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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This looks awesome! I'd just been collect my GPS data thinking one day I'd analyze/visualize it on my own-- not expecting anyone else to make a such a comprehensive program. The UI looks really slick. I'm looking forward to testing it out. Hopefully this weekend. Thank you for this!

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

Didn't the same thing happen with authors and google 10+ years ago? That wasn't ever resolved, was it? Normally, I'd look it up, but I have a feeling I'd be spending time to be disappointed by the answer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Wow, that was a wild read. I kept going to see if the man responsible for Radithor would get his after finding out it made him rich.

Tap for spoilerNo legal justice but ...

Bailey died of bladder cancer ... his body was exhumed nearly 20 years later, it was ... "ravaged by radiation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._A._Bailey#Death

I guess it's a good example of Hanlon's razor, "Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"

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

I've been tinkering with many of these lately, but I've been surprised by the lack of interoperability. I've yet to work with a bookmark manager that can import and export a netscape html file, without dramatically changing its structure. Of the top 2 for my needs, Linkwarden doesn't export to html and linkding does, but loses the hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

based on nothing.

Your first comment took a detour to follow a valid post with confirmation bias-led ad hominem. I think it was a safe assumption based on your defensiveness, but keep those blinders up.

I often speak positively of specific ML and ai algorithms in this community, and I suspect the only downvotes I get are from ai fanboys who don't like hearing their favorite chatbot is a grift led by billionaires.

There’s no room for rational discussion about AI on Lemmy.

Seems to contradict your first comment, but sure, we're the irrational ones. We must be if we don't like ai /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Do you have something to add, or do you just want to take a cheap shot at people who are critical of a thing you like?

Most people here have a better understanding of ai than ai consumers i know. I find this community to be anti ai, as big tech hype/marketing brand, not anti ai as a branch of programming that includes ML and efficient, well-scoped models.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Few things that make my blood boil like Trump saying "J-6 hostages."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Funny. I was thinking the ai post leaned towards Don Hertzfeldt's style, then saw the "original" and it look even more like Hertzfeldt (see hands), which means ai even manages to fuck up stick-figure fingers!

Edit: btw, good eye/attention to detail!

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

I appreciated her closing response and the distinction made between over-hyped LLMs and specific ML models.

AI is such an interesting word because it's sort of like the word transportation and that you have bicycles, you have gas guzzling trucks, you have rocket ships, they're all forms of transportation, but they all serve different purposes and they have different cost benefit trade-offs.

And to me the quest to artificial general intelligence has the worst trade-offs because you are trying to build fundamentally an everything machine, but ultimately it can't actually do all of the things. So not only do you confuse the public about what you can actually do with these technologies, which leads to harm because then people start asking it for things like medical information and instead getting medical misinformation back.

But also it requires all of these things that I described, the colossal resource consumption, the colossal labor exploitation. But there are many, many different types of AI technologies that I think are hugely beneficial. And this is task specific models that are meant to target solving a specific well scoped challenge, something like integrating renewable energy into the grid, weather prediction, drug discovery, health care, where you identify cancer earlier on in an MRI scan.

These are all very task specific. It's very clear what the use case is. It's — you can curate very, very small data sets, train them on very, very small computers. And I think if we want broad based benefit from AI, we need broad based distribution of these types of AI technologies across all different industries.

 

I recently heard mention of the author and book on a Paris Marx podcast, either System Crash or Tech Won't Save Us. This interview was brought to my attention by someone I know to be somewhat neutral about ai, so I'm excited to find an ai critic reaching a broader audience. I thought interview was great, too.

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

Unfortunately they seem to make products better until they reach saturation, then they split into tiers, raise prices (and/or lower offerings - looking at you Max) and start introducing ads into paid tiers.

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

Incentivizing advertisers to bombard viewers in the first few seconds before the countdown lets them skip?

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