sosodev

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[–] sosodev 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We need to be very careful with news outlets that focus on science hype. Often times they’re jumping to conclusions based on poorly written papers that have yet to be peer reviewed and reproduced.

Just take a look at the homepage of this website. They post several times a day with much of it being obvious clickbait backed by very little journalistic integrity.

[–] sosodev 57 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It sounds like the model is overfitting the training data. They say it scored 100% on the testing set of data which almost always indicates that the model has learned how to ace the training set but flops in the real world.

I think we shouldn’t put much weight behind this news article. This is just more overblown hype for the sake of clicks.

[–] sosodev 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

KDE Neon using X11 with latest stable kernel+Mesa.

[–] sosodev 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I run an RX6600 and haven’t had any freezing issues. Which version of Mesa and which games? If it’s all OpenGL games that would be rather strange.

[–] sosodev 5 points 11 months ago

This has been said in the thread already but I want to try and boil it down a bit. Your question is about intuition vs evidence. Science used to involve a lot more intuition. Many things that the public believed to be true were just educated guesses with little evidence to back them up.

Over time we realized through research that a large number of these reasonable guesses were completely wrong. So now intuition in science has been largely limited to the hypothesis and the hypothesis is mostly worthless without evidence.

We’ve also seen in the modern day just how fucked up human intuition can be. We largely have intuition to thank for: flat earth, anti vax, snake oil, etc.

[–] sosodev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If I remember correctly the only massless particles that travel through space are photons. Photons are what make up light so to say they travel at that speed is a little redundant.

[–] sosodev -2 points 11 months ago

Maybe. Anybody who says no is forgetting that we still know very little about the universe. It’s possible that we’ll find a way to transmit data to other time periods.

[–] sosodev 2 points 11 months ago

Electrons have mass. It’s tiny but a very important distinction between them and massless particles like photons.

[–] sosodev 8 points 11 months ago

The easiest way to explain divide by zero is to think of division as repeated subtraction. For a simple example of 4 / 2 we know that we would have to subtract 2 from 4 twice to reduce it to 0.

When we divide by zero we’re functionally asking how many times can we remove zero from the numerator until it is reduced to zero. We typically state the answer as infinity or NaN because we know that we could do this operation indefinitely without the numerator reducing to 0.

[–] sosodev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don’t remember gore in Fallout? There are meat bags, dismembered bodies hanging and spiked, limbs get blown/ripped off regularly, etc.

[–] sosodev 6 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed it up until the ending. Good experience overall though.

[–] sosodev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Omegle definitely had moderation. It’s less to visible to the end users but certainly was in place.

Your description is reductive because it focuses heavily on the bad while mostly ignoring the good.

It’s weird that you’re both happy Omegle is gone and happy that something can take its place. Arguably the thing that takes its place will be worse because it doesn’t have the years of dedication and experience behind it.

You also mention AI moderation while totally ignoring the fact that Omegle already had that. Just because it looked like the same old website that doesn’t mean they weren’t adopting new tech.

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