Vorticity

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Please tell me this is a satire account. Please?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well, I'm a dumbass. Thanks!

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The Japanese part of this is evidenced by the fact that some traffic lights are blue rather than green. As far as I know, they are standardizing everything to green now to avoid any confusion, but some older lights are still blue because the words were the same for blue and green.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Which of those is named after a rich dude? Penn, is kind of but only because Pennsylvania is named after a person. I don't think any of the rest are.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hope this gets challenged and knocked down. The only impact enforcent of this measure will have is reduced vaccination rates because vaccination is going to become more burdensome. Not only is it logistically and financially more difficult to go in for multiple vaccinations that used to be a single shot, it also means that kids will be ill from vaccines more often and out of school more often. This means more time off work for parents.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have been on the internet since 1993 and have always been disappointed that a subscription/donation model didn't beat out an ad-driven model. I wonder if this is going to push us towards a subscription/donation model as things move behind paywalls tplo protect against bots.

I don't really want to pay subscription fees, but I am definitely tired of ads and being the product. I'd rather be sold a good product.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"One quarter at a time" is being generous I think. They think microsecond to microsecond a lot of the time because that's how you carve corners off of the market.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I agree that this is ridiculous and hope the guy wins a hefy lawsuit over this. That said, you can't seriously tell me that other parts of the world don't also have corrupt, power hungry people who make it to local office here and there who do asinine stuff like this, can you? We have a lot to fix. I'm just not sure that this particular thing is what makes America ridiculous. There are so many more ridiculous things that impact so many more people.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Fattening the wallets of his cronies is basically the whole point of this presidency. That and being evil fascist fucks.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Why does everything that comes from this administration have to be the worst possible decision for any given situation? They're so dumb, you'd think they'd stumble into a good thing every once in a while.

Fuck these malicious assholes!

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone else who works in ML but as a user for research purposes, I agree that there is no technical distinction but we're talking about public communications here. You and I both know that AI and ML are the same thing. Most people do not. If I talked with my mom about AI she would assume I mean generative AI. She wouldn't understand the nuance in your comment.

In fact, even as a researcher who uses both simple ML techniques and generative AI, I tend to make the assumption that when someone mentions AI they mean generative AI.

Common language changes based on the common understanding of society. The fact that the technical terms mean something different from the common understanding in society means that we need to be even more careful with the terms that we use, especially with something as polarizing as generative AI.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wouldn't call that "doing a good job". If they were doing a good job, they would disambiguate Machine Learning from Generative AI. I don't know that they're doing this intentionally, but i would definitely appreciate that distinction being made.

 

I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

 

 

I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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