Tiresia

@Tiresia@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference between 97.1% uptime and 97.2% uptime is far less important than the difference between 99.98% uptime and 99.99% uptime, even though this graph shows the former as 10 times larger.

  You are right to complain that a graph that exaggerates uptime differences on the scale of 10%, i.e. showing the full linear range from 0% to 100%, would be useless. But by the same token, a graph that exaggerates uptime differences on the scale of 1%, i.e. the OOP, is also useless. That we happen to live in a world where github’s uptime is varying at the scale of 1% doesn’t make the scale any more useful.

  In this case, the graph of -log(1-uptime) would get you the “number of nines”, which is commonly used because it’s more insightful and more indicative of actual quality. Better still would be log(uptime(t)/(1-uptime(t)), which is functionally the same above two “nines”, but also allows the plotting of low uptime services, such as individual seeders for torrents or specific nodes of a mesh, on the negative part of the scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, a lot of that 40% could be people whose first step of building a new PC is checking if it’s worth it, meaning they may well decide not to build one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are using Windows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The quotes seem to be strawmanning Anthropic’s report. AFAIK Anthropic’s claim was that it could find bugs and make exploits at a similar level to an expert, except as an LLM and thus more easily deployed at scale.

  Most experts spend most of their time not reinventing the wheel.

  But I guess people are now literally doing the I, Robot meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, you’re talking about an unprovable and unobservable thing that makes no testable predictions and doesn’t demonstrably correlate with any sort of behavior at all. That’s a very productive thing to talk about, I’m sorry for intruding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If consciousness can only be observed subjectively, why do people sometimes say someone is unconscious?

  Nothing can ever be proven (even math proofs assume you aren’t hallucinating about having seen a convincing proof), but that usually isn’t the standard of evidence.

  LLMs seem to meet most standards of consciousness formulated before GPT-2 released. They’re dumb in predictable ways, but so are human babies and horses and chickens and bees.