Vorticity

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 79 points 5 days 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 week 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 week 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.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anecdotally, after using an electric tooth brush, using a "normal" toothbrush leaves my teeth feeling fuzzy not matter how well I brush.

Also, it used to be that my teeth would feel super clean and smooth after the dentist. I barely notice the difference anymore because my electric toothbrush does such a good job.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think you forgot child rapists.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe read the article to see how science is done. They've accounted for this.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd argue that it is a lot easier to inform the public when the campaign doesn't have to cover as much area and that it becomes more difficult to buy every race when there are more of them.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This right here. My parents explained in all the ways they could. I still ended up smoking. We're a society and a society should have some responsibility to its kids. What happened to. The idea that it takes a village to raise a child? Some keep trying to heap all of the responsibility on parents when they're just being asked to forego fruity flavored cancer.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Okay, that was a pretty cool read! I had no idea these things existed. Thanks, I didn't expect to learn anything cool in a thread on Pete Hegzeth's poor hygiene.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I kind fo agree and kind of don't. I agree in that parents should take accountability for their children. That said, social media has been shown to be addictive and kids are frequently ahead of their parents technologically. One thing that could help is an education campaign that teaches parents how to effectively monitor their kid's online activity. Parents need some help figuring out what tools to use and how to use them I think.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They do have light and medium roasts, too. I'm not saying their coffee is great, but it's not all burnt either.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I like those too, but they're a different thing IMO.

 

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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