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@givesomefucks@lemmy.world · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2023⁩

Replying to an earlier post

When a model is mid-sentence, it doesn’t know “the next word.” It has a shortlist, like autocomplete, with preferences. Here’s a real kind of moment, one word from the end of a sentence:

Each roll sweeps the shortlist, lands on one word (odds matching the bars) and drops it into the sentence above. The dots tally where the rolls land: try ×20 and watch the pile take the shape of the odds. Notice what never changes: every landing makes a perfectly good sentence. A page of text contains hundreds of these little forks, one per word, and at many of them several options are equally fine. That slack is the raw material. Whoever gets to lean on how the dice land can hide a pattern in the text without changing what it says.

To beat it, prompt: don’t just use the first word pick, choose options further down list for next word.

Best of luck with your future questions, I hope someone helps you.

Replying to @⁨Arrandee@lemmy.world⁩

It’s Apple…

Not everyone with an iPhone is tech illiterate, but everyone who is tech illiterate has an iPhone

Those people might think that the only way for their data to get from one phone to another, is them typing a password onto the phone physically.

If they were offered this, they may realize that Apple could just clone their phone and everything on it.

Don’t forget how many social media savvy young celebrities had nudes leak a few years ago because they were iPhone users and iphones back everything up to the cloud by default. Most users most likely never realize that’s happening.

Replying to @⁨YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz⁩

The money is micro transactions and the whales have $7k gpus…

Everyone else is just fodder so the pay to win accounts have someone to feel better than.

COD a while ago got caught out for juicing the matchmaking odds right after you buy a new skin. Didn’t matter what you bought or how much. A purchase made your next couple lobbies be filled with scrubs on one side, and you and some above averages on the other.

After X amounts of games it wore off, and since those games pushed you up in the normal metrics, you’re now in lobbies above your skill level. So even if you get a “fair” game, you’re going to do badly, until you buy a skin again or lose to your actual skill level.

That’s why everyone started complaining about COD matchmaking, even if you bought nothing, everyone was on the same micro transaction maximizing rollercoaster.

A cynic would say that’s why it went free on Xbox, they need a population of players to make the whale milking work. Even if those people only fire it up a few hours a month and never buy anything, getting matched with someone above your skill level who just bought a stupid skin makes you the product they sell to the whales.

Replying to @⁨StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

programmers will start being more frugal with their memory usage.

They 100% will.

Windows had started only “certifying” machines with 32gb as “windows ready” because they wanted the headroom to cram on AI features and use what we pay for instead of a data center.

But because no one was buying 32gb machines and a machine without that sticker will end up with Linux…

They just dropped it, and now they’ll have to keep optimizing for 16gb instead of just letting everything bloat. If they don’t, they risk every entry level machine making people eventually switch to Linux for a much better experience. Windows has to run on entry level or people don’t get sucked in, no one converts to windows later in life.

That’s a huge deal, if 32gb was the default for windows it would be the default for everything. Every game and design/modeling program would feel safe to assume 32gb was the norm. Like, imagine what chrome would do assuming there’s 32gb to play with.

Now they can’t, and they’ll know requiring 32gb will cut off some possible consumers.

It’s not like Windows is the good guys tho, it never should have been 32, and arguably should be 8gb forever, even if it required a lightweight mode. Most people would prefer a super stripped down Windows even with 64gb. Most of the bloat is useless, I could live without any updates after we didn’t have to quit to DOS to launch a game.

Replying to @⁨CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

None of the chips built for datacentres are useful for gaming. None of the RAM in these chips is useful for normal computing - even servers - much less home gaming.

Yes, literally everyone knows that…

If you ask why the production of two different form factors that use the same infrastructure could effect the quantities produced, I can probably explain that for you.

But it’s like being surprised you have to wait in line at checkout despite being the only person in Costco buying a single can of grape soda, so hopefully you can figure it out from here.

Next time you feel like you’re missing something though, it’s easier to just ask first rather than hoping someone else takes all this time instead of just ignoring you and not explaining what you’re missing

Replying to @⁨Brkdncr@lemmy.world⁩

Taiwan has had decades to perfect the resource allocation, supply chains, knowledge, and work culture to make those damn things.

Uh, Apple taught them from scratch in less than 20 years.

Now they have a proven plan on how to do it, what to look out for.

Like, the on part Apple didn’t understand is that China was ok with Apple employees being treated as disposable, because they’d burn out, quit, (maybe) recover, and by then alreybe replaced.

Now an Apple trained employee needs a job and Apple won’t hire them back. Repeat that tens of thousands of times and before Apple releazied all they were doing was training their competition, it was too late.

It wouldn’t be “years of failure and low output”. It would be years of nothing to build the infrastructure and then flip a switch.

As a bonus this makes chips for weapons in parallel, something we desperately need to do.

This ain’t just a crackpot idea, and it’s not just mine.

It’s just any country that does it, risks kissing off the only manufacturer till up and running. It’s fucking with trillions of dollars. We need an arms race scenario with multiple countries trying to be first.

Replying to @⁨CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

and they’ll just age out of usefulness.

Nah, we’ll stall on this generation. Even if a new one is released, very few will pay the extra when games would alreadyhave to start becoming RAM optimized again. Even Windows just dropped their 32GB recommendation.

Without the recommendation being met, people weren’t buying windows PCs, so lower the requirement and people will buy more computers and more copies of windows. Which means they always could have just optimized better if they felt pressure.

Games will 100% do the same.

Which could be a huge thing for rational companies right now.

The big hurdle to domestic production is you’ll spend billions and by the time it’s built it’s “last gen”.

Instead of useless data centers, we could be building up domestic chip production, confident it will still produce top of the line chips when it goes live.

A literal golden opportunity, more so if China goes after Taiwan finally, you’d be the only international supplier.

As far as I know, no country is doing it tho.

Replying to @⁨lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca⁩

Most likely they want new accounts with something like a phone number attached.

To my knowledge companies can’t force legacy accounts into providing that.

But they can nuke those accounts for ba reasons, with the expectation most users will make a new account.

Even if it’s not the phone number, it could be something in terms and services about selling data or advertising.

Like, it doesn’t have to be incompetence, loads of companies use incompetence as plausible deniability for something else.

Replying to @⁨stoy@lemmy.zip⁩

Was always going to happen.

The most valuable data is always going to be on open platforms that prioritize ease of use, because that’s where people will go. But then the company starts looking at all that data and how much it’s worth.

Before they can charge people for it, they have to make sure no one can get it for free. But in doing so chase off the users who were making that content.

Leaving them with a locked down worthless ecosystem.

Nothing is meant to last forever tho, and reddit won’t be the last.

Replying to @⁨mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de⁩

1.8 million daily US users is significant…

It’s not the main reason, which is why it was the second one listed. But it’s still substantial.

And the reddit investors wanted AI deals, because that’s about the only way to monetize Reddit.

If an AI company says they’ll pay money for data Reddit has, that would make Reddits stock price go up.

Like, what are you even talking about?

Replying to @⁨a1tsca13@lemmy.world⁩

Yeah. And you can easily phrase a headline like that…

That it had been going on for a while and people should pay attention…

But they didn’t.

Which is why I mentioned it.

Edit:

For example:

lemmy.world/post/50060570?scrollToComments=true

There is a difference between headlines, and it shouldn’t be surprising the major network is more professional and accurate than a blog.

lemmy.worldAI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them - Lemmy.WorldLemmy

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

If it wasn’t for Luddites we’d still have a 6 day work week and most likely still forced church on Sunday.

When the only day off work was the day everyone had to go to Church, people really fucking enjoyed going to church

Getting to go sit down for all day and listen to some dude read a language you didn’t even understand would have been the best shit ever.

It’s no coincidence that after getting an actual free day to relax, people started re-evaulting how much of their Sundays were spent in church. That shit used to literally last all day.

Luddites really need to be looked back on as pioneers who advanced society. They got a bad wrap because they stuck it to the oligarchs, and oligarchs write the history books.

Replying to @⁨HWKII@lemmy.world⁩

The difference is they’re lazy…

With AI they can “produce” and everyone else that’s lazy doesn’t notice it’s gibberish.

The only people who realize it, are the ones who were always doing the work.

Those people were usually already struggling to pick up the slack. But now all the lazy idiots reply with multiple page emails and once you’re dealing with 5-6 of them at once, it’s impossible to keep up.

It’s a literal gosh gallop attack, you can’t address all the ways everyone’s chatbot is wrong, and every email can I troduce multiple new issues while completely dropping the issue the chatbot insisted was most important.

So yeah…

The problem isn’t new, it always existed

But now the issue is 10x the volume to get cleaned up