Ageroth

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had to look it up myself, it's their name for what Americans call "overtime"
like if you work over 40 hours in a week, any hours you work over 40 are paid out at 150% of your normal rate, some places do 200% for Sunday or holidays.

Found this article from a couple days ago.
https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/1-million-australian-workers-at-risk-of-penalty-rate-cuts-while-bossesare-promised-free-lunches/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm going to take your point to the extreme.

It's only open source if the camera that took the picture that is used in the stock image that was used to create the texture is open source.
You used a fully mechanical camera and chemical flash powder? Better publish that design patent and include the chemistry of the flash powder!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I haven't bought anything from Walmart, Amazon, or Target in over a decade, probably close to two. Sure it costs a little more, but I try to source as much as I can from Costco which helps balance but otherwise I do almost all my shopping from local groceries (surefine, tops) and local hardware stores (franchises I know but generally locally owned)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Jacobs said the goal of the Miami board, and all civilian review boards, is to build trust. He added while the civilian panel itself couldn’t solve all police-community relationship issues, the trust it created would.

“It was never about sticking it to the police officers,” Jacobs said. “I have two kids. I want to raise them in a city where we don’t need police accountability or police oversight because they do the right thing all the time.”

Well there's your problem, wanting accountability for people with authority. Those people got into positions of authority so there wouldn't be any accountability, how dare you try to hold them responsible for their actions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Is it worth giving up your data for a bigger screen?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Are you?
Modern "Televisions" are pretty much smartphones with a big ass screen connected to them, and as such often requires an internet connection and some form of a login to use, even if you're hardwired directly to it.

Modern tvs aren't just a screen that displays the data you send it, they're a standalone ad serving machine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This is also true because truly random number generation on computers doesn't really exist. https://youtu.be/tP-Ipsat90c. Numberphile has a couple neat videos on randomness, here's one

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago

IIUC the calculation of GDP doesn’t factor in whether the produced goods serve a human need - the system can in theory continue to optimize for ever-increasing GDP while every human on earth starves to death.

There's an old joke I remember about economists and the GDP.

Two economists are walking through the jungle and come across a gigantic pile of lion scat. One turns to the other and said I'll pay you 100$ to eat a bite of that shit.
Being an economists and 100$ being worth a lot, the guy eats the shit and gets paid.
A little while later they come across a pile of rhino dung. The now richer economist turns to the first and offers 100$ for him to take a bite out of this pile. 100$ is again a lot of money so he does it and eats the shit.
As they're walking along, both picking their teeth, one turns to the other and asks "did we both just eat shit for nothing?" And the other days "of course not, now the GDP of the jungle has increased by 200$!"

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion.

Yes, DEI is just the new name for "stop discriminating against non-white males"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your analogy to mechanical systems are exactly where the breakdown to comparison with the human brain occurs, our brains are not like that, we don't only have the blocks of text loaded into us, sure we only learn what we get exposed to but that doesn't mean we can't think of things we haven't learned about.
The article I linked talks about the separation between the formation of thoughts and those thoughts being translated into words for linguistics.

The fact that you "don’t even know why the how the brain creates an articulated spoken word is even relevant here" speaks volumes to how much you understand the human brain, particularly in the context of artificial intelligence actually understanding the words it generates and the implications of thoughts behind the words and not just guessing which word comes next based on other words, the meanings of which are irrelevant.

I can listen to a song long enough to learn the words, that doesn't mean I know what the song is about.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Funny to me how defensive you got so quick, accusing of not reading the linked paper before even reading it yourself.

The reason OP was so rude is that your very premise of "what is the brain doing if not statistical text prediction" is completely wrong and you don't even consider it could be. You cite a TV show as a source of how it might be. Your concept of what artificial intelligence is comes from media and not science, and is not founded in reality.

The brain uses words to describe thoughts, the words are not actually the thoughts themselves.

https://advances.massgeneral.org/neuro/journal.aspx?id=1096

Think about small children who haven't learned language yet, do those brains still do "stastical text prediction" despite not having words to predict?

What about dogs and cats and other "less intelligent" creatures, they don't use any words but we still can teach them to understand ideas. You don't need to utter a single word, not even a sound, to train a dog to sit. Are they doing "statistical text prediction" ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This statue looks like the moon sisters from Kubo and the two strings

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