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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Ah, makes sense. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How does this influence the Drake equation? Previously it was assumed that free oxygen would require life, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Golden Dome? Srsly? Its so clear Trump named this himself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It was in the 60s! Look up Douglas Engelbart.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I understood this correctly, they analyzed incredibly blurry images and concluded that there are clouds of gas around galaxies, then they extrapolated the found gas up to all or almost all galaxies and concluded that it can fulfill the calculated expectations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

For almost no money of course. No, no there is nothing nefarious going on, you know. Everybody knows, we just want to help.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

True, they are probably not even transformers, but they are also trained with gradient descent.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be fair, there are some ways to use "AI" in biomedical research, although they used it before the recent "AI" boom. Things like specialized models for one use case, etc. The idea is to get the model to "think" like a protein, not like a human.

But then again, I'm not in the field and my only information is from an interview of a human geneticist about AI use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

I re-read it a few times already, and even though written in the 50s it holds up quite well (except for the total absence of computers). Its a brilliant read. Edit: to clarify, I meant the societal trends he projected are quite fascinating. Also the transition to a post scarcity society. It's not very prophetic obviously. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I left my code in way too good a shape. Even documented. They didn't deserve this at all. :)

 

Great that there is now a name to talk about this phenomenon. It plagues me to see that the school system seem to deteriorate from the ideals of the enlightenment to a mere cog-factory measured by expected economic value. Individual teachers can fight against it, but can't have much power when the cause is systemic.

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