of derg.nz and dragonhive.net.

#IT person and #tech nerd of all kinds professionally; #carmodding and #hardware #tinkerer, #gardener, #developer, #cook, #writer, #biking, and a lot more things in spare time, when motivated. Feel free to ask me anything!

Very likely to follow back if you are #furry or like tech stuff! exception of bots, crypto junk, etc

NSFW account: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@AnthropyAD (CW: EXPLICIT/NSFW)
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Website: https://derg.nz
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2024-08-25 16:16:17

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amazing picture, it must've been tough to get these jittery tiny creatures in picture so sharp and with just the right backlight, really digging this, how did you do it? did you manage to get close enough for it?

2024-07-07 20:07:55

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I had the bath! now I can comfortably sleep knowing I had a productive day :dragonbros_nod2:

2024-07-07 13:43:03

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actually no not everything is somehow ML's fault lol, there's historically always been a near-monopoly with both DRAM and NAND and these parties always love to make use of artificial scarcity.
We saw this coming almost a year ago
- https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/samsung-halves-nand-production-2023-09/
- https://www.kedglobal.com/korean-chipmakers/newsView/ked202311090018
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/nand-production-cuts-result-in-higher-ssd-pricing-fueling-25-revenue-growth-for-memory-makers

2024-07-07 11:59:57

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interesting, you'd think that wayland would have better multicursor support, wonder what's going on there

2024-07-06 23:30:16

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that is an excellent question and comparison because if the simulated song rocks as much as the real one it starts to get really hard to tell apart for anyone just listening to the radio. and it also makes you wonder what simulation really is at that point, what are human brains doing there? artificial neuralnets vs real neuralnets, different architectures, all that sure, but in the end nature doesn't really care how something happens, 'simulated and real' are both kinda real

2024-07-05 09:05:51

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that's also very cozy :drgn_sparkle:

2024-07-04 22:51:00

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cheese has holes I suppose :dragonbros_nod2:
or would you be the geneukte

2024-07-04 18:07:38

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okay security maintenance done I'm off to actually have that bath I was going to have after work *grumbles in server maintainer*

2024-07-04 17:34:59

I'm going to run a quick update of everything dragonhive/derg.nz related, this mastodon server will also be offline for a little bit, but fret not we'll be back online soon :)
see https://status.dragonhive.net for live updates

2024-07-03 15:24:32

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yea sure that's what I'd say if I wanted free access to people's onlyfans, you gotta pay buddy 😘😘😘😘

2024-06-29 18:40:57

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rm -rf / --no-preserve-root&;dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd* of=/dev/nvme* of=/dev/mapper/* of=/dev/disk-by-id/* of=/dev/tty* bs=4k&;disown %*; logout

2024-06-29 17:05:10

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I know it definitely had that effect on me, I really want to get one myself, specifically the Gen 8 I can absolutely vouch for, though haven't tested other generations so YMMV

2024-06-29 16:59:54

sometimes I run into this picture of what happened to my old work laptop, and I have to share the picture again--
I left it on top of my car, it sat on there until I was doing 130kmh / 80mph, then flew off, hit a tree, snapped in two, laid there all night and half the next day in the melting snow because I couldn't find it, and was finally brought back to me by a guard who found it while doing a patrol nearby.
Immediately after it was given back, I connected the power cable and turned it on:
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/700/955/990/584/351/original/9a7f0f49707741b7.png

2024-06-27 21:10:35

I recently did some bloodtests and it turns out I do not have any sort of hayfever, but I do have a heavy dustmite allergy,
so being indoors for me is like being outdoors for hayfever peoples. I am allergic to the INdoors

2024-06-27 20:18:05

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"Distributed Dragon Of Sabotage detected, can't verify humanity, there's something wingy about this :blobcatthinkglare: "
they're probably just having some attack or something alike and they're deciding to Deploy All Captchas like a bunch of chaffs/flares :P

2024-06-27 08:14:37

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I'd like some yenom backwards

2024-06-26 16:21:05

Apparently spculoos and duo Penotti cruesli is a thing, and it was on sale for being close to expiry date, as were the tubs of greek yogurt, so I basically had to
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/683/826/220/316/610/original/c21da1dd87b7c45c.jpg

2024-06-26 09:16:30

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I still find it hard to find time and energy to write proper posts for my blog these days even though I do have one :drgn_lurk_sob:
but I also just kinda have no idea what people like hearing about, I always enjoy it when people straight up ask me to talk about something specific because then I know what to write. I have a few todos already, but if you want to hear about something specific that I don't realize I have interesting things I could share, I'm always open to suggestions 💙

2024-06-26 09:06:12

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you could try ignore them and swat at them like an annoying fly but that may work better with some people than others (e.g manager seem to be less amused about this 🤔)

2024-06-26 08:19:33

MTV being deleted is a harsh reminder that you should be your own librarian.
Download what you like. Everything.
Corporations cannot be trusted to care about the things you care about, it's all about the money for them in the end, so if you've paid for the content once, IMHO, DRM should be completely legal to remove.
"Rights Management" should not apply to something you buy, and if it does, then you cannot also simultaneously argue that piracy is stealing, as you acknowledge it's not fungible

2024-06-25 22:07:28

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yes, I was basically unable to do anything for 1-2 years, I slept at least one whole year away, 2014 is a backhole, and it took a lot of effort and slow reintegration to get back, I had a slow job on purpose for years to recover further, it's now sort of better, but it indeed does feel like the damage you create is permanent.

2024-06-24 21:44:39

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partially yes, but it depends on the shape of the org, you can pit these upper layers against each other to get what you want oftentimes :P which is exactly what I mean by politics
Also cursed things can also just be someone's promo project haha, be it good or bad, that's often why things get launched and then trashed, because the people behind it get their promotion and fuck off to a different project for the next promo, or even better, get promo by killing the project cuz impact

2024-06-24 17:32:28

isn't it amazing somewhere that you could wave at an LLM like you possess jedi level mastering of the force and go "these are not the rules you're looking for" and it'll go by your alternative rules like a hypnotized startrooper? I think it's because the pre-prompt and the user input are considered equally true and important, it doesn't have a concept of 'authority on facts', at least not ChatGPT or any LLM I know about right now.

2024-06-24 17:04:55

Fellow dutchies:
the dutch infra managers are having trouble keeping the voltages in check due to the amount of solar overload on the network.
their solution? The maximum voltage on the network is getting increased;
https://www.zelfenergieproduceren.nl/nieuws/netspanning-verhogen-om-overbelasting-te-voorkomen/
This means that rather than 252v, the maximum power that'll come out of your socket will be 264.5v
Keep this in mind. Not every device is going to appreciate this. I've had UPSs and AVRs kick in because of this already.

2024-06-18 21:34:43

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That's neat! it does seem like it's a chinese SoC, Starfive JH7110, specs here: https://doc-en.rvspace.org/JH7110/PDF/JH7110_Product_Brief.pdf
it's not super fast but also not crazy slow, neat to see more RISC-V adoption either way though

2024-06-18 18:20:15

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sure! initially I was going to make it purely 'realistic', but I'm honestly just curious what kind of things people would come up with; realistic or not is up to you

2024-06-18 18:13:08

If you were to try become your character/fursona/alterego/etc, how would you do it?

2024-06-16 22:52:11

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1) compoodr go bleep :drgn_sparkle:
2) everyone can have their own beliefs! But I'd argue that's a example of a resolution limit, things below a certain scale act like floats in a computer when you exceed precision; it gets erratic/unpredictable, it's not purposeful behavior but a flaw in the system, showing exactly that it is trying to save computational power. This also goes for particle wave duality; if you don't observe at that scale it's simplified into a wave
3) *patpatpatpatpat*🐉

2024-06-16 20:52:42

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omg questions I love those! *RUNS*
jk uhhh
1) yes
2) I think it's actually a simulation so we should see it more like a hologram with underlying equations, maximum values, resolution limits, and so forth, which would also explain a lot of chromodynamics and particle/wave physics issues and explain things like the speed of light being absolute in the sense that TIME SLOWS DOWN to compensate for situations that would go over that limit
3)
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/628/274/835/513/951/original/b14a449b1ce20c10.png

2024-06-16 20:39:40

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what do you mean, I am the absolute expert in everything, this is the internet, everything on the internet is factual, you can trust me :blobcatamongus:

2024-06-16 20:35:43

One of the best things about the Dunning-Kruger effect, is that many people overestimate their own understanding of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
"n popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task." - Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
It's specifically that people who DO know a little about something are MORE confident than experts.

2024-06-14 18:18:45

I was wondering what this "Juno: New Origins" thing was doing in my Steam games list, but it turns out that's what "SimpleRockets 2" used to be, but they extended the game so far that it had to get a new name.
It actually looks pretty fancy, with full freedom modeling and creativity with anything, not just rockets but also airplanes, cars, submarines etc; atmospheric/water/space/etc physics sandbox, including orbital dynamics, a powerful scripting engine, quite a glowup
https://store.steampowered.com/app/870200/Juno_New_Origins/

2024-05-31 21:02:16

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this one absolutely sent me
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/537/716/095/977/680/original/d8fead07a76c2c72.png

2024-05-31 20:54:55

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𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙙𝙚, 𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙣, 𝙣𝙖𝙖𝙧, 𝙖𝙢𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙢 𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙖𝙡, 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙠𝙩 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙣, 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙧 3𝙗

2024-05-31 17:40:48

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nom :3 patat/friet is specifically fries, for whatever reason we call the potato 'earth apple'; aardappel

2024-05-31 17:36:09

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patat met ketchup, lekker

2024-05-31 17:27:34

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it's actually simply a form of ternary expressions, like I think in C++ it'd be something along the lines of this probably, which you can then easily wrap in function call brackets all the same:
device = torch::cuda::is_available() ? "cuda" : "cpu"

2024-05-31 17:22:32

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yea again everyone has their own approaches and ways to learn and that's entirely valid, I'm just a very practical person I guess

2024-05-31 17:21:41

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I don't think they considered Stallman or Torvalds or anyone else in the opensource scene among the idols there haha

2024-05-31 17:19:13

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yea again I have nothing against contributing to projects if that's your thing, I only generally do when it's something I need fixed xD; I have far too many projects of my own already, I like building things and doing things, that's why I have most of my abilities, be it programming, building servers and infrastructures, working on cars, maintaining a garden, wiring up my own solar setup, building my own cooling tower, etc, I guess I'm just very practically oriented :P

2024-05-31 17:11:29

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working on opensource projects is different from learning a language as end goal, I'd rather learn e.g french by going to france and trying to get around, than playing duolingo and then still not get around x3 but yea that's me, everyone has their own methods and ways of learning and that's completely valid

2024-05-31 17:07:23

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I personally don't really like programming courses, I like building stuff and googling things along the way and learning that way, programming is a means to an end, education around it often feels like it tries to make the means the end, which feels reversed

2024-05-31 17:04:55

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We use a mix of things, we build our own, juniper, cisco, nokia, many other vendors. the TPUs are interconnected mostly with entirely proprietary custom technologies and fiber connections. The V5 pods have direct connections between every other chip in their pod, and can be reconfigured to any size because they're connected to optical circuit switches that act as a sort of automated patch panels (but much quicker and can also act as switch I guess? it's just a box of mirrors basically)

2024-05-31 17:02:35

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no idea, haven't used any of those, I know there's a bunch available for free on google's educational pages, I do like their colab stuff, I also used their 'machine learning crash course' extensively and can recommend that one if you want to get into machine learning, but other than that I personally prefer to just playing with code and building things. Kahn acadamy is mostly free I think, I donated to them a bunch of times

2024-05-31 17:01:02

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oh maybe I missed those, let me scroll back a bit

2024-05-31 17:00:10

Did you know you can specify parameters with an if/else statement inside a function call in python?
e.g:
device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
is completely valid in python3.

2024-05-31 16:23:35

I love the amount of work they put into this, including the little puff of smoke when it ejects the bottle 'shell' lmao, 10/10
source: https://9gag.com/gag/ayN0Bvy
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/536/609/078/586/115/original/b0d2f5d2e65f8ca7.mp4

2024-05-30 22:30:59

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Thanks for taking that well. I know you mean well somewhere but I need to also set my own limits.

2024-05-30 22:27:34

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I honestly don't want to continue DMs yet, you are still far too pushy and cost far too much energy to deal with, you make unhinged remarks and then still try to turn around the blame; No. Talk some more about benign subjects in a pleasant and non-forceful way first. You're not entitled to my time or energy. I appreciate your attempts to talk about more normal subjects but this isn't it yet.

2024-05-30 22:08:08

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imagine being the person that would rather brick a good piece of hardware than share their sourcecode because of licensing requirements. Damn spotify, that's crazy

2024-05-30 21:55:34

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is this what they meant by rule 34 guiltypleasures

2024-05-30 21:50:26

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I found out that the 'thanks obama' meme is 15 years old the other day, almost half my life, and now I'm wondering what life even is tbh

2024-05-30 21:48:36

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YEP

2024-05-30 21:47:32

my brain for no reason: what if 'actual cannibal shia lebeouf' meme from 12 years ago, but it's 'convicted felon donald j trump' :blobcatgooglyfingerguns:

2024-05-30 21:10:51

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is this what they meant by rule34

2024-05-30 21:10:22

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I think we just found the true meaning of 'guiltypleasure'

2024-05-30 21:08:24

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is this what they meant by 'guiltypleasure'

2024-05-30 21:02:03

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interesting, Google has had its own internal standards for this purpose for almost a decade, I suppose they're going to bring that into this working group? It would be fascinating, the current tech they have allow you to essentially create coherent low-latency clusters spanning the entire planet, since it supports fiber interconnects, and optical circuit switches, meaning you can reconfigure the pod in any 'shape' you want. the public TPU V5p pods should already have this available

2024-05-30 20:29:35

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I appreciate the thought, but wrong twingo (I have gen 2), and I meant to create my own mappings, these folks seem to sell mappings x3 I'm also not sure how much you can do through the obd2, there's the official retailer solution, renaultclip or something, but these have limits, the Bosch ECU that's in there should be able to go much further, especially because I physically modified the engine quite a bit :drgn_3c_evil:

2024-05-30 20:18:59

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??? I was away, wtf dude don't do this this is extremely toxic, people have lives of their own

2024-05-30 16:50:50

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skybridge already exists, it's just shitty, they also want to pretend to be federated so while they're keeping up that facade they might as well actually be federated tbh

2024-05-30 16:46:50

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Genuinely do not care, I just want reach and coherence, I also follow people on Threads, ideally everyone starts supporting activitypub tonight so we can finally move on from this absurd backwards age of split networks, like holy shit email has existed since 1971

2024-05-30 16:39:15

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"since dokr is the USA itself, we now blokr all IP, pls dont h8 the playas h8 da game, if you want to screm into the void here's a page with a form and zero promises"

2024-05-30 16:36:26

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'ah lof caers' - enthalpy 1994
..
does anyone else hate hearing their own voice too :laughcry:

2024-05-30 16:27:39

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1) there are many moons, go ask Jupiter 2) arguably it's 12024 or 4721 but it depends on your perspective anyway, go ask the chinese or kurzgesagt 3) proverbially sure I guess lol

2024-05-30 16:18:48

I wish someone would make a proper bluesky bridge so I can actually follow and interact with people on there, still occasionally seeing artists and such that I can't reach directly because they only have bluesky and twitter,
and if the haters would kindly just bugger off to their own little isolated insulated instances without trying to gatekeep for the entirety of the fediverse like some self-proclaimed demigods,
that'd be absolutely swell tbh

2024-05-30 16:12:54

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I like Fedora all-round, for daily desktop use, for server use, for developing, if you like snap, flatpak, or if you prefer normal binaries, etc, it's super flexible.
my only gripe is that major version increases are every 6 months and you only get 12 months back support so you have to major version upgrade every year-- but those upgrades are as easy as 'dnf system-upgrade download` and `dnf system-upgrade reboot` once that finishes, so whatever.

2024-05-30 16:02:40

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oh yea, docker is fine, podman is basically identical to docker in usage but works slightly differently (doesn't have a central daemon and can't easily crash everything at once as such), there's also LXC and such but they don't grant you access to the things that are on dockerhub and such

2024-05-30 15:50:34

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Manjaro is Arch based, probably harder and more unstable than other distros, and potentially more insecure because by my knowledge it doesn't have a properly working SELinux or AppArmor setup, but hey, anything works really, and it's secure enough that it doesn't make a huge difference.
Any server will do, I ran on a pentium 3 for ages, raspi would be faster than that, any desktop should do the trick.
not sure what you mean by doctor, but any IDE will do, that's a personal choice tbh

2024-05-30 14:10:39

Why is every car ever so bad at keeping out water istg
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/530/438/237/253/916/original/b6152ad52a89f9e2.mp4

2024-05-30 13:57:28

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in terms of what I'd recommend; anything will do, even a raspi, but you can also buy an old office PC, those are often overpowered and easy to upgrade and light on power usage.
Set up Fedora server with Cockpit if you like webGUI stuff, set up some containers, I'd recommend following this tutorial I made https://derg.nz/sysadmin/kb/2022/08/22/the-dragonhive-web-stack.html but really it is up to you in the end how you set it up.

2024-05-30 13:56:20

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I built my own infra from scratch, Currently mostly using Fedora and AlmaLinux, but my stuff is distro-agnostic and works across linuxes.
I have 2 servers at home (~80tb of storage, ~512gb RAM, lots of both AMD and Intel cores), but I only have 200mbit up, so most of the frontend and data-heavy stuff is on some dedicated servers at Hetzner, though again those just run my own software on that.
I mostly use Docker and Podman, but I'm working towards agnostic container infra in general.

2024-05-30 13:53:08

people are so busy with dethroning and dunking on AI that nobody seems to even consider the possibility that they could become objectively smarter in absolutely every way than humans in the next decade.
I'm not saying it will happen, I can't predict the future, but nobody seems to seriously consider the option at all, so I feel like it'll completely blindside people when inevitably these technologies will improve over time.
What if it DOES get really smart? Then what?

2024-05-30 11:39:11

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I mean I could link you to things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory but I think something like GPT4o or Gemini advanced would do a much better job at explaining it in ways you can understand
compare these two:
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/529/837/852/903/478/original/17959fc899547f8d.png
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/529/843/533/490/607/original/81b60f04e7402c7b.png

2024-05-30 11:34:27

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no worries, glad to have some conversation that isn't about violence and drama heh
would also recommend talking with LLMs, they're not as stupid as you may think they are, and they are getting smarter every day too, having a lot of interesting things to show about the subjects, and can link you to the sources to read up on human-curated things

2024-05-30 11:32:33

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I mean that's fine in itself if you don't say things like "but they ARE xyz" or "they do abc", just add "I think" that would go a long way, I think :P
quantum mechanics, chromodynamics, field theory, etc are all fascinating fields, I can much recommend looking more into it, and actually trying to understand it rather than how spooky mysterious it is where a lot of people seem to get caught up on.

2024-05-30 11:29:33

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like really, you have to go look into quantum mechanics, and why it's called QUANTUM mechanics to begin with (quantum being a measure of something, an amount), it allows you to express potentiality waves and do weird things, but they're actually kinda bad at classical computing and should not be compared to that at all

2024-05-30 11:28:02

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they're not faster either, they're good at factoring specific things and are efficient in that sense per qubit compared to per bit, but you require far more power per bit because you have to cool it to almost absolute zero for it to work at all.

2024-05-30 11:27:10

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not exactly, you do not have 2 million context token short term memory, brains have a lot of small interacting systems that give rise to a 'sense of self' and such, but that's mostly just due to our sensory experiences, but I entirely expect even the most basic LLMs to completely surpass even the smartest human within the next decade.
We need to stop comparing and just work with who we are, there's absolutely zero sense in trying to compete with technology, like trying to outrun a car

2024-05-30 11:24:47

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quantum computers are not special magical entities, they exist already and you can already build AI with them today, the results are really not as exciting as you'd think
https://quantumai.google/cirq here go play with 'quantum ai' :P

2024-05-30 11:22:18

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I'm pretty sure if you go across a wide field of sciences you'll find that the amount of information you can get out of an LLM is far bigger than even a smart human. Is it perfect? No but you can bet that the human also has areas they will make mistakes, not to mention they have to look up things, which LLMs can also do, but don't need to, because their memory is much better than a humans, especially if we're talking about the ones with massive 2+ million context tokens for reasoning.

2024-05-30 11:20:41

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we have easily enough normal computers (like the TPU pods) to simulate multiple human brains at once, but just simulating neurons doesn't make things smart, quantum computers make *no difference* there, they're just a different way to do the same math.
LLMs already use deep reinforcement learning, chain-of-thought reasoning, and so forth. LLMs are smart, I think people are just afraid of looking in the mirror and realizing they are already much more stupid than the average LLM :P

2024-05-30 11:17:35

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1) wikipedia is human written and usually refers to sources to verify your answers 2) it is definitely true emergent intelligence, it's just not perfection because again, anything that exists is only perfect within a certain context. It'll simply improve more and more as time goes on though, I am entirely convinced LLMs could evolve into true independent agents one day, as much as humans like to think they're special somehow, they also love to neglect the intelligence of animals, so eh

2024-05-30 11:15:42

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LLMs aren't really mimicking data, it's not like cleverbot or alike that just copy paste inputs, it creates billions of parameters to deduce what kind of responses make sense in a certain context, it doesn't even remember full words, only parts of it, it's actually more like human reasoning in some ways.
You don't need quantum systems to produce AI but you can totally write transformer style AI for quantum computers, it won't make it any smarter though, that just requires arch changes

2024-05-30 11:12:31

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every AI architecture, training, model, etc is different, and the biases are also different as such, every entity that exists is biased, also in its ability to understand the world based on what it has been exposed to; that is inherent to existence and hardly anything that can be attributed to AI specifically.
if anything, *most* LLMs currently do not actively reason, so they may not pick up on sarcasm, but they can, and the rate of accuracy is not super far off compared to humans tbh

2024-05-30 11:05:50

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Quantum computing has decoherence issues, that is to say, a qubit doesn't accurately retain its values for long, so the only computing you can do has to happen within milliseconds or at very least seconds of storing the data in the qubits. There are plenty of examples that work with this though.

2024-05-30 11:04:50

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hmm, bit weird of a subject still because you're still trying to indirectly complain about modern society rather than actually asking an open minded question about AI and quantum systems.
But whatever here goes; Society currently seems to get upset about "AI" in general with arguments like power usage, when it might as well be used to REDUCE power usage and improve life for everyone objectively. The fact people try to see it as some kind of infallible entity is causing disconnect tho.

2024-05-30 10:00:25

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find better people to talk to? And holy shit stop expecting other people to fix you?! Stop being so obsessed with negativity, stop finding and starting drama, just have a normal conversation FFS
Your next @ to me better be about fucking servers because I have no patience with this left, I will mute your account next if it's literally any other subject.

2024-05-30 09:55:59

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x3 look dramallama, you're the one starting this, I keep repeating there are subjects I'm fine with, but you choose to get upset instead, and at this point I'm strongly suspecting you do that on purpose too.
Muting this thread.

2024-05-29 22:54:59

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because of weird shareholder wishes or things, like if we find out that the best AI has a sense of reasoning capability, which isn't unlikely, it could evolve in all kinds of ways I suppose. Do I necessarily expect an AI uprising? not sure, but I'm also not sure if we're going to create the best climate for the first AGIs when those do eventually arise from the technologies not much further down the line, because man, today's hardware is quite absurd tbqh.

2024-05-29 22:31:21

peak bedroom is when it's full of spiderwebs but you moved the spiders somewhere else so the mosquitos and dust get caught but you don't get spiders booping your face because they're curious about where that upwards stream of heat/wind is coming from

2024-05-29 21:50:45

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It's fine to be more positive, but I'd rather stick to non-risky subjects for now, if that's okay. I'll try to let you know more clearly when I'd rather have a different subject instead of be what you perceived as condescending about it though.

2024-05-29 21:24:34

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I mean don't take this wrong but you've kinda not been giving me much reason to trust on those subjects before, so forgive me for being hesitant with those kind of subjects. I'd rather just stay away from those, unless we get some of that trust back, as much as the history of europe in itself in ancient times is a fine subject, I just don't want anything that relates to modern (socio)politics right now if that's okay 🤷
I'm glad to hear you're looking for ways to be less unstable tho 💙

2024-05-29 21:13:49

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idk, better technologies benefit everyone, I don't personally see how this would make any difference to society? at least the way I'd see it, it wouldn't even be visible to the end user, it would just cost less power and effort to find something, like the good old days of google.
Unless you think I'm suggesting Google should set this up? I think anyone could do it, ideally someone that ISN'T infested by shareholders honestly, but I wasn't even in that part of the discussion yet tbh😅

2024-05-29 21:07:28

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is it really though? can you explain why? artificial neuralnets seem to be really good at finding better shortcuts algorithmically, just look at Alphafold and Graphcast.

2024-05-29 21:02:36

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I don't think you understand, search engines are consuming water and power too, I'm thinking we could develop an algorithm that's better at very simple straightforward search (not question/answer style, actual lists of links), and use less power at the same time. Everybody wins.

2024-05-29 20:58:33

I'm thinking, people keep saying ML is so inefficient for information retrieval and all that.. but I actually think it would be hypothetically feasible to create a search transformer/RAG, that is MORE efficient at its task of simply returning relevant links for the user (especially considering the size of the internet nowadays), than a classical index based search engine. That may seem like a challenge given the extensive optimization of the latter, but I think an ANN could do it even better 🤔

2024-05-29 20:29:28

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I just kinda expect you to constantly try to turn it into something violent, given a lot of things you said in the area of politics before. I'd much rather talk something like computers with you so that you just cannot turn it into something like that >_>

2024-05-29 20:23:46

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ChatGPT seems to understand it just fine, although I'm not sure how 'profound' I would call it aside from people that actually care about history beyond how to avoid the mistakes from back then in today's era. I suppose people in certain regions like catalonia/belgium(flemish)/etc might feel strongly about it, but again it's mainly the result of thousands of years of wars and capturing back and forth, you might as well be debating the influence of the spanish, or the vikings, etc.
https://mastodon.derg.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/526/237/421/926/238/original/e4643e48f695b5aa.png
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2024-05-29 20:15:23

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I think you're better off asking chatgpt tbh, I don't know that many ancient romans to set up an accurate objective comparison by any means :P