Rhaedas

@Rhaedas@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I mean math and even science aren't always intuitive, so we have to have rules and theories to go by that demonstrate repeatability. Subatomic physics doesn't even really work like our models say, it's just that the models give the best results in predicting what we'll find.

  Another example is randomness. Not all random numbers are the same, it depends on how you derive them as to what you'll get. I guess in some way that's related to what numbers will pop up for an irrational number. It's said with enough monkeys randomly typing on typewriters eventually you'll get a Shakespeare work. It already happened a number of times... since we're in sense monkeys and got a number of Shakespeare works. Didn't even need typewriters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think that's a given. It's just like there are different sizes of infinite, and more numbers between 0 and 1 than there are real numbers, or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Movie was pretty good. Book was excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there's proofs to show that won't happen. Don't ask me to find them or explain them, it's beyond my scope.

  What I'm waiting for is them finding a repeating sequence of 1s and 0s that when arranged in a matrix form a crude circle. A message to those who can learn to find it, with more to follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They're all code names "Al".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, I see that all the time, people apologizing for their English second language use, while being far clearer in imparting their meaning (which is the only important thing in the end) than so many single use American posters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I blame the drive to use anything new before the competitor does and gets an advantage, added to worse and worse IT departments that don't really know what they're doing. There could be some companies that have a good IT that just get overruled, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the start of having an online way to figure things out, starting with the maps. Stratics was an early source for the current MMORPGs and the solutions. Before then, unless you had a group of people all sharing their discoveries on a BBS, you had pencil and paper by you to figure things out. It does change the game experience when you have to live within its boundary and can't peek at the bigger solutions. Some games got frustrating because of this, but the Infocom line had their great parser that helped in its own ways by being a bit more accessible. That's what I'm interested in more than the games themselves, how it was so good at conversational dialogue and understanding your prompt, in the same days where ELIZA was around in the personal computer world and was very limited because it was just IF-THEN clauses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Conversely, instead of blocking the data transfer, have it send false data. Maybe a few drop table inserts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my current and seemingly final jump from WIndows to Linux I had played a bit with Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian. Ubuntu "felt" more like something I could work with, and certainly when you look at installing things from terminal there's usually Ubuntu or at least Debian, so it seemed a good fit. After running it a while and having no problems I noticed regularly things like this on "what distro to pick", and it always seems from the suggestions that I've gone the wrong way. And yet... it's working great. I've got far too much set up and running well to backtrack again and start over, so I guess either Ubuntu users are the silent group or I'm a lone wolf and everyone's gone to Bazzite or some other offshoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say extremely complex autocomplete, not glorified, but the point still stands that using probability to find accuracy is always going to deviate eventually. The tactic now isn't to try other approaches, they've come too far and have too much invested. Instead they keep stacking more and more techniques to try and steer and reign in this deviation. Difficult when in the end there isn't anything "thinking" at any point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft dominated with IE back in the day for the same reason Chrome and Safari are the dominant choices. People don't tend to change the default if it works okay enough. Firefox dropped heavily years ago as the market was saturated with other new choices already installed on mobile and Chromebooks, but recent numbers are about the same as they have been for a while. Maybe even still growing, as all the numbers I find are percentages, and there's no doubt we've had an explosion of device use.