• 0 Posts
  • 17 Comments
Joined 4 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 18th, 2021

help-circle
  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyz17 years*
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    7 days ago

    The real kicker is it was and is used in productive and constructive ways. It was just invisible until very recently. The ability to search for other photos of your pets in your photos app, the spam filters that keep your email (relatively) usable, the special effects tools that let artists paint out wires were all possible because of machine learning (used to refer to the subgroup of AI) and were made better by transformers.

    If this same tech were released in a post-Capitalist society there would be no need for every single company to ham fistedly shove it into every product that doesn’t need it.


  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzHD 137010 b
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    10 days ago

    I mean ‘g’. 1g is 9.81m/s^2. c is a speed, not an acceleration. g is acceleration.

    Not coincidentally, it’s the acceleration you experience from Earth’s gravity, but it doesn’t have to come from gravity. Astronauts routinely experience 3gs during takeoff from their rocket boosters.

    If you were in a rocket that accelerated at a constant 1g it would feel like Earth’s gravity, even in space. We don’t have any rockets capable of producing 1g for years.



  • Going from Photoshop to GIMP 3, it’s just not the same. I have a lot of respect for the project, but there are so many rough edges that it’s demoralizing at best.

    Here’s an example: in Photoshop, I select an object with the smart select brush (not available in GIMP), copy and paste it and it ends up on a new layer. I can drag the new layer around and draw on it. In GIMP, I paste a rectangle and the layer bounds are exactly locked to the paste area, so if I do something like feather the edges or try to draw on it I get a block of pixels. Without looking it up, can you tell me how to make the active layer size match the canvas size? And if I drag that layer, will it move the pixels or will it offset that layer and force me to rerun the “layer to document size” process?

    Not that Adobe hasn’t done a ton of Enshittification, but CS6 was pretty great for me.


  • Perhaps the parent commenter has apps they need to run for work? I know Microsoft Authenticator isn’t supported on Graphene, which is admittedly bullshit but it’s a requirement if you work in the government or high security industry like utilities. If that’s the case they should be given a work phone, but companies don’t do that most of the time in my experience.

    Or perhaps they’ve had a bad experience with an older version. I know that Ubuntu Mobile couldn’t even make calls on a lot of devices for a while. I recently had an experience where DTMF signaling didn’t work, which meant I couldn’t navigate phone trees to do things like get prescriptions filled.

    Point being, there are lots of real reasons folks are stuck in their predicament.

    The temptation to be snarky is strong, but we risk hurting imperfect allies instead of fighting our real enemies.





  • I’m super picky and not very good looking, so my “swipe right” rate is less than 1%.

    I used OkCupid a while back. Found myself in a relationship for about six years. Eventually we decided to kinda’ go our separate ways.

    Used it again. Got back into a relationship. It’s been ten years.

    My one regret is that when I was first using the site about 15 years ago I sent them 5 bitcoin to turn off ads for six months.

    I feel like they’re a boon to someone like me who doesn’t like to ask people out or even express interest in folks. “People should be able to go about their lives without someone like me hitting on them,” and that kind of thing. An app is a good way to opt-in to solicitation and has a low barrier to entry.






  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzVelma can't math.
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 months ago

    My guess is they lost the typesetting in a copy/paste. If you copy superscript or the unusual +/- character into an animation tool that doesn’t have the font or doesn’t recognize the typesetting it will drop the character or convert it to the nearest ASCII. If you’ve ever copied and pasted something into an email and had the formatting mangled, that’s like what happened here.


  • josephc@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldlazy ass
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    If each job takes 30 minutes to apply to, that’s 50 hours per week, assuming you don’t stop to eat or rest. I think my average job application takes a little longer unless I fill it with bullshit answers.

    That’s assuming you’re just filling applications. It doesn’t include finding them. I think in the time I was unemployed I passed over a few hundred absolutely reprehensible and morally objectionable positions.

    Why so much ghosting? My speculation is perverse incentives of the modern world. Recruiters and HR need to justify their ongoing existence so they open positions that don’t need to get filled so they can spend time filtering candidates. Meanwhile, candidates need to turn to auto filling jobs because and bulk applying because there are so many of these ghost jobs that recruiters who do need people can’t get matched up. This turns into a race to the bottom of automation and counter automation where everyone loses.




  • josephc@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzWho is the enemy?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    5 months ago

    Surprisingly, ChatGPT is the mortal enemy of a lot of machine learning researchers. It gives people a bad impression about what the field is, poisons future training data, and gives AI researchers who make truly remarkable and useful things a bad reputation because everyone “hates AI” when they really hate the stupid VC backed circlejerk that becomes inevitable in a society like this.