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peanuts4life, 4 months ago

“looks at bookshelf of completely unread books.” Oh… Yeah I love books!

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

Isn’t this whole thing a bit performative? I mean, dogs aren’t inherently more worthy of liberation from the meat market than any other farm animal.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

Not really, it’s just that the sheer quantity of hours has been find to be less important than the original study presented. Essentially, with good aptitude and quality practice, you don’t actually need 10,000 hours to reach the top percentile.

The author of this article seems to have taken this in some weird directions. They have had personal experiences of being pressured to practice long hours at something they struggled in. They find relief in the new study, which they allegedly believe validates the idea that it was a hopeless endeavor. I’d argue that the fault didn’t lie with the 10,000 hour number, but rather with thier family who pushed the author too hard to succeed in a sport they probably weren’t improving at, Rather than reevaluating motivating factors or approach.

Of course 10,000 hours is arbitrary. I’m just saying, the study doesn’t assert that inherit talent even exist, let alone is the primary factor. It only contradicts the number of hours.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

Unrelated rant: I am far less inclined to read articles with clearly ai generated images purely on the basis that every spammer with a braincell is leveraging it to shine up their turds. I wonder if this is just a me problem.

PS, not saying this article is bad or something, just that I feel like ai generated images like this only add value if your audience doesn’t realize it’s ai generated. These ai ignorant people are probably not the target audience for this article.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

I agree, but maybe it’s time for a Linux based Nintendo DS / PSP sized device? I mean, Nintendo has abandoned these truly pocketable consoles. Maybe with a die shrink they could fit something 70% as performant as a deck into that form Factor?

I personally know a lot of people who miss the DS and don’t game anymore now that the platform was dropped. Casual gamer types.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

I just dump a liter of bleach in the upper deck and remove the seat. Nothing cleans you up better than a good swirl.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

I might be mistaken, but these Intel based machines might be better for switch emulation, as they share dedicated hw for the particular form of texture decompression they use. One cool potential upside

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

I’ve seen this with gpt4. If I ask it to proofread text with errors it consistently does a great job, but if I prompt it to proofread a text without errors, it hallucinates them. It’s funny to see Microsoft having the same issue.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

I’ve been watching this old anime from the 90s called “you’re under arrest.” It’s not exactly smart, but the elaborate, indulgent animation suprises me constantly. It’s shockingly beautiful at times. It trandsends almost anything I’ve watched produced recently in terms of detail.

From what I understand, it’s money. Back in the bubble economy in Japan, you could throw cash at this kind of thing. Now, it’s just so much more cost effective to utilize 3d animation whenever possible.

People point at films like, “The boy and the heron” as some sort of model to follow, as if it’s a choice. But, by the producer’s admission it’s “probably the most expensive anime ever made.” 7 years of production by the oldest, most seasoned veterans in the space. How could even substantial studios take on such risk and expense?

I really wish we lived in a world where low tier stuff like “you’re under arrest” could afford such high quality animation.

However, there are always new tools being developed. I’m confident that new digital techniques will eventually compensate for high cost if nothing else.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

Haha, okay it’s not that old, but wow does it feel dated in terms of theming. I mean, it’s about three things: cool cop babes, fast subcompact cars, and cool cop babes driving miniature motorcycles which fit inside of subcompact cars.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

Still loving my 1070!

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

It’s really concerning how many comments are snidly dismissive or in some cases outright hostile to this particular peice of reporting.

Does Hamas deny that the hostages were kidnapped or mistreated? Are the circumstances of these particular people’s capture suspect? Are thier experiences disputed?

I see no comments even attempting to say so. It reads as wantonly jingoistic.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

As a child, I was attracted to his slovenly misanthropic attitude.

Similarly, I always liked Winnie the Pooh, who while more amiable, is also selfish, lazy, and prone to self pity.

When you grow up with Saturday morning comics, you have to find elements of real life in it. I feel like Garfield represents these baser, unpleasant impulses.

peanuts4life, 4 months ago

“our fake history” is a pretty good match to what you’re describing. It’s a relatively light hearted, rigorously researched, history podcast with a focus on misunderstood historical figures and events.

“The plastic plesiosaur podcast” is a really fun podcast more focused on cryptids and pop science.

One of the host to plastic plesiosaur has a YouTube channel called “trey the explainer” which is worth a watch.

And if you like low key, entertaining deep dives into machining or tech, check out “technology connections,” “this old Tony,” and “tech moan.”

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

This thing has been in development since I was a teen. I wonder if it will ever actually be a viable vehicle. My heart wants to say yes, but I don’t know… These might not have much of a future.

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

Imo, the true fallacy of using AI for journalism or general text, lies not so much in generative AI’s fundamental unreliability, but rather it’s existence as an affordable service.

Why would I want to parse through AI generated text on times.com, when for free, I could speak to some of the most advanced AI on bing.com or openai’s chat GPT or Google bard or a meta product. These, after all, are the back ends that most journalistic or general written content websites are using to generate text.

To be clear, I ask why not cut out the middleman if they’re just serving me AI content.

I use AI products frequently, and I think they have quite a bit of value. However, when I want new accurate information on current developments, or really anything more reliable or deeper than a Wikipedia article, I turn exclusively to human sources.

The only justification a service has for serving me generated AI text, is perhaps the promise that they have a custom trained model with highly specific training data. I can imagine, for example, weather.com developing highly specific specialized AI models which tie into an in-house llm and provide me with up-to-date and accurate weather information. The question I would have in that case would be why am I reading an article rather than just being given access to the llm for a nominal fee? At some point, they are not no longer a regular website, they are a vendor for a in-house AI.

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

Pregnant dinosaurs 🙏😊🌸

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

This might sound stupid, but this ai’s output sounds a lot like gpt. In fact, if you just use the API, gpt doesn’t really mind answering toxic or bad questions, so long as the output didn’t violate thier rules.

I’m not saying Elon is using open ai, but maybe they’ve trained on gpt-4 output?

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

I think a common misconception is that people will find new jobs. If I’m remembering correctly, studies on automation of furniture production found that displaced workers mostly just fell into poverty.

Certainly SOME people will find better jobs, but if it were simple and easy for people to find “high skill jobs” instead of thier warehouse work, they would have already done it.

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

People do lament poverty and the consolidation of wealth into owners through the displacement of the worker.

Just because we run swiftly in front of the whip of capitalism does not mean we should dismiss those who trip and fall. We should be angry that there is a whip at all.

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

True! I personally feel that UBI would be the easiest pill for the West to swallow. It is totally compatible with capitalism, and addresses the most urgent needs of individuals.

I feel like a slightly more radical solution which is also compatible with capitalism would be laws requiring substantial stake in ownership in companies for workers. Proportional to the quality of employees and time worked. Meaning, that if you work 15 years at Amazon and get replaced by a robot, you see some passive income over time for the value you contributed. Likewise, the sale or liquidation of a company would see past workers getting some sort of payout.

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

Gender is the cultural outcome of primary and secondary sexual characteristics and in no meaningfully physical way exist. Meaning, we traditionally have a “boy” culture and a “girl” culture, not a gender. We are artificially indoctrinated and assimilated into a given culture based on primary or secondary sexual characteristics.

Likewise, it follows that all other gender identities are similarly a cultural phenomenon and not the outcome of some essential characteristic of the individual.

Gender cultures are, at least historically speaking, bad. They’ve generally been used to persecute people who aren’t in the dominant (boy) gender, and the conditions dictating mobility between genders is so intensly arbitrary that it warrants abolishing the whole stupid idea. Gender dysphoria is a symptom, generally, of the tyranny of these conditions.

(PS, I totally am open to being wrong about this.)

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

But these traits are secondary and tertiary sexual characteristics (ie they are tied to your biological sex). They are certainly the origin of gender identity, but they don’t justify it. My dissatisfaction is not with the concept of sex. It’s fair to say, “oh that person has a penis, that person is a woman, that person is intersex,” and we should strive to develop better, more diverse sexual classifies, but gender? Na.

Gender roles/ jobs, fem and masculine, the separation of media to cater towards one gender or the other, the gendering of clothes, attitudes, and opinions, and finally the gendering of sex. It’s all just caveman talk, imo

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

I get what you are meaning to say, that secondary sexual characteristics dictate certain trends and limits. I agree.

However, what I find interesting is that historically, the bulk of manual labor was done by the lowest class cultures. It depends on the time and place, but indentured servants, slaves, and women of the household were expected to do most of the labor. These decisions were not made on the merits of absolute physical strength, but rather by ones social status.

In fact, the strongest men. Those with the most physical apitude and power, tended to enjoy leisure at the expense of these lower classes. Including thier women.

The idea that strong men make strong countries, or do the best work, is a myth. Typically, wealth is built by poor men, women, and subjugated social classes, and the mythical status of the strong man gender stereotype serves to justify this arrangement.

So yes, the strongest biological male human will probably always outlift the strongest biological female, but the actual outcomes of who does the work is decided by gender, and historically, the labor feel on the woman. See what I mean about gender being, “bad?”

peanuts4life, 5 months ago

To be fair, they generally advertise it as regular lemonade and market it with an unlimited refill deal. I’ve drank 3 green teas before while at a Starbucks over a few hours. These lemonades contain far more caffeine than a similar sized cup of coffee. This is the second death linked to it now.

It’s not wild to think you might drink 3 refills of a lemonade during a visit to a restaurant, but it is unusual to think you might drink 3 times the maximum recommended dose of caffeine doing so.

Edit: back of the napkin math. 3 large lemonades = 12.3 cups of coffee.