egerlach

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[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agree, and to add: That the Finch West LRT doesn't have signal priority is criminal. I live in K-W, and the iON is good because it has signal priority, and it still gets stopped by traffic signals relatively frequently.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Alas that I have but one upvote to give.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I work primarily in "classical" AI and have been working with it on-and-off for just under 30 years now. Programmed my first GAs and ANNs in the 90s. I survived Prolog. I've had prolonged battles getting entire corporate departments to use the terms "Machine Learning" and "Artificial Intelligence" correctly, understand what they mean, and how to start thinking about them to incorporate them correctly into their work.

Thus why I chose the word "LLM" in my response, not "AI".

I will admit that I assumed that by "AI" Jimmy Carr was referring to LLMs, as that's what most people mean these days. I read the TL;DW by @masterspace@lemmy.ca but didn't watch the original content. If I'm wrong in that assumption and he's referring to classical AI, not LLMs, I'll edit my original post.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Ugh, I'm tired of point 2. Yes, LLMs have found a few patterns in large-scale study analyses that humans hadn't, but they weren't deep insights and there had been buried hypotheses around them from existing authors, IIRC (too lazy to source).

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I don't think they generally think that deeply. I think they really do want less illegal immigration (and less legal immigration, and the expulsion of all non-white, non-fundamentalist-Christian people) because that will create the "unified, blessed" nation they believe that they need to have.

That said, they aren't concerned about dealing with either of those issues rationally or efficiently. It's moral, not policy. "Impure" people who enter our "pure" nation are evil and must be thown out so we continue to have the favour of our deity (I refuse to write capital-g god here out of respsect for actual, loving Christian doctrine, as rare as it is). You deal with moral violations with exile and shame, not with compassion, wisdom, and welcoming.

Trump doesn't even get that deep. "How does this play in the ratings? (and secondarily, how do I look?)" That's it. It's why he likes Mamdani in person—he gets ratings.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No, they don't want any immigration, except from white South Africa apparently.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 54 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote. “There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them… I wish it hadn’t have turned out that way.” Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.

And there you go. "The other stuff" is more important than their own business. I'm willing to forgive a certain amount of being on the wrong side of history once they've seen the consequences of their actions, decided that they were wrong, and started the work to repair. But double down? Now you're saying you actually want this.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nebula link (if you have Nebula and would like to watch on a service that supports the creators more)

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 weeks ago

I… did not notice the community…

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🤓

(Recent Aurora convert here. Always preferred KDE to GNOME, but no shade. All in the family, amiright?)

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

There needs to be some subset/common theme for the Universal Blue distro family: Aurora, Bazzite, and Bluefin. I am not aesthetically talented enough to come up with such a collection.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do I spy a Bluefin user?

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