AdrianTheFrog

AdrianTheFrog, 1 day ago

depends on quantization

AdrianTheFrog, 1 day ago

xkcd.com/149/

AdrianTheFrog, 3 days ago

Currently any AI models that have the ability to make complex decisions are trained to recreate patterns from their training data. At its current state, you’d have to be pretty exceptionally stupid to make an AI that wants to kill you, and give it that ability at the same time. Of course - who knows what’s going on at all of these private corporations and military contractors, but I think regular war, fascism, and nuclear weapons are by orders of magnitude the bigger threat.

AdrianTheFrog, 4 days ago

Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left right corner. Sounds bad and is bad.

Remember, you’re probably more technical than the average person. Double ended extension chords sound fine if you haven’t heard of them before until you think about it for five seconds.

AdrianTheFrog, 6 days ago

Remind me how Mr. Joe is protecting trans people down in the southern states?

The president can say “Hey Congress, can you make this bill?” but Congress has no obligation to listen to him. Unless trans rights are being violated specifically by executive agencies, the president’s influence is pretty limited.

It’s different with Isreal, in that Biden has to approve foreign aid bills made by Congress, he himself expresses support for aid to Isreal, and he has the power to make treaties (as long as Congress approves them)

AdrianTheFrog, 5 days ago

Our government does not give him the power. I’m taking a class on the US government right now and this is literally just how it works. We give that power to congress and the states, and we can’t really change that without a constitutional amendment. This is with regards to trans rights in the south, he does actually have some more power when it comes to Israel.

AdrianTheFrog, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

They’re not a chip manufacturer designer though, and modern phone processors are already fast enough to do near real time text generation and fast image generation (20 tokens/second llama 2, ~1 second for a distilled SD 1.5, on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3)

Unfortunately, the cheapest phones with that processor seem about $650, and the Rabbit R1 costs $200 and uses a MediaTek Helio P35 from late 2018.

AdrianTheFrog, 7 days ago

Qualcomm is listed as having $10 billion in yearly profits (Intel has ~20B, Nvidia has ~80B), the news articles I can find about Rabbit say its raised around $20 million in funding ($0.02 billion). It takes a lot of money to make decent custom chips.

AdrianTheFrog, 10 days ago

I stopped being a Musk supporter when I found out he had a twitter.

I still think all of his companies are doing (to various extents) genuinely cool and useful things, but Musk in recent years at least has shown himself to be a terrible manager (not to mention a terrible person)

AdrianTheFrog, 10 days ago

It hasn’t been proprietary for a little while, its an official standard now. They had to open it in order to receive government funding for charger construction.

The North American Charging Standard (NACS), being standardized as SAE J3400, is an electric vehicle (EV) charging connector system developed by Tesla, Inc. It has been used by all North American market Tesla vehicles since 2021 and was opened for use by other manufacturers in November 2022. It is backwards compatible with the proprietary Tesla connectors made before 2021. (link)

AdrianTheFrog, 10 days ago

A requirement for them to receive $7.5 billion in government funding for charger construction was for them to allow other cars to charge on their network, which required opening the standard.

AdrianTheFrog, 11 days ago

The 10 month ago one (on the right) looks like the original, it was a much more upvoted thread and has much less suspicious usernames

AdrianTheFrog, 11 days ago

Yeah, this is still what I see

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5131acc0-b77c-4de0-893c-af65bf23dd9a.png

probably some syncing issues because the post was from a different instance, if I click on the little fediverse button to view it from lemmy.blahaj.zone it shows them in the other order

AdrianTheFrog, 11 days ago

Don’t worry, we can still use this to criticize the US (through us indirectly causing this regime to take power by helping to overthrow the leader of the previous, more democratic revolution)

AdrianTheFrog, 11 days ago

Are these companies doing something specifically to help the Isreali military, or is it just that they operate in large part in Isreal? (and therefore give money through taxes)

AdrianTheFrog, 11 days ago

Disappointed to see both Alstom and Siemens on the list, I guess I’ll have to get my trains from Stadler from now on.

On an unrelated note, it seems Intel is only on the list because they operate in large part there and are making a new fab (with some support from government grants), but it’s inside the area that Isreal has had internationally recognized as its territory since 1949. Honestly I’m surprised that was all they could find on them - Isreal is known for its computerized surveillance systems and I’m sure a lot of it is powered (or has been in the past) by Intel CPUs.

AdrianTheFrog, 11 days ago

Their linked sources talk about Siemens providing traffic infrastructure for Isreali-only roads through the West Bank and transit lines that pass through parts of the West Bank.

Honestly it seems like their sources have put in a lot more effort than they have, they sometimes mention the most trivial things when obviously bad (and internationally illegal) things are simultaneously being done that these companies support they don’t even mention.

AdrianTheFrog, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

Some more youtubers:

• Sebastian Lague
• Stefan from CNC Kitchen
• Sam from Wendover
• Jason Slaughter (NJB)
• Reece Martin (RMTransit)

AdrianTheFrog, 14 days ago

Having anything that can save lives over an alternative is an improvement. In general. Yes, we should be pushing for safer self driving, and regulating that. But if we can start saving lives now, then sooner is better than later.

AdrianTheFrog, 13 days ago

Because that’s expensive and can be done with a camera.

Expensive, as in probably less than $600? Compared to the $35000 cost of a tesla?

(comparing the cost of the iPhone 12 (without lidar) and iPhone 12 pro (with lidar), we can guess that the sensor probably costs less than $200, so 3 of them (for left, right, and front) would cost probably less than $600)

lidar can actually be very cheap and small. Unfortunately, Apple bought the only company that seems to make sensors like that (besides some other super high end models)

There have been a lot of promising research papers on the technology lately though, so I expect more, higher resolution and cheaper lidar sensors to be available relatively soon (next couple years probably).

AdrianTheFrog, 15 days ago

Depends, I think. In the same order of magnitude definitely.

Edit: this makes me wonder, is it possible to get an orthographic perspective with an ordinary size (but maybe not standard) lens on a normal camera?

AdrianTheFrog, 15 days ago

At least meta AI actually releases most of their models, and publishes research papers about the ones they don’t.

AdrianTheFrog, 16 days ago

The IDF has killed 11 thousand men, 9 thousand women, and 14 thousand children, making 34 thousand total killed (an unknown number of which were civilians). Hamas has killed 0.6 thousand military personnel and 0.8 thousand civilians, making 1.4 thousand total killed (57% of which were civilians).

The number of children killed by Isreal (only children) is 17 times larger than the number of civilians killed by Hamas. Of course that doesn’t make killing civilians OK, but I struggle to see an argument that Hamas is worse than the IDF. And if Hamas is the only method by which Palestine can defend itself, then there is a solid argument to be made for it being the lesser evil.

AdrianTheFrog, 16 days ago

If Palestine wasn’t oppressed, no one would be joining Hamas and they would have no power. This is a problem Isreal created for themselves.

I recommend this video, it really shows how what Isreal calls peace is still so oppressive.