A prison guard in Texas, Salia Issa, went into labor while working at her post. She requested to leave for the hospital but her supervisor denied her request multiple times over several hours. Issa eventually drove herself to the hospital where doctors discovered her baby was stillborn. Issa sued the prison for violating her...
I keep going with random Highlight Intros and Victory Poses since the feature was first added. Two days ago I noticed they were set to some randomly selected picks for all my chars and I set them all back to the “Random” setting. Today I went back to my Heroes and they were set to something else again....
Hey guys. I’m new to Linux and I’m running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. Yesterday I have f*cked up. I was testing things in users and geve myself standart priveledges insted of Admin ones I had from beggining and then restarted PC. I then tried log back into users tab and change myself back to Admin but even tho the password is...
There are some instances which I’d like to block entirely. I think this is on the Lemmy development roadmap, but until it’s implemented, can we pretty please have the ability to do this through Jerboa? I’m still browsing all communities as a way of finding new communities to subscribe to, but there are some instances whose...
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a maverick Democrat who has often bucked party leadership, told a radio station in his home state of West Virginia on Thursday that he is “thinking seriously” about leaving the party....
This morning I decided to compete with ChatGPT on who could write the best short story given my original idea. I assume my story idea is original because I have never heard of a story about this before....
I don’t disagree, but I do want to point out your understanding of how chatgpt works is flawed. There is no database or query going on. It’s a giant neural network model that was trained on all that data you mentioned. The model is effectively predicting what the next word should be based on the previous words, nothing else. Each individual word is selected this way.
It doesn’t change any of your arguments or conclusions, but I wanted to point it out, because if someone wrote a chat not like chatgpt using databases and programming I would be floored and incredibly impressed
Sort of, but there’s no database at all, just a bunch of numbers and math. It’s almost like controlled evolution, breeding plants to select desirable traits. Except that’s another field of computing called genetic algorithms. Neural networks are a pile of math trained on data. You give it a cat, it says whether or not it thinks it’s a cat, and you tell it if it’s right or wrong, then it adjusts it’s math accordingly. Do this with a million cats and not cats and it becomes better than humans at identifying cats. LLMs are just that but with word predictions and trillions of words for training. It’s impressive in its own right
Closer, and I hope I’m not just being a pedantic jerk, but there is no code being generated either. To use correct terminology, the weights of the nodes are what change. Nodes are roughly thought of like neurons in a brain, and weights are roughly thought of as the strength of the connection between one neuron (node) and another. Real brains are way more complex.
The weights of the nodes do contain information, but it’s not human readable at all, we actually don’t have a way of understanding how they work, just a rough idea of why. Sort of like how your brain contains the information on how to catch a ball, it performs the equivalent of calculus to do so, but there is no calculator in your brain doing the math to catch the ball. Actually, maybe a better analogy, if you have a bouncy ball, it contains the required information to bounce if you drop it, but we can’t read that information, we can only model it.
But I’m just rambling at this point, your point is clear and valid lol
I’m reworking my computer setup, and I’m currently debating with myself over whether I want to pick up a second monitor, or sell my current one and replace it with an ultrawide. I figured I’d seek out anecdotes to see which setup people tend to prefer....
I use i3-wm so an ultra wide is super nice/preferred. Though I have a second vertical 1440p monitor to the side for best of both worlds, I’d pick the ultra wide. If I was using Windows though I may stick to dual, because snapping windows around and resizing them with the borders is annoying. Not sure with Mac, I’ve never used it, but I do notice many Mac users run programs without maximizing them at all, so probably ultra wide lol
More than 600 communities across the U.S. have decided to build their own broadband networks after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies.That in…
I will be super annoyed. But I also just won’t buy another Kindle if they don’t have buttons. I also have a kobo with buttons that I like, so I’d just get another kobo with buttons. Though e readers don’t seem to be affected by planned obsolescence like other electronics so I won’t be buying a new one for a long time anyway.
Wooo Amazon listen to my opinions even though I’m not going to buy your stuff!
I’m relatively new to the community and am enjoying it overall, and while I usually visit from my phone I do occasionally log in from my desktop and the white background is kind of intense on my monitor....
Maybe it’s just how things turned out for me, but when I was younger my brain and body were stronger but things were situationally pretty bad until I got to college. Now that I’m around 30, situationally my life couldn’t be better, but exercising doesn’t feel good any more so it’s a chore, the world is on fire just like I was warned it would be as a child, I don’t have the drive to learn any more, and it feels so unfair that I don’t get to experience the life I have the way I imagined because getting here took too much out of me. But hey, at least it’s not bad. Maybe there’s hope I “get better”.
I think healthy aging is beautiful, but I don’t think most people age healthy. If my wrinkles are based on the first 25 years of my life, they’re going to show frustration and exhaustion. I hope your winkles do show you’ve lived a life of joy though. Keep up with exercise and healthy eating, that’s more than half the battle
I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.
Second on kobo, sure the OS is proprietary, but it’s good enough that I forget. And as the previous comment said, you can install third party reader software. I like koreader, it pretty much replaces the entire UI of the device
Dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better across a range of environmental measures (phys.org)
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A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth. (www.texastribune.org)
A prison guard in Texas, Salia Issa, went into labor while working at her post. She requested to leave for the hospital but her supervisor denied her request multiple times over several hours. Issa eventually drove herself to the hospital where doctors discovered her baby was stillborn. Issa sued the prison for violating her...
Anyone else keeps getting his Highlight Intros and Victory Poses reset from random?
I keep going with random Highlight Intros and Victory Poses since the feature was first added. Two days ago I noticed they were set to some randomly selected picks for all my chars and I set them all back to the “Random” setting. Today I went back to my Heroes and they were set to something else again....
I F*cked up and I need help.
Hey guys. I’m new to Linux and I’m running Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon. Yesterday I have f*cked up. I was testing things in users and geve myself standart priveledges insted of Admin ones I had from beggining and then restarted PC. I then tried log back into users tab and change myself back to Admin but even tho the password is...
Customizing my arch install UwU (i.imgur.com)
PLEASE IGNORE Feature request: block entire instances
There are some instances which I’d like to block entirely. I think this is on the Lemmy development roadmap, but until it’s implemented, can we pretty please have the ability to do this through Jerboa? I’m still browsing all communities as a way of finding new communities to subscribe to, but there are some instances whose...
US Senator Joe Manchin says 'thinking seriously' about leaving Democratic Party (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a maverick Democrat who has often bucked party leadership, told a radio station in his home state of West Virginia on Thursday that he is “thinking seriously” about leaving the party....
Why I Don't Care if My Ideas are Scraped and Appropriated by LLMs
This morning I decided to compete with ChatGPT on who could write the best short story given my original idea. I assume my story idea is original because I have never heard of a story about this before....
Beeple who have tried both a dual-monitor setup and a single ultrawide setup: which did you prefer?
I’m reworking my computer setup, and I’m currently debating with myself over whether I want to pick up a second monitor, or sell my current one and replace it with an ultrawide. I figured I’d seek out anecdotes to see which setup people tend to prefer....
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Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah (www.techdirt.com)
More than 600 communities across the U.S. have decided to build their own broadband networks after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies.That in…
Is the Kindle Oasis 3 the Last Kindle with Page Buttons? (blog.the-ebook-reader.com)
Thought this was interesting. Really hope Amazon doesn’t give up on the buttons.
Would it be much work to make a Dark Mode for Beehaw on desktop?
I’m relatively new to the community and am enjoying it overall, and while I usually visit from my phone I do occasionally log in from my desktop and the white background is kind of intense on my monitor....
Does anybody else look forward to aging?
First time making a “personal” post and I just wanted to share some thoughts....
Looking for an ebook reader (hardware) which doesn't hold a proprietary OS
I wanna buy an ebook reader but i don’t want any amazon or other companies shit in there, just something i can connect to my pc, pass ebooks in different formats into it and read.